Effects Database

     This site is owned by my friend DiscoFreq in Belgium. It is simply the best database of effects pedals in existence. There are over 12,000 pedals listed, most of which, have pictures. The site layout is easy to navigate and it even has a built in eBay search engine. Yes, as you search the database for pedals, you'll see similar pedals currently selling on eBay, right now! Pretty cool huh?

Analog Man

     Analogman (Mike Piera) started out modifying Tube Screamers many years ago, restoring their sound to vintage specifications. He still does this and more! Analogman is now a large effects shop offering both custom and modified pedals. They also repair and modify many vintage pedals for true-bypass operation. I highly recommend his Sun Face, CLONE Chorus, and JUICER pedals.

Home Brew Electronics

     HBE is a small company dedicated to building top quality custom guitar effects pedals. Each pedal is carefully hand crafted one at a time using only the highest quality components and the utmost attention to detail. HBE offers a wide range of effects blending vintage designs with modern technology. On a personal note, they make the best sounding Flanger pedal I've ever come across!

Catalinbread Pedals

     Offering some very unique pedals, Catalinbread popped on the scene with studio quality pedals at affordable prices. Their Semaphore Tremolo is simply the best tremolo pedal in existence. Also, if your tired of overdrive and distortion pedals that sound like fizzy toys, check out their WIIO for some real HiWatt tone!

Castledine Electronics

     Stuart Castledine makes the most unique Tone Bender fuzz pedal I've ever come across. His design is based one of two existing prototypes of the Marshall Supa Fuzz, which had the gain set internally to max, while the two top mounted knobs adjusted volume and tone, rather than volume and gain. I've found this to be the perfect fuzz tone for both humbuckers and single coils alike. If it had ever gone into production, it would have been legend! However, you can still get that sound today, thanks to Stu. Check out his site for more info! Highly recommended!

Retro-Sonic Pedals

     This company offers high quality clones of many classic pedals from yesteryear. I like Retro-Sonic because not only do they clone great sounding pedals, they often improve them! Two great examples of this would be their chorus and delay. These are much improved clones of the original Roland CE-1 Chorus and the BOSS DM-2 Analog Delay. I highly recommend them!

Barber Electronics

     Offering a wide range of great sounding pedals built in the USA. Most are unique designs and not direct copies of older circuits. They are also priced in a musician friendly manner that we can all appreciate. The Burn Unit and Tri-Fecta are especially cool, check them out!

Wattson Classic Electronics

     This company makes a wonderful clone of the early Japanese Shin-Ei Super Fuzz pedals. These pedals are often hard to find and go by various names such as Companion, JAX, and Univox, but the tone is the same... wild and nasty! This is a sizzling angry fuzz that is equally at home in modern and vintage musical appliations.

Blackout Effectors

     Formerly from Canada, these guys are now located in Asheville, North Carolina! They may be best known for their OTA (operational transconductance amplifiers) based phaser pedal called the Whetsone. If you like the Electro-Harmonix Small Stone, but wish it sounded better and had more options for tweaking, then this is your phase! They also make several cool fuzz pedals. Please visit their site and enjoy!

Loop Master

     Are you tired of tap dancing on stage as you try to turn several effects pedals on and off at the same time? Maybe you have a vintage MXR Phase 90 and you wish it had true bypass, but you don't want to send it off for a mod that may ruin its value? Loop Master is your solution. They offer some of the best passive musical instrument signal routers and switchers on the planet! From A/B pedals to True Bypass boxes, your sure to find what you need for both stage and studio use.

Stewart-MacDonald

     This is an excellent site for obtaining tools involved in guitar repair or just maintaining your instrument. They have a large selection of guitar. My only complaint is that their shipping charges are often ridiculous, so order in bulk if possible.

Callaham Guitars

     If you love Fender Telecaster style guitars then this site is for you. I've never seen nicer bridges and saddles. I've had the pleasure of installing many Callaham parts on various Fender Custom Shop instruments and the result is always the same... fantastic tone!

Musikraft

     A great guitar builder resource. They offer bodies and necks of a variety of different shapes. The finest replacement Fender licensed necks I've come across. Far Superior to Warmoth in my opinion.

Pickguard Heaven

     A division of Chandler Guitars, Pickguard Heaven is the only place I buy replacement pickguards from. Besides offering a slew of different materials to choose from, they go one further by actually making the pickguards FIT. I recently ordered a replacement Fender 72 Tele Thinline pickguard to put on a real Fender 72 Tele Thinline (not a reissue) and it was as if they had this exact guitar in front of them as a template. Be sure and check them out!

