May has been a little bit of strange month - lots of delays really, and waiting for pedals to land.

As inevitably happens most months - much was delayed this month, and I was unable to complete some of the larger articles - they will need to wait until next month, there’s certainly lots of projects in progress. Where new and imminent arrivals kind of scuppered several intended projects - hopefully they can be completed in June.

The first event I’m attending this month is tomorrow - as a micropub ...

So I ordered this from my friend Andy at Effekt Boutique - back in mid-November of last year, while several production hitches delayed the arrival of the pedal - by approximately half a year! Which is one of the longest waits I’ve had to endure outside of Kickstarter and Indiegogo! But all’s well that ends well!

I’ve long been a fan of combining Reverb, Modulation and Fuzz / Distortion - for that killer dreamy hazy shoegaze effect - where I normally use a combination of single genre effects...

Most intriguingly the ’Analog Kid’ moniker seems to hint at a fully Analog Chorus (I know it’s the title of a 1982 Rush single!), while there are no ’analog’ details in the text description - no mention of Analog or BBD - besides in the name of this pedal - so presumably the Dual LFO Chorus Circuits are generated at least in part via digital means.

Regardless of the pedal’s provenance, this is a really cool take on a Chorus - with two independent channels that you can control independently ...

This project has long been on the cards, as I’ve always intended to take the Asheville Music Tools journey - the Analog Modulations in particular. The Phaser ended up being the first on the list, and I will tackle the Flanger next, and then the Chorus / Vibrato after that.

I’m not short of a great Phaser or two - as the APH-12 is the 29th phaser in my reference collection (full list after the demos below). I have a soft spot for so many of these - including the Beetronics Larva, Caroline ...

I originally featured this pedal on the site back in January of 2023 - so it’s been on the cards for a while! I obviously need to juggle a lot of priorities all the time - and some pedals unfortunately fall through the cracks momentarily - while I mostly manage to recover them at a later stage!

This Arigato is my 4th Caroline pedal, and I love it so much that I’m very tempted to pick up Philippe’s other 2 modulations - the Parabola Tremolo, and Somersault Lo-Fi Modulator / Chorus. 

The ...

I obviously slept on this when it was launched back in the Autumn of 2021 - as I’ve long owned the H9 Max, and now the H90 - so I wasn’t initially overly taken by the stand-alone Eventide Devices - while I so like the Tricherachorus that I will for sure get more of this series.

The Preset overlay cards are genius - and perfect for pedals which have two layers of controls - i.e. secondary / alt parameters. I’ve always preferred dual concentric pots - and don’t understand why pedal builders ...

I’ve had the full-fat Beetronics SeaBee Harmochorus from the very start, but found it somewhat complicated to use, and while I still own it, it hasn’t had a rotation for a while. It took some time, but I had eventually gotten used to the Zzombee Filtremulator - which is equally complex, but the Harmochorus never fully gelled for me - while I have always loved the sound of its output.

This Lite Edition is a fantastic take - which carries most everything which made the original great - but ...

It’s rare confluence - when an ideal control topology gets married to the ideal design and layout. And Freqscene Effects seems to have hit the jackpot here on all counts! The knob selection, graphics, colour choices, and format evolution from the 2-knob Boss CE-2 are just pure perfection.

The Designer / Engineer Wade explains how his Koldwave smartly refines and expands the scope of the CE-2 - giving it a more 3-dimensional output - where the Warp / Detune knob gives you all kinds of ...

Electro-Harmonix first released the Echoflanger circuit back in 1977, that then became the Polyflange in 1979, and ended up as the Polychorus in circa 1981. Mostly the exact same circuit throughout - just with different names and artworks applied - where the final jade-accented Polychorus is the prettiest of the lot. Those 3 editions are distinct from the later 1997 Stereo PolyChorus Reissue - so we’re keeping ourselves to the 70’s and 80’s here alone!

Verlie has done her usual magic in ...