At first I thought it was an April’s fool joke as I received the press release from Crushsound on April 2nd, but apparently it isn’t.

The Farmer’s mill is a pedal that dirties your tone the way a broken cable, or broken components in your chain would. It is said that Dave Davies, guitarist for the Kinks, put a razor-blade through the speakers of his amp to achieve a grinding kind of distortion, so why not try to put that kind of tone in a pedal?

I know that sounds weird but here is a video from musicradar where you can hear the Farmer’s mill in action and I must say there might be something there (note that pricing information will be available in the coming weeks): click here for the video.

Now this is a crazy idea that TC has just implemented. They have just released a free app (iOS for now, Android to follow) that allows you to ‘beam’ a Toneprint profile into a pedal through the iPhone speaker and the pickups of your guitar.

This video should help you understand:

I can’t wait to try it with my Flashback Delay (read my review of this pedal here). I have briefly tried the app and it features lots of toneprint profiles with descriptions and interviews of the artists who have helped developing them, very cool!