Month: June 2012
Diamond – Compressor
[This post contains information on the Diamond Compressor & Fred Briggs Diamante] Diamond make some real high-end stuff; the Memory Lane Delay, Halo Chorus and J-Drive are all top level (expensive!) pedals. My overall choice from the Diamond pedal range is the Diamond Compressor though. It gives a nice compression effect, not the super transparent … Read more
Devi Ever – Console Kickstarter!?
Remember your old Nintendos and SEGAs? Well this is a rebirth of the old “cartridge” based systems but this time it won’t be Super Mario you’ll be booting up – it’ll be some killer fuzz tones. Devi’s been working on this one for some time so if you’re intrested get over to the kickstarter page … Read more
Mad Professor Blueberry
Requested by a few people now and I do want to keep the bassists happy too. In tomorrows blog I’m going to show you how to make pizza boxes, especially for drummers. Just kidding! :o) Although the hand built BJF and Mad Professor effects can hurt your wallet, with the new PCB range out they’ve … Read more
Fairfield Circuitry – The Barbershop
Guillaume Fairfield is another one of the good guys who has been very helpful and open about his circuits during discussions on the forums. If you like the effects then consider supporting the builder and buying something from him in the future. If you want to try one before you buy then this may be … Read more
Rothwell – Love Squeeze Compressor
“Designed and Built in Britain”; the mark of quality and the Rothwell Love Squeeze doesn’t disappoint – it’s a great hand built compressor pedal with an interesting design. Here’s the description from the Rothwell website; “The Love Squeeze is a compressor designed simply to sound right with guitars, without any bizarre “pumping” effects and without any … Read more
Fulltone Plimsoul
Now stop moaning! :o) Info from Fulltone about the original: For many, many years you’ve basically had 2 choices for your Overdrive/Distortion pedals: You could either get “Soft-clipped” Bluesy, slightly compressed, (Toob Screemer, FD2, etc.) type Overdrive pedals… or you could get “Hard-Clipped” (OCD, Distortion+, Boss DS-1, etc.) type Distortion pedals. What if there was … Read more
TC Electronics – Sustain + Parametric Equalizer
This is a strange one, a super rare beast, but I had the opportunity to play with one the other day. The controls are a little tweaky and it’s also sensitive to the position it’s placed in the signal chain but when you get it right! Wooo, there’s some great tones here; super long sustain … Read more