The Birmingham Guitar Show 2024 Highlights
Wow, The Guitar Show was certainly a rollercoaster of an event with the busiest crowd I’ve witnessed to-date. At times it was quite a struggle to make your way through the packed waves of attendees, which did though start to peter out just a little after 3 o’c. For me it was fast and furious from the start - and I found it a little awkward navigating around the hall - as the stand layout seemed to have all kinds of little nooks and crannies - which made some booths incredibly easy to overlook ...
Several years in the making - KMA Machines delivers the ultimate end-of-chain Stereo Tone Enhancer with True Stereo Double Tracking, Celestion IR's and Power Amp Simulation
As mentioned, the KMA Machines Endgame Duality Calibrator has been several years in the making, and no expense has been spared in delivering the ultimate end-of-chain tone-enhancer - this thing is wholly feature-packed!
It combines True Stereo Double-Tracking, with stereo width enhancement, with Stereo FX Loop, Celestion IR / Cab Sim, with further Tube Power Amp Sim - options for Bluetooth or TRS inputs, alongside Ambient Space Simulation, and a plethora of connectivity - with pertinent ...
2023 Best of New Fuzz Pedals of the Year
And so to what is often my favourite category - the many wonderful flavours of fuzz - and we have some hugely innovative pedals in the selection this year - one of these may even be my pedal of the year!
So there are 24 in this year’s selection - where I’m just missing the Collision Devices TARS, Fender Shields Blender, JAM Pedals Octaurus, KMA Machines Mandrake, Reeves Electro Facet IZ, and Unsound Circuitry Kato Glitch Fuzz - where I will attempt to add most of those to the reference ...
The Final Pedal up for grabs in KMA Machines's 10 Year Anniversary Celebrations is the One-Off Christmas Red Tyler Deluxe Advanced Frequency Splitter
Hot on the heels of the Purple Guardian of the Wurm, Lilac Moai Maea, Glow-in-the dark Queequeg, and Gold Fuzzly Bear - we have the suitably seasonal Christmassy Red - One-Off Edition of the Tyler Advanced Frequency Splitter.
Every distinct one-off pedal will be signed by KMA’s founder Enrico Preuss, and will have the winner’s name UV printed on the backplate. NOTE that these special pedals will NOT be made available for sale - ever! So they really will be unique One-Off single items.
As ...
KMA Machines launches Made in Berlin affordable Utility Series - starting with slick bear motif Mono and Stereo AB/Y Pedals
Utility pedal launches are rarely exciting events - while on this occasion we have some cool colour accents to brighten things up a touch - and an appealing bear motif design graphics design. These pedals are made to the highest quality standards in Berlin, Germany - yet remain affordable and accessible.
These are obviously your classic consistent connectivity omnidirectional 2>1 / 1>2 pedasls. Going from Mono rig to 2 / Stereo Channels, or say 2 guitars plugged into the same chain ...
The fourth pedal up for grabs in KMA Machines' 10 Year Anniversary Celebrations is the One-Off Purple Guardian of the Wurm HM-2 style Distortion with Smart Noisegate
We’ve had the Gold Sparkle Fuzzly Bear, Luminous Glow-in-the-dark Queequeg, and Lilac Edition Moai Maea 4-Level Analog Octaver, and now unique Purple Guardian of the Wurm - further details below.
Every distinct one-off pedal will be signed by KMA’s founder Enrico Preuss, and will have the winner’s name UV printed on the backplate. NOTE that these special pedals will NOT be made available for sale - ever! So they really will be unique One-Off single items.
As before :
To take part in the ...
KMA Machines extracts and improves on Moai Maea's Shriek Analog Upper Octave with Fuzz Channel as the stand-alone Mandrake Octo-Shrieker
Obviously the Moai Maea has been back in the news again as the latest one-off Lilac Edition KMA 10 Year Anniversary pedal. Its Sub-Octave Channel was extracted as the stand-alone Queequeg Sub Generator - in two editions, and now it’s the turn of its Analog Upper Octave Shriek Channel with additional Fuzz Voicing.
So this new Mandrake Octo-Shrieker essentially improves on that Channel - with a lot more granularity and shaping possibilities.
Controls - Filter (Low Pass Filter), Timbre (±...
The third pedal up for grabs in KMA Machines' 10 Year Anniversary Celebrations is the One-Off Lilac Monophonic Moai Maea Analog Octaver
So we’ve had the Gold Sparkle Fuzzly Bear, and Luminous Glow-in-the-dark Queequeg, and now it’s the turn of the Moai Maea 4-Level Analog Octaver in unique Lilac and Aubergine colourway - featuring Root / Clean Blend, Octave +I, Octave -II, and Octave -I. You can also load more Fuzz into the Upper / +I Octave via internal controls - further details below.
Every distinct one-off pedal will be signed by KMA’s founder Enrico Preuss, and will have the winner’s name UV printed on the backplate. NOTE ...
The second pedal up for grabs in KMA Machines' 10 Year Anniversary Celebrations is a One-Off Luminous Queequeg 2 Sub-Octave Generator
The first one-off edition - the Gold Sparkle Fuzzly Bear was won by @gentlemanbeard as announced very recently. There are 3 more to go after this Queequeg - typically announced during the first week of every month - so October, November and December still to go.
Every distinct pedal will be signed by KMA’s founder Enrico Preuss, and will have the winner’s name UV printed on the backplate. NOTE that these special pedals will NOT be made available for sale - ever! So they really will be ...
12 Degrees of Saturation 2023 Compact Edition
This article has been a long time coming - where I originally started this ahead of the Mini Edition - which went live on January 24th. I was waiting for a couple of new pedals to be released - while the article has been iterated around 20 times now with a number of recent additions.
And the pedal I was waiting to launch still hasn’t quite happened, while the builder has authorised me to tease it in advance of its official release. And if I were to do the same exercise tomorrow - no doubt ...
12 Degrees of Saturation 2023 Compact Edition
