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In July, I announced the winner of the Porter Pickups – Custom Pickup give away, and the winner was Laurent Berta. He received the pickups, and promised a photo of him with his snazzy prize. I received the photo, and wanted to put it up on the site. Congrats Laurent. Let us know how the pickups sound.

I’d also like to thank Brian of Porter Pickups again for offering this custom pickup set for the give away. Please remember to check out Porter Pickups to see if they can hook you up with some proper tone!

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I always like it when give away winners can send me a photo of themselves with their new prize. Here we have Brett Walston with his brand new Way Huge Angry Troll.. and boy does he look angry! Congrats Brett and have fun dialing in some fists!

If you missed out on this give away.. no worries I have a few more in the queue so please bookmark EffectsBay.com to catch them when they come up!

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We have a official winner for the Way Huge Angry Troll give away. The winner is Brett Walston of Jersey City, NJ. Congrats Brett!

I also wanted to say a special thanks to Dunop for sending the pedal for review and sponsoring this give away. If you have a chance, please check out their site, blog and DunlopTV!

I have another pedal give away in the works, so keep your eyes open for another one coming up.. approximately 2 weeks or so.

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So with these give aways I love it when the winners send some photos (usually of themselves with their prize). Today, I received an email from Matt Heaton, the winner of the Stage Trix Pedal Riser give away, and he wrote what he thought of the prize.

just got around to playing with the stage risers. these thing are great! attaching  some pix. #1, below, is the before picture. As you see, I don’t use a ton of stuff, and a compact setup is really important to me. it doesn’t show well, but getting to the blue bird tremolo was especially a pain in the ass.

Shot Before the Risers

voila! after installing the stagerisers, I don’t bump stuff while going to the second row. also neatened up the cables. I especially like that they aren’t permemantly installed, since I use a couple different setups depending on whether I’m playing acoustic or electric (this would be the “surfboard!”)

Shot After the Risers

I’m going to play around with them for my acoustic rig as well. thanks so much for the fun toys!

They are a simple and elegant solution to a pervasive problem. Makes me wonder why I didn’t think of it, but I’m sure glad someone did!

Matt Heaton

Matt and Shannon Heaton: Traditional and Updated Irish Music
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Thanks Matt for sending this… and I’m glad the risers are coming in handy! I also want to thank Stage Trix for sponsoring this give away!

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A little while ago, Dunlop USA sent over a Way Huge Angry Troll for us to do a demo/review. We shot the review, and I’ll be posting it soon, but the good news for you, is that I’m giving away this pedal!

Way Huge is a well known name in the world of guitar effects – from the Swollen Pickle to the Aqua Puss, etc, Dunlop has done a great job reviving this legendary line of pedals. Dunlop is also develops their own line (Crybaby, etc) and also has the great MXR line of pedals.

This give away is featuring the Way Huge Angry Troll linear boost amplifier. Here is the official description of this pedal:

The mighty Angry Troll serves up gorgeous portions of volume and gain to pummel the input of your amp. It adds bite and punch while transforming your anemic and mild mannered tone into a beastly sonic onslaught!

The Angry Troll’s two controls interact like a vintage mic pre amp. The Anger knob—a rotary switch with six Fists of Fury positions—adjusts the amount of gain created by the Troll’s op-amp, while the Volume knob regulates the overall output level. High grade components are used for a precisely tuned circuit that works like an extension of your amp.

Please take a moment and check out Dunlop’s site. They have a great blog, and I absolutely love watching DunlopTV. Great stuff!

So how do you get in on the action and potentially win yourself a FREE Way Huge Angry Troll pedal? First, be sure to follow EffectsBay on Twitter and/or Facebook to keep up to date with this give-away along with new give-aways.

Second, fill out the form below, in two weeks  (August 16th) I’ll randomly pick 3 entries as finalists. I’ll email the 3 finalists and the first one out of the 3 that emails me back will be the winner.You must enter a ‘valid’ email address, bounce back emails will be rejected. One entry per person (seriously people.. one entry per person). After the winner has been notified and all is good (I’ve retrieved mailing address, etc), I’ll mail off the pedal.

This give away is open to everyone!

Remember to also re-tweet this post and help spread the word! If we continue to have success with these give-aways, I’ll be able to offer more and more… and we all love free stuff right?

The question: “Who is your favorite guitarist.. and why?“

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I would like to congratulate Matt Heaton (@matt_heaton) for winning the EffectsBay.com/StageTrix Pedal Riser Give Away! I would also like to send a special thank you to Leo from StageTrix for sponsoring this give away. Please take a moment to check out their site and see what their product is all about!

I’ve secured the next give away which will be a pedal and will be posting that in a week or so, so keep your eyes on EffectsBay for an opportunity to win a free pedal.

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Today, I get to introduce another EffectsBay.com give away! This time the give away is sponsored by StageTrix and we’re giving away some pedal risers and fasteners.  This is a great, simple solution to raise the height of your pedals in the rear to clear the pedals in the front. I like simple solutions, and this is a great solution to this problem. The risers even have channels for routing cables underneath them.. clever again.

