7+ hour, 3+ min ago  (688+ words) At the recent inaugural Birmingham Noise Maker Market Show, one of the highlights for me was London-based Isn'tses - namely duo Lisa Mc Kendrick and Tim Drage - who perform highly stylised experimental electronic music with colourful visuals and costumes to match…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (284+ words) The Habit was the first pedal to carry the new Chase Bliss logo - which dropped the "Audio" for the first time and introduced the new iconographic ident logo mark. Controls: Level (Wet Volume), Repeats Number, Size / Interval, Modify Degree, Spread…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (262+ words) Verlie has done her usual magic in shrinking the original down to less than 1/3 of its size while maintaining the same classic soundstage, fidelity and dynamics. Most notably the Polychorus was used all over Nirvana's 3rd and final In Utero album,…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (937+ words) In the wake of my recent Range Master rundown I thought it would be fun to list those stand-alone units which ended up in my reference collection. I have a huge affinity for treble booster - where the majority I own…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (389+ words) My 2nd sound exploration of the superb Dazatronyx Big Fuzz Console Ultimate Multi-Muff So the actual 1973 V2 Violet Ram's Head Muff most commonly used FS36999 transistors - which were kind of replacements for the 2 N5133's of the V1 Triangle - those supplies eventually ran out, while…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (253+ words) I rarely use it on my actual board - as that currently has 2 x Cioks 8s, 1 x Cioks 4, 2 x NUX Zeus, and 2 x Strymon Zuma - for a total of 58 isolated outputs and a total current deliver of 32, 200m A. There have been a few…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (20+ words) #2 Sound-shaping session with the Dazatronyx Big Fuzz Console - 1973 V2 Violet Ram's Head Big Muff Edition'Guitar Pedal X...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago  (316+ words) This latest of Bj'rn Juhl's Fuzz creations is supposedly his favourite to date. A new circuit making use of 3 x TO-39 Metal Can 2 N3439 Silicon Transistors. It's superb versatile - with the most texture with Fuzz around 9 / 10 o'c, and then full-on sear…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago  (150+ words) While obviously a DSP / digital product - the Quimera (Chimera!) has very analog sensibilities in terms of how you build up those sounds - in the most elemental synthesis component fashion - Oscillators and LFO's, Resonant Filters, Modifiers and FX. This is for…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago  (471+ words) Props to Thorn Soundlabs for a fantastically versatile circuit that easily takes you into Fuzz Face, Tone Bender, and Big Muff territory - depending on how you dial it in. It has a really potent tone-shaping ability - combining 3-Band EQ with…...