So right at the end of last month Rob Chapman posted up a YouTube video of a rundown of his all-time favourite guitar pedals. He initially states he’s going to name his 10 most favoured ones - but goes on to mention 20 - which I’ve fully included here.

Rob has a great ear for tone - as countless of his own and Anderton’s videos have proven time and time again. And I really love his everyman approach to guitar gear. I’ve encountered him in person 2 or 3 times now over the years - and he’s ...

This year has seen a number of additions to my Uni-Vibe roster - where 9 of the 14 featured here are proper bulb / photocell varieties - indicated by the bulb icon. Some of these have Uni-Vibe as secondary voices, and some are very slightly adjacent or produce Uni-Vibe tones via other means.

New additions this year have been the Colortone Roundhouse, EQD The Depths, Fjord Fuzz Njord, Formula B Vintage-Vibe, ThorpyFX ER-2, and and Tru-Fi Ghost Vibe. For the longest time I just had 2 Uni-...

This episode is a little more esoteric and preferential than most - and involves identifying the most notable and easily recognisable ’Pedal Shapes and Formats’ essentially. Of course there is some subjective preference here - while I will try to explain objectively how I came to this exact 25 pedal selection - some of these are very obvious - others are slightly more idiosyncratic choices - while there are obviously some brands that are particularly good at coming up with memorable enclosure ...

To many commentators - ’2023’ has sort of been the ’Year of Chorus’ so far - while overall I’m not sure there have been enough releases to fully justify the label. While at the same time my own collection of compact chorus pedals has reached a very decent 21. I also have the larger format ThorpyFX Deep Oggin, and recent TC Electronic SCF reissue. So really not short of options for that style of Modulation!

This year has seen a number of recent additions - including most recently the ...

Boy have I had some delivery troubles this month! - with pedals taking an absolute age to materialise - being held up at various junctures - including a now protracted period in customs clearance. In fact one of these took 3 weeks no less to make it through UK customs, and then another week and a half to get to my local delivery office - which is just insane. Hitherto customs clearance has never been more than a handful of days - occasionally you get outliers of a week or two - but it’s ...

So the adventure which started out with the DF-2 per the recent FX Expo show - Leyland Pedals Mods that is - has been extended to cover the long sought-after companion pedals - the Boss FB-2 and DigiTech FreqOut. I had been chasing both Boss pedals for a while - but hadn’t encountered those at the right balance of pristine condition and price at the time I was actively seeking them. In the end I probably paid a little over the odds for them - but still way below some of the lofty prices that ...

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This is my largest ever article - and it will unlikely be repeated in this fashion - as this takes so long to compile - and the 108 Pedals / Videos included just take a little too long to load up on the screen. In any case it’s a pretty exhaustive run-down in rough order of preference of my favourite Compact Enclosure Pedals of Each Type.

For a few here there are ...

Another year cycles around again - while it seems to be much of a muchness with 2021 - with parts supply issues, logistics problems and extensive delays very much still in evidence. That said, we have though had a number of interesting and intriguing launches already - with an equal quantity running late and materialising quite a bit later than planned / originally advertised!

Last year I hit 215 new pedals over those 12 months - which to be fair was a touch excessive - and the plan this ...

I’ve long been a fan of DigiTech in all its guises - Mainline, DOD, and HardWire editions. Since a number of these are now discontinued I thought it a good time to review some of my favourites and nearly-weres.

In fact from this selection of 9, I own 4 - Dirty Robot, The Drop, Ventura Vibe, and Whammy Ricochet - all of which have seen fairly regular use in the pedal-chain. The Dirty Robot was my favourite Synth pedal pretty much before the Boss SY-1 and SY-200 materialised. And the Whammy ...