Since my acquisition of Kinotone’s Sparks a few weeks ago, it turns out I’m now quite familiar with Wavefolding Distortion - which is a big part of this new device. In fact on the Sparks you can modulate that distortion too via LFO and Envelope Filtering, while you don’t have access to 8 different waveforms you get on the Gravity Well.

I guess for the Gravity Well the two key ’blending’ controls here are Volume and Depth - where overall it’s a pretty simple topology, with independent ...

So Fractal Audio Systems has thrown its hat in the ring with its first non-modelling device / unit - the VP4 Virtual Pedalboard Multi-FX Processor - which is quite a departure for the brand.

It’s obviously gunning for Line 6 and Eventide in particular, but also looking to knock out Boss and Strymon Workstation pedals. It has several of its own advantages, but with a number of caveats too. Overall it’s well priced for what it delivers - but for my own preferences it’s still somewhat over-...

So the current Voxy & Plexi slots are #18 and #19, while the first formation occurred back at the start of 2018 - with the Bearfoot EGDM on slot #15, and the MI Effects Super Crunch Box V2 on slot #17 - we’ve obviously come a long way since then! That original pairing had a very decent 2 year innings. Which was actually a few month more than the enduringly popular Pettyjohn Electronics pairing. Of all of these - those 2 pairs have endured the longest, with the Menatone TBIAC + KOB duo putting ...

So following on from its Rumblefuzz II revival / reissue, we get a similar exercise for the actual follow-up pedal to that one originally - the Spacercoket Intermodulation Fuzz, which I already have in its ’Green’ edition. As for the Rumblefuzz II this is a handmade and limited affair - with 100 variants in White enclosure, 50 in Black, and 20 in Blue.

Spaceman describes the Spacetrocket II as "an otherworldly fuzz. A wide variety of unique and inspiring tones live within its minimalist ...

So in a similar way to yesterday’s Caroline Wave Cannon Zero being the best version of that pedal to-date - the same can be said of LPD’s Lucent Boost Overdrive, the second of that variant, and in fact the third Lucent iteration overall.

Lawrence makes no secret of the fact that this is a BluesBreaker derived circuit, but a highly modified and evolved one at that. Some seems to be surprised by the dual boost action, but this is not as uncommon as you might think, my recent All-Pedal Devil’s...

The Flower Pedals Dahlia was originally announced towards the end of November last year, and I’ve been intending to get it in ever since - ideally somewhat opportunistically - while certain prevailing priorities always seem to have gotten in the way. It would have been good if I had made use of a Labour Day discount - but I had other priorities on at that time, so in the end I paid the full wedge - plus all those exorbitant import fees! My recent 10 Pedal Challenge was the main pressure this ...

Life is Unfair’s Grindle has birthed a monster gain machine here - which at its core is a totally killer improvement / evolution of Boss’s FZ-2 Hyper Fuzz, while it delivers a full gain range from Boost, through Overdrive, Fuzz / Octave Fuzz, and onto High Gain Distortion / Fuzzstortion. This is a general all-rounder gain machine, while most will use it for its more aggressive side no doubt!

This is a genuine collaboration between Grindle, and Mike Cunniff from the band Boston Manor - each ...

The Wave Cannon has long been on my wishlist, alongside Caroline’s Shigeharu Octave Fuzz. It seems the time is right for the Wave Cannon - now in its best ever iteration, and kind of returning more to its original 2010 roots versus the more divergent MKII edition.

Philippe Herndon launched the Caroline Guitar Company back in 2010, and the Wave Cannon was its very first product - a heavily modified and evolved ProCo Rat with more shaping and gain-range.

The nearest I had come to owning ...

Named after a famous mountain range in Norway, the subject of Edvard Grieg’s ’Hall of the Mountain King’ and home to 6 millennia of civilisation. The Dovre combines the Spring Reverb voicing from the recent MIME II pedal with Daniel’s 7th and most satisfying take on the Silicon Fuzz Face circuit. We have had variations of the Fuzz Face across 3 generations of Berserk Fuzzes, and across the Kvasir, SOL, and Måne. Where Daniel now believes he’s arrived at the most dynamic and flavoursome version ...