STOMP BOX STEALS

Wednesday, June 3, 2026

OVERDRIVE- OVERKILL EFFECTS La Creame_NEW _60's Blackface Fender-in-a-Box

OVERKILL EFFECTS O

La Creme

$185.00 USD

Getting a Fender sound in a box is all but impossible. Think of a Fender

as a sheet of clear plastic and Marshall as a blanket. Put the blanket over the clear sheet and you see only a blanket. Put the clear sheet over the blanket and zero. It does not hide the blanket. So the best vintage Fender pedal can work but your amp needs to be a Fender too. Yes a very clean amp of another make can be OK but you get my pont. It is why the opposite is true MIAB pedal done well can be so damn convincing and

the FIAB a wash

The layout is Volume, Gain, Treble, Bass and Sat which adds bit of compression.
CONCLUSION ___

I like it but would not buy it. The old Fender sound is naturally dark and thru my Marshall it would turn to

mud. I have owned both an old Fender Super Reverb

and a Fender Bassman so I have to admit they did

a reasonable job nailing the vibe.

thefineprint The DemonFX Jan Ray is a very similar sound but these days it sells for $90.00 USD.

Tuesday, June 2, 2026

OVERDRIVE- JHS PEDALS Fumble _NEW _DUMBLE-in-a-Box

JHS PEDALS

FUMBLE

$90.00 USD
JHS as a marketing gimmick made a DIY version of a

Dumble called Not a Dumble.
This is simply the clean boost of that pedal put in a small

enclosure. Good as 99% of us have no time or patience or indeed skills with building kits. The layout is simply Input

and Output. The voice is hardwired into the circuit.

CONCLUSION __
The sound of the 'Clean' boost in the kit model

is identical & it is generally agreed it is damn

impressive as a booster even if all else is not

exactly a Dumble.

Apparently the kit was based from the wrong

circuit but loved just the same. The collective

mess gave name to the unit. Hence the name

Fumble.

GROANER?
Confusion reigns supreme!!! Soon to come
is a pedal using the correct schematic.
Will it be called the Grumble? I expect many

of you are already starting to crumble?

According to my anonymous
Proof Reader 😇 this is not
a Klon as I posted earlier. (see below)
The good news is I have what it takes
to work for JHS. 😳dah...

thefineprint
Demon FX make the Z-Drive not just a clone but a part for part circuit built with the
same parts as the first Dumble-in-a Box The Hermida Zen Drive. I paid $30. The 'Z'

is perhaps the ultimate bargain of any pedal

Monday, June 1, 2026

DESIGNING A DIRT PEDAL _ALERT _NERDS ONLY

WHAT IS DIRT & HOW TO

GET IT ?

_THE UPDATER_JUNE2026_NEW GEAR NEWS_UPDATED 24/7

THE UPDATER
JUNE 2026

I seperate those pedals that are a steal from those
that are stealing from you at any price

IF IT IS WORTH KNOWING IT IS HER FIRST !

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MY MONTHLY RANT
WTF !!! Some ay-hole at Fender wants to pull my Harley Benton Strat right out of my hands and smash it to pieces.!!!! If they do I will be shoving those pieces right up their ....

TIME OUT
The big oops last month is Fender after 72 years Fender wants every maker of a guitar that makes a guitar with its body cloned even if only vaguely cloned, to not just stop, but smash up their inventory and buy back the ones thy sold and smash them too. Then send videos to prove the destruction. Fender sent them a legal warning and it was literally worded just as I just wrote it. In short a Mafia draconian demand. Small companies can not afford the lawyers that Fender can. Fenders lawyers only need to use legal loopholes to tie it up in the courts and these companies will be bankrupt. A trial by jury would win for the cloners as they would rightly see

the guitar as a 72 year old style of an appliance like a refrigerator or stove etc, that never got

a patent in the first place and is now decades old. The BIG BUT is some bigger company like PRS would have to do it.

FUZZ at half price?

I have worked with several designer/builders trying out proto-types over the
last 10 years. I recently was sent a Fuzz from Sweden that really impressed me. The maker suggested that rather than start a budget brand he thought selling it as my brand LENARD Re-Inventions could benefit us both. The estimated price would be $100.00 USD. About half that of a brand name. For that you get a handmade Fuzz without shortcuts or dumb downs like not mounting the adapter and input jack right to the pedal ...not like even some well known names to the circuit board. Some seriously good parts are used that are the roots of the sonic strength of the overall sound.

Money will be saved on cosmetics that do not do anything except bump the price. The

pedal would come in a simple raw Hammond 1590 B type enclosure. The kind used for MXR pedals since the MXR Phase 90 was made. There won't be graphics just a simple

pro label with LENARD, Re-Inventions and FUZZ. There will not be any hotshot YouTubers

giving you a demo. You would be buying on trusting that after doing 4300 reviews that

if I put a pedal on my board it has to sound damn good.

To get to the point I need to know if you guys are interested.

So I would be very grateful if you give me your opinion below

in the 'Post a Comment'.

TOYS FOR THE OLDER BOYS

Some old, some new, all cool !!!

MAESTRO COMET CHORUS
The big deal is not the Chorus voice all though it is very warm and full, the big deal
is it has a near killer Rotary/faux Leslie Speaker cab sound. When one needs to sub
for what one could prefer to play on an acoustic and you are stuck with just your clean sound this if nothing captures the vibe and mood an acoustic makes . Even much, much more if you are flatpicking or finger picking some parts.

...it is a no-brainer choice now that it sells for $60.00 USD

JOYO JF-36 SWEET BABY OD
Bjorn Juhl designed the Sweet Honey Distortion 17 years ago. It is currently licenced to the Mad Professor. It was meant to take a Marshall single channel amp pushed into crunch and push it it into a perfect high gain. Not only that it had to have not just great feel and dynamics but both those on steroids. 99% of the guys buying them all this time kept it no matter what amps they had or bought over the years just for the feel of the thing. I can tell you a MIAB pedal set to a good crunch with this stacked on it does the same thing. The latest Mad Professor Sweet Honey hand wired sells for a whoping $390.00 USD. The clone by Joyo easily gets a 9.5 out of 10 nailing it.