RED MIST MK IV

You don’t see many guitarists actually making their own gear–well, it’s a lot easier just to buy the stuff with all those Spotify royalties. Ahem. But when Mikey Demus of Skindred realised his perfect distortion pedal didn’t quite exist, he decided to go out and make it happen himself… with a little help from one of the UK’s most respected stompbox builders.

Skindred are a British band who play modern metal with a ragga twist. There’s a lot of heavy drop-tuned riffage involved and Mikey usually relies on cranked Orange amps to bring the noise. The only trouble