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Behind The Scenes…

Just to let readers know why the site has been stale for a few days… There has been some behind the scenes work going on preparing the shop, organising stock and also preparing for the announcement of the competition winner, which will come in a few days time so if...
Posted 07 Sep 2010 | News | 0 Comments

Competition, Just One Week Left!

There is only 1 week left to enter the first birthday give away. Surprisingly few entries so far so your chances of winning are good! Enter in the forum now and stand the chance of winning the highly rated Sanyo Pedal Juice effects pedal power supply....
Posted 03 Sep 2010 | News | 0 Comments

Server Downtime

Just a note to say there is scheduled maintenance set by my hosting company which will occur around 00:00 on September 4th (or midnight September 3rd). I have been informed that disruption will be minimal but please be aware DirtBox may be unavailable for a few hours around this...
Posted 02 Sep 2010 | News | 0 Comments

Sugar Bytes Guitarist

Well now. One of these guitar simulation plugins comes out every couple of years and guitarists usually go mental. How dare they try to create a virtual electric guitar? Anyway, Guitarist from Sugar Bytes is the latest attempt at making an electric guitar into a VST plugin and it does it semi-decentally....
Posted 02 Sep 2010 | News | 0 Comments

Shop At Dirtbox (Coming Soon)

That’s right! Over the coming weeks I will be working on setting up a shop at DirtBox! Product details will be released soon. What would you want to see in the DirtBox shop? Head over to the new area of the forum dedicated to the shop and discuss your ideas...
Posted 28 Aug 2010 | News | 0 Comments

Competition Still Open!

Just a note to say don’t forget to enter the first birthday giveaway!!! It is really simple, just click the banner to the right to be taken to the topic in the forum that will explain what to do. No playing necessary this time...
Posted 27 Aug 2010 | News | 0 Comments

New Rock Box Pedals Coming Soon!

Rock Box (those guys behind the already legendary Boiling Point overdrive) have announced a new series of pedals coming out throughout the rest of the year! Promising to be made of the same high quality components and featuring the typical Rock Box style swirled enclosures these boxes sound exciting, but...
Posted 25 Aug 2010 | News | 0 Comments

Jet City Amps To Launch Pedal Range

Jet City have announced a new pedal range that should be coming soon. Included in the range is the Afterburner Dual-Stage Overdrive with overdrive and boost circuits, and also the Shockwave distortion. Not much information floating around but Jet City should hopefully announce something soon....
Posted 24 Aug 2010 | News | 0 Comments

Valvette Twin Custom Drive Prototype

DirtBox can exclusively reveal that Valvette have begun prototyping a dual channel version of their fantastic Custom Drive. Here what Johan Maerten's (owner and builder at Valvetter) had to say: ''…I've been working on a dual channel custom drive that was ordered by a customer of mine in france …...
Posted 21 Aug 2010 | News | 0 Comments

Win In The Making (Episode 1 & 2)

For those who haven’t been following the story Chapman Guitar’s is a unique, one-of-a-kind guitar company founded by Rob ‘MonkeyLord’ Chapman with the aim on collaborative design. Anyway, over the last few days Jaden Rose (expert luthier) has been hard at work on the prototype for the ML2 which is...
Posted 21 Aug 2010 | News | 2 Comments