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THE UPDATER 

FEBRUARY 2026

Separate those pedals that are a steal from those that are stealing from you 

at any price

IF IT IS WORTH KNOWING IT WILL BE HERE FIRST

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MY MONTHLY RANT

Well all the buying at the pre tariff price gear has been sold so anything from now on is at the new Mount Olympus prices!!! The good news is enough tariff money is being collected to cover the interest on a bill passed to to let the rich have their big tax break with zero extra to pay down any debt, WTF.  

 

TIME OUT TO SHOUT

It occurred of doing this nearly every day for 10 years and with over 4,100 + pedals and 3 times that in videos for everyone to check out I have no need not to once a month give you my 2 cents on anything I tripped over in the last 79 years.  

 

In the 70's I met a world famous painter. He had most of his paintings in one of the worlds famous galleries. Beside all paintings is a post saying the date of his birth and either a date of death or a blank space for it. ...His has a note note saying Whereabouts Unknown. One day he just disappeared as he could not make a living to support his family. He went into Real Estate with a group that buy very cheap land and pay politicians to get the land rezoned so they can flip it to build on. The graft money paid is 99% of the time in cash. Further cash is paid to politicians going all the way up to the top. Everyone knows what is happening so there is zero need to meet in secret. Just friendly lunches in public places with locked attache cases left behind for the politicians security to scoop up. I tell you this to make a point. All politicians are owned it does not matter what the party is. These big time Real Estate guys have enough to give to both the party in power and the one that is not. 

 

I literally had a famous world leader answer my question. I asked him how he stayed in power for decades. He said "Something for the Needy & something for the Greedy." then smiled and left the room. 

Now all I just said is true but over simplified. It is all very complicated but ingenious. My point is on occasion when I am talking about many things I know what I am talking about. I am also not taking sides. I am merely suggesting you choose the one with it not ALL for the greedy and merely lies for the needy.

 

 TOYS FOR THE OLDER BOYS 

 

Some old, some new but all are cool !!!                        

WAMPLER pedalhead

This a 4.75'' by 3.75'' small pedalboard power amp that puts out 60 watts RMS a side in stereo. The same as a Marshall 100 watt stack!!! It not only sounds like a real tube amp it reacts and feels like one. In a shootout Danish Pete of Andertons fame got it wrong. He thought the Wampler was the real tube amp. It uses 'machine learning'. Which not only gets the sound and feel right but sorts out whatever speakers you plug into them and gets the ohms right. It is even easier to set up then a real Tube amp let alone a Modeler. Ideally you use a Tube Pre like a Friedman IR-X but any Amp-in-Box pedal will do.

UPDATED JAN .6 2026

I will take no back talk!!! 

Get back here as soon as the boss is gone!!

There will be more sh@t you need to check out!!!

Waiting for the Cosmophonic
Guitars special!