Here is the official overview of the StageTrix Pedal Riser:

StageTrix pedalboard accessories make people say “why didn’t anyone think of that before?” because they are clever, simple solutions to musicians’ real needs. Their first product, the Pedal Riser, raises your second row of pedals to the perfect height and also completely eliminates cable mess. Their second product, the Pedal Fastener, is an industrial strength fastener designed specifically for attaching pedals to pedalboards – no more trips to the hardware store only to end up with a mess on the bottom of your pedals! Check out http://www.stagetrixproducts.com/ to learn more.

For this give away, StageTrix is giving away 4 pedal risers (MSRP $16.99ea) and 2 3-packs of fasteners (MSRP $7.95ea). Total value of this give-away… $83.86!

The fasteners are velcro pads that adhere to the bottom of the pedals which make a clean tight contact to the riser. If you have large pedals (ie: Line 6 DL4, etc) you can use two risers to push them up.

If you get a chance, please check out their blog (link called ‘Hot Damn!‘ – love it). There are some reviews (including my review in Mar) and photos of the pedal riser in action.

So back to the give away.. and how you can win this set of Stage Trix Pedal Risers and Fasteners!

First, be sure to follow EffectsBay on Twitter and/or Facebook to keep up to date with this give-away along with new give aways. Also, I need your help to promote the give aways. The more submissions we get for these give aways, the more give aways we can do in the future.. and I’m assuming we all like free guitar gear right?

Second, fill out the form below, in two weeks  (July 20th) I’ll randomly pick 3 entries as finalists. I’ll email the 3 finalists and the first one out of the 3 that emails me back will be the winner.You must enter a ‘valid’ email address, bounce back emails will be rejected. One entry per person (seriously people.. one entry per person). After the winner has been notified and all is good (I’ve retrieved mailing address, etc), I’ll coordinate with StageTrix to get the set to the winner.

This give away is limited to the United States only (related to international partner relationships vs. shipping).

So the question is: “How many pedals do you have on your pedal board right now?”

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I would like to congratulate Laurent Berta for winning the Porter Pickups custom set of pickups give away! I hope you enjoy them. I know Brian at Porter Pickups will treat you right and get your a great set!

I would like to again thank Brian at Porter Pickups for sponsoring this give away. It’s really appreciated, and I know readers out there appreciate it as well.

I’ve gotten a lot of positive response about Porter Pickups, and know a few of you really wanted to win this give away. Brian informed me that he’s giving a 10% discount to everyone that subscribes to the Porter Pickups email newsletter!! You can sign up here. If you’re outside the US the 10% discount code will not work, but do not worry, he said for international users to contact Porter Pickups and he’ll work out the 10%. It’s an issue with the shopping cart software.

I have a few more give-aways coming up.. so keep an eye out for those!

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I’ve given out pedals, enclosures, cables.. so why not pickups! I’m really excited about this give away, and I think you guys will really dig this. Basically, Porter Pickups is willing to give a set of hand wound pickups, but rather limit the type, they’re willing to give away a custom set to the winner!

Porter Pickups has one Tele model, three Strat Models (50′s, 6o’s and Modern), five different Humbucker models, and they’re even offering a Porter Anthem PAF clones. Normally their sets range around $180 for most styles with the Anthem PAFs being a little more at $260.

The winner will be able to choose the model they want, covers/bobbins and they’ll wind it just for the winner. This way the pickups will match up with your style (wound hot.. not so-hot, etc).

Okay, so now we’ve established… this is a pretty cool give away, I now want to talk about Porter Pickups since they’re being so generous with this sponsored give away!

Porter Pickups is owned by Brian Porter and is located in Boise, ID. They have a wide selection of pickups ranging from humbuckers to Strat replacements to P90 replacements to Tele replacement to his Custom Series PAF pickups.  Porter will also do custom orders as well. Along with offering great hand wound pickups, they also offer repair and rewind services for damaged or dead pickups, a good way to get your vintage guitar back in action!

PorterPickups.com has a ton of stuff to go over. Plenty of clips and info, along with info on dealers, builders and artists. I also see that Brian has his own pickup blog.

Okay, now to the give away. So how do you enter yourself to potentially win the Custom Porter Pickups Give Away?

First, be sure to follow EffectsBay on Twitter and/or Facebook to keep up to date with this give-away along with new give-aways.

Second, fill out the form below, in two weeks  (June 30th) I’ll randomly pick 3 entries as finalists. I’ll email the 3 finalists and the first one out of the 3 that emails me back will be the winner.You must enter a ‘valid’ email address, bounce back emails will be rejected. One entry per person (seriously people.. one entry per person). After the winner has been notified and all is good (I’ve retrieved mailing address, etc), I’ll coordinate with Brian at Porter Pickups to get the pickups built and  shipped to the winner.

This give away is open to everyone!

Remember to also re-tweet this post and help spread the word! If we continue to have success with these give-aways, I’ll be able to offer more and more… and we all love free stuff right?

So the question…. “If you’re the winner, what guitar will these pickups go in?”

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Back in March EffectsBay.com teamed up with pedalenclosures to give away a Prism I pedal enclosure. This was a fun contest, and a great opportunity to give something away to all the DIYers and pedal modders out there! The winner was Marco Antonio Mejia Lara of Mexico City, Mexico. Here is a shot of Marco with his completed project. I want to thank Mike again for helping with this give away, and sending this photo my way! So Marco.. if you’re out there, tell us about the pedal!

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