Saturday, May 16, 2026

OVERDRIVE- THERMION (Power Bolt Series) Power Drive___NEW ___ killer!!!

Thermion 
POWER DRIVE  Power Bolt Series
$150.00 USD
This company from Albacete Spain have been at it since 2012. 
Back then there wasn't an English site. I bought their MIAB and 
used it for a few years.
They only recently got into a few new pedals. It was worth the 
wait. The new line is just as well made but compact and cheap.
The layout is a nice simple Volume, Tone, Gain & a toggle to 
switch from a classic to a modern voice.
     CONCLUSION
These guys do not clone and their stuff is like Crazy 
Tube Circuits, always really well done and with 
small surprises that work. 
Saying this pedal is tube amp like is a cliche. BUT!
If nothing else it sounds like a pedal with a couple
of real 12AX7 tubes in it!!! Best of all it has a 
very organic grainy character that just grabs me!!!


OVERDRIVE- COLLATERAL FX P021 Parsec ___NEW ___ Greer Lightspeed clone

$150.00 USD
COLLATERAL FX
PARSEC  NATURAL OVERDRIVE 
A company from Brazil makes Greer Lightspeed clone.  
Just for the record the Greer is a Timmy v.1 pedal with tiny couple of mods. In short removing the Timmy 
Bass and Treble and putting in a standard tone control that primarily pushes some highs. 
This fixes the tone in the sweet spot of the Timmy . in short it us an idiot proof Timmy v.1 , LOL
But I digress. So the layout is virally a basic Volume, Tone & Gain. 
     CONCLUSION ___ 
In true Brazil fashion the Parsec is over built and under 
priced. It is built in a steel casing not a cheap & cheerful Hammond B box. the look is elegant,understated and 
looks high end. It sounds like the Greer except a bit
fatter and bit more bite.  
 


thefineprint
Just buy the perfect v.1 Timmy clone. 
The Caline Pure Sky at $30.00 USD.
I love mine.


Joe Satriani & Steve Vai Tour ___ Toronto 2026

 JOE & STEVE 2026 ||| 
The 3rd guitarist is Canadian Pete Thorn who had to 
learn the tracks of both Steve and Joe's tunes. He is 
capable of being the second guitarist for either of them. 
No easy feat. The poor bastard plays a gig in Toronto 
Canada and the camera totally avoids him. A year 
ago the guy did a tribute to EVH as the only guitarist. 
That too is a near impossible task but he nailed it. 
The guy can shred and gets a few shots on some 
tunes but not one is on the video.  
 
.....The poor bastard just can't win.  
 

Thursday, May 14, 2026

OVERDRIVE- MYTHOS PEDALS Erlking Overdrive V.2 ___NEW___ Nobels ODR-1 clone

$200.00 USD
MYTHOS PEDALS  
ERLKING O V E R D R I V E 
It is very true to the original except quieter and with an 
external Bass roll off to tighten the sound. 
The layout is Volume, Tone, Gain and a high pass filter.
     CONCLUSION ___
Mythos do a thing that make all their pedals have 
a very organic sound with a bit more breadth than 
the originals they borrow from. They shut down 
their factory but went back to small batches
handwired yet if anything lowered the prices 
down to something MXR would have.


 

OVEWEDRIVE- JAM PEDALS Tubedreamer MK2 ___NEW ___ dead classic or with bite!!

JAM PEDALS
Tubedreamer  MK.2
$260.00 USD
This is their second take on a Tube Screamer. The first was made 
20 years ago. It still uses a real TS 808 chip, a JRC4558 C. The 
new one is far more usable with giving you excellent tones in 
the low gain when using it as real transparent pedal or for a 
SRV type boost pedal.
The layout is Volume, Tone and Gain with a toggle to change 
gain stages.
    CONCLUSION ___
Like the the first Jam you get a dead on ts sound 
but with a lower noise floor. With the higher gain 
it simply adds a few more good overtones & just 
a bit of bite giving it great definition. You get your grandads ts, quite literally but that but extra that 
was added on the board when it was recorded
on those old records.

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

FUZZ- AIRLINE Dirty Birdy ___NEW ___ why ask ???

Airline Dirty Birdy
It checks all the boxes of a gimmick & novelty item except 
not being overprice. There isn't any specs even hinted at.
It could be based on anything. 

$100.00 USD each
CONCLUSION___
The price suggests an OpAmp Fuzz. 
It appears that so far as we know 
all its beauty is just skin deep.  
WTF ... it is a case of buyer beware. 


FUZZ- BEARFOOT FX Artic White v.2 ___ NEW____ cool or cold?

 BearFoot 
Artic White 4 knob V. 
$190.00 USD
Designer Bjorn Juhl has made his own pedals but primarily licenses
 
them to other builders but often not with exclusive rights so at any 
given time there can be as many as 3 brands making the same pedal. They use the same topography but usually different brands of parts. Bearfoot have been around the longest and make a better than 
adequate pedal at a reasonable price.  The unit is a silicon Fuzz very loosely in the Muff family but leaning into FuzzyDrive territory.
The layout is Volume, Treble, Gain and BIAS. 
     CONCLUSION . . . .
Version 2 has a BIAS control so you can get
more raspy and chunky sounds from it. Even 
faux germanium sounds. There are dozens 
of v.1 videos but only the one v.2. I hear 
nothing to bitch about but nothing exciting 
either.