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Re: Interesting Gear Developments Thread
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2025 11:34 am
by ChudFusk
Curry Pervert wrote: Thu Dec 11, 2025 10:44 am
Teacher's Pet wrote: Mon Dec 08, 2025 3:02 pm
Yeah, the inscrutable website and "limited edition! last chance to buy is RIGHT NOW" messaging is a big turnoff.
They were also lying. Orders were closing 10th Dec. Now they've changed it to 25th.
Gamechanger should be called Datechanger amirite
But seriously, they've never dicked anyone around to the best of my knowledge. I got in on the ground floor when they released their first product (the Plasma pedal) and they may have had some scheduling setbacks but I don't remember. All I remember is getting a hella cool pedal from the only company doing anything truly new and original and outstanding.
Re: Interesting Gear Developments Thread
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2025 3:59 pm
by kerble
ChudFusk wrote: Thu Dec 11, 2025 11:34 amBut seriously, they've never dicked anyone around to the best of my knowledge. I got in on the ground floor when they released their first product (the Plasma pedal) and they may have had some scheduling setbacks but I don't remember. All I remember is getting a hella cool pedal from the only company doing anything truly new and original and outstanding.
Yep! I love 'em. Big fan. Cool pedals. One of the few email lists from music companies that I still subscribe to.
Teacher's Pet wrote:
kerble wrote: Tue Dec 09, 2025 3:32 pm
Teacher's Pet wrote: Mon Dec 08, 2025 3:02 pmBut I bet it's cool and I've already been ogling the PLUS pedal for over a year... Just can't justify (or find) that kind of $$ for a guitar gizmo.
Plus pedal is probably my fave guitar pedal I have by a long shot.
goddammit
Yeah, sorry. I also play barefoot, which I'm not sorry about, but it does make using the plus pedal even easier and more tactile.
Re: Interesting Gear Developments Thread
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2025 2:45 pm
by jirbling rake
A new version of the circuit bent Evil Pumpkin pedal, by Analog Music Company, is on its way: Evil Pumpkin Ghazala Mk.2
https://www.analogmusic.company/news-pr ... as-arrived
or it's a synth/noisemaker that you can also use as a pedal. It depends on how you view these things.
Hard to post this after that highly interesting Gamechanger Recordist—a cheaper and more practical item.
Re: Interesting Gear Developments Thread
Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2025 7:09 pm
by Appliancide
ThorpyFX are bringing back the Lovetone brand. They decided to announce it right after the ever-so-creative folks at Behringer dropped their Meatball clone.
Re: Interesting Gear Developments Thread
Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2025 7:19 pm
by Appliancide
Also Gamechanger have decided to extend the ordering period of the Recoder to the 25th and add a few features...3.5mm MIDI jack, built-in microphone with a switch to choose between it and the input jack, full-length wav format sample capability, and the ability to drop samples on it through USB-C.
Re: Interesting Gear Developments Thread
Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2025 3:14 pm
by tallchris
Kevin is retiring EGC per the text from the listing linked below:
Quick announcement, I’m retiring once the current order list is complete, don’t panic! this will take about a year or so to finish, but it means I’ll be making everything and putting them together as it was in the beginning and Eric will do the pickups. We have made roughly 4000 instruments and it’s time for someone else to push this forward. This has been a hard decision but it’s time
https://reverb.com/item/93755178-electr ... t=93755178
Re: Interesting Gear Developments Thread
Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2025 3:47 pm
by WeStartToDrift
tallchris wrote: Mon Dec 29, 2025 3:14 pm
Kevin is retiring EGC per the text from the listing linked below:
Quick announcement, I’m retiring once the current order list is complete, don’t panic! this will take about a year or so to finish, but it means I’ll be making everything and putting them together as it was in the beginning and Eric will do the pickups. We have made roughly 4000 instruments and it’s time for someone else to push this forward. This has been a hard decision but it’s time
https://reverb.com/item/93755178-electr ... t=93755178
I was wondering if everything was ok over his way, he's been super quiet for the past year or so.
Re: Interesting Gear Developments Thread
Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2025 9:27 pm
by GuyLaCroix
Holy shit! Glad I got mine.
Re: Interesting Gear Developments Thread
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2026 2:25 am
by jirbling rake
EGC, holy fuck. They had seemed less active as of late. Shit.
What I came here to post was this Strymon Fairfax pedal. It's basically a Garnet in a box:
Fairfax began as an engineering experiment, initially inspired by the original Garnet Amplifiers Herzog® tube drive unit designed for Randy Bachman in 1965. Our analog guys decided to try and recreate all of the critical elements of a custom Champ-like tube amp circuit fully in the analog domain, but small enough to fit into a pedal enclosure (so it couldn’t use real tubes or an output transformer).
The final design features a cleverly miniaturized tube preamp, Class A power amp and an ingenious custom circuit that emulates the saturation characteristics of the output transformer (which is absolutely vital to get the sound right).
There’s even a variable Sag circuit that behaves just like a real tube amp does.
https://www.strymon.net/product/fairfax/
Re: Interesting Gear Developments Thread
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2026 12:46 pm
by TylerDeadPine
I'm a 'garnet nut' and I've liked the cut of the gib of the Strymon people, but for some reason I just can't get excited about that pedal. I think I'm pedal social media saturated so even something that so specifically targets my pleasure center can't get through the barrier of online lobotomization that has taken place.
That and a herzog is close enough to a fuzz, that most of the fun of it comes out of being in it's own box with tubes and some iron