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After the Best of French roundup, the German leg of the European tour turned out to be quite arduous. Germany have easily as many pedal builders as he UK but with a little more strength in depth. There’s a mix of everything from Germany - both vintage and innovation, and they’re of course very strong in the area of overdrive and distortion as backed up by their many superb high-gain amp builders.
Overall, I felt that there were a few more brands here that I was familiar with, and I chopped and changed the Top 9 several times - while the other 3 I have done were much more obvious. The Best of British I found easy, Canada I mostly knew what would feature before I started - for France I made a few swaps, but for Germany I went back to the drawing board several times.
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I’ll start with the brands that just missed out - Ohmless Pedals, Rodenberg Amplification, Valhbruch Effects and Weehbo - the last two mentioned in particular - both of which have excellent ranges of pedals, but I felt that my final selection Top 9 just about pipped them. That said, the Vahlbruch Octavia is probably my next likely acquisition, although the Nobels ODR-1 has been on the list for a while too.
Of all these German pedals I have currently just one in the collection - the Diesel VH4-2, I actually have its predecessor also, and will look to get its new Herbert pedal at some stage. The listing starts off alphabetically with the Thomas Blug BluGuitar Amp 1 floor-based amps. This is not only one of the first units of that type, but the first to use Korg’s NuTube technology - and does this really well. There’s few that compare to the slick and refined approach of this 4 Channel-floor-amp.
The Hexe BitCrusher III has been featured a few times on this site, and is one of the most sought after in that area - Piotr Zapart makes some really innovative pedals still and his pedals are always in high demand. Chris Jupiter of JPTR FX is another pioneer who makes pretty gothic looking machines - kind-of steam-punk-ish almost - really innovative and unusual effects, but a touch on the large side usually. I will still probably acquire one or two of his at some stage in the distant future - just to get to experiment with those unusual effects.
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KMA Audio Machines contrasts by being very modern in its approach - melding together more DSP controlled effects which blend a number of secondary and tertiary functions - and well exemplified in the new all singing and dancing Horizont Stereo JFET 4-Stage Phaser. Some may see Lehle as an odd placing here, but they are most likely the Rolls-Royce or Maybach even of switching pedals, and are a breath of fresh air when compared to their many industrial looking competitors.
In the bottom row we start of with the current King of Leslie/Rotary Effects - the superb industry benchmark Ventilator II, which has actually mostly nowadays been replaced on pro pedalboards by its smaller lesser-feature-packed sibling the Mini Vent II. I’m still waiting for an in-between version which carries most of the controls across but in a more compact enclosure. The Nobels ODR-1 needs to introduction, everyone is familiar with that, while the 9th slot which was heavily up for debate I decided to give to the Okko Dominator, as I’m a particular fan of its really crunchy and percussive mid-range push - that’s another high-gain pedal I will look to add at some stage, once I get over my Fuzz fixation!
So I’m really happy in the end with my Top 9 selection - which I feel may look scattershot, yet is fully representative of the breadth of German pedal-makers. All of the above are also well-known and Internationally traded brands, which is not necessarily the case with the previous country best 9 listings I’ve done.
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Thomas Blug has put his many years of music production and playing into a dedicated nano-tube-powered tone machine PreAmp - the BluGuitar Amp 1 - a fully 4 Channel floor-based, 3-band EQ, 100 Watt Guitar Amp. The setup is completed with the BluBox Impulse Response Speaker Emulator (Cab Sim) and Remote 1 Foot Controller for an all-encompassing studio and live playback system. There are increasingly more of these types of Amps around - but Thomas's was amongst the first, and few are as well-rounded or refined! My preference is for the slightly 'gain-heavier' / tighter Mercury edition of the Amp 1.
Germany's pre-eminent 'heavy metal' amp maker - which makes super high quality high gain amps at around £2.5K - £3K a pop. Just as well for me then that they have collaborated with David Friedman's Boutique Amp Distribution to bring a number of their legendary amps into pedal format - at a very significant cost reduction! I have both the VH4 and it's 2-Channel update - the VH4-2. I also look forward to acquiring the Herbert pedal in the near future. Diezel also have the rather large Zerrer Dual Channel PreAmp pedal which I'm not really interested in.
