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 ...

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...

The Spruce Effects Sale kicked off yesterday - Sunday, July 12th at 9:00 AM PST - and of course most everything is already gone!

I was determined to pick up a Limekiln Edition of the Americana States Series - which I very fortunately did!

Note that these are B-stock Editions - typically with some minor surface dings / blemishes. And that some pedals have different styles of metal knobs to those pictured.

It’s sad to see another unique builder retire. I of course wish them luck with ...

The Ivan Mazepa 2 takes Drunk Beaver’s celebrated 2022 tribute to the fuzz section of the rare Soviet Poltava Fuzz-Wah (1975) and packs it into a pedalboard-friendly 125B enclosure — roughly half the size of the previos 1590BB version. Entirely distinct from classic Western circuits like the Fuzz Face, Tone Bender, or Fuzz-Tone, this unique hybrid design utilizes NOS vintage Soviet transistors (Silicon KT315B and Germanium GT310B) paired with low-noise modern components to deliver an ...

OFX is shorthand for Oliver FX, named after Brit Richard Oliver, who is 1/3rd of the Chasing Tone Podcast - alongside Brian Wampler and Blake Wyland. He’s long held an interest in DIY Pedal Building and Breadboarding, and with some help from Brian managed to finalised the circuit that became the Purple Ohm Fuzz.

My friend Adrian Thorpe of ThorpyFX was initially meant to be the silent OEM Partner for this project, but Tom Quayle let the cat out of the bag during his demo - that ThorpyFX ...

These are all long since sold, some even re-sold again. They were assembled in 2 batches of circa 25 pedals each (first batch happened last year I believe!) - these were priced at $550, and I’ve seen that at least one of the 2nd batch was later sold on for nigh $850 on Reverb.com.

R2R and Waterslide have essentially managed to get their hands on a consignment of old Industrial Timers Time-O-Lite Master Dark Room Exposure Timers - originally used for Black & White film processing timings. ...

The Bellows Fuzz Driver was first manufactured from 2016 to 2019, I actually acquired mine in 2020 -  a year after it had been discontinued, while there were still a fair amount in distribution - I bought mine from Andertons at the time.

It’s a very simple 2-Transitor, Single Diode circuit - which I place in my ’Fuzzy-Drive’ category - where when you crank it - it gives you that sort of overblown / console style fuzz. A really neat Fuzzy Textures drive with significant range - easy to dial ...

One of these has been on the cards for a while - I really like this type of Ge/Si Transistor Switching Fuzzes - essentially a switchable hybrid Fuzz Face variant with 2 sets of Germanium and Silicon Transistors onboard that you can set :

Q1 | Q2
Ge + Ge
Ge + Si
Si + Ge
Si + Si

So 4 different Transistor Variations out of such a circuit. The Colombeta is the third I have of this type of circuit - and it has the most diverse set of Transistors - with every one of the 4 ones onboard being ...

Riff Lord Mikey Demus of Skindred fame and Adrian Thorpe of ThorpyFX have collaborated for nigh on 7 years now on the Red Beard Effects project - but all good things must come to an end eventually - and that time is now! Mikey has become a proper chart-topping Rockstar with a #1 Album (You Got It!) and massive European and Australian tour in progress. Pedal Brands need a lot of time and effort invested in them - particularly on the promotional side of things, and Mikey just doesn’t have time ...