There are few words more likely to catch my attention than ‘pedal sale’, so I was immediately drawn to Sweetwater’s Memorial Day Pedal sale when it dropped this morning. Offering us pedal junkies savings of up to 40% on huge brands like JHS, EarthQuaker Devices, Line 6, and loads more, it's one of the best Memorial Day sales for musicians and it didn’t take me much convincing to start picking pedals out for my ‘board.
Having owned and reviewed countless stompboxes over the years, I recently sold a second unused pedalboard that had been gathering dust in my home studio. Of course, the only reason I sold them was to buy more pedals! For me, there’s no better feeling than building a new pedalboard or just adding something fresh to my main gigging ‘board, so here are the 5 pedals that I’m looking at.