All-Pedal strips out and improves the Boost and Drive sections from the original larger format Jeff Loomis Signature Devil's Triad Pedal - here in Essentials Edition
So I covered the larger original Devil’s Triad back in September of 2022 - which consisted of 4 sections - Drive, Boost, Reverb and Delay, with the Controls - DRIVE } Level, Tone, Gain; BOOST } Boost; DELAY } Level, Feedback, Delay (Time); REVERB } Level, Tone, Decay, Drive Footswitch, Boost Footswitch, Reverb/Delay Footswitch.
This compact ’Essentials’ edition gives the Boost - Post and Pre Controls, and takes the Overdrive from a 3-knob type - to a full 3-Band EQ format.
Controls - ...
Lichtlaerm Audio's latest masterpiece is its visceral Medusa Death Metal take on the venerable Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal Distortion
The Medusa is actually a sort of MKII version - where the original 2020 collaboration with Berlin Death Metal Band Breathe//Die - simply carried the bands name. This time around it just carries the band’s logo!
That previous version had 12 controls, 6 regular knobs, 5 mini knobs and a toggle switch - it also had dual Boost and Engage footswitches. In fact - the controls were - Range, Gain, Level, Boost, Mid, Shift, Grit, Low, High, Phase : Positive / Negative, Parallel FX Loop Blend, ...
8 years after its debut, Boss's Katana Amp Series evolves to a 3rd Generation Tube Logic Platform - with even greater sound, feel and response
Somewhat serendipitously - Boss’s Katana Series was birthed in the same year that Guitar Pedal X first started - 2016. From that first MKI Series I very early on acquired a Katana 100, which of course was a long term favourite of mine. Then in 2019 Boss introduced the improved MKII Series - with the quite superb Artist MKII arriving a year later - that was to be my second Katana Amp. And now in 2024 Boss has released the Gen III Series, NOT MKIII, as this release is far more significant than a ...
Both of PedalPalFX's killer Marshall-style preamp duo are now in the Reference Collection - with the superb PAL987 Plexi Carrera Preamp just landed
I picked up my first of these - the PAL800 Gold Overdrive V4 this past November (2023). Where it was originally Phillip McKnight (Know Your Gear!) that put me onto PedalPalFX - all the way back in March of 2018. I have covered this brand a few times on this site before my acquisitions - and always meant to get the two main ones into the collection - as they were so highly lauded, and I didn’t think any Marshall pedal collection could be complete without those two!
It’s one of those ...
Drunk Beaver's Pedal Drop #21 is a unique high-fidelity candy apple red Klone - the Lviv Liontaur
Vitalii always goes his own way, and adds some smart and unique aspects to each of this Pedal Drops. So you can bet that his Klon / Klone take will be a very unique variant indeed! You will note that there is one control more here than on a typical Klone - as Vitalii has split out the Dry and Wet / Gain levels.
He has furthermore extended the EQ range - to bolster the low end of the frequency curve - in I suppose not too dissimilar way to the Wampler Tumnus. And he has then selected some ...
Mattoverse's excellent TremStortion is finally in the Reference Collection - as a unique etched acrylic facia edition with red LEDs
I guess timing is everything!, and I was lucky that Mattoverse’s Matt and I finally synced to the same frequency. My first Mattoverse pedal was the Just a Phase in October 2021, where the idea was to add a couple more ideally in that same etched acrylic facia edition style. While I had to wait until this month to finally get in a matching AirTrash Fuzz - as featured back on May 7th.
One of the Mattoverse pedals I had intended to get initially was the TremStortion - but the waiting around ...
Fuzzrocious mashes up its Li'l Fella Fuzz and Demon Drive variants in the one Big Fella Pedal - available in various colourways
Fuzzrocious has combined two of its best loved pedal iterations into the one BB-sized enclosure. Intriguingly you get 3 footswitches - with the Feedback one towards the top of the front facia.
Controls - Feedback Footswitch, Volume, Tone, Drive, Gain, Feedback, Mode : Demon / Li’l Fella, Gate Footswitch, ON! Footswitch.
As usual each of the uber Fuzzrocious dealers gets their own colourway variant, and also as usual - my good friends Scott Hager @ Axe and You Shall Receive (Canada), and...
Brian Wampler sneaks out a 600 unit run of his Mofetta take on the Ibanez Mostortion - here with unique MOSFET Texture Clipping
The Ibanez MT10 Mostortion was part of the 10 series which also saw John Mayer’s favourite Tube Screamer - this ’10’ Power series was made by Maxon from 1986 to 1989. I did a feature back in 2020 on some key Mostortion pedals available at that time - I had picked up the Danelectro Roebuck just around then. I also added a Drunk Beaver Kharkiv CMOStortion last year, so this Wampler Mofetta would be my 3rd.
I still want the 3rd Power one - the updated Love Drive edition if that’s still around,...
Lichtlaerm Audio's Gehenna Heavy Metal Distortion / Preamp combines a thunderous bottom end with incredible punch and depth of flavour
Lichtaerm’s Gehenna has been on my radar for a good 4 years, when I first covered it in early 2020 it was not nearly the powerhouse it is right now. The second footswitch was labelled Boost and you had just 3-Band EQ, Level and Gain, and M/T/V and Brit / Am switches.
There was then at least one more significant iteration between the original and current one - that in-between version had 9 controls - starting to see the 4-band EQ (Lo and Hi Mids), No Gain I/II yet - but instead Range and ...
Stumpbox Pedals' Get Fuzzed Silver Knob Edition delivers a beautifully harmonically rich and warm near Germanium style output from a smartly calibrated Silicon Circuit
Stumpbox Pedals is Merseyside resident Andy Banks, a lifetime electronics and electrical engineer with an unusually varied experience and expertise within that sector. As with many origin stories Stumpbox started off as a hobby and an idea - influenced by a lifetime of being inspired by classic fuzz circuits, and the works of Analog.Man’s Mike Piera in particular.
The Stumpbox range currently consists of 3 fuzzes, all sharing the exact same style of green enclosure, while being ...
12 Degrees of Saturation 2023 Compact Edition
