One of my favourite super-versatile overdrives get a new edition / makeover - to bring it up to date with the latest design phase of Colortone Pedals. The Parasite gets its name from the definition of its unique JFETs - which are described as ’... sizzling with parasitic feedback’.

4 JFETs make up the core soundstage - which is further served by wide ranging Active Post-Drive Low and High EQ’s, as well as the super smart Pre-Drive Bright Boost and Bass Boost stitches - where the latter is ...

We all know Joe Anastasio for his long-standing Lone Wolf Audio brand - Left Hand Wrath etc. while he now has a new umbrella brand ’Void Manufacturing’ which covers both Void and Lone Wolf Audio brands of pedals, alongside Void Modular Eurorack Devices.

My good friend Joe Light of Joe’s Pedals in Exeter, UK now stocks a range of Void Manufacturing and Lone Wolf Audio Pedals - which feature 8 new varieties - 3 of which have alternative colourway editions.

The range consists of 5 x Large,...

Twilight Pulse is a well regarded German brand - which makes super versatile and unique Overdrive pedals - from rare and premium components. Northern Stompboxes features two of their finest here in Limited Special Edition Pelham Blue - while the colour looks a little closer to powder blue to me - but that may just be down to the saturation and ambient lighting of the photograph.

We have the Konstante evolved Lightspeed Overdrive with an EP-style Pre Boost. Would be cool to have the ...

DOD is obviously a company that doesn’t do things by half - and rather than just a straight-up reissue cash-in on that JHS hype. Instead DOD went back to the drawing board and massively re-designed the circuit to make it even more powerful and versatile!

The original circuit controls were - Level, Low EQ, High EQ, Gain. And the new pedal ups the ante with 3 separate parallel blendable circuits - Behaved, Bad, and Badder - where the 3-way switch allows you to target 2 of those at a time - ...

My close association with Thorpy started back in late September of 2018 - at the now defunct Olympia UK Guitar Show. He was the first pedal maker I reached out to, and the first I connected with.

Since then ThorpyFX Pedals have become my 3rd most populous selection after Boss and Drunk Beaver. Those 3 brands alone contribute over 200 pedals to my reference collection!

The fact that I’m now at 31 ThorpyFX Pedals is a major milestone - and features every mainline MKII pedal Thorpy has made. ...

This variant leans quite heavily into the Jan Ray side of things - with a warm, smooth, rich, dark and somewhat dense / compressed and sustaining core texture - which significantly enhances the output of Single-Coil pickups in particular. You will find that it’s mostly Single-Coil players that favour this format as it beautifully adds body to those tones, and slightly softens the highs - for a very elegant smooth and warm tonality.

I would file it with the Scott Henderson TWA SH9 and ...

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 ...

My friend Charlie has done a killer job of squeezing two of the best loved overdrives into a singular compact enclosure. This is pretty much a blow-by-blow remake of those High Velocity and Southerly Harmonic Overdrive circuits while they’ve been combined here onto the one circuitboard. The precision-honed exercise uses all the same parts values across the same high quality THT components. And in the process of combining those two circuits - I think there’s only a single component / resistor ...

Walrus Audio is next in line for one of my Brand Capsule Collection roundups / rounding exercises! - and as usual I swept up a few more longer-term targets along the way - so that I now own 11 Walruses! The ones I picked up in this latest sweep - included the 385 MKII Dynamic Overdrive, Kangra Filter Fuzz, and Slötvå - the 3 x Preset enhanced short-lived variation of the Slö Shimmer Reverb!

This means that I have just 2 ongoing targets - the fairly recent MKII Voyager Klon Klone, and the ...