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Long, long ago in a land far, far away, before council tax, Miranda Hart and X Factor (what a lovely thought), there were cavemen who roamed the wilds doing cavemen-type things. As well as hunting beasties and drawing lopsided pictures in excrement on their walls, when they saw something new and interesting they were drawn to it and collected it for their cave.

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Have you ever been tempted to build your own board? Take your mishmash collection of pedals with all their trailing cables and make a solid, glorious piece of civil engineering that would grace a third year engineering student’s final year project?

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This feature was submitted by Guitar Jar contributor: Pedals For Hire

The bedroom warrior is a shy but picky guitarist who cares just as much about their tone as anyone else that plays guitar, they just happen to be constrained by wives, children, work and neighbours when it comes to rocking out.

The market for feeding these soldiers of tone is large has been around for some time; the Line6 POD was released almost ten years ago. But there are many in the community (often hiding behind the anonymity of the internet) who would claim that nothing could match a proper tube amp.

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This feature was submitted by Guitar Jar contributor: Pedals For Hire

I remember exactly when it hit me. I had been lurking on guitar forums for a year or two, reading all these posts about true bypass, boutique pedals and something called a Klon. I had bought a few nice pedals and amps but never really got into what I was really doing with my sound chain.

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Like the majority of the guitar playing community, I’m a player who’s open minded to using various guitar effects to enhance the musical soundscape. Usually, the lack of cash flow puts an end to building an effects arsenal, and there’s nothing worse than spending hard earned cash on a new pedal that doesn’t compliment your rig.

Fortunately, help is at hand. “Pedals For Hire” is a new UK based company providing guitarists the opportunity to simply hire guitar effects for short periods of time. Guitar Jar catches up with Managing Director Richard Pasco to quiz him on the vision of the company.

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