A really elegant and tasteful Spacey Ambient Dual Channel Reverb with 2 identical Blue and Red Channels which you can set up independently and flip between on-the-fly.

This circuit sits inside Hungry Robot’s preferred landscape-style 1590BB type enclosure and features Boss-style silver-top knobs of different sizes to great effect.

This latest iteration of the Stargazer features trails, full wet/dry blend, and full stereo signal processing for the first time!

It further benefits from...

A few notes in advance! Obviously I’m a huge fan of Analog Modulations in particular, and especially compact boxes - which deliver the largest numbers in my reference collection. While I do also like Portrait style 1590BB types too - and these are mostly they! The Hamstead Redwing is a little larger, and the Boss XS-100 is one of the largest pedals I have in my collection - and appears here somewhat shrunk down - otherwise this selection would look decidedly odd.

There were some very deep ...

When I first visited Denmark Street in the Mid 80’s - both sides of the row were all fully bustling Musical Instrument Shops - mostly guitar-related. I bought my first guitar here - a black gloss Ibanez RG440 Roadstar II Deluxe back in late 1985 - around my 16th birthday. It was a brand new instrument - but I can’t recall what I paid for it, or which shop I bought it from - it was on the North side of the street for sure. While for a period I was crossing the street back and forth in ...

From a distance things look to be fairly similar (identical shape and dimensions) - but go closer - and you can see there’s a slew of new options and controls. The facia has double its previous controls - now 8 in place of 4; there are 3 controls on the rear panel - where there were none previously. And the optional extra Footswitch now has 2 further operational Modes to select via a 3-way rear slider-switch. We also have a new Spectral Dual Resonance Engine to extend the pedal’s prowess even ...

The Spruce Effects Sale kicked off yesterday - Sunday, July 12th at 9:00 AM PST - and of course most everything is already gone!

I was determined to pick up a Limekiln Edition of the Americana States Series - which I very fortunately did!

Note that these are B-stock Editions - typically with some minor surface dings / blemishes. And that some pedals have different styles of metal knobs to those pictured.

It’s sad to see another unique builder retire. I of course wish them luck with ...

The Ivan Mazepa 2 takes Drunk Beaver’s celebrated 2022 tribute to the fuzz section of the rare Soviet Poltava Fuzz-Wah (1975) and packs it into a pedalboard-friendly 125B enclosure — roughly half the size of the previos 1590BB version. Entirely distinct from classic Western circuits like the Fuzz Face, Tone Bender, or Fuzz-Tone, this unique hybrid design utilizes NOS vintage Soviet transistors (Silicon KT315B and Germanium GT310B) paired with low-noise modern components to deliver an ...

I’m a significant fan of Octave Fuzz and Octave Distortion Pedals - my recent Holy Island Angel Teeth and Micro Mountain Mover, and the exceptional Blue Colander Grimrobe are all excellent example of that genre. And the Nazareth slots in beautifully - as a high gain crushing doomy distortion.

Controls - Active Bass, Active Mids, Active Treble, Volume, Gain, Octave Boost Level, Bypass Footswitch, Octave Boost Footswitch.

A very straightforward pedal with extended shaping via 3-Band ...

This is an interesting one for sure - as this was initially billed as a totally limited one-off release - back in September of last year - with a commitment that only a total of 600 units would be produced. But now the self same circuit is back on general release - in 2 new colourway edition.

This essentially re-uses the Slötvå format - but takes in algorithms form the Fable Granular Generator, and Lore Reverse Reverb. Think of it as a best off those 3 essentially. The format and structure ...

I first featured the Old Blood Noise x Emily Hopkings Parting back on January 21st. All the demos were great, but I was massively put off by the overly cluttered nature of the artwork. Even in the early monochrome edition - that ultra busy design made it really hard to even look in the direction of the pedal - I imagine anyone on the spectrum would not have reacted well to that design. It kind of drowned out the functional ability of the pedal - and made it look far tricker to deploy than it ...