3 elements inform this particular curated selection of pedals. Firstly these are all distinctive and striking designs of pedals - and some of these are absolutely at the top of that form. Also these all have unique proprietary designs of knobs exclusive to those brands, and finally all 9 of these are from my own Pedals Reference Collection!

Ever since I published my ’101 Pedal Knobs’ article back in 2019 (pictured below) I have been championing the creation of unique knobs for each brand - ...

So we have a new kid on the block in the guise of Rock N Roll Relics - a California Outfit - who were hitherto known for just their Relic’d Guitars. They have just released a couple of equally beaten-up and weathered pedals - supposedly using NOS components on the inside - while visibly scratched and rusty even on the exterior.

Oddly the guitar sector is one of the very few where beaten and battered products retain a high value cachet. I do believe there is a difference between guitars and ...

There are 32 Finalists in the Fuzz Category, where I own all but 3 :

• 29 Pedals Toki Overdrive / Fuzz
• Cachalote 214 Fuzz
• Subdecay Noise Theory Parallel Waveshaper Fuzz

The Finalists

• 29 Pedals Toki Fuzz Driver - $269
• Beetronics FX Tuna Fuzz - $99
• Beetronics FX Whoctahell V2 Low Octave Beeast Babee Edition - $149
• Cachalote Audio 214 Fuzz - R$1418 / $235
• Cornerstone Nero Dumble-Fuzz - €299 | $299
• Danelectro Nichols 1966 Liverpool Fuzz Tone - $199
• Decibelics Reverend V2 Mini

So for some reason I keep running across the new Danelectro Spring King Junior demo by RJ Ronquillo, where details are still fairly scant and I’ve only seen it for sale on the Loopers Paradise Webstore to date.

Apart from stating 9V DC [-] 50mA Current Draw - there are no further specs available, so I’ve kind of guesstimated the pedal length being near enough the same as the width of the White Whale V2 or around 170mm. The longest / widest is the Surfy Bear Compact at 250mm, while the ...

November has been a crazy month! With such a flurry of activity from around the middle of the month onwards. So many companies took full advantage of Black Friday promotions - and the smartest of them started early, and extended their campaign through to the 2nd or 6th of December - in order to be able to take advantage of 2 pay packets!

If you started your Black Friday sales with just a week to go or less - then alas you’re bang out of touch with the new paradigm shift. The early bird ...

I made a post very near the start of this year - which featured mostly the same visual, now a little more refined - where I indicated a desire to land the latest Nichols 1966 variant. Intriguingly Danelectro picked up on my visual and used is a couple of times on their social media - so I thought I was surely in for a discount on the Nichols 1966 - the third in the series. But no - despite some gentle nudging - Danelectro weren’t about to offer me an ounce of generosity - win some loose some as...

As has been variously covered on this site - I have a rather extensive reference collection of pedals - amounting to somewhere north of 1,300 currently - and where well over half, or 700+ of those are fuzz variants - including more than 110 Big Muff types, more than 100 Fuzz Faces, and somewhere over 50 Tone Bender variants.

I often enjoy the symmetry of specific pedal pairs - and have a number of those in the collection - where this feature is one such subset - really just the most obvious...

Danelectro owner Steve Ridinger was quite the Fuzz pioneer back in the 60’s - where two of the fuzzes featured here were his own original designs - the Liverpool Fuzz-Tone from back in 1966 (his very first pedal design), and and then the Foxx Tone Machine in 1972.

Danelectro released its first relic’d Vintage Style Fuzz - the Eisenhower back in 2019, then came the sort of Foxx Tone Machine reissue in similar compact enclosure - and now we have the earliest origin pedal in that trilogy - the...

Do please note that this is the 3rd roundup in the series - for those looking for more classic / vintage guitar designs - then the first part is the more pertinent for your preferences. Part 2 became a little more eclectic and avant-garde, while this Part 3 is an even mix of more classic / traditional designs and more modern and futuristic.

This part plays some fan service in covering some of the more popular omissions from the previous posts - while I don’t subscribe to the same view for ...