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Updated Pedal: Old Blood Noise Beam Splitter V2 Stereo Distortion

Aug 11, 2026

If you’ve ever chased the wall-of-guitars studio magic of triple-tracking a single part, Old Blood Noise Endeavors’ Beam Splitter V2 is built to solve it. It takes your mono input, splits it into three parallel analog drive paths, routes two of them through independent delay lines, and outputs them in...

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New Pedal: MXR Flanger/Doubler

Compressing the legendary footprint of MXR’s vintage studio rack unit into a pedalboard-friendly stompbox, the MXR Flanger/Doubler utilizes authentic bucket-brigade device (BBD) circuitry to deliver real, analog motion. Bridging the gap between sweeping, jet-engine flanging and thickened, offset doubling, it provides a versatile analog architecture built for both guitar rigs…... Click for more

New Pedal: MXR Flanger/Doubler

Upcoming Pedal: Keeley Tube Drive – 1950 Sylvania 12AT7WA

The Keeley Tube Drive is a limited, collector-grade dual-gain engine pairing a genuine 1950s Sylvania 12AT7WA high-voltage Class A tube preamp with Keeley’s legendary Super Phat Mod circuit. Built in Oklahoma City as a numbered run of 100 units with a brushed gold gloss finish, it offers rich touch sensitivity,…... Click for more

Upcoming Pedal: Keeley Tube Drive – 1950 Sylvania 12AT7WA

New Pedal Kit: Coppersound/JHS Boost-a-Drive Fuzz

Engineered as an ambitious hybrid utility box, the JHS/Coppersound Boost-a-Drive Fuzz is a DIY kit released in collaboration with the folks at Coppersound. Born from Josh Scott’s Short Circuit series and produced in collaboration with CopperSound, the Boost-a-Drive Fuzz is a multi-stage hybrid circuit that takes the classic two-transistor…... Click for more

New Pedal Kit: Coppersound/JHS Boost-a-Drive Fuzz

Seward Park Maravilla Germanium Preamp/Overdrive

Bridging the gap between a transparent preamp and a fuzzy-drive machine, the Seward Park Maravilla delivers a rich blend of touch-sensitive clarity and fuzzy-drive weight. Dual pre and post-gain controls allow players to easily dial in everything from open, low-gain preamp boost to harmonically dense, saturated clipping without muddying the…... Click for more

Seward Park Maravilla Germanium Preamp/Overdrive

New Pedal: Suhr Brighton Treble Booster

The Suhr Brighton is a treble booster, but it's not trying to be a Rangemaster clone or a one-trick box. It's designed to add the top-end sparkle you need to rise above a band mix without losing what makes your sound yours. It's a simple control set — gain, bias,…... Click for more

New Pedal: Suhr Brighton Treble Booster

New Pedal: Missing Link Audio Zepptone Overdrive/Fuzz

The explosive, touch-responsive overdriven tones you hear on Led Zeppelin's early tracks like "Communication Breakdown" and "Good Times Bad Times" surely inspired many guitarists. That cranked-amp character where saturation and aggression become the same thing also inspired the Missing Link Audio Zepptone pedal. That was the starting point; from there,…... Click for more

New Pedal: Missing Link Audio Zepptone Overdrive/Fuzz

New Pedal: Empty Head Effects Seafarer Reverb

Empty Head Effects , run by Nic out of Mainz, Germany, has been building a reputation for thoughtful, textural pedal designs. We got familiar with the company at our 2026 edition of the London Synth & Pedal Expo, where they attracted a lot of interest. Their upcoming Seafarer is a modulated…... Click for more

New Pedal: Empty Head Effects Seafarer Reverb

Warm Audio Dirty Boy Jr. Overdrive

Dirty Boy Pedals have been a cult brand since the 1980s. The company started with Alex Saraceno building one-off circuits for his son, Blues Saraceno, who was making a name as a session guitarist. Those hand-wired, no-compromise designs earned a quiet but fierce following among players who knew. Over the…... Click for more

Warm Audio Dirty Boy Jr. Overdrive

Audio Cultivation Project PALA Compressor

The Audio Cultivation Project PALA Compressor started as a commission for a transparent compressor without the pumping common to OTA-based designs, then spent three more years in development. It's still a compressor, but evolved to capture the feel of a loud amp in a reverberant room — that clean, edge-of-feedback…... Click for more

Audio Cultivation Project PALA Compressor

New Pedal: Gigagain Golden Legacy Plexi Overdrive

Just when you thought the universe had manufactured enough stamped-aluminum boxes to choke every basement guitarist from here to purgatory, a brand called Gigagain crawls out of the woodwork waving a Marshall-in-a-box named the "Golden Legacy." It retails for roughly a hundred and twenty-nine bucks. For that price, what do…... Click for more

New Pedal: Gigagain Golden Legacy Plexi Overdrive

New Pedal: Origin Effects EQ Deluxe

Most EQ pedals are utility. You cut some mud, boost a frequency, move on. The Origin Effects EQ Deluxe (also spelled EQDELUXE) is not that. It's based on the Pultec EQP-1a, a passive studio equalizer from the 1950s that engineers still hunt down because it doesn't just change your…... Click for more

New Pedal: Origin Effects EQ Deluxe

Best Guitar Pedals

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