Danelectro has unveiled the Nichols 66, a fuzz pedal that’s really half-distortion, half-fuzz, 100 per cent vintage, and dates back to the mid ‘60s when Dano owner and Foxx pedals founder Steve Ridinger was still living at home with his parents.
In fact, this is a version of Ridinger’s first ever guitar effects pedal, first designed in 1966, which he then called his Liverpool Fuzz Tone. Ridinger was a coltish 14-year-old with a gift for circuitry, he hand-wired each pedal himself and sold them to the kids at his school.
