FLANGER- IBANEZ FL9 Flanger Mini ...surprisingly very good!!!

$130.00 USD

Ibanez   FL9

FLANGER MINI

This is a take on the old Ibanez FL9. The layout is a simple Depth, 

Regen. and Speed. I have the Chorus that is a take on the the 

original which I owned years ago and if not dead on is killer 

just the same. They are MIJ ...a nice bonus.

     CONLUSION __

What's not to like. With the Regen off and the Depth cranked 

it gets into a very nice Chorus sound for when you want a 

Chorus sound to pop rather than act as a fattener/doubler. 

Andy Summers used a Flanger as a Chorus to do that. 

MICRO-FRETS CORP. ___ The Story

MICRO-FRETS CORP. 

 

FUZZ- SUMMER SCHOOL ELECTRONICS Fuzz101 ___NEW ___ a basic silicon Fuzz Face

$165.00 USD

Summer School 

Electronics

FUZZ 101

A good ol'Fuzz face. The sightly boring but damn dependable 

BC108 silicon version. You get the usual layout of Volume, 

Gain and Tone but a much loved BIAS control is added 

for a trace of spit and sputter and that Velco rip. 

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    CONCLUSION ___

Gotta love it. Sounds the part but is the least 

sexy as it ain't your grandads Germanium 

Fuzz Face!

OVERDRIVE- MYTHOS PEDALS The Victor ... a Rat? || business closing ???

$230.00 USD

MYTHOS PEDALS

 The Victor 

What we get is yet another Rat pedal. Well built even over 

built with NOS & the best of new parts The layout is Volume, 

Tone and Gain. 

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           CONCLUSION ___

It is a very good and very usable hardclipper 

distortion pedal. It lacks the charm & character 

of the real Rat and adds nothing noticeable 

new like a added sustain, or girth or extensive 

tone shaping EQ etc.

 

THE DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF ... 

Mythos just announced that they are closing shop and breaking off with their retailors. No, not gone but down 

sizing back to a small company shop selling direct making small batches by hand. Some pedals will be kept but 

will be housed in their hand crafted metal enclosures. Oddly enough this uses such an enclosure. Prices will likely go up.

 

FUZZ- HAGARMAN Tsar Octave ___NEW ___ unique ...not a clone!!!

$130.00 USD

HAGARMAN

TSAR OCTAVE | 

Good ol' Jim Hagerman from Hawaii makes high quality pedals not by cloning but finding a way to turn a genre of them on their head yet get damn usable but unique sounds. The layout is very simple with just Volume and Tone. 

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     CONCLUSION ___

It is a 'Must be Heard' pedal as it is not a clone.

Fortunately the video does it justice. 

Other makers would want double the price. 

A damn impressive value for money buy!!!

PHASER- DIAMOND PEDALS Phase ___NEW ___ a 17 year wait for v.2 of the classic

Diamond PEDALS

PHASE 

$340.00 USD

It is a long story. Diamond Pedals was Michael Knapp's  one man

operation where there wasn't anyone to handle the volume of sales 

so the site would literally have to close down to catch up. 

Michael Knapp has had many innovative ideas that were ripped off 

and are now literally in Compressors and Uni-Vibes of hundreds of 

makers. On the verge of bankruptcy SolidGold FX jumped in to 

take care of everything and leave Michael to just design. A win for 

both companies and indeed the end user.

The secret of this unit is not just the features will executed but the 

hand picked JFET transistors that convince you the pedals preamp 

stage is actually tubes. 

     CONCLUSION __

I have but rarely use my MXR phase 95 that good 

ol' Dave Freidman himself uses and recommended 

me I do the same. If I did use a Phaser a lot I

would bite the financial bullet and get this.

THE HISTORY OF THE FENDER BASS Vl

 FENDER BASS VI  I|  

OVERDRIVE- SONICAKE Thump Prog Dist ___NEW ___ does it Chug??? lol

SONICAKE 

THUMP PROG DIST

$40.00 USD

The 'Cake' have been highly proliferate the last couple of years. They started as a company that went to Mooer and 

got them to re-brand the Mooer mini pedals but paint them black and the sold them for less than half the price of the exact same pedal. I do not know who makes their big pedals as Mooer has never re-branded their pedal's in large steel casings. The new mini pedals come in different colors and most are positively not re-brands. OOPS, I am digressing again.

Well we get a high gain pedal aimed at Modern dirt sounds? 

Or is it? The layout is Volume, Gain, Bass, Mids and Treble. 

A toggle gives you a Classic or Modern voice. This unit also 

gives you a Boost and much desired Gate. 

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      CONCLUSION ___ 

Well for a start the Prog name is at minimum misleading. 

Playing triplets at 230bpm and getting a tight well define 

attack on even some of the pricy pedals is a non starter 

let alone a cheapie. In fact the attack on this is soft and 

near muddy. The whole sound of the pedal has a dark 

sound, it lacks any punch, balz or aggression. 

The last pedal I bought was the Sonicake Cowboy mini.

It blows this one out of the water!!! That said, to be fair 

you can dial in a very pleasing medium gain Brit sound. 

If it was in their new mini pedal line I would be tempted 

to get one.