GuitarGearu

Around the time I hit my 8 year mark playing guitar, I ran into a road block.  I wasn’t getting the tone I wanted to play the music I wanted.  My job requires an extremely versatile rig that can cover everything from jazz to metal, bluegrass to funk, and my cheapo stompbox, chorus, and delay just weren’t cutting it anymore.

The search began.

I started wandering aimlessly through cyberspace, researching which players use what gear, what order they stack their pedals, everything they do to process their signal before and after the preamp, and even how different microphones affect the sound.  I shelled out some big money for the gear my idols were using, only to be disappointed.  I wanted to sound like them, but couldn’t, because in the end, I was just a different person and have my own voice.  The pedals they used sounded harsh and grainy to me when I used them.  Or muddy and lacking clarity.

So I wizened up and started looking around guitar shops in my area to try the pedals before purchase.  I found out at this stage that a LOT of pedals out there just aren’t readily accessible to try out in stores.  I went back to cyberspace, looking for demos of the pedals I wanted to try, and as I searched for professional quality videos, this site began to take shape in the back of my head.  I just couldn’t.  Find.  Anything.  Sure, I’d find a demo of the overdrive I was looking for, but often times it would be in someone’s bedroom using their phone audio.  None of the nuance or character was readily apparent.  And on the few that took the time to have a professionally done video, the content just wasn’t there.  They took the overdrive I wanted as a light saturation to use for fusion, and ran it into a dirty channel on the amp so I couldn’t even hear what the pedal sounded like.   Or maybe a reverb that I wanted to use to add a little bit of room to an overdriven classic rock sound, they used only to demonstrate how huge and cavernous it made clean, chorus-y drone chords.

Having gotten sick of spending so much time scouring google for a decent video or review source I could depend on, I decided it was time to just do it myself.  

GuitarGearu was born (like “Guru”, but punny).  

I decided to spare no effort in providing the most complete reviews and demonstrations of guitar effects pedals.  If I’m trying out a pedal, you can be sure I’m gonna run it through multiple guitars, multiple amps, with multiple settings, and try it out in a variety of styles and parts.  And it’ll all be done with professional recording equipment, and no processing after the recording is done.  What you hear is exactly what I hear.  

My goal is to provide a platform that any player can go to if they are curious about a pedal.  And short of actually buying one or trying one out, I want our videos to be the most accurate representation of a pedal’s capabilities you can find.  

So dive right in and search for whatever pedal that has your fancy.  If we don’t have a video for it yet, shoot us an email to let us know, and we’ll work on getting it up.  After all, this site is for YOU.

Thanks!

GuitarGearu