As promised - this turned out to be quite a big month - we had 5 substantial pedal rundowns - where I hope you appreciate the time and effort put into those - they take a very long time to compile and write up! :

• Reference Collection World Odyssey [25]
• 32 Favourite Compact MIAB Distortions
• Fuzz Pedal Olympics [25]
• 32 Favourite Compact Rat Style Distortions
• Drunk Beaver 15 Favourites

I attended just one show this month - but it was a great one - the #2 Alternative Guitar Show @ Hackney...

I last did this exercise around 4 years ago now, and in that time have advanced my Rat style pedal collection to 44 units, where 29 compact editions of those are featured in this listing of 32.

From the listing I don’t yet have the NRG Effects 2024 Edition Gnawer, Oneder Red Ryder Distortion, or Walrus Audio Iron Horse. The last mentioned of those is the easiest to acquire, but I’ve not 100% made my mind up on that yet - there may be other more extended range Rats out there that I’ve yet to...

What we have here is a further extended take on the EQD Life Pedal essentially - in a compact enclosure. It’s similar to my Demiurge Doomy O))) - with second Boost Footswitch, while the Tephra delivers additional clipping options and somewhat more range.

The amount of range in this pedal is extraordinary - particularly with both Distortion (+60dB) and Boost  (+30dB) applied together. And the Clean Boost is fully independent and can be brought to bear on other pedals in your signal chain - ...

Ukrainian circuit designer Volodymyr Zakernychnyi is best known for his Tacana Tremolo to date - which has featured on a number of Pro boards, and has been covered at least a couple of times on this blog.

It looks like there are roughly 5 pedals in the range now - which besides the Tacana and the above two, consists also of a BB-sized Screaming Bat Rat / Screamer, and Modulated Echo Delay with different waveshapes and filters on the repeats.

For this article we’ll be looking at ...

This is the 4th of my recent ’12 Degrees’ Series - this time moving beyond the boundaries of gain / saturation into the area of modulation. There are of course many more than the 12 modulations I have selected here - there are aliasing, ring modulation and lo-fi signal degeneration effects as well as more complex multi-combo effects, splicers and complex pattern modulators - including for instance the excellent recent Big Ear Albie. Of course the more obscure the category of ...

There have been a number of new Tremolo pedals fairly recently released, and in fact I was tempted to acquire another in a roundabout fashion. The catalyst was actually the new Rock Fabrik Effects Kuek Touch Sensitive Dynamic Tremolo - yet that comes in a medium vertical BB enclosure and I only have space for a compact. So luckily Anasounds entered the scene with their own version new Ages Harmonic Tremolo which did much the same thing as the Kuek - but in my preferred size / form factor!

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