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Wishing You a Happy Xmas and a Wonderful New Year for 2025!
Even though this wasn’t quite the record year for pedal acquisitions - 206 all told - it was still mighty impressive, where the record is still 216 and happened in 2021. Biggest ever haul in one month is 31 Pedals - which happened back in March of 2022!
I did nonetheless achieve a major record for 2024 - in doing the most articles ever in a year - or 457! - including this one - which is a lot! - and I’ve certainly felt it at times - burning the candle at both ends and all that.
On this website the most popular articles of the year for 2024 have been :
- Boss BD-2 Blues Driver-ology - Originals, Derivatives, and Adjacents! [8,461 Views] (26 January)
- Some Thoughts on the Sheeran Looper+ and Looper X [7,973 Views] (19 March)
- Introducing Boss’s next bestseller - the Katana : Go Personal Guitar Amplifier - instant everywhere plug-and-play satisfaction! [6,704 Views] (14 March)
- Tubesteader’s Lightkeeper V2 Tube Preamp delivers the most beautiful Dumble-style Harmonic textures across 35 decibels of immaculately calibrated gain breakup [4,882 Views] (15 February)
- Full Metal Racket! - 32 of the Best Compact High Gain Metal Distortion Pedals - 2024 Ultimate Selection [3,947 Views] (19 June)
Actually a really broad sweep of topics!
And on Instagram this year - these were the most popular Posts :
- Fender ramps up its Sanrio Hello Kitty Kawaii Collaboration - celebrating 50 years! [14,468+ Likes] (14 March)
- 3 Flavours of Ibanez Anniversary Edition Pro TS808 Tube Screamer [4,984+ Likes] (22 February)
- As hinted at on this very site - Fulltone is officially fully back now - with some very significant help from Jackson Audio [2,331+ Likes] (26 January)
- 11 years on, Strymon finally reboots its pioneering Flagship Reverb Workstation - now called the BigSky MX with Custom IRs and Dual Stereo Reverb Playback [1,126+ Likes] (1 May)
- The first GPX Deviation of 2024 is a speculative Concept Visual for a possible Boss RV-7 Reverb [983+ Likes] (8 February)
On another note my concept Boss JC-2W Jazz Chorus is currently on 6,290 Likes on Instagram - do lend that project your support - and keep nudging your local Boss rep!
Here’s to a fabulous 2025 for us all!
I’m officially on holiday now!
And I will be back on duty again on the 6th of January - I desperately need to recharge my batteries in the meantime - I’ve been running on adrenaline alone since about September!
Happy Holidays!
