Sunday, April 19, 2026

OVERDRIVES- YERASOV RS-10 & BC-10 Distortions ...impressive!!!

 Yerasov  AMPS
This company has been making amps and later pedals since 1953. The 2 pedals that caught my 
attention are the RS-10 full range gain & the  BC-10 high gain drives. Both have been around 
for 12 years. They do have new pedals but not surprising with wars and political unrest there 
are not any videos.


$120.00 USD ea.
YERASOV 
RS-10  & BC-10 
Distortions 
Both pedals are hardclippers.The RS layout is Volume, Gain, Low cut, Bass and Treble and 
a toggle for a Bright. The BC10 Volume, Gain, Bass, Mids and Treble. 
   CONCLUSION __  
Handmade with seriously good parts.  
Both pedals have punch, definition and 
clarity. The price is very good. All in 
all damn impressive.


Saturday, April 18, 2026

OVERDRIVE- SHAEVLE Jump Distortion ___NEW ___ $21.00 USD :-)

$21.00 USD
SHAEVLE
Jump  LSS-03
A MIAB? EVH? WTF??? Brit flavored Crunch? Yes.
The layout is Volume, Gain and Tone. 
It comes in a small nifty enclosure in a trendy 
flat orange color.
     CONCLUSION ___
All said it is a passable Brit flavored OD 
that can squeak onto the first rung of the 
Pro ladder at a small or smaller price, LOL

thefineprint
...there is a Shaevle YouTube site with  over produced 
videos of all their pedals. The Metal pedal merits a listen 
when the ''Searching for Tone' who does the above Jump 
video gets to it. The other pedals vary from mediocre to 
total crap!!!
I was surprised at just how bad the modulation pedals are.

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. 

Friday, April 17, 2026

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. 
     ___
    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.

 

Thursday, April 16, 2026

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. 
                    ___ 
     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.