May has been a little bit of strange month - lots of delays really, and waiting for pedals to land.

As inevitably happens most months - much was delayed this month, and I was unable to complete some of the larger articles - they will need to wait until next month, there’s certainly lots of projects in progress. Where new and imminent arrivals kind of scuppered several intended projects - hopefully they can be completed in June.

The first event I’m attending this month is tomorrow - as a micropub ...

I had kind of overlooked the Caroline Guitar Co. modulation pedals for a while, where the one that had always interested me the most was the Arigato Phaser - which took me a while to get to for whatever reason! I eventually landed that one near the start of this month!

I was so impressed with the Arigato - Phaser / Vibrato / Vibe that I decided that I should go for all 3 of the Caroline Modulation pedals - Arigato Phaser, Parabola Tremolo, and Somersault Lo-Fi Modulator.

One of my ...

A slightly uneventful month in many ways - just the one event - the excellent sophomore Leeds Pedal Show - where I ended up picking up 3 pedals.

Some killer releases during the month, with a strong final flurry to make up the 10 notable article highlights. I’ve been very busy all month - and plenty of work has gone into this as usual, while there was somehow fewer large-scale rundowns and marquee features - more of that next month for sure.

HIGHLIGHTS for APRIL :

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It’s a little early to call, as I’ve only had this exceptional tremolo for a week or so now, but it’s one of those perfect executions with everything in the right place, and a really exceptional output profile. It may just be my favourite tremolo pedal to-date (#35!).

The complement of controls is just spot-on - that top row combination of Volume, Tone, Depth, and Speed, and then 8 different waveforms across 4 Modes, and with Tap-Tempo and Sub-divisions. You could argue that the only thing ...

For me - these Dealer special White Light editions - are some of the prettiest varieties Spaceman has released to-date - with the white-out / snow-blind livery and striking cyan / teal LED’s - just gorgeous. I was missing the Atlas IV and Apollo VIIb - and Cream City Music and Axe and You Shall Receive were enormously helpful in getting those shipped to me in short order. I then spotted that my friend Scott at Axe and You Shall Receive also had a White Light Rumblefuzz II remaining - and I just...

I initially covered this subject in mid-January - where I announced the arrival of the Tru-Fi Minis. 5 were initially made available, but at my time of coverage only 3 had reached the UK. Since then Teddy has released 3 more variants - and now 8 Minis in total have been released.

All 8 Mini Editions are now at Joe’s Pedals in the UK - priced at £199 each, where the original Tru-Fi USA price is $199 - all very fair.

Each of the 8 pedals are equivalent or better than the original larger size...

Source Audio takes on the Fender Tre-Verb, Keeley Hydra, and venerable Strymon Flint - with a few more modes and features onboard. Source Audio are brilliant at Reverbs - I still love my Ventris, and they’ve covered the same flavours of Tremolo as you would expect - should do really well. This is a very neat form factor - almost exactly per the recent Lo-Fi Artifakt - it’s great that Source Audio has found further use for this format - this may just be my pick of the ’tremoverbs’ - as long as ...

My friend Stephen at Northern Stompboxes is very much on a roll with his smart selection of cool new brands. I covered the Moth Electric M.Stellatarum 32-Combination Multi-Mode Optical Analog Tremolo back in October of last year - which very much remains a major target for me - and which I can now acquire much more efficiently and expediently from a friend!

I buy in a lot of pedals from the 4 corners of the world - and you often get stung with high shipping charges, and exorbitant customs ...

I have come across the Crossflow Modulating Stereo Tremolo & Expression Controller a few time now. Reinforced by my friend Henry Kaiser - who pointed out that this was a recent enhanced take on the Diffractor Soundings Arboretum Tremolo.

The Arboretum has 9 x Knobs, 3 x Toggle-switched, and 3 x Footswitches, compared to the Crossflow’s 7 x Knobs, 6 x multi-function push-buttons, and 3 x Footswitches also. The Crossflow has a little more to it, looks a little cleaner with its control ...