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Currently, Amazon has a good deal on the Mod Tone Harmonic Tremor pedal. This pedal normally lists for $99.95, but is on sale for $65.76 and can ship free with FREE super saver shipping.

Here are the specifics of the pedal:

The ModTone Harmonic Tremor is a split bypass boutique style pedal that recreates vintage style tremolo units or pulsating vibrato effect. Housed in a sealed corrosion resistant metal chassis that’s built to last, each ModTone pedal features period correct vintage style components,  smooth linear taper pots that enable you to custom tailor your sound for maximum performance, high impact switches built for the floor and top quality jacks for optimum tonal transfer.

I found another great video demo by gearmanndude:

You can pick up the Mod Tone Harmonic Tremor for $65.76 at Amazon.com

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After announcing the first Effects Bay pedal give-away, where I’m working with Fat Tone Guitars to give away a prototype F-Bomb Fuzz pedal, I thought it would be cool to shift gears and talk about phasers.

I use to have a lot of fun with phasers. I still own my MXR Phase 100 and I remember playing the older EHX Small Stone (military green box) back in the day. What got me thinking about them again is the EHX nano small stone, and trying to remember how the small stone compared to the Phase 100, and I honestly couldn’t remember. But, as expected, I found a pretty sweet shootout comparison video with my favorite demo dude (gearmandude) where he demos the ModTone MT-PH Atomic Phaser, Electro-Harmonix Nano Small Stone Phase Shifter, MXR CSP-101CL Custom Shop ‘Script’ Phase 90 and the standard MXR M-101 Phase 90.

You can pick up all of these pedals in the demo at Musician’s Friend
Modtone MT-PH Atomic Phaser – $99.95
Electro-Harmonix Nano Small Stone Phase Shifter – $78.00
MXR CSP-101CL Custom Shop Script Phase 90 – $99.99
MXR M-101 Phase 90 – $79.99

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Today while I was poking around the inter-webbie, I was thinking to myself that I need to look at other distortion tones that I normally do NOT use for the sake of the diverse readership here. One area that I was thinking was ‘metal’. I’m not much of a metal player (I definitely had my share of listening to it in the past, and I do like on occasion some choice metal riffage in my face at a show), but I came across a pretty cool pedal for getting that high gain and ‘tight’ distortion. The pedal I want to present is the Extreme Metal pedal by ModTone.

Here is the official description:

The ModTone Extreme Metal pedal is a true bypass boutique style pedal that delivers insane gain levels that go from subtle to over the top. Our specialized “scoop” knob covers plenty of metal territory while leaving all the articulate definition intact. Adjusting the “Low” knob gives any amp that ground shaking low end thump while the “High” knob lets you dial in just the right amount of top end sweetness. Our proprietary gain stage lets you sprinkle just a touch of dirt or crank it all the way for a molten metal meltdown!

Here is a great video demo of the pedal by gearmandude (I really appreciate this guy’s reviews on pedals. Shows what they can do and has some variety with guitars and amps).

You can pick this pedal up at TunnelVisionMusic.com and it’s currently on sale for $79.95.

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