2022 Best New Boost & Overdrive Pedals of the Year
So it’s that time of year again when I trawl through the releases over these past 12 months or so and endeavour to extract the pedal highlights of the year. This exercise is all about drawing a line in the sand and figuring out which pedals deserve to be on the notable side of the line.
Of course everything I publish on Guitar Pedal X is highly curated - those are my own particular preferences and choices, and those are the pedals that I like the look of. So everything that appears on ...
3rd Power's Excellent New Wave-Shaping, Harmonically Detailed Love Drive Preamp is a fitting homage for a Dear Friend lost to Cancer
Some of you may recall that 3rd Power Amplification AKA 3P Electronics released the fantastic ’Roosevelt Drive’ take on the Ibanez Mostortion a couple of years ago - which I featured in my Mostortion Roundup article back then.
3rd Power is famous for having been founded and run by Dylana Nova Scott - sometime guitarist for band Vain - who is an established innovator and inventor with several patents to her name, and where her flagship 3P Kitchen Sink Amp is in high demand. The Kitchen Sink ...
10 of the Best New Guitar Amps Released in 2018
I feel Boss still kind of bossed it in 2018 - with 3 heavy hitters that took on all-comers in those categories - the Katana Air, Katana Artist and Nextone Artist - a trio pretty much suited for any sort of conditions - the first as the best of the portable practice amps - and the latter two as the ultimate versatile gigging-machines - for those that still like to lug amps around.
I feel that this sort of cabinet form factor of amp will be largely restricted to more fixed locations as ...
12 Degrees of Saturation 2023 Compact Edition
