Bonus Round! I hadn’t initially intended to do a Blue colourway feature off the back of my ’Pedal Primary Colour Wheel’ article, as I thought the exercise might turn out to be a little more tricky than the Red, Orange, Yellow and Green. Yet I’ve kind of been ’in the zone’ with these different colourways so I kind of proceeded on down that road.
I was right in that it took more research for Blue Pedals to find those that matched my criteria - and I persevered until I had a full house - and a...
Denmark is a country which is known for punching above its weight - particularly in the field of exports - with a number of globally renown brands in several categories - including Bang and Olufsen, Ecco shoes, Georg Jensen jewellery, LEGO, The Republic of Fritz Hansen furniture (Arne Jacobsen etc.) and Stelton homewares. So it’s no surprise really that so many of its pedal brands are well-known too - particularly of course TC Electronic - which is one of the overall Big 4 along with Boss, ...
A ’Boost’ pedal is another essential always-on pedal in my signal chain - I use an Xotic EP Booster to add a little more warmth and liveliness to my core tone. There are 4 key purposes to boost pedals - as buffers to increase signal strength, as a volume bump, as a tone-enhancement - e.g. to boost warmth or treble, or to boost gain. Many players use their Tube Screamer or Tumnus/Klon pedals to boost gain of either their amp, or another sequential drive pedal - rather than using ...