BudgetPedalChap and Lee Doom are joined by none other than Sean Pierce Johnson from the internet!!! We dive into some of our weekly happenings, including frustration of learning songs note for note, trying to convince a DD500 that it wants to perfectly recreate an Echorec and some musings from our new boy. We discuss the new offerings by JHS in the form of the whitey tighty and the clover. We take a look at a little mental octave thang by the crazy people over at Fuzzrocious, as well as getting ...
Mar 25, 2019•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 88
BudgetPedalChap, Matt and Ayrton ride triumphantly into the battlefield of guitar news, and of course by that I mean talk for well over half the cast about what they’ve been up to for the week. We discuss a recent strat shopping trip, some handy recording techniques and some woeful gigging tales. We chat about the new big box pedals from Fredric Effects, which is a massively fuzzy affair and includes some pretty whacky, unventured areas of fuzzdom. Here is a game for you in this episode; try and...
Mar 18, 2019•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 87
BudgetPedalChap, The Man from Man Matt Quine and Mr Lee Doom join forces to bring you an amazing live (but obviously not live now) spectacular number 4! Lee brings our attention to all of the hard work he has been doing with prettying up the look of the live stream, which translates amazingly to this podcast; you can almost picture the layout! We talk about the song of March and how we may have not put as much effort into the February song as we could have. Needless to say, I will be getting on ...
Mar 11, 2019•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 86
BudgetPedalChap, and Matt ‘Hi Matt’ Quine charge head first into the battlefield of guitar news to bring you the latest and mostly newsliest of all the guitar news. This week, Mr PedalChap took a visit to the Birmingham guitar show and met some absolutely lovely people, including some of our old interview chaps (go check them out if you haven’t already). We mention some rather tasty picks from Eastman guitars, TateFX, ThorpyFX, Zander Circuitry, Gray guitar, Honeyboy amps and many more. There is...
Mar 04, 2019•1 hr 15 min
BudgetPedalChap, Matt and Lee track down the guitar news and give it a thorough talking to with this week’s episode of Fret Talk PBOD live. Matt walks us through his new purchases from HSE audio and we discuss the misinformation that boutique pedals cost $15 to make so why are they charging hundreds for them! We get our chat on about some of the NAMM releases by Gibson as well, mentioning stuff from their custom shop including signatures from two rather well-known artists. The month of Feb is sp...
Feb 25, 2019•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 84
BudgetPedalChap, Matt and Ayrton travel down the NAMM highway of guitar news. We get all technical about guitar practice and the joys of tabbing. We discuss some cool NAMMy news including a new pedal from those lovely chaps over at TC, as well as mentioning a reinvigoration of the ol Revstart and Variax ranges. We become totally dumfounded by the concept of a certain product that, if we are quite honest, seems like two completely unrelated products were drawn from a hat and told they must be com...
Feb 18, 2019•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 83
Apologies for the sound towards the end, there was an issue with the mic and though we tried to soften the harshness, it isn't perfect audio. Thanks for your patience 🙂 BudgetPedalChap, Matt and Lee ride the tides of livedom and bring you some of the latest in interactive guitar news. They discuss some mighty fine guitars put up for sale recently by a rather famous gent. We also discuss some of the new Snake Oil Fine Instrument pedals as well as some of the most tubescreamery of all of the rele...
Feb 10, 2019•1 hr 19 min
BudgetPedalChap, Matt and Ayrton ride a tidal wave on inappropriate jokes and spanking new NAMM guitar news this week. We ponder the difficulties of guitar practice and throw down the gauntlet for the next month’s guitar song challenge. We tackle some of the hottest guitar news including some rather interesting releases from the SE range from PRS as well as everyone’s favourite F inspired signature model. We get all mushy about Koch, as we all clearly love it as well as mentions from signature s...
Feb 04, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 75
BudgetPedalChap, Matt and Lee embark on the amazing journey that is Fret Talk/PBOD Live! The way it works is that there will be a two-week cycle with the Fret Talk Podcast; Week one will be a standard Fret Talk Podcast, pre-recorded and released on Monday; The second with be a live Fret Talk Podcast featuring Lee from Pedalboards of Doom, which will stream live into the PBOD group. This will allow you to have a bash at sending questions in real time, and also, gives you the opportunity to berate...