Mojotone Musical Supply

     Whether amp building is your hobby or you'd like to start your own amplifier company, Mojotone is where you begin. They offer about any amp part you can think of from handles to baffles. Their cabinetry work is just top notch and they offer a wide variety of grill cloth and tolex coverings too. Mojotone is now stocking guitar parts too such as pickups, hardware, bodies, necks and more!

Weber Speakers

     Ted Weber makes the finest clones of vintage speakers period. I'll argue that with anyone. You'll find them in my personal amps. I've also installed them in countless Fender and amps with very happy customers as a result. I highly recommend a visit to their site if you own a Fender vintage reissue amp. If it doesn't have a Weber speaker inside, you have no idea how much better it can sound.

Avatar Speakers

     This is where I buy my speakers. Dave has the best prices and the widest selection. Also they offer some really well made speaker cabinets at unreal prices.

Lava Cable

     This site offers the widest selection of the very best high-end guitar, microphone, and speaker cables from around the world. Whether you want Lava, George L, Evidence Audio, Mogami, Klotz, or whatever... its all here! Each cable is built to order and comes with a lifetime warranty! Evidence Audio Melody is my personal favorite with its strong signal strength, supreme clarity and balanced EQ.

EuroTubes

     This is the only place I buy tubes from. Why? Because Bob knows tubes. He really does test the tubes before he ships them out to you. Sure, all tube stores claim to do that, but the problem is most of them don't! Thats why even when I can get tubes cheaper elsewhere, I still buy from Bob. You should too.

Port City Amplification

     These guys offer boutique handmade speaker cabinets built with the pinnacle of craftsmanship and premium materials. Their Wave cabinet is especially impressive as they have taken the design flaws of both open and closed back cabs, learned from them, and designed something new and unique! Ever notice the pure focused tone of a closed back cab? Sometimes its too focused as it doesn't fill the room with sound! Maybe you prefer the room filling sound of an open back cab? Its nice, but you'll never get tight bass response you crave. The Wave has a special design so you can hear sound coming from both the front, and the back of your speakers as its spun around and pushed out of the wide port located on the lower front of the cab! So stop reading this, log on to their site, and check it out for yourself!

Swart Amplifier Company

     Michael Swart builds some very nice amplifiers. They have a vintage look and strikingly good tone, but also some modern innovations that enhance your playing experience. I really like how you can swap between 6V6GT, 6L6GC, and EL34 tubes without rebiasing. The reverb is also very good. Thats something I'm very picky about. I don't know how so many companies screw this up, but I truly hate the reverb on almost every amp I hear. The Space Tone has the best reverb you'll find today.

Lollar Pickups

     There are so many people making their own hand wound pickups these days. Its overwhelming! How do you tell a pickup winding expert from a novice who has money to burn on advertising? You can't! You have to actually hear the pickups for yourself! I've insalled many Lollar single coils and humbuckers in various Gibson and Fender guitars. If you want authentic vintage tone, Jason's pickups are where its at!

John Suhr Guitars

     People often ask me who makes the best guitar... or if I could own any guitar, what would it be? The answer is simple. John Suhr Guitars... you can certainly spend more money on a guitar, but you cannot buy a better guitar. The body and necks are CNC made for consistant, repeatable quality. You have the option of stainless steel frets and there are many finishes, body, and neck options to choose from. Finally the fretwork is done on a PLEK Pro which offers the most acurate, perfect fretwork possible. Do I really need to say anymore?

For Musicians Only

     This site is owned by my friend Tom Hughes (analog tom) and it offers a fine selection of both vintage and new guitar effects. You can find pedals by Moog, Black Cat, and so much more. Tom is also the author of Analog Man's Guide to Vintage Effects, which I consider to be the best, most in depth book of its kind. In this publication you can learn anything you ever wanted to know about the vast world of guitar effects. From basic information to detailed interviews with the actual pedal designers themselves, its all in there.

Legato Guitars

     If your in the market for a fine arch top guitar, you need to talk to Bill Fender at Legato Guitars. His store was established in 1995 to meet the needs of jazz guitar players of all levels, from novice students to professional performers. His select inventory emphasizes quality electric and acoustic archtops in excellent to mint condition.

Gravity Records

     This is Wilmington's only real record store! If you're tired of music stores where the salesmen wear name tags and have no clue what your talking about, you need to shop at Gravity. These guys know music! Go check out their large selection of new and used CDs and DVDs! They've even got a separate section for local music! Oh, and yes they actually do sell vinyl records for those of you who remember what those are.