End of Year Pedal-Chain Update - Final December Formation - Class of 2024
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 /...
2024 Best New Fuzz Pedals of the Year
There are 32 Finalists in the Fuzz Category, where I own all but 3 :
- 29 Pedals Toki Overdrive / Fuzz
- Cachalote 214 Fuzz
- Subdecay Noise Theory Parallel Waveshaper Fuzz
The Finalists
- 29 Pedals Toki Fuzz Driver - $269
- Beetronics FX Tuna Fuzz - $99
- Beetronics FX Whoctahell V2 Low Octave Beeast Babee Edition - $149
- Cachalote Audio 214 Fuzz - R$1418 / $235
- Cornerstone Nero Dumble-Fuzz - €299 | $299
- Danelectro Nichols 1966 Liverpool Fuzz Tone - $199
- Decibelics Reverend V2 Mini
My Skreddy Pedals Capsule Collection has reached a wonderful milestone of 15 essential pedals
I’ve long been a huge Skreddy fan - picking up one from here and there as I’ve gone along! A couple here came from the old Wunjo store - back when they used to stock Skreddy, the Mayonnaise came from an Italian collector via Reverb.com - while most everything else came from my good friend Joe Light’s Joe’s Pedals Boutique!
I got a little carried away with the latest Skreddy restock / drop into Joe’s Pedals - where Marc Ahlfs made a number of long discontinued varieties for Joe - some of ...
Bleak District's latest gain machine is the beautifully textured Slate Discrete Germanium Preamplifier
I’m falling a little behind with my Bleak District Electric capsule collection - and now have 3 gain pedals to add - including the Sun?No Model T, Terra Earthly Overdrive, and this Slate Preamp. Each of them is distinct sounding and beautifully calibrated.
I will try to pick up all 3 early next year and do a combine hands-on feature!
I’m a huge fan of Germanium Overdrives - and this Slate combines a JFET Input Stage into a NOS Germanium Transistor for a gorgeous breakup texture. ...
29 Pedals' Toki Fuzz Driver is a grittier, more textured and saturating mid-gain Overdrive / Fuzz
29 Pedals introduces its most characterful gain pedal to date - sharing the same control topology as the FLWR, but with a very different more fuzz-like output.
This is exactly the kind of thing I like - while there always seems to be a degree of decrypting for Jesse’s pedals - trying to figure out what the controls stand for.
At its core this is a 2 x Gain StageFuzz which uses a combination of IC’s and Transistors to achieve its unique texture. Jesse tells me the Toki is very much its own ...
Buzzing Bugs Audio Devices has a Super Mega Sale on for the whole of December - with All Pedals at just £99
My good friend Dan @ Buzzing Bugs Audio has a super sale on for the whole of this month - in order to gather funds for some exciting new projects in early 2025.
I was instrumental in getting Dan to switch to higher quality Milled Aluminium knobs - which fully reflect the quality of his well thought out circuits.
I have all 4 of these - all are excellent, while I particularly favour the BB01 Fuzzy Voxy Preamp, and the BB03 Lo-Fi Chorus / Vibrato / Warble - with Reverb - both of those ...
2024 November Pedal-Chain Update - Episode XI - Mini Marvels and Red Ripples
November has been a crazy month! With such a flurry of activity from around the middle of the month onwards. So many companies took full advantage of Black Friday promotions - and the smartest of them started early, and extended their campaign through to the 2nd or 6th of December - in order to be able to take advantage of 2 pay packets!
If you started your Black Friday sales with just a week to go or less - then alas you’re bang out of touch with the new paradigm shift. The early bird ...
Joe's Pedals has just had a very significant restock of Skreddy Pedals - including several well loved rarities
Readers will know that I’m a huge Marc Ahlfs / Skreddy Pedals fan, and a range re-stock is always a big event for me - even though I own a large number of these masterpieces by now.
The top row of the visual is particularly exciting as we get a rare reissue of some long discontinued pedals - all improved version of those classics - Ernie, ? Lady, and Mayo. Marc is one of the kings of Big Muff - which represents all of the top row and the Zero in the bottom row.
We also have the brand ...
9 more notable Brazilian Pedal Brands
So in the wake of my ’9 Notable Brazilian Guitar Pedal Brands’ article I had a lot of people contacting me (as intended!) to tell me I’d overlooked this and that brand. The first mentioned was obviously Cachalote Audio which I liked so much that I did a separate article on that.
While altogether we had another 9 notable brands suggested - to include in this separate feature. In fact there are even more - including StarDust Electronic Art - where I’m waiting until I get enough suggestions to...
Introduction to the intriguing new and innovative Los Angeles Pedal Brand - Hangman fx
These Hangman fx pedals have been doing the rounds somewhat of late - both Emily Hopkins and the Superfunawesomehappytime chaps received bumper care package of these fairly recently. And Intheblue’s Shane Diiorio and Mike Hermans have at least one apiece.
I do hope Guitar Pedal X can be more involved at the front of these sorts of brand launch events. I mustn’t grumble really - I do get included in many a release schedule, and plenty gets sent my way - but weirdly I still feel like I’m ...
