Tone Report Weekly 174 | Page 25

small stone If you’re anything like me, there may be a few pieces of gear you’ve bought more than once. You played it, loved it, sold it for some reason, and when you came to your senses, bought it again. The piece of gear I’ve bought more than anything else is the Small Stone. One of the first pedals I ever had, I sent it to AnalogMan to have it modified to fix the volume loss, as older versions tend to have this issue. I loved it, but sold it because I was sure I needed to try something else. I’m happy to say I currently own one—again modded by AnalogMan—and it even has the old EHX wooden box, with which I’m obsessed. The single Rate knob and Color switch are all I need, and to my ears, there’s nothing like the sweet sound of the Small Stone with the color switch engaged. The rich, luscious, and deep phasing adds so much flavor to chords, arpeggios, and solos, and I absolutely love it combined with some reverb. I could play clean for days with that combination. I love that it has one knob, one switch, and is housed in a large metal enclosure. I love everything about it. There are several versions of the Small Stone, and they mostly do the same thing, with the differences being that some of them have true bypass and some don’t. EHX currently produces the Nano Small Stone, which I also purchased. It’s a great pedal, but the only one I really use is the original big box version. It does everything from slow, subtle whooshes to wild ray gun sounds, and it will never leave my pedalboard again. ToneReport.com 25