April 20th /09 - Guitarist Thomas Schuber is back with another Youtube demo of a Diamond product, this time showcasing the Diamond Compressor. Thomas takes the pedal through it's paces using it for compression and also as a booster.

April 1st-4th /09 - German Diamond Pedals distributor Taranaki Guitars will be displaying our products at the Musikmesse trade show. If you're attending, stop by and say hi to Arne von Brill in Hall 4.0, Booth H41 and try some Diamond products!

March 27 /09 - Diamond Pedals founder Michael Knappe recently discovered a couple of low wattage setups we wanted to share. Mike says that both of these kick butt for small stage gigs or recording!

LP>J-DriveMk3>Phase (2-stage, regen off, speed/depth@noon)>MLN2> Princeton Reverb RI

Strat>J-DriveMk3>Phase (2-stage,regen off, speed/depth@noon)>MLN2>1974X RI

Both setups mic'ed wuth a Shure SM57. Give these a try and let us know what you think or send us your own killer tone setups using Diamond Pedals!

March 16 /09 - Check out this great Youtube video of the Boost-EQ from guitarist Thomas Schuber. The Boost-EQ provides a wide range of tones with just three easy to use controls. Thomas showcases both the subtle and extreme settings available and says of the pedal- "I absolutely dig it!"

March 5/09 - It's been a busy couple of months here at Diamond Pedals. The Bass Comp and Analog Tap Tremolo are nearing completion and will begin shipping to dealers soon. The opto based tremolo pedal offers a host of great features and sounds fantastic while the Bass Comp has been requested by bassists for a while and offers some special 'tweaks' for our low end brethren.
Andy Summers has also recently purchased more Diamond pedals, with a J-Drive Mk3 and Memory Lane 2 joining his Halo and original Memory Lane pedals.

End of life notice: the Memory Lane 2 is unfortunately nearing the end of it's lifespan. The supply of NOS Panasonic MN3005 chips we use is becoming very limited and very expensive. Luckily, we've managed to stockpile a modest supply which will allow us to continue building Memory Lane 2 for a short time but when they're gone... they're gone!

January 5/09 - Happy New Year! Visit Diamond Pedals at Winter NAMM 2009. We'll be at Booth #2785. Stop to check out the new Bass Compressor (by popular demand!) and the all new Optical Tremolo featuring an all analog audio path, tap tempo, selectable waveforms and scratch tempo feature.

December 24/08 - Diamond Pedals will be closed from December 24th until January 2nd. Thanks to all of our dealers and the players who choose our pedals, for making 2008 our best year ever. We'll see you in 2009. Stay tuned for upcoming products!

October 31/08 - The revised Vibrato pedal begins shipping to dealers on Monday! Featuring true analog pitch shifting vibrato. Click the picture for more info on the Vibrato, sound clips coming soon!

September 4/08 - New Halo bass clips by Michele Tacchi have been added to the Halo product page. Also, check out the limited edition run of pedals in metallic green that recently shipped to our Japanese distributor Deviser Special Division:

August 22/08 - We'll be attending the annual MIAC trade show in Toronto, Ontario this weekend. If you're there, stop by and say 'hello'. We'll be back operating normally on Wednesday the 27th.

August 15/08 - LOTS of pedals being built right now and all dealers will be receiving Memory Lane 2 pedals in the coming weeks. Here's a quick shot of one of the assembly stations:

July 15/08 - The move to our new location and webserver changes are complete. Pedals have begun shipping again, look for J-Drive Mk3 and Halo pedals arriving at your local Diamond Pedal dealer soon.

June 27/08 - We're pleased to count Our Lady Peace guitarist Steve Mazur among our growing list of Diamond Pedals users. In other news, Buddy Miller is currently on tour backing Robert Plant and Alison Krauss on the Raising Sand Tour. Buddy is using the Diamond Compressor and Memory Lane pedals.

June 9/08 - New Diamond pedal users include Keith Scott (guitarist with Bryan Adams) and Thomas Blug - Europe's 'Strat King'. We're proud to have both players using our products!

May 9/08 - The Memory Lane 2 has begun shipping! The first batch of MLN-2 pedals are on the way to dealers and should be arriving over the next week. The first pedals have been shipped to- Action Music (Arlington, VA), Axe and You Shall Receive (Brantford, ON, Canada), Musictoyz.com (Falmouth, ME), PedalsPlus (Canfield, OH) and TrueTone Music (Santa Monica, CA)

May 2/08 - Memory Lane featured in the M. Night Shyamalan film The Happening trailer (Quicktime required). We received an email from Benjamin Hazlett, a Hollywood session player, letting us know that not only did he use the Memory Lane for that session, but that it was also used on sessions for the upcoming Wolverine and Batman- Dark Knight films.

 

April 24/08 - Memory Lane 2 PCBs ... click the pic for more.

April 18/08 - Memory Lane 2 build continues...not too much longer. Here's a teaser...

April 15/08 - After careful consideration and feedback from players we've decided to make some revisions to the Diamond Vibrato pedal. We decided it was too big, too expensive and too compex. As a result, we're scaling back the design to a lean, mean analog vibrato machine. There will still be some very cool features but it will be smaller, easier to use and less expensive. Stay tuned for more!

April 7/08 - Congratulations to Canadian band Wintersleep on their Juno win for Best New Artist 2008. Way to go guys!! Guitarist Tim D'Eon uses the Diamond Memory Lane and J-Drive pedals live and in the studio. Visit their website at www.wintersleep.com

March 31/08 - New features added to Memory Lane 2- in one of those "what if we did this?" moments, we've added a couple of features to the Memory Lane 2 that really add to the useability. First, we've added a 'slap' mode to Delay 1 (activated via mini toggle) so that at any delay time setting there is a single repeat regardless of the Feedback setting. This allows you to have a single repeat on Delay 1 while having any number of repeats (along with a different delay time) on Delay 2. Very cool!

The other change is to the Feedback circuit itself- the normal mode of the Memory Lane 2 is now a little less sensitive to self oscillation than the original Memory Lane. It will still self oscillate, just not quite as easily. However, we know that some players loved the crazy self oscillation sounds that are available so we've incorporated an internal selector switch that activates "spaceship mode" for all those jet fueled, screaming feedback sounds that analog delay is capable of.

March 10/08 - We get fantastic emails from customers around the world on a regular basis. Today an email arrived from a Memory Lane user who scores the NBC television show "Chuck". Timothy J. tells us that the Memory Lane is an integral part of his guitar sounds when he's scoring music for the show. Keep an ear out for the delay tones next time it's on!

We're continuing to 'tweak' the new Diamond Vibrato pedal circuit- look for some new sound clips posted on the site soon.

Rick McPhail of the popular German band Tocotronic has started using the Diamond Compressor describing it as "the peak of all compressors"- nice play on words Rick! Check out their video Mein Ruin on YouTube or their website.

Cool news! Andy Summers of The Police has recently acquired a Halo Chorus and a Memory Lane pedal from Truetone Music in Santa Monica (thanks guys!) and is currently putting them through their paces. We're big fans so this is very exciting!