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The Timeline MX is finally here, and half the pedalboards in the world are about to get rebuilt around it. A decade in the making. It does reverb, loops, twelve delays, cleans your kitchen, the lot. Somewhere in there, it still does delay.

Fender spent this year making enemies. But their pedals are getting things right. Top-mounted jacks. Small enclosures. True bypass. They've been flirting with top jacks for a while, and the new Godzilla Distortion follows suit. Best thing they've done in a…

ok so Paul Gilbert posted his board again (the man genuinely never stops tinkering) and that purple-ish Mojo Hand FX Colossus is sat right in the middle. Funny, Eric Gales swears by that fuzz too, reckons it gives him that milky almost Clapton-ish thing. Now I've got two players i rate pointing at the same box... this is how the GAS starts lol. anyone actually run one?

At what point do you think a pedal is no longer a "boutique" pedal?

I spent years thinking I couldn't make the Boss BD-2 sound good. It's the pedal everyone tells you to buy first. So you chase that smooth, transparent edge-of-breakup the reviews promise, and what you get is fizzy, splatty, slightly wrong. You blame your hands. Then your amp. Then…

Strymon has turned "analog" into a luxury brand again. Their Series A line is anti-digital: - no MIDI - no USB - no DSP When the digital king starts marketing "no digital," that's the whole industry shifting. Analog isn't a circuit anymore. It's a badge of honor, and we're…

For over a decade, Eventide sold you the best pedal you couldn't operate. One knob. A menu designed by someone who hated you. An app that dropped right before the chorus. The faithful called it deep, not hard. Skill issue. Now they've bolted real knobs onto it, called it the H9 Gen 2, and…