tomisfer's Reviews

What a great axe

I was lucky to buy a Casino Coupe in red whist it was still in production. This guitar is fantastic!

All round

Excellent picks. Very well balanced, great attack and strumming capability.

Astounding

This is the more syrupy univibe I have ever played. Beautiful sounding beast. Pairs extremely well with germanium fuzzes. V3 can be used with any 10k ohm expression pedal.

Amazing tones

Absolutely spectacular! Thick germanium fuzz with crispy cleans! Boost, OD, fuzz and distortion.

Superb

This compressor is spectacular! I’m a big fan of optical compressors and this one is simply the best of them. The compression is smooth and pretty much transparent, and the EQ works beautifully. I can place it after germanium fuzz faces without losing the harmonics and overtones.

Best octave fuzz ever existed

This is the one. I’ve tried many octave fuzzes and none of them had the flexibility and awesomeness encountered here.

It has potential, but disappoints

I have had this power supply twice, and both times I had to claim the warranty due to the same malfunctioning issue. I works perfectly until it doesn’t. The isolation fails at some point and it starts becoming very noisy when you touch it. Both times it was deemed unserviceable. Since it’s not being manufactured anymore, I got the money back and bought the Power Grid from Friedman.

When the search for THE WAH comes to an end

This is the One Wah to rule them all. I’ve had many wahs before I tried the Xotic but I haven’t thought about buying another one since I played through this beauty.

The true sound of a fuzz face

This pedal is absolutely insane! Mike is the best fuzz pedal builder alive and any Sunface is a proof of that.

The BART/ Rca is thick sounding, woolly and smooth. The volume cleanup is superb. I pretty much leave it on all the time just riding the guitar volume and tone knobs to adapt to the other pedals. I can’t recommend this enough.

Great Big Muff alternative

From all the Big Muffs I’ve tried, this is the most versatile. Simple to operate, great sounds.

Great Octavia for that Hendrix sound

This pedal nails the Octavia sound and then some. The blend knob is very useful to be able to add just a bit of the effect into a fuzz or overdrive, maintaining the clarity for chords intact.

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The fuzz to rule them all

The Pandora fuzz can do it all. Low fuzz overdrive, high gain, volume clean up. Big low end or tight, sharp or wooly, you name it, it does. The active Bass and Treble knobs are priceless. Germanium fuzz and temperature stable! Internal buffer for no brainer pedalboard placement.

Perfect pedal platform

This thing is a beauty. Great tones at a very affordable price. Pair it with the Origin 212 cabinet and it’s a dream come true. Definitely recommend for anyone with a massive pedalboard.

A good bluesbreaker

A very good tool for tailoring and beefing up your tone. It has an awesome creamy breakup. A bluesbreaker with EQ.

No brainer

Small, versatile and reliable. I leave mine buffered and always on. Second in chain, after germanium fuzz.

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The new favourite

This pedal nailed the sound I had in my mind and could not achieve. It is superb! So round and full of harmonics. It has a good amount of low end and the treble is all there too. Goes from Mosfet overdrive to tone bender, bias or not. Cleans up magically no matter where you put it in the chain. Pairs up amazingly with a tube screamer. Works for chords or searing lead tones. An all rounder for sure. Anyway, if you got to this review, that means you are looking for something different, and the Embla will get you there.

Joyo JTA05

An excellent bedroom tube amp at an affordable price. It has only one volume knob, so you get the tone straight from the tubes. No EQ’s. Breaks up at around 7. Two channels, low and high gain.

One of the greats

Beautiful fuzz sound, Tone Bender like. Cleans up beautifully with the guitar volume if the After knob is bellow 10 o’clock. Gets very spitting with the After knob at 12-13. Some settings will sound like an overdrive. It’s just great!

Does the expected

Rugged and sturdy pedal. Works great. I currently have the EQD hummingbird and the EHX Pitchfork on it. The pedals deals well with 10k to 50k ohms.

No brainer looping made easy

This is a great loop pedal! What really stands out is the double switches. No need to double tap the same switch and all that annoying perfect timing required. Tap record to start, and press play to stop recording. As simple as that. Then on top of this perfect and simple features, you can record another layer by tapping record again and so on. If you didn’t like the last layer, play switch will delete it, without deleting the rest. It’s marvellous really. I don’t really use the other features, like external tap, double speed/half speed or play in reverse, but just because my main goal is to practice rhythm, riffs and leads. It can be buffered or true bypass, and as it goes last in the signal chain, having it on buffered helps sending a strong signal to the amp. It’s not the cheapest looper, but it will only be expensive until you buy it. After that the money won’t matter anymore, just it’s value to your rig. Same as all the other awesome pedals out there.