Notably high quality and hard-to-get-hold-off pedals from Hamburg pedal engineer Piotr Zapart. There are occasional one-off custom experiments that occasionally come out, but the actual range amounts to only 5 pedals - medium and large, and including a single mini. Both the reVOLVER DX Micro Looper / Glitch and BitCrusher III are highly celebrated while the Melusine III Vinyl Record Simulator is somewhat more of an acquired taste. The Bitcrusher III Studio adds stereo and input gain options, while the mini Vario is a really smart momentary footswitch type expression pedal. The Bitcrusher III is a touch large for my tastes, but all these pedals are worthy of consideration.
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I see Chris Jupiter of JPTR FX, Wilhelmhaven as the sort of German 'Death by Audio'. Both brands share fairly similar aesthetic and design cues - in terms of steel enclosures with stark/bold monochromatic graphics, and both build very unique rather leftfield effects. The most celebrated of Chris's pedals are the Fernweh Multi Echo Delay, smart feedback circulating Kaleidoscope Reverb and rather cool Super Weirdo Gated Fuzz. The most leftfield of Chris's pedals is probably the triple-spring-loaded percussive Drumthing Deluxe which can be used in a variety of imaginative ways. As a Drive and Fuzz fan though, I also like the Apokalypse Dual Tube Drive, Chainsaw Distortion, and Tesla Wolf Overdrive. These are all interesting and intriguing pedals, yet the large size of many of these makes them somewhat impractical for me, and I'm still not sure I would sacrifice several of my existing pedals for just one of these. For those who have the space though, these are truly wonderful inspiration machines! The one pedal I really don't like here is the unnecessarily elongate vintage-style Silbermaschine Fuzz.
A really innovative Berlin-based pedal-boutique run by one Enrico Preuß and responsible for some pretty unique combination effects like the Tyler Frequency Splitter and new Horizont Stereo Multispatial Phaser. Enrico is obviously a dab hand with Phasers - having produced both the Astrospurt and Horizont. There are cool Octavers and Treble Boosters and the fantastic sounding Boss HM-2 on steroids - Wurm Distortion. My main thing is though Fuzzes as usual, and there are three really cool ones of those - the Dead Stag Fuzzstortion, Fuzzly Bear Silicon Fuzz and Minos Germanium Fuzz. I really like the little details here and the graphics, the only issue I have is with some of the over-sized enclosures which make several of these pedals impractical for my pedal-chain. Players with more space available to them though should love pretty much all of these.
Very smooth high end galvanically isolated utility pedals - largely Volume Pedals and Device Switchers, I'm not so much bothered by the various bass pedals on offer. These sort all manner of unwanted noise issues - created by power supply phasing, ground loops etc. Lots of pro players use Lehle for seamlessly smooth, noiseless instrument and amp switching with their most popular pedal either the Little Dual Switcher, or the Mono Volume. (Note - SGOS = Second Generation of Switching).
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Neo Instruments is one Guido Kirsch of Fulda, who without doubt has created the best loved modern Leslie / Rotary effect pedal in the guise of the Ventilator / Vent line. It currently consists of the full size Ventilator II and Mini Vent II - the latter of which solely has two footswtiches and a voicing switch on the back - internal settings are accessed by combination presses on those two footswitches, but most leave the defaults in tact. I have considered both the Ventilator II and Mini Vent II, and went with the Tech 21 NYC Roto Choir in the end - because it offered more tone-sculpting options for its size, although the footswitch section on the Mini Vent
Thomas Blug has put his many years of music production and playing into a dedicated nano-tube-powered tone machine PreAmp - the BluGuitar Amp 1 - a fully 4 Channel floor-based, 3-band EQ, 100 Watt Guitar Amp. The setup is completed with the BluBox Impulse Response Speaker Emulator (Cab Sim) and Remote 1 Foot Controller for an all-encompassing studio and live playback system. There are increasingly more of these types of Amps around - but Thomas's was amongst the first, and few are as well-rounded or refined! My preference is for the slightly 'gain-heavier' / tighter Mercury edition of the Amp 1.
