It’s been a while now since the NOTADÜMBLË was retired - owing to a mistake that was made in the core production run - where somehow the schematics for the rare BBC-1 Dumble Boost got mixed up with the better known ’A Box Later’ boost - in fact both used by John Mayer, but the ’A Box Later’ Boost was supposed to be the one on the pedal - and instead we go the rarer BBC-1 - which is equally excellent, and I still really like - to the extent that I’m not in the slightest bit bothered that the BBC...

July was a tough month for me! Plenty going on for sure - and I had a particularly traumatic Sunday a couple of weeks back - when I was unable to get any sound out of my pedal-chain for the best part of that day. At the end of that I retired incredibly frustrated and kind of distraught - which zapped whatever remaining energy I had - and left me entirely shattered.

After a night’s sleep - I turned up  a little sharper on the following day - and was able to fairly quickly and systematically ...

It’s about time I did a rundown on my MXR Pedals - where this episode was mostly triggered by the arrival of the Bass Synth - where I landed one of the first examples of those to land in the UK, landed with me on July 4th. I was doing some brand research on Reverb.com and I serendipitously came across the one pedal that had made it to Coda Music. It was already in someone’s cart - but evidently I completed the transaction quicker and it was mine.

I’ve adde 6 MXR’s to the collection this ...

It seems a long while since I first met the new owners of Mad Professor the Iconic Finnish Pedal Brands - Jussa and Mikko - at the London Synth and Pedal Expo back in March - where they announced their new MK2 Simble. They were sort of queuing up the pre-sales for that pedal - which started a week or two later, but it took quite the while for it to be officially launched and in stock.

I’ve been a big fan of Mad Professor pretty much from the start - especially as it’s somewhat connected to ...

NOTE that these were originally supposed to be in stock last week - on the 20th, then today on the 26th - but are still not in stock somehow - I’ve no idea what’s going on here - this article has been ready for over a week now - and frankly I have other things to be getting on with - so I’m just making it live now (with a change to the title) and moving on with other projects.

Andertons has been somewhat unusually lax of late with its ’coming into stock’ notices - I’ve pre-ordered several pedals...

As with all Phase 3 Evolutions - this Imperivm is a significantly more attractive pedal - while it does drop the Mids switch we had on the previous version which came out at the end of 2022. The new Imperivm is perfectly aesthetically balanced - and Emilio further underlines his position as creator of the most consistently eye-candy pedals. Of his previous editions I always felt that the Imperivm was the most striking - but this new version goes way beyond that.

I wonder if we get an ...

In some ways May turned out to be a little uneventful! I was due to visit Hello Sailor Effects down in Gosport, but that got pushed back to next month - so the only event of note is tomorrow’s Leeds Pedal Show - which takes place from 10:00 to 15:00 at the Northern Monk Refectory - in the former The Old Flax Store building! Supposedly 20 minutes walk from Leeds Station, and less than 10 minutes in a taxi. I will of course have my show report up for Monday!

May was a lot about pedal roundups...

3 is the magic number! We’ve recently done capsule collection rundowns for Brian Wampler and Robert Keeley, and here is the 3rd of that associated grouping - one Joshua Heath Scott and company.

I have similar amounts of pedals from each of those - while JHS is a little in the lead on overall numbers. I also have a large number of JHS Modded pedals - including a ProCo Rat 2 and KOT, and several Muffs.

I always say acquisitions are influenced by a combination of exposure, opportunity and ...

When the NOTAKLÖN materialised last year, I was intrigued, but never felt like I really needed to add one of those to the collection. The horizontal format is not my favourite enclosure type - where I much prefer the vertical orientation / arrangement we see for the somewhat more expansive NOTADÜMBLË.

Readers will know that I’m a big fan of Dumble Drives, where I have a number of favourites already, but very few dual channel takes like the one.

The NOTADÜMBLË featureds 2 Channels - a ...