And here we have the GRAND FINAL- with all 36 Award Winners from the Group Stages - across all 5 categories!

The first two places have kind of been obvious for a while, where the 3rd / BRONZE position was actually the hardest to decide on - it was between the eventual recipient - the Tubesteader Gainlord, Boss’s XS-100 Poly Shifter, Blue FX Devices Fuzz Fields and Gamechanger’s Motor Synth - all of whom would have been worthy runners-up - while in the end I went for the one that overall ...

Probably the strongest selection of the year - each one of these is amazing and sounds killer. But then agin similar was true of the Overdrives. I’m very much a fuzz fanatic - so his selection has to take the edge - what a selection!

This selection includes 3 from EarthQuaker Devices, 2 from Drunk Beaver, 2 from Fjord Fuzz, and 2 from ThorpyFX.

It also includes the likely pedal of the year - within a selection of 10 award winners here - these are so good - I could have labelled even ...

The Fuzz Fields is an incredibly versatile Modulated Fuzz with several smart Modes you can ramp up and down through on-the-fly. The Main Right Footswitch flips Modes by press-holding the switch, while the Left Footswitch flips through the Freq and Gravity Combinations via quick double presses - so you can apply the Modes singularly or in tandem combinations. You essentially have 8 different combinations for how you can combine the Main Fuzz, Fazer Mode, and Freq and Gravity Modes. 

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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,

Brighton is normally one of the easiest shows to attend - usually just an hour Journey from London Victoria to Brighton Station. But on this day - when I got to Victoria - it had been announced that all trains to Brighton had been cancelled owing to a landslide near Purley.

I was initially advised to head for Hove instead (Littlehampton service) as the nearest destination to Brighton. I had arrived around 06:30 at Victoria with a view to catching the 06:59 train - which should have got me into ...

So this is my first encounter with Archie Vasileiou’s Blue FX Devices, and it’s a fantastic time to get stuck into this fledgling Copenhagen-based brand as it launches its second pedal on Kickstarter.

You can see from the visual that this is a really unusual fuzz - developed for maximum appeal - across a wide range of player types - both guitar and synth. You have a number of CV In and Out ports for super Smart Control of the device - which mixes up Low Pass and High Pass Filtering with ...