Markus Reeves Unleashes 15 of his latest and greatest BlackHatSound Edition - the tour-grade Deluxe Wedge - available tomorrow evening at 20:00 GMT
Reeves Electro releases always make me nervous as there is such a loyal following now, and so few pedals relatively available in each batch.
I’m a big fan of Markus’s fuzzes in particular and have 3 of his best compact editions - the Original BlackHatSound, RedDotSound, and recently Zo Fuzz. Those all perfectly cater to my preferences.
The Original Edition had just 3 Controls : Volume, Bass Switch, Bias.
The Super-Sized Professional Big Box Edition had 4 fully granular controls : volume, Mids, Bias, Tone.
And now we have the Deluxe Wedge Edition with 5 fully granular controls : Output Strength, Square Wave Gain, Wideband Frequency : 60Hz > 10kHz, Transistor Bias : 1V > 8V, Midband Frequency : 500Hz > 3 kHz.
The Professional Big Box Edition was essentially the same circuit - just with a different Tone Stack. While the latest Deluxe Wedge Edition is an entirely new turret board style arrangement.
All of these sound and work magnificently wile the Professional Big Box had a veritable baby-coffin of an enclosure and was not at all pedalboard-friendly. The new Deluxe Wedge is slightly over-sized, but mostly falls within acceptable range,
Only 15 Deluxe Wedges are up for sale in this batch - and I'm less nervous this time around as they've materialised a little too late in the year for me. I switch over to Christmas Duties in Decembers - and all budgets go towards that festive occasion and my myriad nieces and nephews!
£450 is for sure a pricy proposition but for such exquisitely hand-crafted fare the pricing is very fair really, I have no issue with the pricing - just the timing is a touch off for my own situation. These 15 pedals are going to go very quickly - I would imagine a mad scramble of around 90 seconds before they're all claimed.
The amount of detail that goes into these pedals is extraordinary and it's always a riveting experience following the progress of each of Markus's projects - from the component selection, through breadboarding and experimentation - to figuring out enclosure shape, size, colour and graphics - all done by Markus's own hands.
I also love the sort of Army Green colourway for the pedal - it kind looks like a military-spec precision instrument - which of course it pretty much is.
The core of the BlackHatSound was already magnificent - while this evolution raises the benchmark ever higher with the extended controls.
I'm sad to be missing out on this occasion - but happy for all of those who manage to snag one - you will need lots of luck and perfect timing to get one of these - so best of luck to all the prospective buyers. And hopefully we won't have to wait too long for another batch of these!
You need to land on the Reeves Electro Webstore on the dot of 8pm (Saturday 10th of December) - and pray to the gods of the internet that your connection holds fast and true!
Congrats to all who score one, and commiserations for the rest of us who must look on in envy!
I would still hope to get one with copper insides some day soonish - to match my existing set to-date!
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