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30 Favourite Tremolo Pedals - Personal Capsule Collection

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Some time late last year I identified that the Tremolo section of my Reference Collection was probably the weakest of the major modulation categories - and I determined to do something about it in 2024 to bring that fully up to scratch. I made 2024 my ’Year of Tremolo’ and set to the task of bolstering my own capsule collection. Seems like I slightly overdid it in the end - as I’ve so far added 17 to the collection thoughout this year, with a likely couple more still to come.

 

So as with all...

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The original Spaceman I first came out in 2013, with the much larger Sputnik II materialising in 2017, and then the mid-size Sputnik III arriving a few years later in 2020. I missed out on the Spaceman I upon its original release, but picked up a pristine Red Cyrillic version of that in 2018 - which eagle eyed reader will note is my favourite American fuzz (vis-a-vis The Fuzz Pedal Olympics!).

 

I had the opportunity to get the Sputnik II at the time of release, but always felt that its ...

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2024 October Pedal-Chain Update - Episode X - Tremolayed

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So this incredibly busy month was supposed to be all about Tremolos, culminating with the Rounder Sounds Zebra-Trem Review and 30 Tremolo Pedal Overview. But we hit some snags along the way - the Zebra-Trem was mysteriously held up in customs for a week, and then got slightly lost in the local postal network. And when it did finally arrive - evidently it had been dropped a few times, as the screen was no longer working. After trying various obvious remedies with Bill over a few days - with no ...

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So following on from its Rumblefuzz II revival / reissue, we get a similar exercise for the actual follow-up pedal to that one originally - the Spacercoket Intermodulation Fuzz, which I already have in its ’Green’ edition. As for the Rumblefuzz II this is a handmade and limited affair - with 100 variants in White enclosure, 50 in Black, and 20 in Blue.

 

Spaceman describes the Spacetrocket II as "an otherworldly fuzz. A wide variety of unique and inspiring tones live within its minimalist ...

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SpiralCaster Cohen Hartman reveals his 12 all-time favourite pedals

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Readers of this site will know that I’ve long admired the extraordinary sound-design talents of Cohen Hartman - who’s best known through his SpiralCaster Plays Pedals YouTube Channel. In my opinion he is one of the very finest pedal demo artists there ever was. He has a way of teasing out some truly unique tones and textures from most pedals - and taking them places where others just don’t or can’t seem to venture.

 

He did a slew of particularly brilliant demos in the lead up to my February ...

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The Fuzz Pedal Olympics!

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Ryan (Clarke) of Dr Scientist is actually responsible for this article for the most part. He mis-identified my previous ’World Odyssey’ article as a Fuzz roundup - and referred to it as the ’Fuzz Pedal Olympics’ - which it really wasn’t although Fuzz as probably the biggest overall category / genre in that roundup - or 7/25. In any case I decided that for Ryan’s sake - we had better have that ’Fuzz Pedal Olympics’ proper - which this finally is! And obviously the 7 Fuzzes from the previous ...

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Reference Collection World Odyssey and other notable stats

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Apologies that his is a little late - it took and age to research, compile and complete - and is filled with myriad wonderful fun facts - I sincerely hope you enjoy this one - as a whole heap of work has gone into bringing it to you!

 

So I spent the whole weekend working on updating my pedal inventory records to figure out exactly where I was at with the Reference Collection, the last time I did that exercise was a couple of years ago. I had kind of mentally estimated that I had around 1.300...

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2024 July Pedal-Chain Update - Episode VII - Aurora Australis

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I’m going to start this month’s roundup with a couple of conundrums that I’m still kind of wrestling with.

Firstly about my old friends at Sinvertek, whom I can’t but think that they might have jumped the shark with their latest release. It’s another spin off of the Scream Honey line - the 4th or 5th in that series. Mr Wu seems to introduce tiny improvements each year, and every other year we get a price rise too. On this occasion the offering is two pedals - supposedly both slightly different ...

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The Rumblefuzz I was the very first Spaceman Effects pedal created back in 2009. I did not return to the pedal fold until 2016 - where these were obviously long since gone - while I still lived in hope of snagging one eventually - but second hand prices of over $2000, and at times near $3000 made it look somewhat unlikely. My good friend Henry Kaiser kind of rubbed my nose in this regard - as he own serial number #001 of that first Rumblefuzz.

 

So I was delighted with this reissue - and once...

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This is the one Spaceman Effects pedal that had eluded me for so long - the very first Spaceman release from 2009 - a good 15 years ago now. I always wanted one of those, but by the time I joined the hunt - they were trading at ridiculous prices - including one sold on Reverb.com relatively recently for $2,700! I believe my good friend Henry Kaiser owns the very first Rumblefuzz - serial number #001. I had kind of consoled myself that the Rumblefuzz would always be out of reach for me - so I’m ...

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