Category: Effects Pedals

Effects Pedals, EQ, Overdrive, Review, Sponsored Review

Sponsored Review | Sine Effects nanoPara Parametric EQ

DIAMONDS AREN’T BUILD LIKE BRICKS Price: $100 new (Sine Effects) The nanoPara Parametric EQ from Sine Effects is a tiny thing – the tiniest facet, in fact of Sine Effects’ Para series of pedals. Featuring just four dials (Frequency, Gain, Q, and Volume), the nanoPara looks like nothing more that a toy, a trinket. It looks insubstantial. Looks, however, can be deceiving… Story time: my … Continue reading Sponsored Review | Sine Effects nanoPara Parametric EQ

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Booster, Distortion, Effects Pedals, Fuzz, Gain, Overdrive, Review, Sponsored Review

Sponsored Review | Ando Effects The May Drive

SUBTLY SUBLIME. Price: $100 new (Ando Effects) The May Drive is the first real outing from Ando Effects. It is a colourful chunk of a unit that will easily disrupt any aesthetic mediocrity on a board, but what does it achieve sonically? Well, it’s first important to understand exactly what The May Drive offers, and how it got there. Here goes… According to James, Mr. … Continue reading Sponsored Review | Ando Effects The May Drive

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Effects Pedals, Loop Switcher, Review

Review | One Control White Loop

YOU DESERVE BETTER THAN ME, OLD FRIEND Price: $99 New (One Control) There are many loop switchers out there. Some of them are small, and some of them are big. Now, I’m not in need of (and, therefore, can’t justify paying for) something large like the Boss MS-3 or ES5 (though I’d love to get my hands on either!), or a GigRig unit. Really, all I … Continue reading Review | One Control White Loop

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Booster, Distortion, Effects Pedals, Fuzz, Overdrive, Review

Review | Boss OD-20 Overdrive

ALL THE BELLS AND WHISTLES Price: £65 used (eBay) When I realised I was going to win the auction of the Boss OD-20 on eBay, I looked around the internet to get a feel for pedal community’s opinion of the thing. I was surprised to find that the OD-20 is a divisive pedal – some out there consider it to be a great shortcut to … Continue reading Review | Boss OD-20 Overdrive

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Delay, Distortion, Effects Pedals, Envelope Filters, Filter, Fuzz, Gain, Reverb, Review, Sponsored Review, Tap Tempo

Sponsored Review | Endorphin.es X Andrew Huang Ghost Pedal

PHENOMENAL, IN THIS LIFE AND THE NEXT Price: £130 new (Endorphin.es) In the 2012 film Avengers: Assemble, Chris Evans’ Captain America (a man raised in the early 1900s and now living in the 21st Century) looks at a broken engine on a futuristic flying aircraft carrier in dismay. When Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man asks for a review of the damage to the engine, a … Continue reading Sponsored Review | Endorphin.es X Andrew Huang Ghost Pedal

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Distortion, Effects Pedals, Fuzz, Review, Sponsored Review

Sponsored Review | Pedal Tree Borke Fuzz

FUZZY GOODNESS Price: £130 new (Pedal Tree Effects) I have already covered my dislike of fuzz pedals and fuzz as an effect in other posts, however I am once again here waving a white flag of surrender in my review of the Borke Fuzz, by Germany’s own Pedal Tree Effects. The Borke fuzz by Pedal Tree is a formidable little unit that spits in the … Continue reading Sponsored Review | Pedal Tree Borke Fuzz

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Distortion, Effects Pedals, Fuzz, Review, Sponsored Review

Sponsored Review | Fuzzbeard Industries Riff Launcher

WE HAVE LIFT OFF! Price: £100 new (Fuzzbeard Industries) I don’t like fuzz pedals. I don’t like fuzz as an effect in general. I grew up as a guitarist surrounded by Hendrix fans who only saw value in Hendrix and who sneered at my (and my friend’s) punk leanings. Fuzz is the sound of a legion of boring idiots and their boring children watching the … Continue reading Sponsored Review | Fuzzbeard Industries Riff Launcher

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Distortion, Effects Pedals, Review

Review | A.I.B. Custom FX The Maw

THIS ONE HAS TEETH… Price: £185 new (AIB Custom FX) This pedal was lent to me to review by the generous and awesome Jamie from Jamie’s 1 Take Wonders. Go and check out his Instagram! ‘The Maw’.  It saws ominous doesn’t it? I can’t help but hear Thanos’ mournful tones as he deduces, ‘The Maw is dead?’, in Avengers: Infinity War. Taking one look at … Continue reading Review | A.I.B. Custom FX The Maw

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Distortion, Effects Pedals, Overdrive, Review, Sponsored Review

Sponsored Review | Renzo Autumn Drives

LIKE AN OLD FRIEND. Price: $125 new (Renzo) I love the Autumn Drives. I love its simplicity. I love its reliability. The Autumn Drive is like a denim jacket you’ve known and loved for a long time. It takes little to no time to understand what it has to offer, but wear it once and you know it intimately. You trust it. It looks timeless. … Continue reading Sponsored Review | Renzo Autumn Drives

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