My now good friend Jason has done an exceptional job here with pedalxchange.com - a great deal of care and thought has gone into making this the smartest, safest and most secure trading platform. 

When Jason first contacted me mid-November last year - there were barely a dozen pedals on the site - and I said we needed closer to 100 pedals to be able to properly launch this new platform. So in the intervening couple of months or so - Jason has really worked Reddit communities and other key ...

This is my first post of 2026 - Note that this is a kind of bonus round - as I’m not officially back on duty / back from holiday - until Friday the 9th of January!

So during my Christmas Holidays I took it upon myself to check out the 2 main Pedal Emporiums in Reykjavík - just to take the pulse on the scene and see how alive and kicking it was!

Generally those two spots - Tónastöðin (Skipholt 50D, 105) and Hljóðfærahúsið (Síðumúli 20, 108) are where the vast majority of musicians in the...

502 Articles created for 2025, here are 10 of my own personal favourites for the year :

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So it was about time that Doug Tolley, the Chase Bliss UK Ambassador got the cover slot for his own party! It was a momentous occasion in many ways - including the final concert later that evening for his ’Nine is the Level’ band project. Where he gave away the 4 key albums from that project at the show - and I of course picked up a full set. [Oscillations, Crumbs, Remnants, and Traces].

I also picked up a Witney Pedal Party 4 T-Shirt, and 2 pedals on the day, and the unsung heroes for the day ...

We used to see quite a few ’Tourboxes’ back in the day - Basic Audio for instance used to send those out for promotional and review purposes - so artists could sample several of their pedals at a time - and get a good overview of he range of pedals offered!

So RhPf’s Thomas and Simone are kind of reviving an older tradition - with some modern twists to it! I really love this initiative - and look forward to seeing the various different chapters of the ever evolving Tour Board Diary! Will be...

So - quite the anomaly of an event for me.

The day didn’t start off well - as at Waterloo - I was unable to see any trains for Kempton Park on the board. A National Rail staff member then informed me there were no direct trains to Kempton Park on the day - owing to works and diversions.

I was advised to catch a train to New Malden and then swap onto the Kempton Park train. Only upon arrival in New Malden the duty staffer there told me there were no trains to Kempton Park - but there might be a ...

The RhPf Electronics’ Nerd Lab Tone Maps is an incredible pedal resource which I already use a lot - and which plots, maps and compares the output profiles of a large variety of devices - where you can compare up to 5 at a time - and even [Stack] them together to view Combined Output Profiles.

While I mostly have the resource in [Compare] Mode - where you contrast the output profiles of up to 5 different devices in the same chart - where each device gets its own distinct coloured line with ...

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The 5 x 5 visual above is not necessarily definitive, but surely largely representative of the best demoers active today - spiralling out from the 3 OG Elder Statesmen / Godfathers of Demos in the centre (Andy, Brett and Mike) and covering 25 of my own favourite demoers. The selection features most of the big names along with many of my own personal ...

So we’re finally at 15,000 followers on Instagram - it’s been a relatively slow slog from 10,000 - 15,000 where 5,000 to 10,000 happened fairly rapidly - it’s kind of a quick slow, quick quick slow dance. This is all steady organic growth - and we’re only really at the starting gate of my ambitions - I aim to go far!

To celebrate 15,000 followers I thought it best to touch on all the Instagram Posts that have amassed more than 1,000 likes - the top 10 is very impressive! Here in descending order...