The SIXTY8 was one of Lawrence Petross’s first officially branded pedals. That materialised back in 2016 originally. Early versions had a ’Gain’ push-button - which presumably allowed you to flip between Green and Red channels early on - before that featured was incorporated into the footswitch.

I’ve long toyed with getting one of the SIXTY8 pedals - but that was Lawrence’s only Marshall pedal with just 2-band EQ. I’ve

always felt that a MIAB type really needs the full 3-Band EQ. In fact ...

I have been on an octave fuzz mission of late - building up towards a major rundown of 40 of my favourite ones (around half of my octave fuzz collection). I thought I had just 2 more targets to go - while I would really love to land this one also!

I’m a sucker for wood-panel pedals, and have a few of those varieties. I really like the aesthetic and format here. This is a really cool and expansive fuzz pedal.

Controls - Tone, Mid, Glue (Bias), Volume, Mids Cut Button, Bass Boost Button, ...

At first glance this pedal looks like it owes a lot to the Boss OD-1 and SD-1 - it has the same moniker, similar yellow hue, and same silver screw - which opens up a top-loading battery compartment - all quite distinct Boss markers.

You might expect this to be an OpAmp style OD-1 or SD-1 overdrive take, while this is an entirely different circuit with MOSFET transistors at its heart and generally a little more bite than the Boss variants. The main board is a reverse one - so you can’t ...

You should recall I was very keen on the Teaching Machines FuzzBillion last year and made that my Pedal of the Year 2025. Where this Big Fuzz Console is already a hot favourite for that honour this year!

It is based on Darren’s Big Muff breadboarding circuit - that he uses to develop his various Big Muff variants - where he can experiment with different component values - in pursuit of the perfect output for that style.

He’s formalised and refined his development circuit - to form this ...

Celebrating The Visual Artistry of Effects Pedals

This book features an excellent selection of brands and pedals, while it doesn’t include all my favourites - but features most of the usual suspects - and also covers a few brands that I’ve yet to feature on my site.

There’s just a handful of killer books on pedals - my long-term favourite has always been Pedal Crush - which was in part inspired by Guitar Pedal X. You also have The Boss Book, Made On Earth for Rising Stars : The Electro-...

One of Brian Wampler’s very best pedals - this combines a Marshall Silver Jubilee Overdrive voicing with a circa MESA/Boogie Mark IIC/+ Distortion voicing - both blisteringly good!

You get the classic 3 controls per side, each side also gets its own ’Character’ switch - which for the Overdrive side is a Higher Gain Range / Gain Structure switch, and for the Distortion side delivers more Brightness. You also get a central switch to select the order of Effects.

Controls - DS / Mesa Mark ...

Here we have a revival of the near decade and a half old Dr. Scientist Reverberator 9-Mode Reverb. It’s a versatile mono pedal with 8 x Reverb Modes, and a 9th bonus chorusey Rotary Mode.

We have a very elegant control topology with just 4 controls - Mix, Level, Delay Time : Short / Long, and the 9 x Modes.

Controls - Mix, Level, Delay Time : Short / Long, MODE : H1 Bright Hall / H2 Warm Hall / R1 Bright Room / R2 Standard Room / R3 Warm Room / P1 Standard Plate / P2 Bright Plate / P3 ...

My good friend Benno has created another super versatile genre pedal - this time a vintage-inspired Chorus + Vibrato with 4 Lofi Modes, Tap Tempo and 3 Presets onboard - also full MIDI control, and able to be deployed in Mono, MISO, and Full Stereo. It further has a cool Ramp feature - where you can Ramp up and down between 2 settings.

To get to the 4th Lofi Mode - you hold down the right-hand footswitch, and move the Lofi Selector into the middle.

The Lag button extends the delay time as ...

Andertons have just recently landed 7 of the 13 Does it Doom? pedal range. Per their moniker - these are mostly higher gain stoner, doom and sludge varieties - including a couple that lean intro Black Sabbath tones.

Andertons are still quite adventurous in seeking out new pedal brans - and it’s good to see them give so many brands a fair shake.

I’ve not fully processed this series yet to decide which ones are priorities for me - while a cursory glance would indicate that there are ...