THE SARASOTA GUITAR SHOW 2026

 SARASOTA  GUITAR SHOW  2026 ||  

NAM (Amp & Cab Simulator)- LIVTRA MUSIC Velrix___NEW___ $45

$45.00 USD
AliExpress (shipping incl)

 LIVTRA 

VELRIX   NAM Amp & CAb Simulator

Well it has as I predicted happened. What the world loosely 

calls Modeling has reached a new bottom. Entry level has

hit the Behringer prices.

You get an old school familiar Layout, Volume, Gain, Treble, 

Mids and Bass. You get 9 amps & it can download new ones 

from anyone's free NAM sample/library.

      ...the video fills in the gaps

     CONCLUSION __

It is brilliant. It gives the 

$ 'finger' to the Modeling world. 

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OVERDRIVE- GUPTECH Trou D'Biege TB Drive ___NEW___ Hot Cake clone in a mini box

GUPTECH

Trou D'biege TB Drive

$130.00 USD

This is a mini version of their best seller the Donut. Both are clones of

the famous Crowther Hot Cake that came out in 1976 and is still 

made by Paul Crowther.

The layout is Volume, Tone and Gain

I always wanted a the Crowther Hot Cake but there is a waiting list 

of about 6 months. The guy that made it is about 70 something. He admits it has always been more or less a hobby so you are waiting 

for him to be in a making pedals mood, 😇. Add to that he ships fully insured fast delivery so your shipping etc. could easily add another $100, lol. 

       CONCLUSION __ 

The GUPTECH has the size, the rep 

and the price!!! You can even pick 

the color.   

This is screaming "buy me!!!" 

$110.00 USD

DELAY- GUPTECH Chickadee-Lay-Analog Delay ...BOSS DM-2 clone

$110.00 USD

 GUPTECH

Chickadee-Lay-Analog Delay    

The Saguenay Quebec Canadian company with affordable 

handmade clones does a Boss DM-2. 

The layout is Time, Feedback and Echo. 

 

CONCLUSION __

Not much to add. They make quality 

pedals and accurate renderings of

whatever they clone. The price is  

more than fair for what you get. 

 

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The OD in the video is the Trou D'Beinge 

TB drive 9 (mini donut). A killer clone of 

the classic decades old Hot Cake.

Post ...coming ASAP

FUZZ/OD- MASK AUDIO ELECTRONICS Part Garden Ge... Swiss Army dirt pedal

Mask Audio Electronics

PART GARDEN Ge 

$285.00 USD

A Fuzzy Drive. Think of Boss DS-1 Distortion but with the warm gritty sound of a Tone Bender. To do that you need a lot of Germanium transistors. They were not used enough by end of the 60's for the manufacturer's to continue making them. The radio and television companies wanted the new silicon transistors. Those that are around are few and far between. In short a good trick is to use just one to color the sound and use silicon for the others. The layout is Volume, Input boost, and Gain. Texture is more gain. A toggle gives you different voices.

CONCLUSION ___

A Swiss Army knife dirt pedal. Great sounding and highly 

useful when the OD's and Fuzz pedals you have are not 

doing the needed thing on some of your tunes.

OVERDRIVE- JUDGE AMPS Judge Drive... Nobels clone made glassy transparent

Judge Amps

JUDGE DRIVER · 

$235.00 USD

The topography says Nobels ODR-1 with a change here and 

a tweak there. The gain was increased and the muddy bass 

fixed. To my ear the most notable difference is it has more 

even harmonics even symmetrical very much like like the 

Tube Screamer. The layout is from the ODR with Volume, 

Gain and its Width/Spectrum Tone control.

     CONCLUSION ___

I am impressed by how un-ODR it is. It has a

district voice with a transparent chime. Very

mellow without being dark or muddy. I see 

this as a seriously good secondary alternative 

sound but not your main OD. For some it could 

even be an always on pedal.

OVERDRIVE- FUZZLORD NAZARETH Octave Distortion ___NEW ___ the devil has a soul !!!

FUZZLORD 

$265.00 USD

NAZARETH ||   OCTAVE DISTORTION  

Mr. Rat is back again, but he gained some weight with a very  

heavy low end and boost circuit pushed to take it up an octave 

like a octave Fuzz but this is not a Fuzz.

The layout is classic best of. Yes ...a Volume Treble, Mid and 

Bass with Boost wired to a second footswitch. 

            CONCLUSION ___

Yes you get all that beyond heavy sh@t but what 

grabbed me is when it's backed off it has a better

amp-in-Box the many boasting of having nailed it. 

It has it all breadth, poke, punch, balz & a 

beautiful earthy character when backed off. Killer!!!