Have You Bought Any Pedals Lately In 2025?

[Dave Lewis]

Love the Golden Plexi 2. Great Pedals, I also have the Flexo Drive for that low-gain vibe, stacks well with the GP. Those original drives they did with the dual switches always has an almost unusable amount of volume on their boost. The slightest turn of the boost know and it'll blow your ears off

I actually prefer the GP1 over the 2 but both are excellent pedals

 

[Alonious_Monk]

I actually prefer the GP1 over the 2 but both are excellent pedals

Me personally I prefer having more range on the drive, but I get it, the original was much loved by many because it was ball to the wall Marshally gain.

 

[Dave Lewis]

Me personally I prefer having more range on the drive, but I get it, the original was much loved by many because it was ball to the wall Marshally gain.

I use mine permanently on with a Marshall GuvNor .
I think there’s a Mk3 now which is the Mk1 & 2 in the same pedal..

 

[Dave Lewis]

One of the Scran V2 pedals incoming .
Have to wait 6 weeks for it to be built though.
https://www.soundladliverpool.co.uk/scran

 

[Dave Lewis]

Never heard of them, I'll take a look!

Mine is arriving tomorrow

 

[Dave Lewis]

It arrived this morning I’ve changed the knobs .

 

[HotRats]

Still have to patch all power cables but the good news is that there's room for one more pedal because I can move the patch box under the board. I've tried if there's room and there's plenty.

New entries are OCD and Echoplex.
Ocd will be used for very light od sounds with the jubilee clean channel.

I'll probably swap vibe and ocd positions because ocd will be more an always on pedal within a song.

 

[Frodebro]

My Tone King Imperial pedal arrived yesterday. It doesn’t chug, it won’t do Nu Metal, but it does old school like nobody’s business.

 

[richey88]

2 of 4 are from this year, SlapBack, Prince of Tone.

More from this year:

Cool tiny fuzz. Bazz circuit, sounds good, not over the top. It’s in a candy coin box, 1.5 inches square. TOO CUTE!

Some bass pedals:

Like both of these, the Microtubes is nasty with a good eq sweep, Wine Cellar, cleaner, also great eq and a DI.

Killer tape delay, half price so I had to go for it! No pictures, but I bought 3 fuzz pedals, the cube above, a Devi Ever clone, EHX Lizard Queen, and a Voodoo Labs Sparkle Drive v1. When I look at it I feel I’m out of control!! Having fun tho……

 

[richey88]

^^ EM Drive, Ultimate Drive, Prince of Tone are up for sale or trade, ping me if interested, thanks!

 

[HotRats]

Might be due to how the jubilee loop works but the MXR Echoplex plays so much better than the TC Flashback that I'm considering buying the MXR reverb (M300) and replace the hall of fame too.

is not about the algorithms but how the (analog part?) pedal responds. with the tc there is a kind of a ducking effect that prevents the repets (or the reverb) to really wrap around the dry sound. sounds like the pedal can't handle the incoming singal. I hear also some kind of compression/limiting on the pick attack (with clean sounds), that is not a big deal but is a bit annoying, tbh.

the echoplex works perfectly and sound really good.

 

[Richard_G]

Picked up these three this weekend:

The Cali76 Compact Deluxe will replace a non-Deluxe version on one of my boards, leaving me with a Deluxe version on both my main boards. The DCX Boost and RV-5 are new to me.

 

[Dave Lewis]

Picked up these three this weekend:

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The Cali76 Compact Deluxe will replace a non-Deluxe version on one of my boards, leaving me with a Deluxe version on both my main boards. The DCX Boost and RV-5 are new to me.

Hope you get on with the RV-5
It’s the only Boss pedal Ive tried and didn’t like.

 

[SonicBlue]

Picked up a used Ego 76 Compressor for the price of the new mini with the added benefit of a tone knob. Never really got along with compressors but I really liked the feature set and tones in the videos I saw.

 

[Richard_G]

My offer on a Friedman IR-X was accepted by the seller tonight. Not really sure where I'll incorporate this, but it could be interesting to combine it with my Tone King Imperial Preamp pedal. But that would have to push something off a board I otherwise am very satisfied with.

 

[synthpenguin]

I got a Tubesteader Lightkeeper v2 to use as a tube preamp into a Tonex running a power amp capture... sort of ending up like my own little custom IR-X type setup. I absolutely love it. Takes loud boosts and fuzzes very, very well too. I'm definitely eyeing their other pedals now.

 

[Alonious_Monk]

This was really meant to be a year that I said to myself "no more pedals Alan, you've got enough".

Then found a DS-2 on Andertons for £39, I've wanted one for so damn long.

Nabbed it.

 

[richey88]

Geez, I bought 2 fuzzes this week!1 officially out of control! Behringturd Fuzz Bender, and the JHS Supreme. Should be a good weekend if shipping goes okay…

 

[gearJunkie]

I may or may not have bought a fuzz-load of fuzz pedals.

 

[HotRats]

I've just ordered an Empress Effects Para EQ mkIi I'll use in the FX loop for fine tuning the overall sound.

Can't wait to try it.