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A few months ago, I wrote a community question asking what the best delay pedal is out there today. There were tons of responses and great suggestions on what people thought about a great delay pedal. Yesterday, @BooDooPerson let me know (via Twitter) about a great video his friend shot at Taylor Barefoot’s studio. This video is a great little boutique delay shootout of some awesome pedals. Two different riffs, with similar settings. Same guitar (1959 Strat) same amp, same mic so you can really hear the differences.

Below are the pedals in the shootout:

• Moog MF-104
• Empress Superdelay Vintage Modified
• Dr. Scientist Sunny Day Delay
• Way Huge Aqua Puss
• MXR M169 Carbon Copy
• Toneczar Echoczar
• EHX Deluxe Memory Man Reissue
• Diamond Memory Lane
• Hughes and Kettner Replex
• Roland SRE-555

Here is the video by Tibbon.. great stuff. Hope you enjoy!

Let me know your thoughts on this! Post your comments below.

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Mark let me know about a fun little shootout he did. Mark has been a friend of EffectsBay.com for a while now, so I was happy to post this for him! In this video, Mark laid out 5 great gain pedals.

EWS Fuzzy Drive
Keeley FuzzHead
Xotic AC Booster
Catalinbread Dirty Little Secret
Rockbox Boiling Point

He’s playing a Gibson CD356 through a Carvin 2×12 tube combo amp.  Please check out his new band – Everything’s On Fire (@EOFmusic) and follow Mark at @markgrundhoefer.

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I’ve personally been really interested in the Big Muff Pi with Tone Wicker, and of course my favorite reviewer on YouTube, gearmandude, had a sweet shoot out between the Big Muff Pi w/Tone Wicker, Little Big Muff and NYC Big Muff Pi. I really wish the Russian Big Muff was in the mix, since that’s the one I’m the most familiar with, but I was liking the sound of the Big Muff Pi w/Tone Wicker!

You can pick up the following pedals at Musician’s Friend:

Big Muff Pi with Tone Wicker for $89.25
Little Big Muff Pi for $66.75
Or find some used/new Big Muffs on eBay at PedalNerd.com

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After announcing the first Effects Bay pedal give-away, where I’m working with Fat Tone Guitars to give away a prototype F-Bomb Fuzz pedal, I thought it would be cool to shift gears and talk about phasers.

I use to have a lot of fun with phasers. I still own my MXR Phase 100 and I remember playing the older EHX Small Stone (military green box) back in the day. What got me thinking about them again is the EHX nano small stone, and trying to remember how the small stone compared to the Phase 100, and I honestly couldn’t remember. But, as expected, I found a pretty sweet shootout comparison video with my favorite demo dude (gearmandude) where he demos the ModTone MT-PH Atomic Phaser, Electro-Harmonix Nano Small Stone Phase Shifter, MXR CSP-101CL Custom Shop ‘Script’ Phase 90 and the standard MXR M-101 Phase 90.

You can pick up all of these pedals in the demo at Musician’s Friend
Modtone MT-PH Atomic Phaser – $99.95
Electro-Harmonix Nano Small Stone Phase Shifter – $78.00
MXR CSP-101CL Custom Shop Script Phase 90 – $99.99
MXR M-101 Phase 90 – $79.99

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Since I’ve been on a overdrive kick as of late, I wanted to find some ccomparison videos of some popular overdrives out there today. It always seems that gearmandude is giving me what I need to hear when it comes to these shootouts. He is extremely thorough and pushes these pedals in ways that you get to hear what they’re all about.

He created two videos (part 1 and part 2) featuring the Barber LTD Overdrive, Fulltone Fat Boost, Fulltone OCD, Maxon Reissue OD9 and Maxon OD808. Part 1 is with Telecaster and Part 2 is with a Les Paul.

Here is Part 2 with the Les Paul

Barber LTD Overdrive can be purchased at Fat Tone Guitars for $119.95
Fulltone Fat Boost can be purchased at Fat Tone Guitars for $126.65
Fulltone OCD can be purchased at Fat Tone Guitars for $135.15
Maxon Reissue OD-9 can be purchased at Tunnel Vision Music for $150.00
Maxon OD808 can be purchased at Tunnel Vision Music for $135.00

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