NAMM 2019: Ruokangas Valvebucker – the first ever tube-driven guitar pickup?

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Hailing from Finland, Ruokangas has announced the Valvebucker, which the company reckons is the first ever tube-driven electric guitar pickup. Will it burn your fingers or just produce some smokin’ tone? Ruokangas Valvebucker Here’s the basic idea: put a valve inside a pickup loaded on a guitar. But can this even work? Well, it has a tube-amplified […]

Mad Professor Double Moon: An all-in-one analogue modulation pedal

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Finland’s Mad Professor has dedicated himself mainly to distortion effects like the Big Tweedy Drive or the Loud’n Proud. Now it’s time for a modulation pedal. But which? All of them, of course. The Double Moon has a fully analogue signal path (bucket chain) across its 11 different modulation effects, from shallow warbles to fierce […]

Mad Professor Loud‘n Proud: Four-input Marshall tones in a pedal?

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The Mad Professor‘s new Loud‘n Proud is a Plexi-meets-Fuzz drive pedal with plenty of dirt tones packed into one boutique unit. All are based on the legendary Marshall four-input amp sound. This one could prove enticing for the many players inspired by the myriad classic rock albums associated with those tones. Mad Professor Loud‘n Proud What […]

The Mad Professor floats off into space – with the Kosmos reverb pedal

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Finland’s Mad Professor has come up with the Kosmos reverb pedal which includes a total of 11 reverb types. The Professor has also thrown in a delay, too, so there’s a lot of effect goodness on offer. Kosmos The algorithms include the traditional Plate, Room, Spring and Hall reverbs, plus another three different reverbs with Shimmer and […]