Another month filled with strong releases! Too many for me to cope with in short order. I’m still waiting for my Chase Bliss Big Time to land - and Strymon goes ahead and launches the Timeline MX - which is of course also on my list. AC Noises launches its killer Continua, just shortly after I landed my Purr-ting in a similar category. And Native Audio launches the killer In The Water - not too long after I landed my Hotone Verbera. All pedals have specific target slots, and I always want to ...

So the enclosure and Transistors are period correct Soviet varieties - direct from the Cold War era! Moreover the Germaninum Q1 Stage makes use of a Sziklai pair of Germanium Transistors to exceptional effect.

Below you can see the actual GP7 Gas Mask - with said green canister on the side. I’m sure the Russian engineers would not have expected those to eventually end up as musical devices. Fantastic quality on the mask - with those brass insets - looks a bit sci-fi to me! ...

This post has been a long time in the making - 3 days solid - with just a few hours of sleep overnight! I feel it might be my best coverage yet - for a nigh perfect show.

This time around pretty much everything went of perfectly - I was out the door very early in the morning - and at the Brighton Racecourse by 07:45! Phil had set up his Pedal Patch stand the night before - as had Paul from Flattley Pedals, and my good friends Wub from Ritual Devices and Rob from Timber Tones has just recently ...