The Fuzz page

JACQUES VINTAGE FUZZ PEDALS PAGE All pictures copyrighted. Any use should mention JACQUES PEDALS source, thank you Pedals brands can issue new effects making your guitar sounds like an organ, a piano or your deceased aunt voice, it all started and will end with this scandalous tone of fuzz. Let’s face it : the whole … Read more

vintage marshall bluesbreaker amp

The jewel of my collection: oct.1967 bluesbreaker combo mod.1961 Never give up! I had long ago abandoned all hopes to find one day an original bluesbreaker combo. And here is is: the rarest and most valuable collectible amp of all quietly waiting for me to turn it up. Hard to believe. Furthermore, this amp is … Read more

binson echorec

In these times of digital technology and computer based effects, tape echoes nevertheless remain musicians’ favorite delays , just after their old competitors , the analog delays. This is quite weird, as no effect wanted digital so badly: as you need to play back a signal one or many times with a given delays , … Read more

Jacques Matsumoku collection

The Matsumoku made guitars have always bring fascination to my collector ego. Their craftmanship and quality really do not deserve the low price market they are currently going for, or at least to this day. Anyway, this is quite good from an aficionado point of view. How do you recognise a matsumoko ? Certainly not … Read more

Jacques Ibanez ts808 page

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Jacques Stompboxes ts808 page Personal history In the early ‘70s there were no such things as an overdrive pedal. When we talk about choice of good guitar tones , it usually went from Fender twin clean to fuzz face in a Marshall amp, while these options were way too expensive for teenagers. Even in our … Read more

French beauties

LE FRENCH EFFECTS Beautiful French singer from the ’60s, Isabelle Aubrey… Well, to say the awful truth, France has never been a gear country. When somebody use the word ” vintage ” in our delightful country, you better raise your glass then your axe. Camembert yes, cheesy fuzz pedals no. Or is it so? Not … Read more

WANDRE GUITARS

JACQUES COLLECTION OF WANDRE GUITARS pictures and text copyright JACQUES PEDALS Wandre Pioli (Pelotti is often quoted but is incorrect) really was a precursor in the guitar design. Not only predating any other attempt in  aluminium necks , this genius could not help to be radically different technically and aesthetically. Playing a Wandre, under his … Read more