$165.00 USD Summer SchoolElectronicsFUZZ 101A 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!
$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 hardclipperdistortion pedal. It lacks the charm & characterof the real Rat and adds nothing noticeablenew 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.
$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!!!
Diamond PEDALS
PHASE
$340.00 USD It is a long story. Diamond Pedals was Michael Knapp's one manoperation 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.
SONICAKE
THUMP PROG DIST
The 'Cake' have been highly proliferate the last couple of years. They started as a company that went to Mooer and
$40.00 USD
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.
MOSKY AUDIO |
Super Amp
You get 4 Amp types of voices in this box. They are a Vox AC30, Brit aka Marshall, American aka Fenderish and Californian aka high gain hybrid's. Mosky has made many
$70.00 USD
of each separately over the years to simply clone their
own product. The layout is Level, with active EQ for
Low, Mids and Highs.
CONCLUSION __
It sounds good but the difference from one sound to
the other is barely noticable.
I hate these all in one pedals at any price. One sound is always better even if you get 2 let alone more. With one sound like a Dumble or a Marshall you are not
paying for what you do not want. You also can clearly
hear a difference not just different shades of grey.
dpFX
Thrysallis|| GERMANIUM BOOST/OD
$135.00 USD
A one man show in Greece that has 44 pedals listed on his site,
yet can find the time to make you a Custom pedal, 😇 The layout
is Volume, Gain 1, Gain 2, Bass. A toggle lets you cut highs or add
clipping diodes to the 2 transistors.
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CONCLUSION __It has a wide range from medium to high gain.
With some serious very gritty and raspy,
nasty trashy growling sounds. In spite of that
your notes and chords still have definition, unless
you dime that Bass knob and drop an A-bomb on us all.
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