Now is the right time to become an American Federation of Musicians member. From ragtime to rap, from the early phonograph to today's digital recordings, the AFM has been there for its members. And now there are more benefits available to AFM members than ever before, including a multi-million dollar pension fund, excellent contract protection, instrument and travelers insurance, work referral programs and access to licensed booking agents to keep you working.
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Create haunting echoes, ethereal landscapes, and otherworldly ambience with Eventide’s new Blackhole, a reverb pedal “as big and as mysterious as the cosmos.” The pedal includes onboard tone controls, modulation, and infinite reverb settings with mono or stereo operation, MIDI, preset storing, and a new compact, easy-to-use interface.
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Morley’s latest mini pedals incorporate the company’s classic trapezoid footprint. Suitable for guitar, bass, keys, and other instruments, the electro-optical pedals are housed in steel chassis, equipped with LED indication and quick clip battery door. They feature Pedal Glow treadle grip. The Mini Volume Plus (with foot selectable Minimum Volume), Mini Power Wah Volume (combo volume with wah level control), and Mini Maverick Switchless Wah (optically switched wah) are 6.75-inch long, 4.5-inch wide, by 2.75-inch high.
The Vexter series Fuzz Factory Vertical is a five-knob Zvex pedal that allows control of every aspect of your sound. “Gate” squelches noise after the end of sustain or can be used to tune in exact feedback pitch. Adjust “Comp” to add attack, get softer, or tune in fat feedback fuzz. “Drive” increases distortion and can also adjust feedback pitch and tonal thickness. “Stab” controls feedback pitch.
The Electro-Harmonix Canyon Delay & Looper pedal features 10 effects plus a fully featured looper. Canyon offers delay times of five milliseconds to three seconds, plus a tap tempo with tap divide controlled by the built-in (or external) footswitch. A Tails switch allows users to choose to have echoes repeat or stop immediately when the pedal is switched to bypass. Canyon’s 11 modes include: digital delay, modulated delay, multi-tap delay, reverse delay, Deluxe Memory Man emulation of the Bucket Brigade analog delay pedal, tape delay, reverb plus delay, octave delay, shimmer rich octave-shifted harmony wash effect, sample and hold, and 62-second looper.
The BOSS GT-1 Guitar Effects Processor is small enough to slip into a guitar bag accessory pouch, yet offers tone quality and sound shaping ability that exceeds typical compact multi-effects units. GT-1 users have access to more than 100 effects types including overdrive/distortion, chorus, and delay, plus utility effects such as acoustic simulator and guitar simulator. Numerous COSM amps are included, as well as a looper. Easy Select allows users to quickly find patches by genre, distortion, or effect type and Easy Edit lets them 
tweak drive, modulation, and echo tones to perfection with little effort. GT-1 can be powered by AC adapter or four AA-size batteries, lasting up to seven hours.
Harman’s Whammy Ricochet takes the popular whammy pitch shifting effect and places it in a small footprint pedal. Instead of using a foot treadle, it bends the pitch of the incoming note at a rate determined by shift and return controls. This allows guitarists to bounce their sound up or down in pitch in controlled or crazy shifts. Whammy Ricochet provides seven pitch selections—2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th, octave, double octave, and octave+ dry. A toggle selects up or down for the chosen pitch, while an LED ladder displays shift trajectory times. The pedal has two modes of operation: Classic Whammy algorithm for single note soloing and Chords for pitch shifting of full chords.
Korg’s Pitchblack mini (PBmini) tuner pedal is designed to conserve precious pedal board space, but still offer precise tuning and an easy-to-read display. Though PBmini has the footprint of a credit card, its large, seven-segment, color LED delivers excellent visibility, even on a dark stage. Users can choose from three modes—regular, strobe, or half-strobe mode. Strobe mode allows visualization of the direction and speed of meter movement, plus ultra high precision tuning with +/- 0.1 cent accuracy. Stabilizers on the underside of PBmini help it to stay put.
The Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail Neo is a compact pedal that includes plate reverb. Housed in a die-cast nano chassis, it features the popular spring and spatial hall reverbs. A three-position toggle switch lets the user select the reverb style and the reverb knob acts as a wet/dry control. Holy Grail Neo is equipped with true bypass to ensure maximum signal path integrity when in bypass mode. It can be powered by a nine-volt battery and is shipped with a power supply.
Nady’s PitchFork guitar or bass pedal tuner puts accurate, true bypass tuning technology (+/- one cent) in a rugged stomp box. Its easy-to-read LED has a choice of three convenient display modes—meter, full strobe, and half strobe. It also features easy-to-use calibration in 1Khz steps (436Hz to 445Hz) and optional standard tuning or a choice of seven flat settings.
With nine finely-tuned presets emulating the legendary organs of the ’60s and beyond, the Electro-Harmonix B9 Organ Machine delivers definitive tonewheel and combo organ sounds directly from your guitar or keyboard. The B9’s layout is straightforward and intuitive. Simple knobs and a switch allow the player to select among different popular organ types and control their characteristics. It’s an affordable, rugged, and easy-to-use pedal that puts undeniable organ sounds at a musician’s fingertips.
