An adventure that started back in September of 2019 and culminated at this year’s July Brighton show!

I was very lucky to snag one of the very last Austin Pride editions with the classic pairing of Germanium NTE103 and Silicon NTE123 Transistors. I acquired mine during the peak of Dan Querner’s ’Fabric Wrap Era’ with really colourful designs. Later models are much more single block colours than patterned fabric - although various tolex and textured finishes are now used - I really liked ...

I believe the original MXR Rack Unit Flanger/Doubler was first manufactured in 1976, and lasted most of that early period of MXR before its bankruptcy in 1984.

Flanging and Doubling Effects occur at different Delay Times (Manual) - with Flanging normally around 1 to 20 milliseconds, and Doubling around 15 to 35 milliseconds. Thereafter you’re in Slapback territory!

So the Doubler button switches up the Delay Time to a more expansive range for the Doubler.

The Phase Invert - gives ...

It turns out that I’m quite a fan of these Twin Drive Mod types - this is my second of that ilk after the Twin Drive OD-3. These are Japanese Mods made by more than one party, I’m not sure who did the very first one, and for us in Europe and the USA - mostly available via Ebay, but in very limited quantities. There are several marketplaces in Japan that carry these Mod types - including jp.mercari.com.

For my 2 - I acquired the OD-3 Twin Drive from Reverb.com, and the DS-1 Twin Drive from ...

So I’ve reviewed both of these within the last fortnight - they were both picked up at the relatively recent Brighton Guitar Show, while I had ordered the Piluxx just a day or two after the Leeds Pedal Show which took place 3 months earlier!

I always see things in terms of patterns, and the Piluxx was already in the bank as such - when I spotted the GP7 - and had to have that one too!

Both of these have very unique and unusual re-purposed enclosures, and both are fantastic sounding Mode...

Wyatt very evidently likes to do things differently, and this is about as different a Fuzz Face as you can get! Beautifully conceived and executed.

It leans a little more into its wiry and searing Silicon side, but gives you the option of switching in a Germanium MP10B Transistor to warm things up slightly - if that’s more your thing.

The 3 top knobs are your usual Fuzz Face style controls - essentially Tone, Fuzz, and Level. You then have the Transistor Selector, a Bass-cut option, ...

OBNE bills this as ’Further Adventures in Trereo’ - meaning Triphonic essentially - or having 3 outputs (one per Gain Section essentially). This is a really cool parallel multi-stacking gain machine - with added Dual Independent Delay Lines - which can be manipulated to deliver Flanging, Chorusing and Broken Vibrato too.

This new V2 one is much more granular and dynamic - coming with 3 footswitches rather than just the one of the original - so you can ramp things up and down on-the-fly!

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So I finally complete my Becos FX CompIQ Pro Compressor Trifecta, which started with the Stella, was followed up by the Yuna, and is now fully rounded out by the most diminutive Mini Pro Edition in the range, there is an even simpler CompIQ Mini One - which is default Hard Knee, has just 4 controls - RATIO, Make-up GAIN, SENSE : Hi/Lo (THRESH), and WET > DRY Mix - alongside a number of auto/dynamic built-in functions - like Attack and Release Timings. As I prefer my compression super soft and ...

I thought I should do a quick update on the recent V2 NOTADÜMBLË which landed a little over a week or two ago - I had other priority reviews to post first - but I though just a few notes on this one would be a worthy exercise. 

I passed up on the NOTAKLÖN - as I tend to favour more full-featured and expanded variants, while I did plump for the original NOTADÜMBLË. I loved the build process, and it’s a decent Dumble Drive, but really only B-Tier overall - compared to all my other favourites....

This pedal has been long teased now - we’ve seen excerpts and snap shots of it for quite a few months, and Keeley have finally decided that the time is ripe for release, or at least a pre-release!

It goes without saying that the limited 100 pre-release run sold out very quickly on the day of release - this past Friday the 7th of August. The actual general release takes place on September 1st - where there will be at least 2 editions, a Gold Dealer Edition sporting a 12AT7WC Tube, and a ...