MF Stupid Deal - Pigtronix Rototron Analog Rotary Speaker Simulator

Musician's Friend's Stupid Deal of the Day is the Pigtronix Rototron. It is on sale for $169, a savings of $150 over its usual price of $319.

Pigtronix Rototron is an all-analog rotary speaker effect that combines frequency modulation, phase shifting, tremolo, bucket brigade-based chorusing and a three-way crossover all meticulously voiced to achieve unsurpassed, three-dimensional rotary realism in a compact, easy to use pedal.

Designed by Howard Davis and David Koltai, the Pigtronix Rototron accurately recreates the complex acoustic phenomenon of the legendary dual rotor 122 and 147 cabinets as used by Peter Frampton, Danny Gatton, the Beatles and many more. The analog design approach used within the Rototron sounds warmer, fatter and feels far more realistic than the digital rotary effects currently available from other companies. Line-level headroom and full stereo input and output options make the Rototron ideally suited to keyboardists as well as guitarists who use a stereo setup live or in studio.

Independent Slow and Fast speed controls with adjustable ramp time allows musicians to achieve the mesmerizing sound of speeding up and slowing down an actual rotary cabinet. A remotely switchable Brake option completes the authentic experience to provide rotary bliss on stage without the back breaking hassle. Separate expression pedal jacks for the low and high rotors enable some entirely new variations on the classic rotary sound. Internally switchable input summing and mid-range panning options round out this incredibly flexible, easy to use and hypnotic sounding analog rotary simulator from Pigtronix.

ProGuitarShop Memorial Day Sale

In celebration of Memorial Day, Pro Guitar Shop is offering a 20% discount off with the code MEM20

Additionally, several boutique builders are discounted at 15% off with no code needed. Included in the sale are Earthquaker, JHS, Keeley, Wampler, Walrus Audio, Catalinbread, and others.

TC Electronic introduces Hall Of Fame 2

TC Electronic has unveiled a new reverb pedal, the Hall of Fame 2. The Hall of Fame 2 introduces MASH, a programmable pressure-sensitive momentary footswitch - allowing you to control variables such as reverb length, modulation level, volume and tone, or any combination of such. It also features shimmer reverb, which was missing from its predecessor, as well as 3 TonePrint slots, two more than the original Hall of Fame had.

For more information, visit the official product page.

The new Hall Of Fame 2 Reverb covers everything the original did and packs 3 new powerful features.

The revolutionary MASH technology adds the rich and fluid articulation of an expression pedal to your reverb effects in the same compact stompbox that you know.

On top of that, we carefully designed a crystalline Shimmer reverb that you can control with MASH for spine-tingling performance in real-time.

In fact, you can control pretty much any parameter conceivable with MASH. With the TonePrint Editor you can unleash the expressive potential in MASH any way you like. Of course, you can still get all the iconic reverbs and TonePrints that you know from the original.

Prymaxe Memorial Day Sale

Prymaxe is having a Memorial Day sale where you can save 20% off new products with the code MEM20 and 10% off demo products with the code DEMO10

Both codes expire on May 30

There are also some things in the clearance section that could be worth a look.

Musician's Friend Memorial Day Doorbusters

In celebration of Memorial Day, Musician's Friend is having a doorbusters sale, with a few pedals included. Among them are a lot of Rocktron pedals at $49 (usually running $100+), as well as Stupid Deal of the Day regulars like the Pigtronix PolySaturator ($109) and the Pigtronix Echolution 2 Filter Pro ($249).

You can also use the code MEMORIAL to get 10% off orders of $99+ and 15% off orders $199+, or JAM2017 for 8% off orders $89+. An additional 8% is available back in rewards if you're a member of the Backstage Pass program, and 2.5% is available as cash back if you run your order through Ebates.

Both the sale and the codes end on May 31.

American Musical Supply Memorial Day Accessory Sale

AMS is having an accessory sale in celebration of Memorial Day, with select products up to 86% off. This includes a decent selection of guitar pedals, mostly around 10% off their usual price.

Earthquaker introduces Erupter fuzz

Can we ask you a serious question? When’s the last time you turned up your favorite fuzz pedal to anything but eleven? If there’s one true thing about rock n’ roll, it’s that it sounds best cranked all the way up. But where do we go from here? We go one louder. Enter the Erupter.

The Erupter is the result of over two years’ worth of tone-chasing, tweaking, and experimentation in search of the ultimate classic fuzz tone with a big low end (but not too mushy), a biting top end without being too harsh, and just enough output to politely send a tube amp over the top.

We used every trick in the book to craft a classic fuzz Device that sounds good with any pickup type, anywhere in the chain (even before a wah pedal!) without any tone-sucking impedance mismatching. We build each Erupter with a buffered input section, transformer-based pickup simulation, new production 5% ½ watt carbon composition resistors, metallized polyester film capacitors, Sprague and BC electrolytic capacitors, and low-gain, hand-matched NOS silicon transistors to deliver a well-rounded and defined fuzz tone with just enough pummeling intensity, so you can rock n’ roll all night and still get to bed at a reasonable hour.

The Erupter’s simple control set stands in stark relief of its rigorous design process, and believe us, we tried everything. Adding controls, removing controls, measuring resistors, swapping transistors, trying different capacitor values, rolling dice, throwing darts at transformer spec sheets on the wall… Heck, we would have done William Burroughs-style circuit board cut-ups if we thought it would’ve worked. If it’s good enough for the Stones, it’s gotta be good enough for us, right?

Anywho, what we finally landed on is a super-simple single knob setup that allows you to bias the Erupter’s NOS silicon transistors for the perfect sound and feel, while still being touch responsive and cleaning up nicely when you roll back the guitar’s volume and tone controls.

Low “Bias” settings yield a rude, spongy fuzz tone with plenty of sag and a blossoming attack envelope that’s gated without entering “dying battery” territory. As the “Bias” control is increased, additional harmonics stack atop the input signal, producing a stiffer, more complex fuzz tone with a tighter response, increased output, and longer sustain. We had a custom center-detent pot made to fit the required resistance for the Erupter. When the Bias control is set at noon you will feel a little click. That means the pedal is perfectly biased to give the best possible fuzz tone.

The Erupter uses a fixed master output level and gain setting for the thickest fuzz possible and to push the full frequency range of the guitar out front when you kick it on. And we do hope you’ll kick it on often.

Each and every Erupter is built by the hands of real-life dream warriors in the foothills of Mt. Akron, Ohio.

The official demo is below, and more info is available on the official product page.

Additional Earthquaker Devices Erupter demos are available from Chicago Music Exchange, Reverb.com, JJ Tanis, Dennis Kayzer, Sweetwater, and Guitar World.