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GALLERY: Show Us Your Gear - Unique Instruments

Oddball, one-off, custom, and handmade guitars, amps, and effects

"The Weissenbaby (left) is handmade by Nick Carpenter of Wildwood Instruments in Australia. It has a single pickup and Mark says it sounds like a small Weissenborn-style lapsteel. The Starman (middle) was a garage sale find with a matching case. Mark says, ""The P-90s will tear your head off--ugly and dangerous."" Astroboy (right) has a speaker, effects loop, kill switch, and vintage Ibanez humbucker. It operates on a 9-volt battery, which Mark says sounds best when the battery is almost dead. ""Sounds great with bizarre tunings and a slide. A sick puppy,"" he says."

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A menu of vintage-voiced, modulated, harmonic, and reverse delays makes an intriguing smorgasbord of echo textures.

An imaginative array of wild to rich and familiar echo textures. Darker EQ profile lends authenticity to tape-like effects. Smart, if somewhat cramped, control layout.

Harmonic delay mode can be cloying at most settings.

$249

Diamond Dark Cloud
diamondpedals.com

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The art of using and building delays is, at this point, a discipline populated by a thousand little cults. Vintage-minded analogists, digital micromanagers, and seekers of chaos all live under this strange umbrella. What’s refreshing about Diamond’s Dark Cloud is the way it spans so many points on the echo spectrum without 30 push-buttons and an enclosure the size of a cigar box.

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