behringer
$120.00 USD
Meatball
The usual treatment of a very close to dead on
sound at a cheap price. With 10 knobs I would
have to type out the manual to do the Layout
so just read it when to buy one. Or not😇
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CONCLUSION __
Go for it if its your thing.
Too much bow wow for me.
C O U C H E L E C T R O N I C S
BLUE WHALE
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| $260.00 USD |
For a start in spite of the shape of the enclosure
this is a mini pedal. It is their take on a BB. That
said they did their own thing to it. They seem to
find it convenient not to say what. WTF!!!
The layout is Volume, Tone and Gain.
CONCLUSION ___
The real Marshall Blues Breaker looks cool
too. Same box but bigger and if the sound
was not great, why does every one clone it?
Add to that, it is $60.00 USD cheaper.
electro-harmonix
BIG MUFF Pi 2 Duel Op-Amp Fuzz
$125.00 USD This week the JHS/E-H showed a full sized model of this Fuzz designed
by JHS in the large old style enclosure & was announced for sale but
as a Ltd. Ed. (see the Dec.11/2025 Post)Basically the first Big Muff was designed by Bob Myers now in his 90's.
He later designed a double OpAmp Muff that did not get made. Josh White researching E-H pedals for a book interviewed Bob and saw the Blue Print for it and made one. Josh approached Mike Mathews who agreed on the plan which included a board friendly budget model.
The layout is a simple old school Volume, Tone and Gain.
___CONCLUSION ___This makes the old and there-issue Billy Corgan modelssound lame. It is serious
sh@t for a reasonable price!!!
K E E L E Y ELECTRONICS
NOCTURNE Andy Timmons
Just 3 voices but zero compromise in making them 110% usable.
$270.00 USD The Nocturne ethereal type, Plate and Spring.The layout is a button to choose which type of Verb, Tone, Reverb
level, Decay and Modulation.
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CONCLUSION ___It is typical Keeley. High quality sound, high quality build, no useless extras, value for money and my favorite. F.ing easy to program.
thefineprint_The Hotone Verbera uses a tech where they can nit just give you the perfect spring but one from a vintage
Fender where if you asked they could give you the serial number of the amp they captured from.
If you wanted a Cathedral sound you could have Canterbury's or Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
Or maybe you want a Plate and you get the EMT 140 or Abbey Roads etc. At $300.00USD you get a lot more for your 30 extra bucks!!!
Hangman fxThe DAGG'R ||
$230.00 USD
D.A.G.G. stands for dynamic, audio, gain, gate. It is the circuitused to allow you to create dynamics from your touch. Lightplaying means clean, hit harder for dirt and kick in the gain byslamming the strings. You have both an OD and a Fuzz to useseparate or to blend by stacking.The layout is Master volume, Gain and Tone. Sence, controlsthe dynamics, Smooth, Max Gain adds a second stage, andLimit is a compressor.
CONCLUSION __It sounds impressive.A tweakers paradiseor a maze without an exit???
BLAMMO ELECTRONICS
TNYDUMBLE
Yes another Dumble. Howard Dumble would chuckle. No two amps
$180.00 USD he made were even meant to sound the same and this 'in-a-Box'doesn't either. Although, it does remind me of the Hermida Zendrive.Actually it is take on the discontinued JHS NOTADUMBLE DIY kit with
the added mods guys thought it should have. A used kit sells for
$240.00 USD. WTF !!!The Layout has 2 channels. The clean is Volume, Input, Gain andColor/Tone and the dirt channel is Volume, Tone and Gain. A toggleallows you to choose which side is stacked on which.
CONCLUSION __
Well it is a very pleasant sounding transparent OD.It sounds a lot like the Hermida Zendrive but witha lot more tweakability, lol. Like all BLAMMO pedalsIt is very good value for money. I will stick withmy DemonFX Z-drive. It is literally a part forpart duplication of the Zendrive. Mine costme $30.00 USD.
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GUPTECH
FOAZZ FUZZ
Guptech are Canadian brand. They are all about value for money
$105.00 USD
with affordable prices for the average guy. They are a husband
and wife team. He does the design and assembly and she does
the finishes including the original art work. French is their
working language.This is a clone of the old Boss Hyper Fuzz discontinued in '97.
The Layout is volume, Gain and Tone with a toggle with
3 settings, 2 are high gain and the 3rd is a Boost.
CONCLUSION __
The bad news is guys bought the Boss as it has
an octave up feature. The good news the octave
up is more gimmick than usable so even it relies
on its two basic Fuzz voices. The Guptech has
only the usable voices. The really Big BUT is the
Guptech has balz plus!!! More punch than pedals
selling for the big bucks.
$150.00 USD
DODBADDER MONKEY ||
Yes the replacement for the Bad Monkey that Josh Scott of JHS
said was killer in 2023 and the price went from $30 used to
$300 overnight, LOL. The layout is Volume, Tone and Gain.
A toggle lets you choose a 3 levels of gain. A rotary switch
lets you combine the voices in different combinations.
The original was made for 20 years It is a low to medium gain
OpAmp OD meant to cover the ground of Tube Screamer and
a few Boss pedals. It still does that but it can get into some
higher gain territory.
CONCLUSION ___
It has many usable sounds that soundgreat & it very fairly priced especiallyas it is made in the U.S.
$220.00 USD
In 1967 the Fuzz took off and Macaris offer their Tone Bender to many companies to buy them re-branded with their companies name. So the
string company Rotosound took advantage of this. Page's Tone Bender
was a Rotosound model. That said the only difference is the label.
The model is a V.3 as the Layout is Volume, Tone and Gain.
CONCLUSION__It obviously at the price is not using vintage partsIt is using the original topography & germaniumtransistors that are likely Soviet era NOS.
It nails the sound!!!
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