Like all musicians, I suffer from the disease “gottabuygearitis”. It’s the obssessive impulse to buy music gear you don’t need and can’t afford in order to find “the sound”. It was fine back in the days before the internet, when you could just deny all the rumors about how awesome Lovetone and Z-Vex and any of the other awesome boutique pedals were. But now in the age of broadband, you’re just a couple clicks away from hearing how awesome you could sound if only the blood-bank will let you sell them some platelets one more time this month.

For some killer pedal demos and a wide array of boutique stuff, cruise on over to ToneFactor. (BTW, look at the logo on their site. I know it’s a guitar pedal, but I instantly think Flux Capacitor.) Gearmanndude is a fan, so what’s not to love? Here’s the current object of all my musical wet dreams, the Empress Tap Tremolo, as demo’d by the guys over at TonFactor.

-J