Catalinbread Karma Suture

Catalinbread Karma Suture Review

You’d think that the only thing that matters with guitar pedals is how they sound. And that definitely is one of the most critical elements — but other factors matter, too.  User experience (that relates to how the knobs and jacks are laid out and labeled) and expectation-setting (marketing, naming, pricing) play big roles in…

VHT V-Drive Review

$100 doesn’t get you far in boutique guitar pedals usually.  So when I first learned about VHT V-Drive, I was intrigued — here’s a smaller, more “boutique” brand with an overdrive pedal in $100 range.  I realize that VHT isn’t quite a household name in pedals, and in fact, I was under the impression that…

Rockett Allan Holdsworth Overdrive Review

“Smooth yet articulate’ is a description I’d like to hear about overdrives, because it is my ideal yet seems rather hard to achieve.  To be articulate there must be a healthy dose of treble content, but it’s so easy to end up sounding harsh or strident.  I became rather interested in Rockett Allan Holdsworth Overdrive…

Gear Review: NX Genaration Warm Drive

A couple of years ago I was in surfing through the overdrive pedal section of eBay and came across this pedal from Thiland-based one-man brand NX Generation (it appears to be that way, anyway).  I looked it up and Narin, the man behind the pedal, posted good demos of this pedal. Warm Drive!  Indeed, I…