____ BURNS GUITARS

 BURNS GUITARS    

 

Brian Mays

Red Special has Burns Tri-Sonic PU's

OVERDRIVE- DUAL STAGE AMPLIFICATION Cyllarus MK1___ NEW ___Klon clone

DUAL STAGE AMPLIFICATION

$165.00 USD

Cyllarus MK1

Another Klon clone. The big feature is in the layout. You get Volume 

and Gain but instead of a Tone control you get both Treble and Bass 

for your EQ. 

           CONCLUSION _ 

I have had several Klons. All mediocre and this is no

exception. 

That said the best I have found is the $50.00 USD 

SONICAKE Trio-Rider. It covers all 3 Klons. The Gold 

classic, the Silver that only 30 were made. It is a 

tad brighter and the come back Klon. The Red or KTR 

(v.2Klon) that lasted only a couple of years. Check

out my Post from July 2025.

OVERDRIVE- THORPY FX Aerogel ___NEW ___ Tube Screamer, Clone #3,024,567

$475.00 USD

Thorpy FX

AREOGEL  

My GOD a Tube Screamer!!! Just what we were all 

begging, crying and wishing and praying for!!! Or not???

The layout is Volume, Tone and Gain, The toggle sends

a wireless signal that will flush your neighbors toilet.  

 

CONCLUSION __

This is Thorpys APRIL FOOLS joke. 

The toilet groaner is 

mine.

 

___THE UPDATER ___APRIL 2026 ___NEW GEAR NEW ___UPDATE 24/7

THE UPDATER 

APRIL 2026

I separate those pedals that are a steal from those

that are stealing from you at any price

IF IT IS WORTH KNOWING IT IS HERE FIRST !

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MY MONTHLY RANT

G-zed-F-king-rice, It cost more for a gallon of gas than pack of Ernie Balls!!! I don't know who is running this show but he is acting like a belligerent 10 year old kid with a big mouth and throwing tantrums and should be sent to his room ...and no Big Macs for a month!!!

TIME OUT

Picasso was once asked when did he decide he would be an artist for the rest of his life. He said he never had to decide that. On occasion he had to to decide not to be, but that quickly passed. 

My only doubt was when I was a child and adults told me I could not do anything unless I had a PhD in it. In grade 7 I was saved by a book called the Kon Tiki Expedition about a guy with an idea all called a preposterous nonsense. He did it by beg, borrow and deceit. It took years of dead ends. 

Recently someone said that I would soon be 80 and I will have not accomplished my goal. 

I simply said that it was a stupid statement because I'm not dead yet, LOL.

TOYS FOR THE OLDER BOYS                                                 Some old some new, all cool  !!!

 

SONICAKE COWBOY  Distortion

This is meant to be a pedal capturing Dimebag Darrell's sound. Who knows, lol. 

The best way for me to describe it is that it sounds like a Rat stacked on a 

Marshall Plexi Super 100 ...Perfect!!!                                                                                                                                       ...it is $50.00 USD on a 24hr. sale for $27.00 USD so I ordered one of the 30 left!!!

 

UPDATED 4/1/2026

 

 OK calm down ...new shit at anytime

FUZZ- JHS PEDALS Coyote Fuzz ___NEW ___ Moonrock clone!!!

$150.00 USD

 JHS PEDALS

COYOTE FUZZ

This is a clone of a rare Moonrock Fuzz made by G.S.Wyllie from North Carolina. It uses a transformer in the circuit which should give it both some saturation and sag which will give you some faux dynamics 

without affecting your level. The layout is Level and a blend to 

move through 3 voices, Swell, Fuzz and Octave.   

 

 CONCLUSION __ 

It has a few good usable sounds in it. If you are more into

a Fuzzy-Drive it is not aimed at you. As always these

pedals are often at their best stacked on a good

Overdrive. The price is reasonable.

 

NAM/MODELER- STRICH Pipe Tones ___NEW ___ adult toy

$65.00 USD
on Amazon

STRICH 

PIPE TONES||

A cross between one of those tiny headphone amps 

and the contemporary classic, the Valeton GP-5. 

You get amps, cabs, effects etc & a short looper 

with a Drum machine. 

CONCLUSION ___

Buy a Valeton, 😳

___RUSH ___LIVE at JUNO AWARDS 2026 ___3/29/2026

RUSH   

This takes me back to my Prog band Tallis in the 70's. We opened for Rush. Back 

then half  the audience had come to see us. We both had a great night.  My bass 

player was a friend of Geddy and Geddy came to one of our gigs and sat in for 3 

tunes. He even sang on them. Geddy is a super nice guy that was very supportive 

of bands doing their own material. 

 

____ HISTORY OF GUILD GUITARS

GUILD GUITAR

FUZZ- GIGAHEARTS FX Small Cheese ___Lovepedal Big Cheese clone

$185.00 USD

GIGAHEARTS

 Small Cheese 

From Manchester U.K. we get a take on a defunct unique Lovepedal Big Cheese.They are not the first. JHS does the 

$180.00 USD Cheeseball.

The layout is Volume, Gain and Tone. A toggle lets you 

choose from 3 voices. A scooped, a mid boost or a gated. 

 

         CONCLUSION ___  

Both Gigahearts and JHS feel they nailed it.

The price is more or less the same. The Small

Cheese uses the original BC549c transistors. 

JHS does not say? Why? 😒

Check out the Oct 2019 Post to compare.

  

NEED TO KNOW ___ MAGNATONE ___ Changed more than the weather

  M A G N A T O N E  

 

    

OVERDRIVE- VALETON Coral Tube Engine ___RE-RELEASE? __

VALETON Coral

TUBE ENGINE

$50.00 USD
last published price

Before Valeton became an award winning Modeler maker winning 

'Best Of's' for their 2 NAM pedals they made serious clone pedals. 

In February they re-release their Loft series of Boss pedal clones. 

Many are defunct collectors items Boss pedals. ALL use the original 

OpAmps to nail the exact tone of the original. Today we may have 

perhaps as a planned leak. They are showing this pedal from a 

kind of best of any classic. Once again using rare NOS original 

OpAmps. In this case the original Tube Screamer with a JRC4558. 

The layout has the expected Volume and Gain but instead of Tone 

we get Bass and Treble. The original Tube Screamer had very 

weak lows, so this could be a welcome change. 

      CONCLUSION __  

What's not to like? Who clones a 47 year old pedal

with the original OpAmp for reasonable money? 

It just doesn't happen. Or does it??? 

 

    

thefineprint   

Check out the Post on the Valeton Loft series

from Feb. 25, I just added a video. 

killer pedals.

I have the Analog Chorus-10 

the perfect Boss CH2 clone.

'Only Pedals' sells cheapest