Loaded for Bear Blog
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Friends of the Bear Q&A – Andrew Birkitt // Break the Machine
Getting to know other small and/or family run businesses up ‘ere in Yorkshire has been a real treat. It’s a vibrant and busy place int it? Shortly after we got our socials going, one of those businesses played an important role in demonstrating how friendly and supportive that local community is. Andy, owner and director…
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The Griffle and Fuzz Wump effects pedals
We recently launched our first two effects pedals in collaboration with Vulk Audio of Norway: the The Griffle MOSFET boost and Fuzz Wump silicon fuzz, both neat, one knob little boxes. It’s been a ride and we’ve loved every moment of learning, tweaking, problem solving and designing! We went for a matte white 1590B enclosure…
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Friends of the Bear Q&A – Drew Millward
We came across Drew and his incredible work through our dealer James’ Home of Tone for whom he designed the super cool ‘alien overlord’ long-sleeved t-shirt, which I very proudly own! The way that Drew combines colour and the astounding detail in his work totally caught our attention. He’s worked with some massive names in…
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Friends of the Bear Q&A – Kjetil Åsbø // Vulk Audio
Shortly after releasing Glow, the hot hot pink cable from our LUME colourway, I was subconsciously on the hunt for anything pink or neon! My eyes scanned the feeds and grids of Instagram and I was up and down the house finding anything pink or complimentary to use as a prop. We had people messaging…
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Friends of the Bear Q&A – Gwion Christmas // Holy Island Audio
Back in 2019 I discovered Holy Island Audio on Instagram and was instantly drawn in to what Gwion was creating. As someone with an interest in heavier guitar music, noise and sonic art, I was really intrigued to find someone designing effects pedals with unique circuits that catered to these styles, plus, finished with his…
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2 Years of Loaded for Bear
Today marks 2 years since we launched our online cable store. Wow! 10th October 2019. Things didn’t really get going until I resigned in early 2020 from my position as Music Technician at The University of Manchester. At this point, things were starting to look straight forward… until the pandemic hit, and all that came…
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Friends of the Bear Q&A – James’ Home of Tone
Only a few months into our journey as Loaded for Bear, we discovered the Home of Tone and it just made sense that we should get in touch to see if owner James would be interested in representing our new brand. He offered to take a range of our guitar cables to The Guitar Show…
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G&H Plugs Parts Shop
We’re very excited to have launched our new Parts Shop recently, where you can find the widest range of G&H Plugs available anywhere in the UK.
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A brief history of Loaded for Bear Audio
Loaded for Bear Audio cables are far removed from the evil, time-wasting tone-suckers out there, they’re assembled with the best components, they’re reliable, they sound great, look great and they just don’t fricking tangle!!!
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Friends of the Bear Q&A – John Nathan Cordy
Shortly after our launch we received an enquiry from guitarist John Nathan Cordy, expressing an interest in our cables. He had been searching for a UK based cable business to supply him with instrument and custom cable assemblies for his rig. We’re very pleased he found us, because he’s awesome and we’re very proud that…