This has turned out to be something of a Thorpy month! - following on from the recent Manson Supermassive Black Fuzz and 3 Thorpy acquisitions this month - indeed the Supermassive is also engineered by Thorpy!

I thought I should do a quick retrospective of pedals and projects that Thorpy has been involved in.

I selected my favourite pedal from those 4 brands (some singular options!) :

• Redbeard Effects : Bearded Vulture Direct Drive with Octave
• Victory Amps : V1 The Jack Guthrie

So February, as expected, turned out to be quite the slow moving month - with not too many featured releases. You always get the big announcements at NAMM - and then it takes a few months typically for those pedals to filter through.

There were a few heavy hitters that emerged in February or sooner - including the Kernom Elipse Modulation Playground, and the Polyend Step Drum Machine Pedal - both of which went on the board this month.

I also made the Plutoneium Chi-Wah-Wah a permanent ...

Note that there are 2 pedals in this release - a more practical sort of standard Compact one, and a more accurate full replica one too. There are a few differences besides the obvious size and enclosure variations. The Heritage Edition (£349) is a fully period-correct vintage reproduction - with the same circuitboard and sizing of the the original. The Heritage edition also has NOS Germanium Diodes, while the Compact Edition (£249) makes use of a pair of near identical Schottky Didoes.

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