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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
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
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...

Guitar Pedal X News
14:03 • Stefan Karlsson

My superb Collateral FX Ge-Bendz richly textured and grittily harmonic Germanium MKIII Tone Bender has finally landed

This project started back on July 12th, so it’s taken a while to complete and get shipped over the Atlantic from sunny Brazil. I had come across a superb Instagram demo back in May - https://www.instagram.com/reels/DXu12wSjyv1/ - which sounded fantastic to me with a really...

Guitar Pedal X News
11:03 • Stefan Karlsson

Coriolis shrinks its Transmit 2 Broadcast Preamp Style Anthology - now in superb, smart compact edition

So this was a limited batch release in 4 colourways - just 2 or 3 available in each colour - Mint / Black / Red / Gold. I believe the Mint and Black editions were already sold on pre-order - I was on the site on the millisecond of the release, and those 2 models were alrea...

Guitar Pedal X News
07:12 • Stefan Karlsson

Keeley unveils Special Germanium Transistor Edition of its Compressor Plus on the 25th Anniversary of the original release

The Keeley Compressor Plus is Keeley’s all-time bestselling pedal - said to have sold 132,000 units by early 2024 - which is an average of 5,500 units p.a. - so surely up to around 140,000+ by now. While this is unlikely the bestselling compressor of all time - whic...

The Unique Guitar Blog
07 Oct 22:39 • marcusohara@aol.com

Martin's Electric Guitars

1959 D-18E Martin's venture into the world of electric guitars was quite unusual. Especially for the company that created the prototype and standard for the American acoustic guitar. However in 1959 the C.F. Martin company began applying magnetic pickups to a few of it's...

Fret Science
07 Oct 19:00 • Keith

Measuring the Vibrato of Nine Guitar Heroes

How wide, how fast, and how long before it starts? I pitch-tracked 150 vibratos by nine guitarists, from Angus Young and David Gilmour to B.B. King and Stevie Ray Vaughan, using isolated guitar tracks, and tested the claim that bend vibrato only goes below the bent pitch. A first look, with a lot of caveats.

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

Setorg Audio's 5th major release is the highly innovative Void Temporal Dynamics Processor - an evolved and brilliantly dynamic Analog Optical Tremolo

The above pictured pedal appeared a couple of times in my Insta feed - and I was immediately struck by its super modern and elegant aesthetics - particularly the cool manner in how the central LED lights up, but also the pedal’s smart controls - and how you manipulate the ...

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

Talisman Audio's Mammoth Pi evolved Hybrid Muff is a marvel of point-to-point engineering and design, with a spectacular vibrant core tonality all of its own

Former Specialist Dental Technician and master wire fabricator Tom of Talisman Audio has crafted an absolute masterpiece here. Never one to do things by half - he’s created a very unique one-of-a-kind take on the Big Muff Pi - here with core Soviet / Sovtek era components ...

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06 Oct 11:03 • Stefan Karlsson

Freqscene massively evolves and enhances the HM-2 circuit into a superb all-rounder Cleanless Amp-like Gain Machine

The Boss HM-2 is rightly associated with the Swedish Death Metal / Chainsaw sound - as favoured by bands including Entombed, Nihilist, Dismember, Bloodbath, Converge and Carcass. While there are a number of players who use it in a more tempered manner - most famously David...

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06 Oct 07:15 • Stefan Karlsson

ThorpyFX's superb Compact V3 Edition of its EAO Explodes All At Once evolved Buzzaround Fuzz take - is probably its most effortlessly euphonious fuzz to date

Jackson Brooksby in his below demo is totally right in describing this as the perfect first-time fuzz. This 3 x mil-spec Germanium CV type Transistor Fuzz is one of the easiest fuzzes to dial in - almost every setting yields superior sounds. And the pedal liberally purrs a...

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05 Oct 07:12 • Stefan Karlsson

Boss's PX-1 Model Passes go Full Heavy Metal for the 3rd Series of 3 - HM-2, HM-3 and MZ-2!

Boss has an intriguing inner hierarchy of Effects - where currently the much loved and much-celebrated Dimension phased chorusing effect can only be found on the DC-2W stand-alone Waza Craft pedal, the MD-500 Modulation Workstation, and this PX-1 - where it was included in...

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

Collision Devices rolls out its 4th Snack Series Compact - this time a 3-Way Modulation, which has you covered for Chorus, Phaser, and Flanger

I’m a huge fan of Modulations - and this latest Snack Series Edition combines 3 of the best in the one unit, with some versatile and variable controls / parameters and including fairly unique ’Magic’ Mods for each of the 3 Modulation types. There’s obviously some co...

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

Warm Audio releases Compact MOD versions of its Centavo and Stereo Chorus / Vibrato Pedals, alongside a brand new Peach Fuzz take on the Foxx Tone Machine

We have an interesting selection of new pedals here - all pretty much shrunk-down versions - and all smaller variants of already existing Warm Audio Pedals. There are myriad compact Klones out there already, while not so many Compact CE-1 variant takes - I can...

Pete Brown Guitars
02 Oct 05:48 • Wood With Strings

Things Are About to Get Ugly!

With this narra/Sitka spruce 00 and East Indian rosewood/sinker redwood OM about to enter the ugly stage as I install bindings, I thought it was an opportune time to photograph them. With ebony bindings in place, I'm sure they'll emerge from this process looking very smart!

More soon.

Cheers, Pete

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

Inspired by its own Deco pedal, Strymon unleashes the all-analog La Brea Tape Saturation Drive

The third in Strymon’s analog Series-A - following on from the Fairfax Class A Output Stage Drive, and Canoga Vintage Silicon Fuzz. I did not cover the Canoga - as Silicon Fuzz Faces are bread and butter for a thousand small builders, and for me a straight up 2-knob take i...

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

Beetronics FX rolls out new variant Tuna Can Pedal - the 9-Mode Tuna Trem Pattern Tremolo

I really loved the Tuna Fuzz - really simple, compact and potent 3-transistor fuzz - it sounds fantastic. So I generally have an appreciation for this format, and its blisterpack packaging - everything about this is just so cool! I do have a slight concern though ov...

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30 Sep 11:03 • Stefan Karlsson

2026 September Pedal-Chain Update - Episode IX - Big Time Expansion

A very unusual month for me. My work situation changed very significantly as relates to my now mostly former other day job.And in the same month my darling Mother Eileen died rather suddenly and unexpectedly - along with one of her best friends Sigríður - who ...

Guitar Pedal X News
30 Sep 07:12 • Stefan Karlsson

Pause & Effects' wonderfully textured Thalassa Germanium Diodes Harmonic Overdrive gets a very significant format upgrade

I’m very proud of this project - which had some influence from yours truly, while new friend Attila of Pause & Effects did all the heavy lifting. On our first encounter back in March of this year, I noted that while his pedals looked very neat and elegant - ther...