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Guitar Pedal X News
19 Oct 07:45 • Stefan Karlsson

Cosmodio Instruments unleashes Horoscope Echo Sequencer Full Stereo Delay / Reverb

Every pedal Cosmodio delivers comes imbued and overflowing with unique added smarts. Here we have a Clock Speed Manipulating Sequenced Delay and Reverb. Delivering a plethora of unique Delay Textures with the Precise Mode, and an equal quantity of stellar Reverberations on...

Fret Science
18 Oct 18:33 • Keith

I took a master class with Billy Strings' teacher. Here's his killer scale exercise.

In August I took a fretboard geometry master class with Robb Cappelletto, Billy Strings' teacher. His six-position scale exercise covers the whole neck, and the new written lesson rebuilds every shape in it from three building blocks.

A Luthier's Blog
18 Oct 14:08 • Gary Nava, Luthier

Model 2 Mandolin: Cuban mahogany neck blank

This video is all about making the neck blank from some very special Cuban mahogany. Also, I set myself the challenge of making a head inlay to match the mandolin’s rosette as seen here-

Cheers Gary

A Luthier's Blog
17 Oct 09:40 • Gary Nava, Luthier

What’s in a name?

I’ve never liked the idea of giving my instruments a name other than one that describes it, i.e. parlour guitar, twin-point mandolin etc. Clearly, the different instruments must have some means of reference, especially as all enquiries for my instruments come via email...

Fret Science
16 Oct 17:00 • Keith

The Timing Game: a score for your sense of time

A metronome that clicks on every beat keeps time for you. The new Timing Game takes clicks away and measures how steady you stay without them, so you can see whether your internal time is improving.

Guitar Pedal X News
16 Oct 07:12 • Stefan Karlsson

Catalinbread releases unique Cold One Glitch Fuzz/Distortion take on the DOD FX76 Punkifier

The DOD FX76 Punkifier was a well-loved, but short-lived pedal from the late 1990’s Jason Lamb Era (1995-1997). My first introduction to this was the PastFX PX76 Punkifriar take which Verlie released in 2023. Up until that time I had not been aware of it. Verlie added a 5t...

Guitar Pedal X News
15 Oct 11:03 • Stefan Karlsson

Awestruck Amplification has released 2 colourful and evolved drive pedals - the Highland Discrete Overdrive, and the Metro Organic Overdrive

I’ve been seeing these quite a lot in my Insta feed, and both of these have a certain appeal to them. They both have quality knob selections, and neat and simple to pick up on control topologies. I prefer the layout of the Metro - that is more symmetrical and balanc...

Guitar Pedal X News
15 Oct 07:15 • Stefan Karlsson

Walrus Audios re-tools its Fable Granular Soundscape Generator and Lore Reverse Soundscape Generator - now with Full Stereo Playback Capabilities

I reviewed the original Lore in June of 2022, and the Fable back in March of 2023. For both of those I bemoaned the lack of Stereo Playback - and here a few years later, Walrus finally remedies that with two nigh identical units - with mostly the same controls - bar differ...

Guitar Pedal X News
14 Oct 16:36 • Stefan Karlsson

Drunk Beaver's Pedal Drop #43 is the very special Kostiantynivka Dominator Preamp - a Sweet Sounding High-Voltage Tube Bias Tremolo

The Kostiantynivka Dominator Preamp captures the raw, unmistakable character of the vintage Watkins Dominator V-Front Vibrato channel in a pedalboard-friendly format. At the heart of this rare Pedal Drop design is a NOS Soviet 6N17B-V subminiature dual-triode ...

Guitar Pedal X News
14 Oct 11:03 • Stefan Karlsson

Greer Amps reissues its Peacemaker Transistor Distortion / Preamp Pedal for a limited run

"What happens when you run one old school transistor based gain stage into another one, and use them as a drive-meets-distortion!? Well...you get the Peacemaker. We’ve built this pedal for about 20 years or so now, doing small batch runs here and there. These are fun pedal...

