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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

UPDATED 6/1/2026

Hey its early. New stuff 

all day every day !

THE GUITAR KIOSK 

EASTWOOD MRG
$800.00 USD
maple top, chambered mahogany body
maple neck, rosewood fretboard Hofner PU's
24 3/4 "(Gibson scale)

PHASER/CHORUS- CATALINBREAD EFFECTS X/F (Proto6)___NEW___hybrid modulation

CATALINBREAD  EFFECTS

$210.00 USD

PROTO  CLUB

X/F (Proto 6) 

It is a simple concept. All the low frequencies go 

through a Chorus and all the highs go through 

a Phaser.

The layout is Rate, Depth, Mix and K/F a Tone 

control that interreacts to sound right as you 

blend the two voices. 

     CONCLUSION __

There is nothing to compare it to. You use 

it how with trial and error it fits. The unit 

is a Limited Edition that will be pulled 

on June 12.

CHORUS- MAESTRO Comet Chorus ... is it a re-invention of their 60's Phase Shifter ???

COMET CHORUS

$60.00 USD
Sweetwater price

In the late 60's Maestro made a very early tech Phaser not so 

unlike the 1974 MXR Phase 45 that is still in production. The 

old Maestro was meant to give the player a Rotary speaker 

vibe. I bought one myself because of that. The Comet uses 

a Chorus topography to do that but better. The layout is Depth, 

Speed and Mix with Toggle to switch from Chorus to Rotary.

     CONCLUSION __

Yes these days you can get really convincing Rotary 

effects and Phasers that swish like a jet engine. But 

for a vocal accompanying type sound this is killer. 

It gives you a wall/blanket of sound that lays back 

in the mix but never disappears whether you use

Chorus or its very pleasing Rotary. So is the new price!!!   

     NOTE:  

Prices were 3 times and on some sites still are. One site said 'discontinued'.

Amazon took me to a Maestro on-line site with the cheap price. I suspect 

Maestro have moved to direct sales plus a key store or 2 in each country.  

 

ATTORNEYS BREAK DOWN FENDERS, ___LEGAL CLAIMS?

 ON THE STRAT ?  |||||||||

OVERDRIVE- WALRUS AUDIO Fundamental Drive ...damn impressive!!

$85.00 USD

WALRUS AUDIO

FUNDAMENTAL

DRIVE 

Walrus does not say but at the price it has to be a hardclipper 

OpAmp clipping diodes pedal like many of the Boss pedals or 

even starting out with the Rat.

The layout is Volume, Tone and Gain with a 3 way switch 

to choose from 3 different voices.    

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    CONCLUSION __

The 3 voices are very usable. The crunch however 

is its workhorse and is worth the price of the pedal.