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Keeley Electronics rolls out 3 more killer combos in its 4-in-1 Series - the Blues Disorder, Angry Orange, and Super Rodent

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Following in the wake of the very well received Noble Screamer (ODR-1 + TS808), and Muse Driver (AT / RK Modded BD-2), we now get 3 more in the same series - all at once.

 

The Blues Order covers Marshall Blues Breaker and Fulltone OCD voicings, the Angry Orange has EHX Civil War Muff and Boss DS-1 Distortion flavours, and the Super Rodent mixes up the Boss SD-1 Super OverDrive with ProCo Rat Distortion.

 

As before you get to mix or match the Tone Stack and Clipping Character of each ...

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MIDI is essential to getting the most out of the 2 Kernom Pedals - the Moho Magmatic Fuzz, and Ridge Augmented Overdrive

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In my recent review of the Kernom Moho Magmatic Fuzz - I already lauded it to the high rafters as the greatest Multi-Fuzz pedal ever created. It’s the perfect tool for proper fuzz fans - and in particular for those who have fully mastered the relatively tricky Zvex Fuzz Factory and similar - all those should get along with the Moho fabulously. Newbie fuzz fans may find the device a little tricky to dial in - as every knob impacts the texture and tonality of the output - so pretty much all 6 ...

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Brand new Drunk Beaver Webstore is now live and active on Drunk-Beaver.Rocks

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I’m delighted to report that my friend and yours Vitalii Bobrov - of Drunk Beaver fame - at last has a proper website / webstore for his pedals - DRUNK-BEAVER.ROCKS - where his full current range of 19 pedals can be purchased - of course when in stock.

 

All these pedals are made in relatively small batches (20 or so at a time) and when there is high demand as there often is - then stock clears out very quickly and then there is typically a wait of around 3-4 weeks before more stock is ready ...

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Zander Circuitry Elegantly Revamps, Refines and Improves its Compact Series Pedals

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I’ve been a huge fan of the Zander Circuitry Compact Series - since the Siclone Silicon Chaos Initiator Fuzz first appeared in late 2020. Zander’s Alex Millar has long intended to further refine and iterate those pedals - and that’s what he’s been working on over the last year or so - where the newly revised range launched on the 1st of this month.

 

There used to be 9 pedals in the range - where I have 8 of those - or all bar the Sono Bass Fuzz & Preamp. In fact the Sono, Siclone Fuzz, ...

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2023 Best of New Fuzz Pedals of the Year

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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 ...

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Vitalii Bobrov's Drunk Beaver Glow-in-the-Dark Halloween Specials really raise the bar for seasonal variants

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So this post is a little academic in some ways as many of these are already sold out - so more to celebrate these pedals’ existence rather than any sort of promotion really. Only 10 of the Halloween Bat, and then 5 of each of the other varieties were made - while I think Vitalii could have made a lot more.

 

There’s always some cool seasonal limited / special editions at this time of year - I’ve already posted up the excellent TWA Octoverdrive - and I shared JAM Pedals brilliant custom ...

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Tru-Fi Full Range Overview and Joe's Pedals Restock

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I probably should have tackled Tru-Fi a little sooner - where it hasn’t featured too heavily on this site yet - I always need to do a certain amount of due diligence before I do one of my brand features - and frequently there needs to be some sort of trigger event or catalyst required to set things off - which on this occasion was the purple Ghost Vibe Uni-Vibe - where I have one of those en-route to me as I write this - I will likely receive that on the same day this goes live. So that will be...

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12 Compact Gain Pedals with Fully Variable Sweepable Parametric Mids

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So a follower on Instagram asked me to do a piece on which pedals had Sweepable mids - meaning really semi-parametric mids - with one control for Mids Frequency, and another to Cut/Boost that Frequency.

 

I thought there were a lot more than those that I finally uncovered. It’s mostly distortion pedals that have 3-Band EQs, and so it stands to reason - that it’s mostly distortion pedals that have parametric mids too.

 

While there is also a now long discontinued series - by Big Tone Music ...

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Bardic Audio Devices Distortion Trifecta!

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I’ve been meaning to post this one for a while - where I was waiting for a demo of the new Thunderclap for the longest time - and I missed it when it finally materialised. We now have decent demos for all these 3 variants. Note that the 2 Stroke Beaver is also branded as Shelob’s Lair - it’s exactly the same circuit - just with a different artwork!

 

What we have here are in effect killer extended range variants of 3 magnificent and celebrated legendary pedals - the Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal, the...

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2023 April Pedal-Chain Update - Episode IV - Future Past Perfect

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So this was truly a full-throttle month - with so much activity this month and a really busy NAMM release schedule. We also had a couple of JHS Faux Hist this month - some real and some not so much.

 

The month saw my most popular article ever on Instagram - the Iconic Pickup one - with currently 17.6K likes - still growing as the number of followers surpassed 8,000. It’s been a really grad graft slowly making my way up that slope - but some of the recent Guitar Elements posts have really ...

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