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Guitar Pedal X

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Guitar Pedal XGuitarsPastFX unveils the doppelflänger - its own exacting vintage specs, high headroom, compact take on the original 1970's MXR flanger/doubler Rack Unit NOTE - that there were some inaccuracies in the original overview - which have been set right by leading MXR Engineer Jack - as annotated, clarified and corrected here below.

September 26

Guitar Pedal XGuitarsPRS trolls Fender with a cheeky Silver Sky Land Rover Defender Collaboration For me - Fender CEO Bud Cole and Ed Sheeran have been on a similar journey - both entirely on the wrong side of history - and still carrying on digging themselves a deeper hole!

September 25

Guitar Pedal XGuitarsOverkill Effects unleashes probably my favourite compact Muff to date - the no-compromise expansive V7 Softek Era Fuzz This has been a long time coming, and dates all the way back to the end of May, when I very first received my V7 unit.

September 25

Guitar Pedal XGuitarsJAM Pedals updates its superb flavourful Wahcko Wah - now with JAM's own Custom Inductor onboard, and additional internal Q-trimmer One of the best sounding and most flavourful Wah Pedals since 2008 - gets further improved, with some really neat touches.

September 24

Guitar Pedal XGuitarsBoss's new EX-4 Effects Expander is a fantastic intuitive Multi-FX Pedal which delivers 4 killer stereo effects at a time from a selection of 120 Boss delivers a really fantastic Multi-FX Pedal here - which has a super intuitive and visually appealing interface - and which is a joy to deploy.

September 24

Guitar Pedal XGuitarsMojo Hand FX revives its Crosstown Hybrid 2-Transistor Fuzz - available in Classic and Rasta Editions The Crosstown Fuzz is a Hybrid Fuzz Face - utilising one Germanium, and one Silicon Transistor. At one stage these used to be the Ge AC187 and Si BC109 - while Mojo soon ran out of the AC187’s - as…

September 23

Guitar Pedal XGuitarsGreat Eastern FX Co's latest Obsolete Devices release - the 2N1175 Germanium Transformer Boost is a superb always-on tone-enhancer - all the way up to killer low-to-mid-gain Overdrive This is quite a notable period for me as I picked up 3 Germanium Devices within a month, while one of those probably won’t land until next month.

September 23

Guitar Pedal XGuitarsMad Professor announces preorders for its brand new Milestone Handwired Germanium Fuzz Mad Professor has just announced preorders for its new Handwired Germanium Fuzz - while it doesn’t really provide too many details beyond the below statement, the nature of the control topology, and…

September 22

Guitar Pedal XGuitarsSetting up Delay Presets and Tap Divisions on the Chase Bliss Big Time Hybrid Echo - alongside first impressions When the Big Time was first announced at the end of Apri l, I wasn’t sure it was for me. I needed some further convincing - which took the form of Doug Tolley’s Big Time Tour - where he travelled to…

September 21

Guitar Pedal XGuitarsElectro-Harmonix revives its Analog BBD Echoflanger Multi-Modulator as a Limited 2,500 Run Adrian Belew Signature Edition One of EHX’s best loved pedals is back! Which has variously been labelled the Echoflanger (1977-1979), Polyflange (1979-1980), and Polychorus (1981-1984) throughout those years - until discontinued…

September 21