I’ve been meaning to do something with Fuzz Imp for a while now. I’ve actually been following Fuzz Imp’s Justus Gash for quite a few years - from early Fuzz advocate and enthusiast to fully fledged pedal maker - from his earliest grassroots beginnings up to a fairly mature profile now with a range of different pedals on offer - 16 or so varieties now all told.

It’s been a really interesting journey to witness, and I don’t think Justus has put a foot wrong yet! Hopefully my shining a light ...

What we have is 2 Gain Stages Fuzz- where the 1st one is much louder, more open and lighter / brighter in profile overall, the 2nd Stage is a lot more Aggressive on the Clipping - so you need to crank the volume for that - it delivers a Darker, Denser and Heavier, Higher Gain Profile - while both Stages have wonderful Sustain.

I like both those options - while I tend to live mostly on the 1st Gain Stage - the extra volume there makes it somewhat more versatile and flexible for me. For Stage...

Brian has definitely wrought magic here - his alchemical prowess is strong! This is supposedly a blended circuit with a variety of transistors, and a Fetzer tube emulation in the mix too. It really does achieve its mission in producing a wide range of classic fuzz sounds - that combination of 6 controls is so clever!

It’s a vintage style circuit in some ways - meaning it has to be at the front of the chain, and can’t come after buffers - so you should be aware of that. This allows you to ...

So February, as expected, turned out to be quite the slow moving month - with not too many featured releases. You always get the big announcements at NAMM - and then it takes a few months typically for those pedals to filter through.

There were a few heavy hitters that emerged in February or sooner - including the Kernom Elipse Modulation Playground, and the Polyend Step Drum Machine Pedal - both of which went on the board this month.

I also made the Plutoneium Chi-Wah-Wah a permanent ...

This post was inspired by the recent Great Eastern FX Co OC201 Preamp and latest James Dean Bradfield TPS Episode - which featured the MXR Fat Sugar. Those 2 Hot Pink Pedals kind of set the scene / tone for this - and I thought I would do a tribute to my Guitar Nerds Podcast Friends - Joe and Matt - who favour this particular hue of pedals. Would be interesting to know how many of these they have to date!

For me personally - I have the Alexander Hot Pink Drive and Life Is Unfair Violet ...

Many know of my obsession with the Blakemore Devices Deus Ex Machina - which still remains elusive to my grasp. I came very close to snagging one last year - but I was seemingly just a split second too late in hitting the buy button - and I missed out once more. Those pedals only spring up once every couple of years (not many were made!).  I reached out to Blake Hickey - who was originally keen to make just one more for me - but he them got cold feet and is now seemingly ghosting me - so I need...

So January 2025 sees a momentous milestone - where we have the peak possible number of pedals in the chain - which now numbers no less than 52 Pedals. It’s an incredibly tight squeeze - and all the available space is now fully used up.

I’ve re-flowed the main visual - where I used to try to have a fixed format arrangement - but now have re-numbered the slots entirely corresponding to the number and order of those pedals. Last January I noted that I was going to switch out my 2 Friedman ...

I had long since identified 3 Caroline Guitar Co pedals that I really wanted, but as is sometimes the case, I wanted special editions of each - and I was just waiting for the right ones to materialise!

I’ve already covered 2 pedals from that Trifecta - my white-knob CCCP edition of the Hawaiian Pizza Fuzz-Drive, and the recent Zero Edition of the Wave Cannon Superdistorter.

This article is really mostly about the third of my selection - where the Germanium edition of the Shigeharu ...

33 slots updated this year - #2, #3, #4, #5, #7, #9a, #9b, #10, #11, #12, #15a, #15b, #15c, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #22a, #22b, #23, #24, #25, #26, #29, #30, #31, #32, #33, #34, #36, #38, and #41.

There’s been a fair amount of re-routing and re-organising this year - which you should be able to pick via the pattern of changes. The introduction of the stereo Poly Amplitude introduced the biggest change to the board order - to get th most out of that format!

I try to limit acquisitions /...