The NUX Queen of Tone is a naughtily named dual overdrive pedal that only a fraction of our readers will be able to buy at this time because it seems to have been released only in Australia.... Click on the title for more
The Fuzzlord Drone Master is a brutal high gain machine that takes the RAT and adds two toggles for more tonal versatility. The left switch controls a mid-scoop or boost while the right switch allows for silicon diode clipping or a much louder and compressed LED clipping mode.... Click on the title for more
Amp modelers in recent years have shrunk considerably in size, so much so that the race among competing builders is now not about how small you can make them, but how many features you can pack into them. In this optic, the NUX MG-400, with its gorgeous 2.8" color display and stereo routing, fares pretty darn well, in particular considering its price.... Click on the title for more
Brian Neunaber of Neunaber Audio might be based in Orange, California, but the rigor he puts into his pedal designs betrays the mitteleuropean origins of his last name (for the unaware, Germans seem to have a special gene for engineering).... Click on the title for more
The Lantern Manufacturing Meadowsweet, which was just highlighted as one of the best pedals of 2022 by the JHS Show (although it's officially out in 2023!), is a very peculiar chorus effect. Instead of using the typycal analog BBD chip or a digital circuit, it has at its core a PT2399 chip, used 99% of the time for echo pedals.... Click on the title for more