It’s thanks to Leon Todd that I’m onto this intriguing new brand Sonisfact. They do have their own fairly minimal website, but no direct sales currently that I can see.

There are a handful of active dealers currently including Thailand’s CT Music - which I’ve referenced here, also Taiwan’s MOMO, and a couple of others I can’t properly access. AI tells me that you can buy direct from the Sonisfact site too, but I’m not seeing anything there - just 2 contact emails - info@sonisfact.com and ...

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 ...

It seems a long while since I first met the new owners of Mad Professor the Iconic Finnish Pedal Brands - Jussa and Mikko - at the London Synth and Pedal Expo back in March - where they announced their new MK2 Simble. They were sort of queuing up the pre-sales for that pedal - which started a week or two later, but it took quite the while for it to be officially launched and in stock.

I’ve been a big fan of Mad Professor pretty much from the start - especially as it’s somewhat connected to ...

So I’ve been waiting for my much delayed Keeley Manis to land (#17 overall) - to complete the series - and that happened on the day I’m writing this piece - which will be ’yesterday’ by the time it goes live. I ordered mine from Andertons on the 25th June - but it was delayed coming into stock at least twice, and then delayed on the shipping - so it’s been a series of scheduling issues supposedly.

I’m not sure what the root cause is - but the formerly pretty solid Andertons ’coming into ...

I’ve been meaning to cover these KGR Harmony pedals for a while - since I first saw them on the Coast Sonic newsletter. If I recall correctly EarthQuaker Devices did some custom limited editions of its Plumes and Blumes Overdrive Pedals - in collaboration with the same KGR Harmony! I just can’t recall which of those mailers I saw first.

In any case these pedals are hand-made using traditional Japanese techniques including  Nanbu-tekki. and utilising a proper iron foundry to make those very ...

So the original editions of these have a black enclosure with a colour accent graphic, and matching colour knobs. Where here those accent colours saturate the entire enclosure and the accent colours and knobs are black - a sort of inversion really.

I’m not sure I would feel the need to buy the whole set again in this new livery - albeit I really like these new editions. Which of course include the : 

• Noble Screamer
• Blues Disorder
• Super Rodent
• Angry Orange
• MK3 Driver

I’ve covered ...

Following last week’s Distortion-ology I obviously had to do the same exercise for Boss’s OverDrives.

This one was a little trickier to figure out an ideal arrangement - where I finally decided to group all the yellow ones together - and then sort of book-end those with the different colour variants.

This arrangement is based on Boss’s own definitions of ’OverDrives’ - and thus includes the Power Driver also - which I would rather classify as a Fuzz / Distortion - being that it’s Big ...

In the wake of the recent Wampler one I did - it made sense to do a roundup of my Keeley pedals too - which funnily enough numbers a very similar amount of pedals.

I obviously juggle a lot of different priorities across something like 400 brands - so unless I was a millionaire - which I most certainly am not - I have to share the love across all those different brands - with a ’sample’ in effect from each range.

Seemingly only Josh Scott appears to be in a position to have one of each ...

So there are 8 pedals featured here, while I own those mini pedals in the top row in duplicate - with both original unadulterated editions  and the Alchemy Audio Modded ones featured (with dip-switches externalised as toggles) - so in truth I own 11 Xotic pedals overall!

The second key fact here is that most of the overdrives here are derived from the original AC Booster circuit - Xotic’s original Smooh Overdrive - now in expanded V2 edition (It apparently gets its moniker from the Vox AC30...