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So, I went to Guitar Village in Farnham and spent a lot of money on guitar toys. I tried the two pedals I mentioned last week, the Electro Harmonix Micro Synth and the English Muff'n. Both sounded absolutely amazing. The Muff'n is a valve overdrive/distortion pedal which genuinely sounds like an expensive all valve overdrive amp and can go from really nice warm drive, through hard crunch into something really quite heavy. The Micro Synth is an absolutely amazing thing. You can make some incredible sounds with it. At the moment I've found a dark bouncy techno synth sound that I really like but I could potentially spend hours playing with the different sounds on it.

Guitar Village was a really nice surprise. Farnham, it turns out, is an amazingly nice looking place. Very pretty. Guitar Village is in a very old building just on the edge of the town centre. It's a bit of a little maze, with low ceilings but they have it crammed full of an incredible amount of stuff. The guy said they had about 800 guitars, which is probably about right. It's absolutely rammed to the rafters (and it probably really does have rafters, but I'm no architect). They also have a decent amp room and just about every pedal I've ever heard of. Well worth a trip. Plus it's open on Sundays! This is VERY important. Kingfisher in Fleet and Dawsons in Reading please take note. I should mention that Guitar Works in Reading is open on Sundays, good work.

ps. Screwball 17th August, Plug'n'Play, Reading.