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Funny Little Boxes Dirt Distortion

Mar 3, 2026

Dirt brings the crushing intensity, squalling lead tones, and chugging riffs of 90's hard rock and metal to your pedalboard. From Alice In Chains to Slipknot via Silverchair, Tool, and Tom Morello, The Dirt has all your headbanging bases covered and then some. Plug in; Switch on and let the Riffage commence!

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New Pedal: Beetronics Pollinator Hazee Multi-Modulated Delay

Beetronics finally went digital. After years of building analog dirt boxes in those signature hand-painted enclosures, the California-via-Brazil hive unleashed the Pollinator Hazee Delay—their first fully digital pedal . And thank fuck. Because you can't do what this does with bucket brigades and capacitors. Here's the twist: most modulated delays…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Beetronics Pollinator Hazee Multi-Modulated Delay

New Pedal: Tone King Royalist Preamp

Following the success of last year's Imperial preamp, Tone King has unveiled the Royalist: a high-voltage tube preamp pedal that distills the sound of their Royalist MKIII amplifier into a compact, pedalboard-friendly format. Where the Imperial covered American cleans, the Royalist is a full-throated tribute to the golden age of…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Tone King Royalist Preamp

New Pedal: Alexander Pedals Error XP Multi-FX Pedal

Alexander Pedals took their glitch-centric Syntax Error, shrunk it down, and added more ways to break your signal. The Syntax Error XP is the Leap Series version - smaller enclosure, same digital chaos, now with stereo ins and outs because destroying one channel of audio apparently wasn't enough. Eight modes…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Alexander Pedals Error XP Multi-FX Pedal

New Pedal: JHS Double Dragon Lo-Fi Octave Pedal

After years of building all sorts of effects pedals (but mostly overdrives and fuzzes), JHS finally entered the octave game. The Double Dragon is their first dedicated octave pedal—and they built it on forty-year-old technology. MXR Blue Box. Boss OC-2. Electro-Harmonix Micro-Synth . Those circuits that predated digital precision, that…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: JHS Double Dragon Lo-Fi Octave Pedal

Win 3 Pedals + Audio Interface via the London Synth & Pedal Expo

Heads up, UK pedalheads! We're celebrating the upcoming London Synth & Pedal Expo (March 22-23) with a proper giveaway! Three seriously cool pedals need a new home - and that home could be your board. The contenders (in strict anti-alphabetical order, because we love inconsequential subversion): Walrus Audio Qi Etherealizer…Click on the title for more

Win 3 Pedals + Audio Interface via the London Synth & Pedal Expo

New Pedal: Umbrella Company Hume

The Japan-made Umbrella Company HUME is a spatial effects pedal designed to occupy the elusive territory between delay and reverb. It emerges from a simple concept: what happens when echoes stop being distinct repeats and start dissolving into atmosphere? The answer lives in the F&V sliders—the pedal's defining control. This…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Umbrella Company Hume

New Pedal: LPD Sixty8X Overdrive

The LPD Sixty8X is a limited-edition 10th-anniversary evolution of the 2016 Sixty8 Drive. This Marshall-style overdrive and preamp preserves the original’s tonal identity while refining its internal circuitry for a more authentic 1968-inspired amplifier response. Central to the redesign is an updated phase inverter clipping circuit that more closely replicates…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: LPD Sixty8X Overdrive

New Pedal: KHDK Electronics Digital Bath Modulated Delay

After years of relative quiet from the Dunlop-family brand, KHDK Electronics has reemerged with something unexpected . Not another high-gain monster for metalheads—though they've done those—but a filter-delay modulation pedal born from a two-year collaboration with Deftones' Chino Moreno. The Digital Bath takes its name and spirit from the White…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: KHDK Electronics Digital Bath Modulated Delay

New Pedal: Wampler Golden Jubilee Dual Overdrive/Distortion

Brian Wampler looked at the 1980s and saw two kinds of fire-breathing monsters. California boutique amps—smooth, articulate, punchy, the kind of gain that lets you bend a note and hear every microtonal ghost in between. British high-gain stacks—saturated, muscular, that cranked-Plexi crunch that made the decade sound the way it…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Wampler Golden Jubilee Dual Overdrive/Distortion

Arturia Giveaway linked to the London Synth Expo 2026

Oy, UK-based synth wizards and knob-twiddling witches, This week, in anticipation of the looming London Synth & Pedal Expo, we’re hosting a giveaway that will expand your sonic horizons. You want a free slab of keys that'll make your computer sound like a spaceship? Arturia's Keylab 61 wants a home. Three plugins…Click on the title for more

Arturia Giveaway linked to the London Synth Expo 2026

New Pedal: Zorg Effects Glue Fuzz MkII

The first Glue Fuzz was a sleeper. Two fuzzes in one box—a Fuzz Face and an Octavia—with controls that made no sense until you twisted them and the whole room tilted sideways. Velcro sounds. Synth sputters. That weird in-between space where fuzz stops being fuzz and starts being something broken…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Zorg Effects Glue Fuzz MkII

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