Fuzzrocious has combined two of its best loved pedal iterations into the one BB-sized enclosure. Intriguingly you get 3 footswitches - with the Feedback one towards the top of the front facia.

Controls - Feedback Footswitch, Volume, Tone, Drive, Gain, Feedback, Mode : Demon / Li’l Fella, Gate Footswitch, ON! Footswitch.

As usual each of the uber Fuzzrocious dealers gets their own colourway variant, and also as usual - my good friends Scott Hager @ Axe and You Shall Receive (Canada), and...

The Ibanez MT10 Mostortion was part of the 10 series which also saw John Mayer’s favourite Tube Screamer - this ’10’ Power series was made by Maxon from 1986 to 1989. I did a feature back in 2020 on some key Mostortion pedals available at that time - I had picked up the Danelectro Roebuck just around then. I also added a Drunk Beaver Kharkiv CMOStortion last year, so this Wampler Mofetta would be my 3rd.

I still want the 3rd Power one - the updated Love Drive edition if that’s still around,...

Lichtaerm’s Gehenna has been on my radar for a good 4 years, when I first covered it in early 2020 it was not nearly the powerhouse it is right now. The second footswitch was labelled Boost and you had just 3-Band EQ, Level and Gain, and M/T/V and Brit / Am switches. 

There was then at least one more significant iteration between the original and current one - that in-between version had 9 controls - starting to see the 4-band EQ (Lo and Hi Mids), No Gain I/II yet - but instead Range and ...

Stumpbox Pedals is Merseyside resident Andy Banks, a lifetime electronics and electrical engineer with an unusually varied experience and expertise within that sector. As with many origin stories Stumpbox started off as a hobby and an idea - influenced by a lifetime of being inspired by classic fuzz circuits, and the works of Analog.Man’s Mike Piera in particular.

The Stumpbox range currently consists of 3 fuzzes, all sharing the exact same style of green enclosure, while being ...

Cosmodio Instruments’ principal is one Barton, who’s made a really cool highly texture Fuzz / Distortion at his first official attempt. I really rather like the look of this pedal, which was originally in 3 colourways - Purple Dark Doomy Deathscape (as pictured) / Neon Nuclear Wasteland (Sold Out!) / Limited Purple Neon Wasteland. I really like the first 2 editions best - while one of those is already sold out - so it would have to be the Dark Doomy one for me!

Controls - Level, Voice (...

Diamond Pedals’ original VIB1 and Boss’s VB-2 / VB-2W are most likely historically the go-to Vibrato units for most pro pedalboards - each with a deep and loyal following. So it’s great news for Vibrato lovers - to see the Diamond Vibrato back on the scene, now in smaller compact size enclosure - and with an even greater range of flavour onboard - courtesy of its 9-18 Volts power capabilities.

The original square format had mostly the same controls as this new unit, just in a different ...

Josh Scott goes back to early Shine-Ei and Univox for his inspiration for the aesthetic of his duo of Beach Boys inspired pedals. Using a very streamlined Black and White format - which is nicely punctuated with period-correct Orange Amp knobs!

I rather prefer Keeley’s take on Beach Boy inspired pedals - but wholly understand how Josh arrived at this endpoint - which is most definitely period-correct versus its source origins - but still not particularly aesthetically inspiring.

As a ...

These pedals are part of a bigger project in celebration of The Beach Boys’ eponymous Disney+ documentary - which to me seems to have come out a couple of years early - surely 1966’s Pet Sounds is the signature Beach Boys Milestone - so surely 2026 would have been more appropriate! It’s a project coordinated between Disney+ and Sweetwater - where JHS’s Josh Scott was brought in to make a series of pedals that would represent The Beach Boys signature sound.

Josh Scott then drafted in his ...

There’s a reason why the above background is purple - for it indicates the provenance of this particular pedal - which is sort of based on Tom Majeski’s long discontinued Cooper FX Outward pedal - where the ONWARD extrapolates and expands on the Envelope-based sampling prowess of that device.

This is one of the simplest Chase Bliss pedals to deconstruct / decipher - while as always there are some smart hidden options and secret modes to be found here.

In effect this is a Dynamic ...