Category: Sponsored Review

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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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, 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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Distortion, Effects Pedals, Overdrive, Review, Sponsored Review

Sponsored Review | Fuzzbeard Industries Tuskano Deluxe

A BEAUTY AND A BEAST. Price: £120 new (Fuzzbeard Industries) Distortion is a beautiful thing and is easily my favourite effect. It can exist as a twinkle and a crackle, colouring your signal with character. It can prowl, growling and a roaring, shaking the listener to their core. Some distortion pedals are your friend, slotting nicely onto a board and adding a layer of colour … Continue reading Sponsored Review | Fuzzbeard Industries Tuskano Deluxe

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Effects Pedals, Expression, Review, Sponsored Review

Sponsored Review | Emmergy Fx Forced Smiles

AIN’T NOTHING FORCED ABOUT THIS SMILE! Price: £30 new (Emmergy FX) The world of guitar effects pedals is a dark and sinister one… Venture down one road, and you will find pathways littered with dribbling, babbling musicians, all riddled with GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome). Their savings depleted, their morals crumbled, these folks would sell their own mother and worse to get their hands on another … Continue reading Sponsored Review | Emmergy Fx Forced Smiles

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Effects Pedals, Phaser, Review, Sponsored Review

Sponsored Review | Source Audio Lunar Phaser

LOVE IT TO THE MOON AND BACK Price: $199 new (Source Audio) I’m always on the lookout for new effects pedals to add to my collection, and Source Audio’s One Series line of pedals have been at the top end my list for a while. Source Audio offer “rich tones with pristine 56-bit processing, stereo ins and outs, MIDI functionality, and deep editing power with … Continue reading Sponsored Review | Source Audio Lunar Phaser

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Looper, Review, Sponsored Review

Sponsored Review | Flamma FC01 Drum Loop

I have been very lucky thus fare in my relationship with Flamma – their FS01 Reverb and FC14 Chorus pedals are both a dream to play, and the fact that they remain on my board is no accident. Both a re well designed and feature great balance and control. But what of this latest offering from the Chinese manufacturers, the FC01 Drum Loop? Has the … Continue reading Sponsored Review | Flamma FC01 Drum Loop

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