Guitar Pedal X News
14 Oct 07:12 • Stefan Karlsson

JHS smartly combines its NOTAKLÖN and Morning Glory circuits for its The Wanderer Dual Overdrive

We’re in very familiar territory here - with the classic Morning Glory (Bluesbreaker) on one channel, and the NOTAKLÖN (Klone) on the other - essentially a Klon-Breaker therefore. Each has the same 3 controls as those original individual circuits, and each has a 2-way Gain...

Guitar Pedal X News
13 Oct 11:03 • Stefan Karlsson

MXR collaborates with Sonic Research for its new M400 Turbo Tuner Pedal

Presumably an update and revision of Sonic Research’s own ST-300 Turbo Tuner, the MXR M400 delivers an even more elegant silhouette in keeping with its own pedal aesthetic / format! I’m pretty sure the specs are mostly the same, and the inner workings. While t...

Guitar Pedal X News
13 Oct 07:12 • Stefan Karlsson

Discomfort Designs released 3 intriguing overlapping themes Stereo Pedals at the start of the year - the Queasy Feels Modulator, Supreme Balloon Tremolo/Panner, and Young Star Pitch-Melting Reverb

I’ve of course just covered the Supreme Balloon - which I very recently acquired, and I’m just waiting on new knobs to land to do the full review. That for me is the most interesting variant here by several criteria - and the best looking one too for me. It’s a massive evo...

Fret Science
12 Oct 16:03 • Keith

What's new on the site, October 2026

Signing in is now one step, the practice tools share one layout, the Jam Track Player's chart follows the music, and several smaller changes came straight from your suggestions.

Guitar Pedal X News
12 Oct 11:03 • Stefan Karlsson

Wren and Cuff releases mini XTS Series of its stock Tall Font Green Russian Muff, and more aggressive 1994 Fade Font Edition

I’m actually quite the fan of Mini Muffs, and own 7 of those already - you can see those in my Mini Muff Compendium feature - where the only one I do not yet own is the Custom Pedal Boards Mini Muff War - with the oddly closely clustered knobs - that still remains to be ac...

Guitar Pedal X News
12 Oct 07:09 • Stefan Karlsson

PedalPalFX releases its evolved and enhanced PAL808 V2 TS-Overdrive Screamer, with superior components onboard

My good friend and Marshall expert Luis takes a break from his much celebrated golden pedals, and rolls out his own further unique take on the classic TS808 Tube Screamer. For starters he switches out the original input buffer for a much better sounding JFET Input B...

Fret Science
10 Oct 12:15 • Keith

Complete Scale Fluency is finished

The last lesson came out on Saturday, October 10, so all seven modules of Complete Scale Fluency are now on the site, along with the finished Course Guide as a PDF and an EPUB in right- and left-handed editions.

Guitar Pedal X News
09 Oct 16:03 • Stefan Karlsson

Markus Reeves takes on the Doyle Bramhall II Sound with his new Z1 S-Type Silicon style MKI Zonk Machine

This Z1 is more of a tour-grade build using a vintage spec Phenolic resin PCB populated with 3 killer Mullard/Philips BC108C Silicon Transistors. This Z1 is quite different to the existing ZO - which previous model is rather based the MK2 Zonk - the ZO is quite a bi...

Guitar Pedal X News
09 Oct 11:03 • Stefan Karlsson

Discomfort Designs' Supreme Balloon is a quite brilliant massive evolution and expansion of the Stereo Tremolo Panner format

The most famous Stereo Tremolo Panner to date is Boss’s PN-2 Tremolo/Pan from 1990. The fact that the Supreme Balloon is in a not too dissimilar hue of green to the PN-2, leads me to believe that said pedal is one of the initial inspirations for this project. The PN...

Guitar Pedal X News
09 Oct 07:12 • Stefan Karlsson

Boss Celebrates 10 Years of the Katana with Special Blue Flame Maple Veneer Editions of its Gen 3 Katana Artist Combo, Head and 2 x 12 Waza Cabinet

Readers will know that I’m a huge fan of the Gen 3 Katana Artist, with a stock one of those as my Left-Hand Amp Channel of choice (Marshall style EL34 emulation!). For the 10th Anniversary of the Katana Amps - Boss has rolled out exclusive Special Blue Flame Maple V...