Tone Report Weekly Issue 140 | Page 13

WORDS BY NICHOLAS KULA Greetings again, readers, and allow me to introduce myself a second time. My name is Nicholas, and I am sure I’ve played almost every pedal ever made. Today, I will introduce you to the long-forgotten pedals in your local guitar shop that keep markedly away from their popular boutique brethren. Unfortunately, pedals change hands so quick that last generation’s fringe pedals have fallen by the wayside. Pedals we’ve never heard of clog up the shelves of pawn shops and momand-pop stores across the countryside, and most players have lives that don’t permit trying out every pedal in the world, be it monetary, time or availability constraints, and perhaps any number of those. Thankfully, I’ve worked in a variety of guitar shops and have played a great deal of pedals with a wanton disregard for brand preconceptions or lack of information. As such, I present to you the eye of my “underrated, cheap and discontinued” Venn diagram. ToneReport.com 13