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The Alex Saraceno x Danny Gomez Boutique Brand joins forces with Warm Audio - to deliver more accessible, compact and pedalboard-friendly versions of 3 of its best loved pedals - the Ball Buster Boost, Preamp / Overdrive, and Afro Fuzz. The 1590BB Dirty Boy originals go for $349 each. So there are significant savings here for your wallet, as well as your pedalboard real-estate.

 

It would be interesting to see a component breakdown here - as the originals feature high fidelity primo ...

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DOD has delivered an incredibly potent hybrid delay here - with a 750ms Analog BBD Delay at its core - powerfully controlled by digital means - which delivers different Waveforms and Friction Modes, Intense Modulation and a vast array of classic and otherworldly delay sounds.

 

DRAG Controls - TIME (750ms / 1.5s for Rubberneck Mode), LEVEL (Output / Intensity), FEEDBACK / Repeats, CURVE / TAILS (HOLD) : Press for Drift Waveform : Sine / Reverse Saw / Square / Random; Hold for Friction Mode : ...

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Highlights from the 2026 Brighton Guitar Show and FX Expo at Brighton Racecourse

Blue FX DevicesBossBrighton Guitar ShowBuzzing Bugs Audio DevicesCave PedalsDemiurge InstrumentsExpoFlattley Guitar PedalsFredric EffectsFunny Little BoxesGigaheartsGreat Eastern FX Co.Hamilton EffectsHello Sailor EffectsLeyland PedalsNRG EffectsPedal PatchRitual DevicesTalisman AudioTimber TonesWyatt AudioZander Circuitry+-
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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 ...

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PastFX continues its brilliant 2026 release cycle with 3 more exceptional re-worked, evolved and enhanced. They do the very best compact takes on classic effects - typically with a tonne of extra, special mods onboard!

 

There are already demos out for the OG-2 and Ring Modulator - so I will tackle these in the reverse order that they appear in the picture - that arrangement made visual sense - but since there is currently no demo out for the I.C. Mufnstuf it makes sense to tackle them in ...

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I think everyone knows the story by now - how Josh somehow mistakenly included the wrong Clean/Boost Channel in the original NOTADÜMBLË pedal - the BBC-1, rather than the ’A Box Later’. While that’s been rectified now - along with a number of additions which appeared on Cosmodio Instruments DLX Mod, and Blammo’s TNYDÜMBLË.

 

JHS have done a brilliant exercise in upgrading the original - which now also includes a TRS FX Loop for the Clean / Boost side - so you can insert all manner of other ...

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This is one of my two most favoured extended range Muffs - alongside TX Pedals’ Animalizzer. I first reviewed the Chief Disruptor back in January of 2022 - where that was a massively evolved and improved take of its Dead Stag Predecessor.

 

This new Bloodstone Edition has the exact same insides as the original Chief Disruptor - just with that more doomy all-black / blackout Bloodstone colourway - which some will undoubtedly prefer. I’m of course tempted, but I’m loath to double down on pedals...

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A really elegant and tasteful Spacey Ambient Dual Channel Reverb with 2 identical Blue and Red Channels which you can set up independently and flip between on-the-fly.

 

This circuit sits inside Hungry Robot’s preferred landscape-style 1590BB type enclosure and features Boss-style silver-top knobs of different sizes to great effect.

 

This latest iteration of the Stargazer features trails, full wet/dry blend, and full stereo signal processing for the first time!

 

It further benefits from...

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Mid-Size Modulation Favourites

Asheville Music ToolsBest in ClassBossCaroline Guitar CompanyChorus and VibratoEnvelope Filter and Auto WahEventideFlangerFormula BFulltone EffectsHamstead SoundworksHarmonizerKrozz DevicesModulationMoth ElectricPhaserPitchPitch-ShiftingRotary SpeakerSlicer and StutterStrymonSubdecay EffectsTremoloUni-Vibe and Vibe+-
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A few notes in advance! Obviously I’m a huge fan of Analog Modulations in particular, and especially compact boxes - which deliver the largest numbers in my reference collection. While I do also like Portrait style 1590BB types too - and these are mostly they! The Hamstead Redwing is a little larger, and the Boss XS-100 is one of the largest pedals I have in my collection - and appears here somewhat shrunk down - otherwise this selection would look decidedly odd.

 

There were some very deep ...

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A Summary Overview of Central London's Denmark Street Gear Haven

B.R.A.T.BossDawsonsDenmark StreetFlat Iron Steak RestaurantsGear MaintenanceGuitar Gear ResourcesGuitar Gear RetailHanks GuitarsNo. Tom GuitarsRegent SoundsRolandRoland StoreRose MorrisRough TradeSixty Sixty SoundsStairway to KevinWunjo Guitars+-
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When I first visited Denmark Street in the Mid 80’s - both sides of the row were all fully bustling Musical Instrument Shops - mostly guitar-related. I bought my first guitar here - a black gloss Ibanez RG440 Roadstar II Deluxe back in late 1985 - around my 16th birthday. It was a brand new instrument - but I can’t recall what I paid for it, or which shop I bought it from - it was on the North side of the street for sure. While for a period I was crossing the street back and forth in ...

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From a distance things look to be fairly similar (identical shape and dimensions) - but go closer - and you can see there’s a slew of new options and controls. The facia has double its previous controls - now 8 in place of 4; there are 3 controls on the rear panel - where there were none previously. And the optional extra Footswitch now has 2 further operational Modes to select via a 3-way rear slider-switch. We also have a new Spectral Dual Resonance Engine to extend the pedal’s prowess even ...

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