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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’...

My good friend David already did a brilliant job on the original Hybrid / Ge Focus Fuzz - which I cited at the time as ’David Reinvents the Classic Fuzz’. He only had parts enough for 250 units back then with the MP38A particularly hard to get hold of. So alas there were several interested parties left out in the cold, and a couple of years of customer petitioning has resulted in the return of that grand pedal.

While David, ever the original, refuses to do things by half - and was ...

So I initially published an article on February 20th - where I gathered together 9 pedals which all had the same Hot Pink Colourway. It was originally inspired by the launch of Great Easter FX Co’s Obsolete Devices OD201 Preamp - so the article was a nod to that.

At the time of posting I had 2 of those in my possession - I guess you could say 3 - as I owned the Lightspeed too already - but not in that colourway - as you will have noted in subsequent references.

So this was mainly done ...

So this is Fuzz Face #104 for me - I always say I have room for one more brilliant one - and this one is one of the very best - it’s properly special sauce! The selected transistors - NKT CV7007 and 2N527 sound amazing together - really vibrant and searing and full on - with all the great hallmarks of classic Germanium Fuzz Face dynamics and guitar volume gain cleanup - but with more range and verve!

You get an external Q2 Bias - which is essential for me - as well as a really cool 3-way ...