Multiple Pedal Reviews.

I have had a recent clear out of my overly large guitar pedal collection. The pedals below are lovely but space, mounting bills and not using them enough live meant they had to go.

The following have gone on through the power of Royal Mail else where in the country, however here are my thoughts;

Akai Professional E2 HEAD RUSH Pedal - great little delay or looping pedal.

You get a nice tap tempo digital delay it even has feedback trails so when
you turn it off things don't suddenly go deadly silent.
There is a tape style delay (modulated delay with 4 outputs, quadorophonic
sound!) that gives rise to lush King Tubbyisms.
The looping function is probably why most use the box, you get sound on
sound loops with ability to jump back to an original loop.
Its a real shame Akai didn't allow you to use the delay and loop at the
same time, but at the price of the box you can pick up two
for the same price as a Line 6 DD-4, and possibly add more flexability but
the DD-4 lovers may disagree...

Yamaha GEP50 Effect - the shoe gaze rack; aka SPX-90 with a different
badge.
This rack allows for a single studio quality effect to be used at any time,
whether it is a digital distortion, pitch shift,
compression, delay, or fabled reverse reflections.
The latter why this particular rack became popular, having been used on
MBV's Loveless for the dreamy effects.
The box has a loop function (for any other racks to go through it), an
on/off footswitch option, 50 presets and 50 user memories.
I think the compression, delay and reverse reflections are the only bits
that hold up after all this time to be fair as the other
effects could be found in any digital multi effect now. There is little
flexability to edit parameters once saved as you have to go
through a series of tables to edit them. However if you want a one effect
at a time box (that classic reverse reflections) then look
no further.

Alesis Multi FX Pedal - brilliant chip tunes box
This may look like a cheap tacky effect box but within the beast it has a
decimator and bit crusher effect with remote foot pedal
control. This box is very low fi, but then who needs a hi-fi bit crusher
live? Isn't the process of bit crushing essentially lofi?
If you want hifi use an effect on your laptop software. Why buy the WMD
Geiger Counter when you can have this?

GLX Noise Gate Pedal
Its a noise gate, it stops noise/hiss/whatever, right? Yes! It does this
but can be used as an auto volume control, e.g. the famous
Boss Slow Gate. The controls allow sounds to come in and out, allowing for
greater flexability and use out of this box.

Boss Super Octave OC-3 Pedal
Octave pedal that allows you to play chords and get a fat synthy bottom to
it, great if you don't have a bassist.
It picks up roots only and you'd better be in tune else the digital bass
goblin will eat you up but better than nothing.
I loved the fat bassists could use it to go even lower, or get a nasty
fuzz! People seem to ignore this box for bass fuzz, when I
plugged it in I loved it! Angry fuzz with the EQ set just right so you don't get a massive volume drop.

Rare Vintage Frontline Analog Delay Pedal
Nice little analog delay pedal, adds a bit of warmth to whatever you put
into it. Couldn't get the thing to self oscilate, boo :(
If you can pick one up cheap you can get a tape style warmth though. As
with most analog stuff you can't get it to respond to angry
fuzz.

BURFORD ELECTRONICS - UFO Repeater Tremolo Pedal
Nice little tremolo pedal, has LEDs to show the amount of Frequency and
Speed you've applied. You can get some good sounds out of
it. As with most analog stuff you can't get it to respond to angry fuzz.

Devi Ever ZG (zeitgeist Fuzz) Caustic Earth Shattering High Gain Mega pussy
Cat fuzz box.
Evil evil fuzz pedal, lots of bassy bottom. Seems to be monophonic (one
note at a time) and adds an octave up on these one notes.
Is very high, and responds sensibly is you turn your guitar volume down. It
has a very quick decay too that splutters and coughs
like a dying battery. If want a weird noise box or something to do strange
solos with you may like it.