Hey everybody. Question, what does Robin Ford have in common with session legend Michael Thompson,

with other solo artists such as Alan Hines and Wayne Krantz, with Mark Latieri of Snarky Puppy,

with James Valentine of Maroon 5? Well, aside from the fact that they're all killer guitarists,

they have another thing in common, and that's that they all use the Vertex Boost.

This episode of No Guitar is Safe with Robin Ford is brought to you by the Vertex Boost,

which you can check out at vertexfx.com.

You can even see videos of Robin and some of these other cats demoing the pedal there.

The first thing they love about this pedal is that it has a killer buffer on it.

Even when it's not on, this pedal buffers your signal,

so you can run through a bunch

of other pedals. You can run through an entire pedal board and you still get that clear sound,

much like a cable going straight into the amp. In other words, it's like running through nothing

at all. The vertex boost. Kick it in, turn on that LED, and you have plenty of DB of clear, clean gain that you can adjust with the

level knob. Also, you can adjust it using a volume pedal. You just plug any volume pedal, even a

crappy one, into the expression in jack. It's 100% analog. You're just using this volume pedal as

an expression pedal to go from zero to wide open.

That's great because that means you don't have to plug your guitar into the volume pedal.

You plug your guitar straight into the boost, thereby avoiding the potential impedance buildup that can add some tone suck.

And we don't want tone suck.

So skip the volume pedal, plug straight into the boost.

Check out the

vertex boost at vertex effects.com. Enter the code Robin, R-O-B-B-E-N, and you'll get 20% off

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