Jan 28, 2019•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 80
BudgetPedalChap, Matt and Ayrton frolic fancy-free into the wheat field of guitar news this week. We talk of how we manage to rid ourselves of that burdensome refund money, which also may tie into a foray into the world of p90 pickups. We tackle some meaty news subjects, including some preNAMM news that includes a rather naughty-cle chorus from our friends at ThorpyFX, a rather special release from Robert Keeley and a guitar made entirely of Crayola pencils. We may be having a rather special rel...
Jan 21, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 79
BudgetPedalChap is joined by Matt Quine ride gallantly into the battle of guitar news this week and discuss some rather serious topics too. It is worth mentioning that this episode mentions information on Boult Guitars and the recent news involving the future of the company. We would like to personally apologise to anyone who has put an order in with the company, it was never our intention to see any of our listeners caught up and there are assurances that all outstanding orders will be fully re...
Jan 14, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 78
BudgetPedalChap is joined by Matt Quine this week as we ride the tides of guitar news and head towards the shores of guitar nerdery. We talk about our shenanigans over the Christmas period as well as setting ourselves some more attainable new gear resolutions (which, Matt may have broken already). We talk about the glorious people at Ibanez and how they have dropped a massive bunch of guitar news on us directly after Christmas, you lovely people you. We discuss the slightly not-so-new-but-still-...
Jan 07, 2019•1 hr 23 min
BudgetPedalChap is joined by Matt Quine and Ayrton Tracey as we hurtle head-first into a steaming vat of Christmassiness! We take you through a tour of the year in the Fret Talk podcast and look back fondly on some of the amazing releases this year. We talk about the journey that certain companies have taken through this year *ahem, Gibson* and talk about the winners, losers and stuff we expect more from in the new year. This is an extra-mega-super-long edition of the podcast and, of course, bei...
Dec 24, 2018•-6430 sec
BudgetPedalChap is joined by Matt Quine as we speed hastily in the muscle car made of guitar news to the horizon of factually inaccuracy. This week we tackle the new Fender American Performer series, where it sounds like we actually may have done some research. We talk about an interesting release from pedaltrain. We also have the return of a surprise guest on today’s cast who has been on a rather shocking journey. Hope you enjoy the episode this week and don’t forget to subscribe and share if y...
Dec 17, 2018•1 hr 20 min
BudgetPedalChap is joined by an extravagant troop of awesome cohosts that includes, Mr Matt ‘the man from Man’ Quine, Ayrton ‘Green fingers’ Tracey and Ollie ‘the bike horn’ Miles. We tackle some of the weeks most pressing news, well not all of it because we ignore the large series of guitars released by Fender, but we have to have something for next week eh? We talk about the new Hendrix strat, yup, another one. We also get in-depth about the new efforts from EHX, yup, another one and end up wi...
Dec 10, 2018•1 hr 2 min
BudgetPedalChap and DaveRage shoot the breeze and chat about some of the cool pedals featured o ...
Dec 08, 2018•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 8
BudgetPedalChap and Matt gently marinade this week’s podcast in the sauce of guitar news. We pontificate for a luxurious amount of time about our own guitar journeys this week, that happens to include some telecaster chat, the TateFX BMB and Matt’s Beatles awakening. We discuss a question about som small amps to gig with, including some solid state and valve choices. We sink our teeth into the news about a particular surf green tweed pedal, the next thing in solid state amplification (unless it ...
Dec 03, 2018•1 hr 9 min
BudgetPedalChap , Matt and Ayrton battle through an army of guitar news and valiantly bring you the latest. This week we talk about some tasty drops from Friedman amps in the form of a new pedal and an update on one of their best-sellers too. We chat about a new departure from the usual by Chase Bliss, which had a little controversy on running up to the release. We also get super-high-brow when talking about the new game-changing release by BOSS in the form of a reactive load, IR, Reamper, USB i...
Nov 26, 2018•1 hr 18 min
BudgetPedalChap and Matt ‘the man from Man’ Quine pull out their machetes and chop down the brush whilst bravely traversing the jungles of guitar news. We discuss a huge bunch of guitary stuff we have played this week and there is some immense news regarding the telecaster that almost wasn’t. We use a listener question as a great excuse to do some research into the often overlooked univibe and rotary sim pedal market, with some surprising results (and it may also have given me some gas far a dec...
Nov 19, 2018•1 hr 20 min
BudgetPedalChap and Matt hop into the space craft of news and explore the vast expanses of guitar space. We talk about a new effort by the good people at Mad Professor pedals, who may or may not be the same as T-Rex pedals, or I may just be getting things mixed up. Gibson also drop some pretty sharp news about a bit of a throwback, which may or may not have been intended for last week, but hey ho. The other big guitar company released two biggies this week and you will have to just listen if you...
