Capture The Songs In Your Head With TC Electronics

Another day, another new arrival from TC Electronics, and not just any arrival, something completely new, innovative, and very modern.

Introducing the TC Electronics Wiretap Riff Recorder! But, what's that you say? Yes, they do already make a looper, this isn't a looper....it's a riff recorder.

Crammed into the same chassis as the now legendary Ditto Looper, the Wiretap is a pedal aimed at songwriters everywhere. Complete with it's own phone app, the pedal can record up to 8 hours of prime jamming into its built in memory, so that 'million dollar' riff will never be lost again.

The App allows you to sync the pedal with your phone and import all your riffs, so you can send them to band mates or recall them later to write along to. TC have really thought this through to the Nth degree - the app even suggests random song titles for your jams to avoid filling your phone with 'untitled 1' 'untitled 2' etc. 

So with a footprint small enough not to sacrifice a pedal space on your board you can now make sure all your parts are professionally recorded for reference, making the distance from conception to polished club banger a little shorter.

Ibanez doing 'mini' properly

This year Ibanez have expanded their mini pedal range from the simple, but brilliant Tube Screamer Mini to now include a Chorus, Metal and gloriously a Delay. ​

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Based on the Ibanez AD-9 the Analog Delay Mini offers you all the qualities of an incredibly high spec delay in a tiny package. Still made in Japan the Mini Delay is a great example of tiny pedals done well. The market has become flooded with cheap mini pedals that offer space saving at the expense of tone, this is no such pedal. Heavy weight and high quality, when put side by side against its older sibling there is little difference, which is astounding! The AD-9 is nearly £200 and with good reason, for years the AD-9 has been the bench mark for Analog delays...the mini by comparison is £70!?! A remarkable price!

so what is everyone waiting for? We've all got a tiny bit of room on our board that we could fill up, and what better way to do it than with a tiny, brilliant, legendary analog delay.  

Red Witch announce Zeus Bass Fuzz Suboctave

This is an incredibly exciting announcement for bass players everywhere! Red Witch have for a long time been responsible for some absolutely mind bogglingly dynamic effects. Their contribution to the fuzz world has been especially awesome;  back in 2005 they introduced the Fuzz God II, a fuzz pedal so brilliantly quintessential of everything a guitar player wants from a fuzz pedal that bass players started trying to use it as well. Sadly, as is the case with a lot of effects designed for guitar, the Fuzz God just didn't have the range to deal with bass, and those stubby lows ended up compressed to buggery and disappearing in the mix.

As it turns out this is something that a lot of bass players mentioned to Red Witch, so much so that chief designer, Ben Fulton was coerced into building a pedal more suitable for those soupy lows. Behold, the Zeus Bass Fuzz Suboctaver. That's right, I said Suboctaver, because Ben didn't stop at making a brilliant fuzz pedal specifically designed with the bass player in mind, he went and chucked in a second effect into this box of goodness!  

The Zeus allows unique control of each effect, meaning that this Fuzz has a second level of punch; tapping in that Suboctaver will add a layer of girth to the already bonkers sonic grit of the Zeus Fuzz. Truly unique, truly brilliant, a great addition to an already sterling selection of pedals from a great pedal brand!