Fairfield Circuity has quite the reputation for unveiling unique and unusual effects. This project started out as a study into a mysterious old schematic - which looked suspiciously similar to a data sheet sq/tri oscillator.

But what they ended up with was a sort of Distorted Low Pass Filter, with elements of wave folding. So this is of a similar ilk to the Roger That - in being a unique and different style of distortion.

The 20% More Slew Limiting Distortion delivers a cool somewhat ...

This is an interesting move by Carl Martin - who are well known for their real Spring Tank Reverb HeadRoom Pedal. That original HeadRoom is obviously a fairly sizeable proposition - in being a stand-alone Spring Tank.

Instead of making a smaller Spring Tank - like say Anasounds did for its Jack White La Grotte collaboration - Carl Martin have instead made a more compact Digitally Emulated take on that effect.

The new HeadRoom Mini has 2 sets of Reverb, Tone and Decay controls - so you ...

Caroline has significantly ramped up its Kilobyte Lo-Fi Delay with a much more expansive and granular 8 controls topology.

At its core this has a PT2399 chip with an official maximum factory delay time of 300ms. While that has been ’stretched’ and filtered to deliver the 500ms+ Lo-Fi delay variation. Caroline deliberately doesn’t provide max delay time - as it can vary enormously from just over 500ms to more than 800ms.

Controls - Level, Sharpness (Most Lo-Fi CCW), Preamp / Saturation, ...

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For the first time - the two Titan UK Pedal Builders combine forces to elevate the simple accousic guitar into a more vibrant era. We’ve had little evolution of the acoustic guitar since the emergence of the eclectic finger-style players like Mike Dawes.

The mission here was to make the acoustic guitar as exciting as an electric - by imbuing it with the science of wood resonant frequencies - where the properties of Rosewood and Mahogany proved to be particularly suitable for those...

This was an unusually busy month - with 3 significant Guitar / Pedal Shows and in-depth show reports by me for each - which I’m incredibly proud of - no one does those to the same degree of detail as I, and for the Birmingham show I really lucked out with some amazing pictures - including of me and TheGigRig Crew.

Fuzzes are very significant this month - with a 10 Unit Fuzztopia acquired overall - of which I could only fit 6 on the board in the end - where all of those though had an innings...

The original Royal Flush is one of my most favoured Dual Overdrive Pedals - I particularly love the super soft clipping on the TS808 / Lower Gain side - that has always sounded superb to me. I own the Golden Royal Flush Edition - which is very fitting as it beautifully underlines the smooth warm sounds that come emanate from that device.

While power users of said pedal wanted even more. They wanted separate Ins and Outs - which you can now see in place. And they wanted slightly more ...

The original Simble was my very first Dumble Drive pedal, and I still have very warm feelings about that beautifully balanced, organic and natural sounding Overdrive. For several years this was my favourite of that type - and I always felt that the wood-finish enclosure was very representative of its organic sound.

I guess Mad Professor are now reserving the brown colourway for their Brown Sound #1 Pedal. It’s cool to see the more emphatic Mad Professor branding on said pedal - where the ...

So TC Electronic / Behringer have done a pretty decent job here in massively updating the entry-level mini Ditto Looper. It now has a number of smart features and different Modes onboard. While they’ve messed up the brand cachet a little with the new styling - the enclosure is significantly less rounded / rolled at the edges, and the typographic; treatment kind of at odds with the original and previous variants.

While they really should have kept the joined up OO’s in ’LOOPER’ - where that ...

So I’ve had this pedal for over a month now, and was totally blown away by it right from when it first arrived. It’s part Overdrive, part Distortion, and part Fuzz in its output - depending on where you set the Drive, Bias, and Timbre dials - which are all very interactive - and particularly the Drive and Bias.

I’ve been waiting for Mikey Demus to do a rifftastic demo of his pedal - which he originally told me he would have out the week after the Birmingham Show - now long since passed. He’...