Nov 12, 2018•1 hr 5 min
BudgetPedalChap and Matt hang 10 on the waves of guitar news this week. Mr BPC gets self-indulgent with all of the stuff that he has done this week, which includes playing a bunch of guitars that are bloody expensive. If you are curious about some actual playing experience of the PRS Silver Sky rather than just wild speculation (as we tend to do ourselves quite a lot tbf). Mr BPC also got his hands on a Line 6 HX FX and the results may shock you somewhat, they did for me! We talk about some of t...
Nov 05, 2018•1 hr 7 min
BudgetPedalChap is joined by Andrzej from the DaveRage Instagram channel today to bring you a v ...
Nov 01, 2018•45 min•Season 2Ep. 7
BudgetPedalChap, Matt and Ayrton polish up the hood, stick the keys in the ignition and fire up the V8 on the good vehicle Fret Talk as we leave tyre tracks on the guitar news highway and head towards the sunset of journalism. We speed right into some news about a new collaboration between Riche Kotzen and DiMarzio pickups, Hotone throwing their hat into the ring of the all-singing-all-dancing multiFX units and a new rather interesting high gain head from Peavey amps. We also talk P90s, even tho...
Oct 29, 2018•1 hr 21 min
BudgetPedalChap and Mr Matty ‘the man from Man’ Quine gallop head long on a horse made of guitar news into another thrilling episode of the Fret Talk Podcast. We get knee deep into a barrel of fine guitar pedal news and kick it off with a bit of a massive oversight and a hugely exciting release from our buddy at Tate FX. We also mention that a certain Nordic pedal company has some rather tasty picks in their budget line, and so we give them a recap too. We break an exciting bit of news about a s...
Oct 22, 2018•1 hr 7 min
BudgetPedalChap and Matt tackle the guitar news head on like an unwavering army of guitar journalism. We discuss tubescreamers, because tubescreamers are awesome if you didn’t already know… oh, you did? Well, Mr BPC has a little shootout going on between 6 different tubescreamers If that’s your thing. We clear up the speculation of the BOSS drop last week and share our opinions on the new Waza Metal Zone and Dimension Chorus. Almost immediately after the last episode was recorded also, Line6 onl...
Oct 15, 2018•1 hr 13 min
BudgetPedalChap is joined by Matt and Ayrton again this week for another round up of the week’s news. We chat about the suggestibility of Matt and how after listening to the latest interview, he has been considering a new pedal. We discuss the new Headrush Gigboard and where it sits in the current modelling climate. Gibson sneak out a lovely bit of news in regards to options for the 2019 Les Paul range and we break some pretty exclusive news in regards to BOSS which we were dubious about, but he...
Oct 08, 2018•1 hr 14 min
BudgetPedalChap is joined for this fantastic interview by Joe from Hello Sailor Effects. Do you ...
Oct 03, 2018•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 6
BudgetPedalChap is joined by the dream team (Matt Quine and Ayrton Tracey) for another exciting round up of the week’s events in the guitar world. This week we tackle such hot news topics, such as a wonderful price drop on the old ’18 stock of the Gibson range as well as an exciting new release from Seymour Duncan and a sneaky exclusive pedal from KHDK. We also talk about some things we may have our eyes on over in the world of Instagram and some sneaky pedal purchases too. If you are enjoying t...
Oct 01, 2018•1 hr 3 min
BudgetPedalChap is beside Matt ‘wrastlin’ Quine and Ayrton ‘The Sin Circuis’ Tracey for some of the highlights of the week in guitar. This week is a very Gibson centric episode, with two signature offerings from Epiphone and some talk of the recent events involving the big G financial saga. We discuss a few new additions to the new fender line of pedals and bring the smut and crassness full force this week. Your listenership is hugely appreciated and if you like what you hear, get involved on th...
Sep 24, 2018•1 hr 23 min
BudgetPedalChap is reunited with the one and only Matt Quine of the Isle of Man fame. We catch up on the happenings of the week and get right into a juicy bucket of guitar news because things actually happened this week. We talk about the recent drop by EHX, you guessed it, another muff. Exciting stuff, no really, I’m not being sarcastic. We talk about Gibson and the whole DIP switch debacle and other things what are mentioned in the news and stuff. We also might make a slightly blue joke or two...
Sep 17, 2018•1 hr 6 min
