It was about time I did my roundup of favourite and preferred Mid-Size enclosure pedals. This means we’re covering Medium-Slim, Medium-Tall and Medium-Square enclosures - depending on my prevailing mindset - the Horizontal / Medium-Stout types I often group with ’Large’. For my Pedal-Chain in particular - space is very tight - and I really cannot accommodate anything beyond Medium-Square on those slots.
The thought process is deciding between Compact and Medium box solutions involves your ...
I’ve still to acquire David’s superb Giant Hogweed Dual Octave Fuzz - and now have two to get as the new Lilac Cloud is just as impressive.
Controls : Feedback (Oscillation), Treble, Volume, Flab (Mass / Pitched Oscillation), Clip : Up is Compressed Symmetric Silicon / Down is No Clipping, Bass, Gain.
This time around the fuzz is all about Self-Oscillation - which is brought on by the Feedback and Flab controls. The latter controls how much low-end goes into the ...
This is to a significant degree a public service announcement as a lot of readers have been asking me recently if I knew about a Fuzz which had both Upper and Sub-Octaves. I knew there had to be at least one, but the Giant Hogweed had somewhat slipped my mind for a while - and I really struggled to find this particular genre out there in the wild.
It turns out that nearly every single Octave Fuzz pedal out there is either Upper-Octave or Sub-Octave only - while almost never both. In ...
As mentioned several times throughout this year - this was supposed to be my ’2019 Year of Glitch’ (which actually covers a number of sub-categories) while in reality I was rather more widely actively engaged than that - and still somewhat carrying on with 2018’s Year of Fuzz theme - various pedal-chain upgrades and all my usual random tangents!
When I started the initial campaign over a year ago now - I believe I was on the brink of or had just acquired the first of ...
If you watch That Pedal Show regularly you will have heard Dan and Mick saying that Harmonic Tremolos are pretty rare and few and far between, but there are probably a few more out there than most people would have thought. I’ve had several requests recently to do a feature on purely Harmonic Tremolos so this is it! Harmonic Tremolos first appeared on amps like the early Magnatones and Supros as far as I understand, and have a very vibey tonality to them based on how they modulate the ...
As many commentators have noted - we were well aware that Chase Bliss Audio had an Overdub Looper in the works along with their forthcoming Benson Amps Automatone PreAmp MKII collaboration. What most of us did not know is that Joel was busy working with David Rolo and Old Blood Noise Endeavors on a sort of companion pedal or different take on the Blooper looper.
As is Chase Bliss’s way now - this was all launched today with much fanfare - with product already shipped and ...
Following last year’s ’Year of Fuzz’, I declared that for 2019 I would shift my focus to Granular Synthesis or Micro-Sampler/Looper / Glitch Effects Pedals. To those ends I did a slightly more long-form overview in mid-December - ’16 of the Best Glitch Effects Pedals’ of which I’ve acquired 5 to date.
In fact I’ve honed the list down further to the six above, which I believe are currently the ’state of the art’ for this genre, with ...
I’ve found myself increasingly interested in Octave Fuzzes these days, and in fact I have two slightly different ones right now in my pedal-chain - the Anasounds Crankled Bitoun near the front of the chain, and the Beetronics FX Octahive around half-way along - they both have quite different timbres and tonalities, and are furthermore set to sound quite different too, but both create incredibly thick and rich fuzz tones.
I really enjoyed JHS Josh Scott’s recent Octave Fuzz ...
So it’s that usual post NAMM-haze time where I figure out the longer-term impact of NAMM, and how those new products will affect the layout, order and composition of my now sort of 40-slot pedal-chain. As noted several times - this was indeed a bumper year for really innovative and highly appealing new pedals - and I will look to accommodate a number of those as they materialise in the forthcoming months.
As I hinted in my last pedal-chain overview - while 2018 was very evidently ’The Year ...
I’m sort of getting to full saturation point with drive, distortion and fuzz pedals - with my ’2018 Year of Fuzz’ coming to a close it’s time to direct my attentions slightly further afield and in new directions. I’ve always had an interest in sort of randomised textural effects - which means that my next significant area of interest will be that roughly defined by the category of ’Glitch’.
Most of the featured devices here are different types ...