
A practical Friedman Dirty Shirley pedal review based on my first-generation unit, focusing on mix tones, controls, the Tight switch and the internal gain trim pot.

The Mad Professor Kosmos is a discontinued ambient reverb pedal with 11 programs, shimmer sounds, freeze, swell modes and reverb-plus-delay textures. It is simple to use, but it can still go beautifully over the top when you want those big ambient guitar sounds.

The Keeley Dark Side is a fuzz, delay and modulation workstation built around a very obvious Pink Floyd-inspired sound world. My unit is the older first-generation model, so it looks and works slightly differently from the newer V2, but the core idea is still the same: thick fuzz, warm tape-style delay and swirling modulation in…

The Caline Pure Sky is a simple, affordable transparent-style overdrive that still makes a lot of sense. With low to medium gain, separate bass and treble controls, and a surprisingly usable sound on both guitar and bass, it proves that a practical overdrive pedal does not always need to be expensive.

This DIY semi hollow guitar was inspired by the Gibson Midtown Custom and built with mahogany, maple, Sheptone humbuckers and a few mistakes along the way.

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