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I am a huge fan of pretty much every wave of surf music, so you can imagine how stoked I am to announce that we are the newest SurfyBear dealer.  Check the whole lin-up out here.

Surfy produce guitar effects with the heart and soul of legendary vintage music equipment while featuring modern technology and increased portability. Their mission is to bring you the authentic original sounds of the great classics and take them to a new level.

It is no secret that Surfy started their business with the development of the "SurfyBear", a reverb controller based on the legendary Fender® 6G15® unit, to re-create the same sounding experience, but with reduced transportation issues and costs. The worldwide surf music community has been extremely helpful and supportive, so much that thanks to these "reverb freaks" we reviewed our plans based on their suggestions and ideas. In the end, no music genre cares about reverb more than surf music!

They do not produce emulations, but instead work to give you the original tone of an effect. They like myself, are fans of analog, including the imperfections, since it is the only authentic sound.

20% off til they are gone!

Check out the whole line-up here.

Just a head's up that We will be offering some really killer Pro audio equipment over the coming months. Starting with D.W. Fearn / Hazelrigg Industries...

D.W. Fearn was started by Doug Fearn, who opened up his recording studio in 1969. Shortly after he began building his own equipment, leading to the creation of the VT-1 Vacuum Tube Microphone Preamplifier in 1993. He's been building world renowned mic preamps, equalizers and compressors for over 50 years that have been used in studios all over the world.

In 2017, after years of apprenticeship on the workbench and in the studio, brothers Geoff and George Hazelrigg of Hazelrigg Industries assumed D.W. Fearn's manufacturing. The Hazelrigg brothers have been working in live performance and production for years, and design and build the highest quality studio equipment with the artist's goals and challenges in mind, so we couldn't really think of a better team to take over D.W. Fearn's manufacturing and business.  Doug Fearn continues to act as the principal product designer and serves as a consultant to the Hazelriggs. All D.W. Fearn and Hazelrigg equipment is built in Bucks County, PA.

In addition to the sweet 500 Series line-up (in stock), Hazelrigg's 4DI 4 Channel Direct Box, VNE Single Channel Vacuum Tube Compressor and VLC Vacuum Tube Microphone Preamp/DI/EQ Line Processor are among the offerings we will bring in on a custom order basis.

Their VDI DI Box (in stock) is perfect for the discerning musician who's invested heavily in guitars and effects and wants a DI that will preserve and highlight all that warmth and character that can get lost when going through a less worthy DI box.

Thorpy is offering something celebratory and a little different in honour of their tenth anniversary year. There are very few of these available but for a short period we are offering the pink and hammertone finish option. 

Pink KNOBS

PInk LEDS

Pink SILKSCREEN

Silver laser etched centre 

Pedals included in this run are Peacekeeper, Warthog, Heavy Water and Gunshot. Grab them while you can!

Some really sweet pedals all the way from Italy have landed here.

Definitely have a look and listen here.

From his origins in an 8’x10’ unheated basement shop, all the way to designing circuits for Dunlop and Electro Harmonix, Johnny Wator has driven Daredevil as a true labor of love and obsession. After over a decade of touring in a band, the desire to create his own tones led to the development of the brand and the first line of pedals available in 2012.

Initially building old school point to point and strip board circuits, the Daredevil roots lie in an affection for vintage circuits from the 60’s & 70’s, big ol’ hand wired tone machines. Almost all of Daredevil pedals are original design circuits that capture something unique, and fill a sonic void in Johnny’s personal quest for musical expression. The continual cycle of seeking out new ideas and approaches to classic tones for the modern age.

We value Rock n' Roll above most everything else, so Johnny's pedals were a perfect fit for AAYSR.  Checl them out here.

Happy to announce we just recieved out first shipment from Gecko Pedals! check the full line-up our here.

Gecko Pedals was born out of a bet (a dare maybe?) between two band mates back in 2007.  The first band mate, the lead guitarist, was a big fan of a 1960-1970’s era tape delay made by Maestro called the Echoplex, which is still a thing of legend and with many still in service even today.  He owned and used one in the band, and all were delighted by the jaw-dropping sounds that he created with it.  It suffered from a few problems, however.  It was a giant, heavy, electro-mechanical brick of machine, full of motors and pulleys and things that hummed and squeaked and whirred.  When something went wrong with it, replacement parts and people who were able to service one were both in short supply.

Enter band mate #2, the percussionist, who had a background in engineering.  One day while the two were talking about his Echoplex, band mate #2 mindlessly says something along the lines of, “I bet I could build you something to replace it that would fit on your pedal board and that wouldn’t break down on you.”  The first band mate replied, “Oh yeah?  Well then you definitely should do that, because I can think of more people than just me who would want one.”

Over the next decade, the chaos of life took over.  Careers happened, marriages happened, children happened, people bought houses and moved away, fortunes were won and lost… The band eventually faded away, but all members remained good friends.  Through those years, band mate #1 would occasionally say to band mate #2 something like, “Hey, where’s that pedal you were going to build?  Maybe you should get on that before we’re both dead.”

Well, perfection takes time!  Eventually, a dozen or so years later, it actually did turn from stale, lingering idea into Gecko Pedals first creation:  The Geckoplex EP-5.

AAYSR is now offering the entire ZVEX Effects line up here.  This brand is pretty much the most iconic of all the early boutique brands ATMO and they have never stopped innovating. Their pedals are extraordinarily unique yet very musical.

The Z.Vex Artist Roster is a virtual who's who of music.

Check out all the pedals here.

Given our massive love of Australian guitar rock, you can imagine how stoked we are to be carrying Kink Guitar Pedals here in Canada.

Based out of Melbourne, Australia, Kink Pedals offer a really wide array of great effects and have collaborated with the Legendary Ross Knight from Cosmic Psychos as well as the Chats

Check the full line-up out here.

Super happy to announce that we have added Mask Audio Electronics to our line-up of effects pedals here!

Mask Audio Electronics is Alec Breslow's expression of his love of the collision between electronics and sound. He make the things He wants to see out in the world and hopes they find those who share the love of fuzz and noise.  

We also love Fuzz and noise here so....

Def. check the whole line-up here.