Solar reveals an elegant brushed-finish Chug EQ Boost - featuring 11 controls - 5 of which are dual-concentric.

The Low and Mid Frequency Bands are fully Parametric - with Highs being Semi-Parametric, and featuring additional Output Level, Input Level and High Pass Filter / Shelving controls.

Controls : Q Bandwidth [Low Frequency], Q Bandwidth [Mid Frequency], High Level [High Frequency], Low Level [Output Level], Mid Level, High Pass Shelving [Input Level].

Had I not the Empress ...

You often hear me talking of 90’s style enclosure pedals (1590BB), and here we have late 60’s style enclosure pedals a la Sola Sound MKIII type. The selection comes across as very ’Macaris’ in those enclosures - which are along very similar lines. Actually that Germanium Fuzz was originally OEM’d by Sola Sound for Rotosound back in the day (1967). The Rotosound  Fuzz was supposedly a MKIII prototype - which emerged the year before the official Tone Bender MKIII release.

"After years of ...

So Catalinbread just launched its Airstrip CB-Range Discrete Console Preamp, and instead of covering that just on its own, I thought I should do some kind of group / genre overview.

I’m not sure whether my powers of detection are somewhat not fully up-to-speed for this exercise, for I was only able to uncover 5 suitable candidates for this selection - do let me know if you’re aware of others that fit this selection.

There seems to be some sort of a distinction distinction between ’...

This year is off to a fantastic start! I’ve picked up 3 pedals so far this year (4 including this Clean!), and I already had a number come in during December - the January board is pretty much done already!

My most recent arrivals are the Origin Effects Deluxe 55 as already reported, and then today (Thursday as of writing) my Hamstead Redwing Analogue Stereo Modulator and Subdecay Noise Theory Parallel Wave-Folding Fuzz landed - I will be reporting on both of those next week! Finally, I met...

NOTE : Competition is now over - while the -20% promotion has been extended until January 15th!

The eagle-eyed amongst you will have noticed that we’ve had DryBell Banners on this site since December 1st - to mark the Brand New DryBell.com website. The celebration is in two parts - firstly, all 5 key Pedal Variants are [20% OFF] throughout December - with FREE Shipping.

[20% OFF] is a fantastic deal for these studio-grade pedals, and a rare opportunity to acquire one at these at incredibly ...

To a large degree the Heatseeker is modelled on the Angus Young Amp sound - which was significantly enhanced by his Schaffer Vega Diversity Wireless System - which generated more verve and vibrancy.

CTC have cleverly modelled the Vega part of Angus’s Amp Stack too, which type of system was also used by Peter Frampton, Eddie Van Halen, and Gene Simmons of Kiss fame. Notably Brian May deployed a not altogether dissimilar setup - but with an inline Treble Booster added too. So there were many ...

A distinct and different departure for Rick Matthews with an entirely different brand personality. Great to see those arcade switches in place though - which I first witnessed on the Chase Bliss Automatone Preamp. The interface / topology is elegantly and clearly delineated with all the labels visible, while the secondary function labels look a touch small - so presumably difficult to spot from a standing position.

Note that there was a previous version of The Technician in and around 2019 ...

You can count on Land Devices to harness the very best studio  / audio grade components to generate superior tones and textures. And this Moonbow combines dual hi-fidelity resonant filters across a cutoff frequency range of 20Hz to 5kHz.

You can further use a CV input to control the cutoff frequency more dynamically.

And finally you have an Overdrive circuit based on the Land Devices control strip with a 33dB Gain Range, running from -13dB to +20dB.

With those 5 key controls you can...

I’m not going to dwell too much on Blackfeet tribal lore and heritage (Amskaapi Piikuni) - other than to say that the design is derived from a culturally significant 4-band blanket which has relationship with the seasons and the many stages of life.

This is quite a departure from the usual styling of the brand, and a very welcome one in my opinion. These earthy colours, and the overall aesthetic of the pedal - with those distinctive knobs and symbols for labels mostly - interestingly that ...