In many ways this is the most straightforward category with singular award nominees - GOLD, SILVER and BRONZE.

It’s the second smallest category after Distortions - and the one where I own the least number of pedals in proportion to the whole - just 10 out of these 26.

The order pretty much set itself - with the Cornerstone Nucleo being the clear winner from the start. I’m so impressed with every aspect of that pedal - it’s a perfect Trifecta of Design, Feaures and Playability - pretty ...

SHOKR Pedals is Newbridge, Ireland native Dan O’Shaugnessy - who has previous form with his earlier A-51 EFX brand - which consisted of pedals like the Uranus Boost, Plasmodial Slime Bass Overdrive, and Warped Worm Distortion.

He felt he had kind of boxed himself in a little with the A-51 EFX Brand, and wanted to pivot in a different fresher, and more modern direction. So it made sense to launch a new brand - SHOKR Pedals - for which the KRUSH Fuzz-Verb is its launch pedal.

What you ...

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 ...

Another super busy month - where the lack of a holiday is really starting to impact my wellbeing - as I’m about as shattered and burned out as is possible without going entirely into meltdown - I’m teetering on the edge!

Here follow the highlights of the month - which I normally try to limit to around 10 elements - but stand at 12 for September. No show or onside attendances this month - while plenty of other activities - and some killer releases of course!

• Jo Quail @ the Roland Store,

In fact that Spring Reverb algorithm appears on 3 different Fjord Fuzz pedals in order - the MIME II, Dovre and this 4-controls Fjær - each of those have different preamps onboard - so they each have differences in output nuances. Where for me the Fjær sounds particularly lush!

As mentioned - the Fjær benefits from 4 controls - Dry, Wet, Size and Tone. I’ve mostly been deploying that with the Dry slider in the middle, Wet is all the way up, Size is @ Noon, and Tone is @ Noon. It can sound ...

I own a fairly significant number of Reverb Pedals - where I’m mostly focused on Workstation style Pedals with multiple algorithms. I normally have at least 2 Reverbs on the board - a Primary Multi-Verb, and a Secondary more Specialist Verb. Occasionally I have a 3rd Reverb - which can be another Stereo Secondary, or more likely a Mono Tertiary. In fact I can have as many as 4 Reverbs on the board - as the Eventide H90 is always there too!

You can see from my various Pedal-Chain posts that ...

The Oceans Abyss takes over from the Oceans 12 as EHX’s flagship Reverb Workstation. The Oceans 12 has 12 Core Reverb Voicings - including Echo and Mod - which are replaced on this more potent model by numerous additional Delay and Modulation Effects options - where you can create your own signal path using all those effects.

So this pedal is more like the Meris Mercury X and Strymon NightSky - in being a Sound Design device focused on Reverb - but with a number of additional extras in the ...

This is an interesting move by Carl Martin - who are well known for their real Spring Tank Reverb HeadRoom Pedal. That original HeadRoom is obviously a fairly sizeable proposition - in being a stand-alone Spring Tank.

Instead of making a smaller Spring Tank - like say Anasounds did for its Jack White La Grotte collaboration - Carl Martin have instead made a more compact Digitally Emulated take on that effect.

The new HeadRoom Mini has 2 sets of Reverb, Tone and Decay controls - so you ...

I obviously just recently won me an AC Noises Ricorda Retro Series Reverb as a Chase Bliss Mystery Box Bonus Pedal - so the first iteration I had to make on this article was to update the standard Blue Ricorda image to the limited colourway edition that I was gifted by my Mystery Box. This selection is typically the one where I own the least proportion of pedals featured, in fact in this case it’s easier to list the few that I own here :

• AC Noices Ricorda Stereo Granular Reverb + Freeze /