Boss 3 for 2 Offer on Compact Pedals until June 30th in Roland Planet Stores The Boss 3 for 2 offer is back for a very limited time! Buy two Boss compact pedals from a Roland Planet Store, and we’ll give you a third completely free. With festival season upon us,…
Advice on how to line up your effects pedals with the goal of helping you get your rig sounding just right By Roland US So you decided to play electric guitar. Once you get a guitar and an amp, the next step is to explore effects. Effects pedals can be…
Bernie Marsden is part of the rock aristocracy. In a 40-year career he’s played guitar for a host of important outfits, including Wild Turkey, Babe Ruth and of course Whitesnake. He even turned down the offer to join Paul McCartney’s supergroup Wings. With stats like these, Bernie Marsden is an…
Enter before 30th May for a chance to win an ST-2 Power Stack! Recently we’ve been thrilled to spend time with Gallows’ guitarist and principle songwriter, Lags. Apart from filming some great videos with him, we also got Lags to kindly sign one of his favourite Boss pedals, a new…
Paul White, editor-in-chief of the esteemed Sound on Sound magazine looks at some practical applications of guitar synthesis (hint: it’s not about playing drums on your guitar) The GR-55 combines two of my favourite Roland guitar technologies in a pedal format specifically designed not to intimidate the musician and I…
As he gears up for a summer of festivals, we hooked up with Justin Young from The Vaccines With a refreshingly raw garage punk sound, The Vaccines tore up the charts when their debut album, What Else Did You Expect From The Vaccines, was released in 2011. It was the…
If you own a LoopStation your plans for the future should look like this: Enter UK LoopStation Competition Win the UK final and get £750 of Boss and Roland gear Take the crown in the Worldwide Final in L.A and get $3,000 in Boss and Roland gear. Riding high on…
Up-and-coming indie rock band, fiN tries out new Roland G-5 VG Stratocaster in rehersal The Wandsworth based four piece just toured Europe with The Kooks, Incubus and Feeder and about to go on tour with Howler. One of the most talked about bands at this years SXSW festival, fiN treat…
September 15, 2011 — BOSS is proud to announce the BC-2 Combo Drive, the latest addition to the overdrive/distortion category of its legendary lineup of compact pedals. Just as the ST-2 Power Stack brought the sound of a raging stack amp to pedalboards everywhere, the BC-2 now gives players classic…
Breakthrough Product Fuses PCM Synthesis and COSM Modelling Los Angeles, January 13, 2011 — Roland is extremely proud to announce the GR-55 Guitar Synthesizer, a revolutionary new product from the world’s undisputed leader in guitar synthesis technology. The GR-55 represents Roland’s latest breakthrough advances in guitar synthesis, combining PCM synthesis…
Now with Three Hours of Recording and Stereo I/O Los Angeles, January 13, 2011 — Boss is proud to announce the RC-30 and RC-3 Loop Station pedals, the latest additions to its industry-leading line-up of pedal-based loop recorders. Featuring high-powered digital signal processing, stereo operation, and useful new cutting-edge features,…
September 1, 2010 — BOSS is proud to announce the addition of the ST-2 Power Stack to its industry-leading compact pedal line-up. The ST-2 is a unique type of BOSS distortion pedal that gives guitarists the sound and feel of playing through a large, cranked-up, stack-style tube amplifier. This is…