Germany's pre-eminent 'heavy metal' amp maker - which makes super high quality high gain amps at around £2.5K - £3K a pop. Just as well for me then that they have collaborated with David Friedman's Boutique Amp Distribution to bring a number of their legendary amps into pedal format - at a very significant cost reduction! I have both the VH4 and it's 2-Channel update - the VH4-2. I also look forward to acquiring the Herbert pedal in the near future. Diezel also have the rather large Zerrer Dual Channel PreAmp pedal which I'm not really interested in.
Notably high quality and hard-to-get-hold-off pedals from Hamburg pedal engineer Piotr Zapart. There are occasional one-off custom experiments that occasionally come out, but the actual range amounts to only 5 pedals - medium and large, and including a single mini. Both the reVOLVER DX Micro Looper / Glitch and BitCrusher III are highly celebrated while the Melusine III Vinyl Record Simulator is somewhat more of an acquired taste. The Bitcrusher III Studio adds stereo and input gain options, while the mini Vario is a really smart momentary footswitch type expression pedal. The Bitcrusher III is a touch large for my tastes, but all these pedals are worthy of consideration.
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I see Chris Jupiter of JPTR FX, Wilhelmhaven as the sort of German 'Death by Audio'. Both brands share fairly similar aesthetic and design cues - in terms of steel enclosures with stark/bold monochromatic graphics, and both build very unique rather leftfield effects. The most celebrated of Chris's pedals are the Fernweh Multi Echo Delay, smart feedback circulating Kaleidoscope Reverb and rather cool Super Weirdo Gated Fuzz. The most leftfield of Chris's pedals is probably the triple-spring-loaded percussive Drumthing Deluxe which can be used in a variety of imaginative ways. As a Drive and Fuzz fan though, I also like the Apokalypse Dual Tube Drive, Chainsaw Distortion, and Tesla Wolf Overdrive. These are all interesting and intriguing pedals, yet the large size of many of these makes them somewhat impractical for me, and I'm still not sure I would sacrifice several of my existing pedals for just one of these. For those who have the space though, these are truly wonderful inspiration machines! The one pedal I really don't like here is the unnecessarily elongate vintage-style Silbermaschine Fuzz.
A really innovative Berlin-based pedal-boutique run by one Enrico Preuß and responsible for some pretty unique combination effects like the Tyler Frequency Splitter and new Horizont Stereo Multispatial Phaser. Enrico is obviously a dab hand with Phasers - having produced both the Astrospurt and Horizont. There are cool Octavers and Treble Boosters and the fantastic sounding Boss HM-2 on steroids - Wurm Distortion. My main thing is though Fuzzes as usual, and there are three really cool ones of those - the Dead Stag Fuzzstortion, Fuzzly Bear Silicon Fuzz and Minos Germanium Fuzz. I really like the little details here and the graphics, the only issue I have is with some of the over-sized enclosures which make several of these pedals impractical for my pedal-chain. Players with more space available to them though should love pretty much all of these.
Very smooth high end galvanically isolated utility pedals - largely Volume Pedals and Device Switchers, I'm not so much bothered by the various bass pedals on offer. These sort all manner of unwanted noise issues - created by power supply phasing, ground loops etc. Lots of pro players use Lehle for seamlessly smooth, noiseless instrument and amp switching with their most popular pedal either the Little Dual Switcher, or the Mono Volume. (Note - SGOS = Second Generation of Switching).
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Neo Instruments is one Guido Kirsch of Fulda, who without doubt has created the best loved modern Leslie / Rotary effect pedal in the guise of the Ventilator / Vent line. It currently consists of the full size Ventilator II and Mini Vent II - the latter of which solely has two footswtiches and a voicing switch on the back - internal settings are accessed by combination presses on those two footswitches, but most leave the defaults in tact. I have considered both the Ventilator II and Mini Vent II, and went with the Tech 21 NYC Roto Choir in the end - because it offered more tone-sculpting options for its size, although the footswitch section on the Mini Vent
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