Many are not aware that TGT11’s Sebastian Nylund and Björn Juhl are the very best of friends. In fact Björn Juhl’s BJFE Pedals were at the root of the formation of the TGT11 Store. Sebastian was the original dealer and outlet for BJFE, and remains The key resource if you’re looking to acquire one of those pedals.

I assisted with the introductions between Joe Light and Sebastian - where Joe is one of my very first  and oldest friends in this sector. Each of those had killer brand ...

My good friend Stephen and his Northen Stompboxes pedal store seems to be on something of a roll these days. He’s excellent at picking up interesting slightly under the radar brands. And I feel this is the first time that Malta’s Attic Audio Pedals are available in the UK.

The Putty is a Saturating Preamp & Shaper - intended for always on duties - for general tone-enhancing purposes. You have a number of Clipping options plus a Gain control for Saturation, and then a choice of 2-Band Pre or...

My close association with Thorpy started back in late September of 2018 - at the now defunct Olympia UK Guitar Show. He was the first pedal maker I reached out to, and the first I connected with.

Since then ThorpyFX Pedals have become my 3rd most populous selection after Boss and Drunk Beaver. Those 3 brands alone contribute over 200 pedals to my reference collection!

The fact that I’m now at 31 ThorpyFX Pedals is a major milestone - and features every mainline MKII pedal Thorpy has made. ...

Someone asked me earlier this week if all Drunk Beaver pedals are this high quality - as he had acquired he Irpin from my influence, and was really liking it so far. I would say all Drunk Beaver pedals are of he highest quality - as you can see by the nature and neatness of their circuitboards - which I fully display for every pedal - GPX is a fanatic archive for Drunk Beaver pedals and there are over 60 Drunk Beaver articles on the site!

It has to be noted hat Drunk Beaver has 3 different ...

I’ve struggled to keep up with Catalinbread and Pettyjohn recently - who have been fast and furious with small batch limited editions of late - with one or two new pedals often appearing within just a week or two of each other. This is not the typical small batch of old - where each batch of 8 or 10 used to be just continuations of a specific pedal.

This time around - everyone is making special and custom and limited editions in tiny quantities - in part to inflate FOMA and add urgency to a...

I’m a little late to this one - in fact too late - as not many of these were made - and seemingly they’re all sold out now. These were priced at just $150 and were available direct from Hungry Robot. $150 is really exceptional value for a pedal which consists of 2 different Reverbs, 2 Chorus Modes, a Low Pass Filter, and a Distortion - and features Dual Footswitches too!

Controls - Hollow (Low Pass Filter), Bloom (Long Decay Pad Reverb), Layer (Octave Up + Down Reverb), Chorale (2-Mode ...

My friend Marc from Tark Audio was one of the first to go down this route back in late 2023 - with his Tark 144 Tape Machine Emulator - of course based on the 1979 Tascam 144 4-Track Multitrack Cassette Tape Recorder. TASCAM is of course ’Teac Audio System Company of America - so you can argue that it’s a Japanese device - per the parent company - or an American device - per the subsidiary.

Josh Scott was the first mainstream operator to deliver the Tascam 424 Portastudio sounds favoured by...

So Boss delivers its first compact Multi-FX pedal - with all those early classic Boss Pedals onboard. This is obviously fairly similar to TC Electronic’s Plethora X1 from the tail end of last year - which had 14 effects at launch but has added a few more since - compared to Boss’s 8+8 at launch - where 8 Effects are onboard by default - and once you register your pedal on the dedicated Effects Loader App - you can access 8 more in that App (which requires a Roland Cloud Account) - which App can...

So I spotted both of these at the same time - where both kind of share an army green colourway - while the Pique is a slightly lighter hue, and the Utility is slightly darker. In any case - because of their similarity of hue - I decided to tackle them together! Think of it as simply a colour-themed association - while both somewhat overlap in certain aspects!

Both of these have a large Boost / Volume knob, and then some extra switches / controls for smartly ramping up / re-shaping or re-...