So for some reason I keep running across the new Danelectro Spring King Junior demo by RJ Ronquillo, where details are still fairly scant and I’ve only seen it for sale on the Loopers Paradise Webstore to date.

Apart from stating 9V DC [-] 50mA Current Draw - there are no further specs available, so I’ve kind of guesstimated the pedal length being near enough the same as the width of the White Whale V2 or around 170mm. The longest / widest is the Surfy Bear Compact at 250mm, while the ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

As has been variously covered on this site - I have a rather extensive reference collection of pedals - amounting to somewhere north of 1,300 currently - and where well over half, or 700+ of those are fuzz variants - including more than 110 Big Muff types, more than 100 Fuzz Faces, and somewhere over 50 Tone Bender variants.

I often enjoy the symmetry of specific pedal pairs - and have a number of those in the collection - where this feature is one such subset - really just the most obvious...

So we now have a limited edition of the Unobtanium Klon + Dumble Dual Channel Overdrive in a different ’Raw’ Colourway, but more importantly with changes made to each of the 2 Channels!

On the Klon side we get a different ’Mod’ option on the Clipping / Compression switch. Were CTC’s Christos found that the NOS Mullard/Valvo OC45 germanium transistor paired exceptionally well with that circuit and generated even greater depths of breakup character.

While on the Dumble side that Chanel ...

CTC has wholly updated its White Whale All-analog Trem-Verb with a slew of extra features and modes, and increased fidelity and versatility - this surfer’s delight just got even better!

Both effects now are entirely separated internally - and each comes with 3 modes of operation - different spring combinations on the Reverb Side, and now 3 different Tremolo Modes - including a brand new Harmonic variety. You can set the relative position of the Tremolo - Pre/Post, and the Reverb’s power amp...

The Modutility roundup combines Modulation, Utility and Pitch type pedals - it also includes Multi-FX and Multi-Modulation pedals of course. Some years this selection is relatively sparse - while this year it’s totally chock-a-block! In fact it was a struggle to whittle the Longlist down - and inevitably some pedals I wanted to feature did not make the cut - including the Endorphin.es Ghost Pedal Multi-FX and Subdecay Prometheus 3 Dual Super Filter.

I still feel that this selection of 26 is...

And so to what is often my favourite category - the many wonderful flavours of fuzz - and we have some hugely innovative pedals in the selection this year - one of these may even be my pedal of the year!

So there are 24 in this year’s selection - where I’m just missing the Collision Devices TARS, Fender Shields Blender, JAM Pedals Octaurus, KMA Machines Mandrake, Reeves Electro Facet IZ, and Unsound Circuitry Kato Glitch Fuzz - where I will attempt to add most of those to the reference ...