Ground Control audio
There isn’t much description about the company, except it develop one amp at a time. And the art on the pedal is really cool.
Like: It is really cool. Like Amaterasu and Serpent, the harmonics sounds cool.
Dislike: god its expensive. A distortion pedal cost $170. And the lower end of distortion is too loud and sounds weird. Though they have a mid focused amplify option, but still not what I am looking for.
Fredric Effects
This is a brand consisted of guitarists, and they try to provide handmade effects pedal with simpler design, and cheaper price.
Like: ‘The accomplished badger’:the pedal can go from clean boost to great distortion. The range of it is good. And is cheap.
Dislike: most of them looks uncool.
Hudson Electronics UK:
This brand recreate vintage style pedals, and is good at creating heavy overdrive.
Like: the grumpy heavy low-end is very on point, really classic, it rocks.
Dislike: sounds old.
1b) bigger companies like boss have diverse effects, delay, compression, reverb, and have focus on acoustic guitar. While smaller companies focus on specific effects, like distortions and compression. And I feel like bigger companies also have cheaper price.
1c)https://www.jimdunlop.com/mxr-smart-gate-noise-gate/ this is a noise gate, it helps reduce noises, like de-esser for vocals. Guitarists have perfectionists too, I am enlightened.
2)SPST (single pole, single throw), the switch is either connected or disconnected.\
3.) latch when pressed just hold the status in place, and momentary only triggers when pressed. latch is used in stomp pedal more often, it is more convenient to just left the effect open sometimes.
Tiankai Li 