We are coming down to the wire on our very first giveaway here at WTDP? If you haven’t entered, you need to click over the Contests page and shoot us an e-mail before midnight (US central standard time), 31 October 2009. Entries received after that time will not be included in the drawing. At stake is a Marion Henry Electric Fuzz Bucket pedal signed by all six members of Umphrey’s McGee! If you want to learn a bit more about the Fuzz Bucket, be sure and check out our recent review of the pedal. And be sure to check out Umphrey’s McGee as they roll through the US throughout the rest of the year!

Empress Effects has released a new version of their popular Superdelay pedal exclusively through ProGuitarShop.com. The limited edition Vintage Modified Superdelay’s vintage setting has some added modulation that makes the repeats lush and full with a bit of warble. The Old mode has had the high end rolled off a bit with the same modulation and some grit added to produce worn heads and dirty tape on your tape delay. The new Empress Vintage Modified Superdelay still has all the rest of the features and great sounding delays as the original with a new paint job and a little added appeal to the tape and vintage delay fans. The pedal is available now for $449.

Here is your first look at the first offering from the combined forces of Strymon Engineering and Damage Control – the Brigadier dBucket delay pedal. The Brigadier takes the compact aluminum chassis and form factor developed for the Strymon OB.1 and crams in a ‘ton of DSP horsepower’. According to Strymon, the team took a super powerful SHARC DSP and dedicated to doing one thing only – delivering the ‘best analog bucket brigade delay sound ever’. The pedal boasts tap tempo, modulation and true bypass as well. No word on pricing just yet, but the Brigadier is expected to be available sometime in the next six weeks or so. Stay tuned!

With a name like Marion Henry Electric, we really didn’t know what to expect when we reached out to Alex and Co. in an attempt to get a loaner pedal to test drive from their hand-wired, hand-painted and super-colorful line. After some discussion, including how the pedal maker now had the guitar slingers for Umphrey’s McGee using their gear, MHE sent us their two-knob fuzz – the Fuzz Bucket. Like the crew says in their propaganda, the Fuzz Bucket is a drive pedal with a fuzzy nature that offers up broad range of analog fuzz tones. Eager to test drive, we dove right in.

Guitarist Steve Mazur has been with Canada’s Our Lady Peace since near the completion of 2002’s Gravity album when he was tapped to replace founding member Mike Turner. The band has been a mainstay on popular radio since its 1994 debut Naveed, which spawned the hit single ‘Starseed’. Not long after Mazur joined the band, OLP found itself at odds with its record label, its producer and itself. Their next record – 2006’s Healthy In Paranoid Times – was nearly the band’s undoing. WTDP? had a chance to talk with Mazur recently about the his stint with the group, his favorite gear and the band’s love for their new album Burn Burn.

Cheeseblock Customs is offering up the first of its high quality wood enclosure pedals to the masses via eBay. The sCream Cheese true-bypass overdrive boasts Level, Tone and Drive knob controls, as well as a switch offering an extra low end boost and a three-way toggle for different clipping options: LED, asymmetrical diode, and stock. A second ‘channel’ of drive has an adjustable gain boost and dedicated switch. The enclosure is a two piece Birdseye Maple box, hand routed and finished. The knobs are made of Indian Rosewood with abalone dot inserts on the top. Brass hardware was used to join the two halves of the box.

Here is a quick look at a one-off pedal by Dereck over at Tone Freak Effects. The EightUP is an octave fuzz stomp that had been sitting around the Tone Freak lab for a while, but just recently was fully built out. The pedal may or may not go into production. There could be a possibility of a limited number being made and sold directly by Tone Freak. The translucent gold pedal sports three controls – Volume, FuzzUP and a toggle that goes from ‘classic’ to ‘fat’ mode, giving the octave two different voicings. A clip of the pedal, along with Tone Freak’s Abunai, can be heard here.