Some links to friends, cool things,
useful information and archives of featured products

Evol Music on Myspace
Future Music - a must see vintage music shop in Highland Park.
The Echo and Echoplex - local live music venues in Echo Park. We are currently selling pre sale tickets
Real McCoy Custom (RMC Wah)
MG Music
Analog Man
Bixonic
Guyatone
Maxon
Nobels
Electro Harmonix
YouTube - search for an endless amount of effect pedal demos
Musician Sounds Design
Postal Monkey

True Bypass
A note on using "true bypass" in guitar effects pedals.
Pete Cornish - Case against true bypass
The Truth About True Bypass

Tony Tender from MG Music is a cool version of a Tone Bender MKII. This is an awesome fuzz in the vein of Jimmy Page on Zeppelin I. It uses 3 NOS military germanium transistors and like most good things in life it is
warm and dirty.