The London Synth & Pedal Expo will return to London on March 16-17 – stay tuned for more information.
A Recap of the 1st London Synth & Pedal Expo
The launch edition of the London Synth & Pedal Expo, hosted on Saturday, March 18 at Hackney’s two-room venue Motel Studios, was attended by more than 1,200 visitors.
The Synth & Pedal Expo is a free entry, centrally located, big-city gear party we hosted since 2014 in North American cities like New York, Los Angeles and Toronto.
At the time, we used to have a magazine covering emerging NYC bands called The Deli, which is why this page is hosted on The Deli’s website.
You can see pictures of the launch 2023 London show here (pedal room) and here (synth room). We gathered feedback from the vendors here (it’s pretty great!).
Stefan Karlsson, whose pedal blog GuitarPedalX was one of the event’s media partners, posted a very detailed report focused on the pedal room here, while Jules Standen of Gearspace.com, also a media partner, posted this report mostly focused on the synth room.
Thanks to all the visitors and vendors, we’ll be back in 2024 in a bigger venue and a two-day event!
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Delicious Audio, KMR Audio, Regent Sounds, and Blicken Synths were the proud sponsors of the 1st edition of The London Synth & Pedal Expo, a free for all interactive marketplace of synthesizers and guitar effect pedals.
Pictures from our past events in the US and Canada can be seen here (pedals) and here (synths).
Media Partners: DivKid, Gearspace, GuitarpedalX, Delicious Audio
Workshops/Clinics Schedule
There were small workshops and product clinics in the small room at the end of the pedal area, schedule below.
The first workshop was by Mar Jenkin, about the Synthesizer Secrets of Krautrock.
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Here’s the list of confirmed vendors:
PEDAL EXPO SPONSORS
PRS Guitars
Voodoo Lab
Rotosound Strings
PEDAL BRANDS
Beetronics
Bleak District
BOSS
Chase Bliss Audio
Cicognani
Cioks
Collision Devices
Cornerstone Gear
Crazy Tube Circuits
Daredevil
Death By Audio
Dreadbox FX
DryBell
Dunlop
EarthQuaker Devices
Emma Electronic
Empress FX
Eventide
J. Rockett
Jackson Audio
Keeley
KMA Machines
KSR
Maxon
Meris
MXR
Nobels
NuTekt
Old Blood Noise Endeavors
Origin Effects
Peterson
PRS Guitars
Rabbit Hole FX
Rainger FX
Red Panda
SolidGoldFX
Source Audio
Studio Boost
Two-notes
Valco FX
Vemuram
Walrus Audio
Way Huge
SYNTH BRANDS
ASM (Ashun Sound Machines)
Arturia
Buchla
Dreadbox
Empress FX
Erica Synths
Expert Sleepers
Expressive E
Eventide
Haken Audio
Gamechanger Audio
Joranalogue
KORG
LA Circuits
Leaf Audio
Moog
Novation
Oberheim
Playtronica
Sequential
Soma
Thonk
Venus Instruments
KMR Audio brought some of the boutique synth builders they represent, including:
Antonus
GS Music
Leaf Audio
Majella
Mellotron
Moon Modular
Northern Light Modular
Soma
Blicken Synths brought a wide collection of Eurorack modules to try from brands they carry, such as:
2HP
Apollo View Modular
BASTL Instruments
DivKid
Doepfer
DPW Designs
Endorphin.es
Expert Sleepers
Frap Tools
Instruo
Noise Engineering
Qu-Bit
Rebach
Rossum Electro-Music
Winter Modular