You may not be aware that RhPf’s Thomas is also a Sound and Studio Engineer, and had a very close relationship with the last great Rupert Neve Mixing Console / Channel Strips - the Mozart MZ15-RN which were designed for AMEK. Thomas got to work with a 56 Channel Unit - those AMEK mixing desks typically run from 40 to 56 Channels.

The AMEK Mozart MZ15-RN was originally released in 1993 - right during the Music Industry’s transition period from Analog to Digital, meaning it did not alas ...

Young Swiss designers Eric and Beni - aka ebbe design have innovated an incredibly smart infinitely expandable Magnetic Modular Pedalboard system, which makes excellent use of presumably Neodymium magnets. While there is some involvement with pedal tape - but like everything else here - that is ingeniously executed too - as we shall see!

At the core you have 2 sizes of boards - designated as ’_ma’ and ’o_ma’ which you can quickly snap together to expand in every direction. On the top-side -...

The 1 inch tall DC7 is of course the base unit for Cioks’ Future Power Generation Series - you can daisy chain 2 Cioks 8’s to it - I actually somewhat break the mould in daisy-chaining my 2 Cioks 8’s, and 1 Cioks 4 to my Strymon Zuma. You also of course have the Crux unit with which you can power a Neural DSP Quad Cortex. Generally you should always check the manual when specifying how many PSU’s you need, and how best you can connect them together. Cioks makes you know when you got it wrong by...

So this is a cool and unusual utility - where Dr. Scientist did something similar a while back - with their BoostBot - which has a real-time level display . output on a micro-pedal.

Zvex go full-size with their DB-1 - a proper compact enclosure, and yes it needs a power supply - 9V DC [-] requirement, while the mA current draw is not specified.

Essentially this meter is Ultra-high Impedance - which means super transparent - with no audible impact in the slightest for the signal chain - ...

David has massively evolved his 2017 mini Deep Space Pulsar (DSP) into a monster interactive performance modulator which can absorb 2 separate instrument inputs, and/or a Mic - side-chaining one input against the other, and outputting in a variety of fashions including panning ping-pong stereo. It works brilliantly with just a single input too - but much of the magic happens when you double up on your inputs.

I was particularly enamoured with the interplay between the Rainger FX Snare Trap ...

So this new H9 is essentially a fully-loaded Single Core variant of the H90. The larger H90 predecessor allows you to deploy 2 x Stereo Effects simultaneously - and hence is referred to as a Dual-Core Multi-Effects Processor. Where the new Gen 2 H9 has all the same key features and functions as the H90 - but can only deploy a single Stereo Effect at a time - hence Single-Core.

The original unit had a cool looking but pretty useless onboard interface - which was mostly saved by the Bluetooth...

So Zorg has been around for 10 years now, and I’ve kind of covered them on and off for the last 8! - starting with their Zogverdrive. Most recently I’ve featured their Glue Fuzz and Love Philter - both of which feature in the anniversary editions - where only typically 5 are available of each unique Collaborative Artwork Edition, and 7 for the Colère et Bagarre Glue Fuzz MKII Edition.

You can read up on the Glue Fuzz and Love Philter features on this site!

Here are the 6 editions :

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May has been a little bit of strange month - lots of delays really, and waiting for pedals to land.

As inevitably happens most months - much was delayed this month, and I was unable to complete some of the larger articles - they will need to wait until next month, there’s certainly lots of projects in progress. Where new and imminent arrivals kind of scuppered several intended projects - hopefully they can be completed in June.

The first event I’m attending this month is tomorrow - as a micropub ...

We have the same core format here as the Black Mountain Volume and Roto Echo PT2399 Delay Pedals. This evolves the rotary wheel style of pedals first popularised by Classic Audio and Chase Bliss - especially for their respective Expression Rollers.

Black Mountain has evolved that concept further - with the Freewheel as the core of its pedal designs - with an even more robust and more accessible control wheel. Those pedals are truly precisions honed devices - with exceptional touch and feel....