This has turned out to be something of a Thorpy month! - following on from the recent Manson Supermassive Black Fuzz and 3 Thorpy acquisitions this month - indeed the Supermassive is also engineered by Thorpy!

I thought I should do a quick retrospective of pedals and projects that Thorpy has been involved in.

I selected my favourite pedal from those 4 brands (some singular options!) :

• Redbeard Effects : Bearded Vulture Direct Drive with Octave
• Victory Amps : V1 The Jack Guthrie

I’ve had my eyes on Cian ’Moose’ Megannety’s output for a while. In truth I was just biding my time until these were finally available closer to hand - and that’s exactly the case now. Since my good friend Joe Light from Joe’s Pedals has picked up this range.

5 Pedals are currently available on the Joe’s Pedals Webstore - and all are sill in stock as of my writing this. The gold-hued Electric Elk caught my eye in particular - which I thought for sure was based on the Japanese Triangle Muff ...

All the new dealers - including Joe’s Pedals and Effekt Boutique will feature the two most recent Colortone Pedals - the Vibroverb (£219 / €289), and ZeroSum (£219 / €289), while some - like Joe’s Pedals will also have the Lo-Fi Delay (£239) and Spring Reverb II (€179).

All 4 of those pedals sound every bit as good as they look!

Northern Stomps’ new website is due to go live on this coming Friday (31st) - with those Colortone Pedals featured for launch.

There’s a few more dealers ...

This Tasmanian Brand Gehirn Enterprises (Gehirn meaning brain!) - AKA one Brendan Pearce - only came to my attention relatively recently - while these are exactly the kinds of pedals that I gravitate towards. There’s a few takes here of certain well-loved circuits - where Brendan has a really unique approach o each of them - and all his pedals are very distinct and features several deft detail touches.

I consider myself very much a fuller flavour noise-maker - and there are several killer ...

I don’t normally do these Limited Edition Run posts - but took the opportunity to explain that you never really miss out - as Spaceman always delivers further limited runs and special editions - each better than the last often!

The 5 Pedals in question - with Prices, are as follows :

• Sputnik I Silicon Fuzz - $329
• Atlas IV Harmonic Preamp Booster - $279
• Apollo VIIb Overdrive - $329
• Voyager II Dynamic Tremolo - $429
  Sputnik IIb Deluxe Germanium Fuzz - $429

These are available direct ...

Rainger FX is one of the 3 Top Tier UK brands - alongside Origin Effects and ThorpyFX. David Rainger definitely ploughs his own furrow and is one of the Original Auteurs of the pedals scene - with ever distinctly different circuit designs.

Coming into this roundup I was short of a few Minis - where I picked up the Air Space Invader and Deep Space Pulsar from Macari’s, and the Echo X - from Andertons.

I don’t really have much need for the Deep Space Pulsar - that’s there largely for sake...

My Strymon journey started in December of 2016 - of course with the ’Stryfecta’ of BigSky, Mobius, and TimeLine. That was my first foray into Strymon, as well as the first of my Workstation pedal types - where I’ve favoured Stereo BIG-BOX solutions for Modulation, Delay and Reverb ever since. You can see the Stryfecta was a very significant part of my first official pedal-chain arrangement - first shared in April of 2017 - as below!

So I’ve been seeing Pasta Pedals fairly regularly in my Instagram feed - for a few months now I think, and starting with the Green Line Delay I believe - I think that’s the first one I encountered.

I’m a sucker for a well-place LED or two, and Charles Costa here has a real knack for a striking artwork punctuated by precision-placed LEDs. It’s a pet peeve of mine if there is a creature with eyes as part of the visual - and those eyes are then not used for the actual LEDs. For these following...

I’ve been wanting to get stuck into Fuzz Imp’s pedals for a while - and as the stars recently aligned, a deal was struck - and 3 of the finest crossed the Atlantic!

I’ve actually been following Justus Gash for several years now - I always have my hands fairly full - while it was only a matter of time before I established proper contact and started my Fuzz Imp odyssey.  These 3 pedals always suggested themselves - I’ve been particularly keen on getting in the Creature - while the other two ...