Kernom devices are inspirational music making machines - giving you seamlessly morphing tones and textures to help you to dynamically shape and evolve your playing style!

The Kernom Elipse is instantly elegant and full of flavour, where it tends to lean fairly bright in its output, but is not as ’full-fat’ as some of my individual modulations - especially Harmonic Tremolo (vs JAM Pedals Harmonic Monk), Flanger (vs Krozz Airborn), and Phaser (vs Beetronics Larva). It sounds great with clean ...

The Subdecay Starlight Flanger has quite the pedigree now - having first materialised as the 3-knob Starlight Quantum Flanger back in 2012. Over that intervening time we’ve had 4 major versions of the circuit - including the Starlight DLX - which also debuted in 2012 - a little later in the year.

The MKIII can trace its lineage all the way back - and indeed now features most of the essential features that were on the DLX model - with some other advancements and refinements.

It’s the ...

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 ...

David Rolo always makes distinctly unique devices, and this Kiwami is no exception - in uniquely combining a Dual Resonant Filter (bi-directional) with Ring Modulation, Flanging, and Aliasing.

You have quite an extensive control topology to help you get the most out of this format - which essentially takes Resonant Filtering into new and interesting textural areas.

Controls - Decay (Effect Fade), Envelope Sensitivity, Gain, Volume, LFO Rate, LFO Depth, Frequency Range, Resonance, Wave ...

So this was always a likely next move for Kernom - which makes it even stranger that Source Audio hasn’t yet delivered its own modulation companion for its Nemesis and Ventris pedals!

When I first saw this pedal I was a little worried for my friends at Hamstead Soundworks - for their recent Redwing Stereo Analogue Modulator - as this Elipse would likely over-shadow that - while there are enough differences for both of these fantastic new pedals to have their own space - including Mono vs ...

Nobels is really on a roll with its superb value Mini Pedal Range. Where it’s released a second Mini Stereo Pedal - this time a Chorus / Flange.

I can’t see that this is a direct take on either of the Nux Mini Choruses - the Mini Super Chorus and Ukiyo-E Chorus. It’s closer to the SCF style Super Chorus - but the 3rd mode on that as such is a Pitch-Modulation / Vibrato - which the mode description actually roughly fits - so it may be a variation of that one.

Controls - Rate, Width, Mix ...

So I’ve had my Hamstead Redwing for barely a week now, where I adapted to it incredibly quickly. My only challenge was in using a Strymon Mini Switch for the Hold function - possibly I need something else in that situation, while the Expression Speed Control is a breeze. UPDATE! - My DryBell F-1L kind of works for the Hold function - albeit it’s not entirely ideal - need to know what Mini switches are recommended for use with the Redwing Hold function?

Controls - Gain (Makeup Gain > +6dB), ...

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 /...

So this is the big one - all the top performers from the year in one selection.

We’ve already covered :

• 35 Boost & Overdrive Pedal Finalists
• 34 Distortion Pedal Finalists
• 32 Fuzz Pedal Finalists
• 38 Modutility Pedal Finalists
• 25 Delay and Reverb Pedal Finalists

Total Overall Finalist Selection of 164 Pedals!

Distilled down to the final favourites selection, where I own 27 of them, and will try to secure the final missing ones next year :

• Coffee Shop Pedals London Fog Tape Delay -