It's a tough call to select a pick of the bunch here as all these are all amazing really - I've decided in the end to go for one of the newer editions - The Mauler Aggressive Fuzz with Feedback Oscillation (£299).
THE GUITAR SHED PEDALBOARD FULL
Neil does Monochrome as well as Full Colour editions - and the Monochrome varieties might be preferred by some in that they typically have labels (which the coloured ones don't) - while you sometimes need to decipher those also. These are the kinds of pedals that look beautiful inside and out - with similarly pretty colourful neatly point-to-point wired circuits of a similar ilk to what Markus Reeves has become so well known for. I'm very familiar with Neil's colourful output - those cute line-drawn animal graphics pedals with names like Purrer, Roarer, Gnawer, Mauler and Poker - and where the parameter / control labels are equally creative. I made the horrible mistake of calling Neil R Grimes 'Nigel' at the Guitar Show - not sure how that happened - but I apologised profusely at the time. Note that I prefer the Nouveau version of the pedal - which has the controls on the top surface - versus on the Top Edge on the other one! You also get an additional tone variant for each - all for £150.
My pick of the bunch has to be the dual circuit Super Unpleasant Companion - which gives you both of Shin-ei's legendary pedals - the FY-2 Companion Fuzz, and FY-6 Super Fuzz. Tim's flagship pedals are still the quartet of larger Wedges - namely Super Unpleasant Companion, Utility Perkolator, Dresden Synth Fuzz, and Verzerrer Distortion. Tim is in the process of revamping and streamlining much of his range - where he will shed those pedals which are no longer selling particularly well, and start a process of transitioning all the smaller pedals into a really attractive mini wedge enclosure - which you must check out at the show. I've much admired many of Tim's pedals for a while, but was waiting for a moment to properly collaborate to best introduce those pedals to you. I had a wonderful conversation with Tim Webster at The Guitar Show, and look forward to continuing that in June. Tickets are just £5 and available direct from the FX Expo website : I’m really looking forward to this show - here below is the main floorpan, followed by some detail descriptions for each participant - and where I will try to pick out one or two essential buys from each brand! (Alphabetical by brand). I often say that you’re buying into those builders’ ’ears’ really - as that’s what they calibrate and tune their pedals to, and if you typically like a couple of pedals from a builder - it’s likely you will like them all as they have been serendipitously tuned to your preferences too! I often don’t get that ’Eureka’ moment until I meet the actual builder and understand what part of their personality they have infused their pedals with. A lot of the websites out there don’t go into nearly enough detail for me, and some rely on somewhat obtuse text and descriptives - so these shows are essential resources for me to help me navigate through the FX Pedals universe and really figure out where everything fits in! These shows are great for getting to know the builders and dealers - what motivates them, and what makes their approach special and different to the norm.
I’m looking forward to pick up on many of the conversations I started at the Guitar Show, while there are several brands here that I will encounter for the first time - certainly ’in the flesh’ as it were. The show is a simple table-top format and takes place from 10:00am to 17:00pm on Sunday 19th of June at The Bonded Warehouse in Stourbridge. It is a ’noiseless’ show - where all sound-sampling takes place via Headphones - meaning that it should make for a much more pleasant ambience.Īlex has managed to coordinate an incredibly appealing roster of some of the creme de la creme of UK pedal brands - with some guest appearances too. While there are quite a lot of brands that appear at both - Bleak District Electric, Fredric Effects, James’ Home of Tone, Pedal Patch, and Ritual Devices among them.įX Expo has been in planning for a long time now - and where Covid scuppered an earlier incarnation of this event. A key reason for why there were somewhat fewer pedal brands at the recent Birmingham Guitar Show is that many had elected to participate in June 19th’s FX Expo instead.
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