Fret Talk

BudgetPedalChap and Matt Quine do a podcast, as per the usual. We discuss the unearthing of some old guitars and how that can inspire some creativity. We get all talky talky about some new offerings coming from our man at Fletcher pickups and the first impressions on the new set in the Snotburst SG. We take a peek at some of the most interesting picks from the guitar media recently, mulling over s...

BudgetPedalChap and Lee Pedabodadoo take on some more technical issues, but you’d never know because I have a magical edit button! We tackle some pretty meaty discussions this week and get all serious about mental health issues in music. If there is anyone who is faced with issues, you are always welcome to talk to us, no one need suffer in silence. We tackle some guitar news also in the form of a...

BudgetPedalChap and Matt Quine ride headlong into the fields of guitar, ready for another valiant battle with this weeks news. This week, we get all Game of Thrones on things and talk about the custom shop releases by Fender. If you are hoping that we explain why this has happened, you are out of luck, I don’t think anyone quite understands it, to be fair. We talk about some game changing stuff fr...

BudgetPedalChap is joined this week by Lee of Doom and the Matt Quine of the podcasting world, mr Matt Quine, again for another week jam packed with news and guitar related stories. This week we delve into some NAMM announcements that are finally hitting the shops from the big F, touching upon the first of their alternative reality offerings as well as some rather pricey artist inspired guitars. W...

Matt Quine is joined by none other than the Mr Budget Pedal Chap this week… hang on a second, that is usually other way around, no? Yes, yes it is. This week we have a very special episode hosted by Mr Matt Quine of the Fret Talk Podcast and we tackle the world of guitar news. We talk about certain big F releases and tackle some listener questions for good measure also!  Throw us a 5-star rev...

BudgetPedalChap, Matt and Ayrton jump headlong into a steaming vat of guitar news for this weeks Fret Talk Podcast. This was supposed to be the PBOD live cast, but with the issues that we had on the tech end, it was not possible. We did however, record a wonderful supplement episode so that you got your podcastly fix. This week we talk about some awesome stuff coming from Epiphone and a rather fet...

 BudgetPedalChap is joined once again by Mr Matt Quine this week for plenty of guitar related shenanigans. We talk about the weekly goings on including a little something Gibson happening over with Matt which includes our old friend the Guitar Geek, as well as some more lovely pedal reviews coming up soon from our resident budget pedal connoisseur. We discuss the incredibly originally named J...

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...

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 inclu...

   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 w...

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 Eas...

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 fr...

 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...

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 t...

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 signatur...

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...

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 fro...

   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 s...

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  dro...

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,...

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...

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...

BudgetPedalChap and DaveRage shoot the breeze and chat about some of the cool pedals featured o ...

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....

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 al...