2024 February Pedal-Chain Update - Episode II - Triple Tremolo Flutter
February can often seem a rather odd month after the hustle and bustle of NAMM Show January - where a lot of new stuff always gets announced - while increasingly outside the NAMM schedule - but certainly in and around it! Projects delayed from the previous year often get released in January, but this year those kind of seem to be more spaced out - with some not feted to happen until March / April. February always seems slow compared to January, and that sometimes extends into March too before ...
Reeves Electro's DaughterBoard Series Facet IZ ME-C1016Y unique Mids-Forward Silicon Fuzz Face is now up for its 24 hour order cycle! You can also order the full set of 4 today!
For me Markus and Izzy have left the best to last for Facet February - as we get a second chance to order this fantastic ballsy modern leaning take on the Fuzz Face. As always Markus has selected a superb pair of NOS Silicon Transistors for the job - 2 x MicroElectronics C1016Y Yellow Dots - these are essentially the higher gain grade of the red dot ME-C1016’s used in the RedDotSound.
Markus describes this unique Fuzz Face take as :
"This fuzz F@ce has a greasy mid range and a very ...
My Reeves Electro second batch #29 BlackHatSound-Deluxe with copper insides has landed!
The first batch of the BHS-D had uniformly white insides, while batch 2 had mostly gold interiors, my copper one, and one in Zonk blue! I would have doubly lucked out if the circuit anchor posts had remained brass as in the first batch, but they were switched to steel in this new batch. I still feel that my copper insides provide the best complementary colour scheme to the components - really sets off the greens and yellows of the resistors and capacitors, as well as the footswitch ...
Reeves Electro's DaughterBoard Series Facet VX BC546B Vox Tone Bender take now up for its 24 hour order cycle!
The 4th and final variant of the Facet family. This is based on the 2-transistor Tone Bender variety made by the Italian Jen Factory - for Vox - in 1966.
It has the least amount of low-end of any of the Tone Benders / Fuzz Faces - and can be considered to have a somewhat Treble Booster like profile - with enhanced highs. Lots of players love it because its somewhat brighter profile tends to cut through more in the mix.
Markus has unearthed some really special vintage Philips silver-face...
Reeves Electro's DaughterBoard Series Facet FF BC183 Fuzz Face take now up for its 24 hour order cycle!
The 3rd in the Facet series to be released - following the Mid-Forward Facet IZ (Yellow), and recent Facet 1.5 Tone Bender variant (Red).
This cool Cyan hued facia edition is based on the Type 3 Germanium Voiced Silicon BC183 Edition (Type I is NKT275, Type II is BC108/BC109. Markus lucked out in securing original 1969 Texas Instrument BC183’s - from a batch actually ordered by Arbiter back in 1969.
I have several BC183 Fuzz Faces in the collection - it’s very common for when trying to ...
Reeves Electro's Facet February is upon us! 4 Fabulous Flavours of 2-Transistor Fuzz coming up each Wednesday of the month
The second phase of the Reeves Electro DaughterBoard Series sees 4 cool takes on the 2-Transistor Fuzzes which evolved in 1966. We’ve already had a taste with the more modern-leaning and mid-forward Facet IZ Fuzz Face, where we also have takes on the Tone Bender MK 1.5, Vox Tone Bender, and original Arbiter Fuzz Face Distortion. You then get an opportunity to order the Facet IZ again at the end of the month (28th Feb) - and indeed you can order the whole set of 4 then if you wish!
Each of ...
The Genius of Markus Reeves' Monday Minute Updates
Good communications are the essence of quality customer service. And if you’re a pedal maker with pre-orders and waiting lists and such - then it really matters that you can properly keep customers informed on what progress is being made and if there may be any perceived delays or kinks in the process.
With preorders in particular those customers will have been informed of a likely ETA initially - which alas often slips due to matters outside the builder’s control. It’s important to ...
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 ...
2nd in the Reeves Electro DaughterBoard Series is the really cool Facet IZ take on a Silicon Fuzz Face with specially selected Transistors and added Tone Control
25 of these go up for sale in the usual fashion - tomorrow Saturday 9th December at 8pm GMT - so start your engines now! And make sure to add the Facet IZ Web Page to your bookmarks!
The Facet IZ is of course Markus’s unique take on the Fuzz Face - with some cool Reeves Electro touches throughout - part of the DaugterBoard Series - wholly looked after by daughter Izzy - who prepares, primes, assembles and tests each and every one of these in their entirety!
Markus has a number of ...
Markus Reeves unleashes his beautifully crafted and precisely calibrated Twin Sound Upper Octave 3 Rare Silicon Transistors Fuzz
I had the privilege and delight of visiting Reeves Electro HQ last Friday - the 17th of this month - up in Kettering Northamptonshire. I won’t dwell on how I somehow got on the wrong train - that’s a story for another day. The main thing is that I got to spend the best part of the day with the Family Reeves - and mostly in that wonderful 5m x 3m Workshop Shed.
The makeup of the Workshop tells you everything you need to know about Markus’s craft - it’s compact and bijoux - and so ...
