All Hail The Cab!

Las Vegas five-piece The Cab is getting lots of good buzz lately due in large part to their CD, Whisper War, released in late April on Decaydance/Fueled By Ramen. If you recognize those two indie labels, it might be because bands like Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco and Gym Class Heroes also call them home. Earlier this year, The Cab guitarist Ian Crawford turned to longtime friend Matt Johnson of Washington-based Tortuga Effects to custom build an all new pedal board – having already been a fan of Tortuga’s Sasquatch fuzz and the new octave/fuzz combo stomp – the Hazy Fuzz Experience.

Johnson was up to the task and set out to build a handful of one-off custom pedals for Crawford’s new board. These included a custom ‘Cab Wah’, a one-off delay called the Flying Saucer, a revamped Hazy Fuzz Experience called the Crazy Eight and a brand new vibe stomp dubbed Neptune.

“Basically every pedal on Ian’s board except for a Radial Switchbone and a Boss TU-2 tuner is a Tortuga Effect,” Johnson told WTDP? “He will be using it on tour this summer with The Hush Sound.”

To learn more about The Cab, check out their website at www.thecabrock.com.

Big thanks go out to Matt for supplying WTDP? with the pics of Ian’s sweet one-of-a-kind, Tortuga-heavy pedal board.

Enjoy!