This is the second time EQD has collaborated with KGR Harmony’s Japanese Iron Foundry - famous for its relief-design wrought-iron / cast-iron enclosures. And here we get the most compact variant of the Sunn O))) Life Pedal do date - essentially the V4 edition of that circuit - named the ’HalfLife Fer’.

Only 200 of these were made - and they barely lasted an hour and half. So this is more my documenting the provenance of this circuit than putting up yet another promo feature. It’s all ...

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 ...

October was a super busy month - one of the busiest ever - with such a scope and scale and body of work covered - I’m quite shattered as a result!

We had of the penultimate Events of the year :

• The 2nd Woking Boutique Guitar Show
• Kempton Park London International Guitar Show

And around one dozen key posts  as below also :

• Letter from Dr.No
• Teaching Machines FuzzBillion Component Combinations Wheels Gain-Shaper
• Hangman fx DAGG’R Dynamic Auto-Gain/Gate Mighty Morphing Gain-Ramper

It’s interesting that EQD has only just recently discontinued another of its Tone Benders - the MKIII style Park Fuzz Sound - which was discontinued as of the 16th of this month. Funnily the limited edition EQD Black Ash Fuzz which I own - was also a MKIII Bender variant. I still thought I should get the Park Fuzz Sound for a sense of completion, while I probably prefer to be picking up a MKII on this occasion!

I actually already have a Mini 2 Knob Tone Bender MKII - courtesy of the ...

August turned out a little bit different than expected. Not so many releases - as expected - but really busy regardless - with a number of Marquee Events and Articles throughout the month. With the king of the crop being the Extended Capacitor Primer - to which I’ve just added a further section on Capacitor Lifespan. Obviously I hit 15,000 followers on Instagram - which is a significant achievement - a really killer month all-round with some big articles - meaning I’m a little bit burned out ...

This circuit was supposedly based on the Ace Tone Fuzz Master FM-2 Professional Fuzz Machine - which was in essence just another re-badged Shin-ei / Univox Super-Fuzz that Jamie got his hands on. The original run of this EQD Pedal lasted from 2015 to 2018. And it’s long been a target for me - but the price / condition / timing factor had never quite hit properly until now.

I love the fact that EQD are reissuing their past glories - I still have a few more EQD Fuzzes tp get - based on my ...

July was a tough month for me! Plenty going on for sure - and I had a particularly traumatic Sunday a couple of weeks back - when I was unable to get any sound out of my pedal-chain for the best part of that day. At the end of that I retired incredibly frustrated and kind of distraught - which zapped whatever remaining energy I had - and left me entirely shattered.

After a night’s sleep - I turned up  a little sharper on the following day - and was able to fairly quickly and systematically ...

Whenever I see a pedal like this, I immediately think of the many ’Headphone’ only pedal shows that I attend - for which this ’Easy Listening’ mini pedal would be the perfect headphone amp at the end of any of those pedal-chains.

Inside you have an Analog Amp Simulator circuit - which is voiced to sound like that most classic of Fender ’65 Deluxe Amps. You have just the one control - a Master Volume - and you can connected the pedal direct to a set of headphones, a mixer, or front of house ...

I feel that my 15-strong EQD Collection is finally kind of sufficiently balanced and representative of several of the best of EQD - I’m of course still missing a few essentials that I would like to add - with an existing list of future targets obviously - which I will detail below.

I have quite an evolved process in acquiring these - where I try to get them for the very best combination of price and condition - ideally getting a reasonable discount on a brand new, mint, or excellent ...