Fret Talk

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...

 BudgetPedalChap and Matt ‘the man from Man’ Quine pull out their  machetes and chop down the brush whilst bravely traversing the jungles  of guitar news. We discuss a huge bunch of guitary stuff we have played  this week and there is some immense news regarding the telecaster that  almost wasn’t. We use a listener question as a great excuse to do some  research into...

BudgetPedalChap and Matt hop into the space craft of news and explore  the vast expanses of guitar space. We talk about a new effort by the  good people at Mad Professor pedals, who may or may not be the same as  T-Rex pedals, or I may just be getting things mixed up. Gibson also drop  some pretty sharp news about a bit of a throwback, which may or may not  have been inten...

BudgetPedalChap  and Matt hang 10 on the waves of guitar news this week. Mr BPC gets  self-indulgent with all of the stuff that he has done this week, which  includes playing a bunch of guitars that are bloody expensive. If you  are curious about some actual playing experience of the PRS Silver Sky  rather than just wild speculation (as we tend to do ourselves quite a &nbs...

BudgetPedalChap is joined by Andrzej from the DaveRage Instagram channel today to bring you a v ...

BudgetPedalChap, Matt and Ayrton polish up the hood, stick the keys in  the ignition and fire up the V8 on the good vehicle Fret Talk as we  leave tyre tracks on the guitar news highway and head towards the sunset  of journalism. We speed right into some news about a new collaboration  between Riche Kotzen and DiMarzio pickups, Hotone throwing their hat  into the ring of t...

BudgetPedalChap  and Mr Matty ‘the man from Man’ Quine gallop head long on a horse made  of guitar news into another thrilling episode of the Fret Talk Podcast.  We get knee deep into a barrel of fine guitar pedal news and kick it off  with a bit of a massive oversight and a hugely exciting release from  our buddy at Tate FX. We also mention that a certain Nordic pedal &nb...

BudgetPedalChap and Matt tackle the guitar news head on like an  unwavering army of guitar journalism. We discuss tubescreamers, because  tubescreamers are awesome if you didn’t already know… oh, you did? Well,  Mr BPC has a little shootout going on between 6 different tubescreamers  If that’s your thing. We clear up the speculation of the BOSS drop last  week and share ou...

BudgetPedalChap is joined by Matt and Ayrton again this week for another  round up of the week’s news. We chat about the suggestibility of Matt  and how after listening to the latest interview, he has been considering  a new pedal. We discuss the new Headrush Gigboard and where it sits in  the current modelling climate. Gibson sneak out a lovely bit of news in  regards to...

BudgetPedalChap is joined for this fantastic interview by Joe from Hello Sailor Effects. Do you ...

BudgetPedalChap  is joined by the dream team (Matt Quine and Ayrton Tracey) for another  exciting round up of the week’s events in the guitar world. This week we  tackle such hot news topics, such as a wonderful price drop on the old  ’18 stock of the Gibson range as well as an exciting new release from  Seymour Duncan and a sneaky exclusive pedal from KHDK. We also talk &...

BudgetPedalChap  is beside Matt ‘wrastlin’ Quine and Ayrton ‘The Sin Circuis’ Tracey for  some of the highlights of the week in guitar. This week is a very  Gibson centric episode, with two signature offerings from Epiphone and  some talk of the recent events involving the big G financial saga. We  discuss a few new additions to the new fender line of pedals and bring &nbs...

BudgetPedalChap is reunited with the one and only Matt Quine of the Isle  of Man fame. We catch up on the happenings of the week and get right  into a juicy bucket of guitar news because things actually happened this  week. We talk about the recent drop by EHX, you guessed it, another  muff. Exciting stuff, no really, I’m not being sarcastic. We talk about  Gibson and the...

BudgetPedalChap is joined by none other than Ollie bloody Miles from way  back in the day! If I remember rightly, he is on episode number 1, so  real old school host here. He tells us of all of his exploits since  then, like passing uni (clever chap eh!), buying plenty of lovely stuff  including a bit of a tasty PRS and his journey through the land of  modelling units. We...