Electro-Harmonix often does superb introductory demos for its new pedals, and I must admit I was totally blown away by the vast Multi-FX territory covered by this launch. This POG III takes the Polyphonic Octave Generator circuit into entirely new territory - and has you covered for all kinds of other advanced effects.

Watching the demo, the following key territories are touched on :

• Slow Polyphonic Attack - backwards octave blend, somewhat Attack Decay -like
• 12 String sound with Chorus

It’s only been a short while since I first unveiled the Expression Ramper X3 with all new Holey Kids Artwork in fact barely 2 months ago. That artwork has now been rolled out to several more key pedals in the utility range. While at the same time introducing an all new Expression Ramper, with new features - including a Tap Tempo button. Most of these pedals have been covered in depth before on this site - so this article will really just focus on the new Expression Ramper!

So the Expression...

So this has been on the cards for a while, in fact I needed to get an update of both boards featured here, as the first version I had was almost a year ago now. The idea was always to feature reader’s pedalboards - which had been somewhat noticeably / significantly inspired by this very site.

And I’m delighted that Long-term GPX friend and pedal fan Cyril Demaegd, board game designer / developer (founder of Ystari Games) and touring musician, has been somewhat ’Inspired by GPX’ since December of...

OBNE have really excelled at smart utility pedals over the years - and I have a number of their mini Expression Rampers and Expression Sliders in different colourways - to match specific OBNE pedals. In fact I have Basic White, Screen Violence, and Float Filter variants. I’ve included a Mini Expression Ramper also in the above visual - for further context!

So with this release we get a triple Expression Ramper - where you can see a 3rd Middle 3-way Toggle Switch - which additionally allows ...

Another totally mad month for sure - loaded with frenetic activity and peppered with highs as well as crushing disappointments. The first give-away for GPX didn’t quite hit the highs I expected (said give-away closes tonight at 23:59 BST). And there are some weird gaps in the entrants’ home countries - certainly no shortage from the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, or much of mainland Europe. I’m active in a lot more countries than have so far entered the give-away, so I don’t fully understand why ...

So scanning through this month it seems to have been mostly about Guitar / Pedal Shows, Japanese Pedals, and Pedals Delayed and Missing in the Post!

The Guitar Shows have been pretty fast and furious for March - with two of the most significant ones of the year, along with a fledgling grassroots one : The Guitar Show (Cranmore Park - Birmingham / Shirley), London Synth & Pedal Expo (Studio 9294, Hackney Wick, London), The Alternative Guitar Show (The Fighting Cocks, Kingston).

I of ...

This is the second time I collaborate with my good friend Oriol Domingo and his El Garatge brand of superior miniature expression devices - following on from my last article on his trio of really smartly engineered diminutive Expression Knob, Echo Knob (Oscillating Expression), and own 3D-printed Magnetic Dust Cover for the Chase Bliss Automatone series. All of which I love and still use regularly - and which are pictured below : ...

So Doug Tolley’s / Chase Bliss’s 2nd Witney Pedal Party took place yesterday on Guy Fawkes / Bonfire day - in Witney’s Corn Street Fat Lil’s Venue.

I attended the inaugural event at Witney’s Truck Music Store back on July 1st, and I will surely be at the 3rd one too - around spring of next year!

Thanks to Doug Tolley for organising this all again - on this occasion we had 7 participating brands (in order of stand arrangement - clockwise) :

• Reeves Electro
• Blind Panic Devices
• Holy

This exercise has totally underlined just how much of a tone genius Andy Timmons is. His pedals are selected incredibly carefully and deliberately - and don’t just have that certain glorious sound about them - but beautiful dynamics, harmonics, smart guitar volume gain clean-up and an abundance of musicality. 

Andy wrings magic out of each and everyone of these pedals - and his Halo Dual Echo algorithm / preset is amazing - and can sit under anything and make it sound at least 50% percent ...