The final arrangement for the year - all the pedals that impressed the most!
So right at the end of last month Rob Chapman posted up a YouTube video of a rundown of his all-time favourite guitar pedals. He initially states he’s going to name his 10 most favoured ones - but goes on to mention 20 - which I’ve fully included here.
Rob has a great ear for tone - as countless of his own and Anderton’s videos have proven time and time again. And I really love his everyman approach to guitar gear. I’ve encountered him in person 2 or 3 times now over the years - and he’s ...
When I first started doing the visual for this I thought I had amassed 10 Beetronics pedals to date - but it turns I’m one short of that milestone - it still kind of made sense to mark the occasion of the Custom Shop Nectar’s arrival - which is probably my favourite Custom Shop edition to date. I had to wade through 3 batches to pick out that one - I wanted metal knobs - and a pinkish hue to the core - and the one pictured really captured my imagination. I quite liked my SeaBee at the time of ...
I’ve obviously featured the Pico POG previously as the first in this particular series / range to be released - where we now have 9 fully formed candidates - 7 mini editions of EHX Classics - and 2 brand new formats - the Rerun Tape Delay, and Triboro Overdrive + Distortion + Fuzz pedal - all DSP types.
These are somewhat streamlined in feature sets mostly compared to their Nano / Compact equivalent forebears - while some here actually have a little more to them - including the Pitch Fork, ...
Since the Mood is Chase Bliss’s all-time bestseller as far as I’m aware - it makes perfect sense that they would do the same kitchen-sink exercise on this device as was fairly recently done for the Generation Loss MKII.
Superficially - at least facia-wise everything seems to look largely the same bar the major colour-change - with still the same labels present on the pedal’s front :
Controls - Time, Mix (Ramp), Length, Modify (Spatial / Wet), Clock : 2K-64K, Modify (Looper), Modifiers (...
Another healthy selection - Modutility covering Modulation, Pitch and Utility pedal categories - for one of the strongest selection to date. Some of the pedals here are truly stellar, and I have a little over half here already in the collection.
I’m unlikely to ever get all the pedals featured here, but there are several already earmarked for acquisition in 2023 - with the Eventide H90 at the top of that list.
The ones I don’t yet own, or may never own even - include :
The new Rainger FX Break Box sees the classic / discontinued El Distorto Distortion rebooted and combined with the latter half of David’s legendary Freakenbender Fuzz - including that one’s fantastic ’fat > bright’ tone-stack. To this you then add an Active Sustaining Chorus with speed control - and which has a sort of pre-delay circa 1 second fade-in - where if you let a note ring out the chorus gently kicks in and sustains the tail of that note. At the extreme end of chorus speed - you get...
As a long-term user and fan of Eventide’s H9 Max, the H90 Harmonizer has been something we have all been clamouring for - for a very long time. There is much to recommend the H9 - but its on-pedal interface has always been somewhat feeble, and without the superb Bluetooth connected App the pedal wouldn’t really have been particularly usable.
Multitudes of us have been asking for a better and more intuitive interface - with more meaningful screen display. And Eventide have really pulled out ...
A recent YouTube video from Andertons really tickled me, and I felt compelled to share some thoughts! I’m actually a fan of the Hatsune Miku ’persona’ without being a fan of that quirky high octane Japanese pop music.
Like many I’ve scanned through a number of YouTube videos over the last few years - where I’m entirely fascinated by the concept of Hatsune Miku and quite delighted that such a quirky entity should exist. I suppose Disney Musical Shows of their most popular Animated Characters...
TCE’s new Infinite Sample Sustainer essentially fades in layers of sustained samples over the top of each other. It catches snapshots of your input and allows you to set the Freeze / Sustain Level via Decay, as well as the Pace of Fade-ins. You can choose number of layers that get swapped around - from a single over-written one to two, three, and infinite layers. You also have 3 customisable TonePrints for even more nuanced effect, and a built in Reverb voicing - which you select via the Dry/...