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Whimsy Machines The Great Fantabulizing Whatsitdo Octave Fuzz

Whimsy Machines has been spoiling us with some very imaginative devices. Their new creation makes it clear right from its moniker that the builder's stomping ground hasn't changed: enter the Great Fantabulizing Whatsitdo, a "Recursive Octave Fuzz."... Click on the title for more

Whimsy Machines The Great Fantabulizing Whatsitdo Octave Fuzz

New Pedal: Rainger FX Flanger X

The Rainger FX Flanger X is the third pedal in a series of creative mini pedals released by London's eccentric builder David Rainger.... Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Rainger FX Flanger X

Win a Bunch of Pedals with the London Stompbox Exhibit! [ENDED]

To celebrate the launch of the (free!) London Synth & Pedal Expo, this week we have a ROYAL pedal giveaway reserved tour our UK readers!... Click on the title for more

Win a Bunch of Pedals with the London Stompbox Exhibit! [ENDED]

Boost Blurry RAT-Style Filter Distortion

The Blurry is a limited edition pedal with a particular story that was highlighted by the JHS Show in their "Best of 2022" episode. It now sells for around $500 used on Reverb.com.... Click on the title for more

Boost Blurry RAT-Style Filter Distortion

Mythos Argonaut Octave Up

The Mythos Argonaut is a no-frills, no-knobs analog octave-up pedal with a gnarly ring-mod-like tone to it. Cool on its own as a unique effect, or perfect for stacking with other fuzzes and dirt pedals for creating your ultimate octave fuzz.... Click on the title for more

Mythos Argonaut Octave Up

Mask Audio Line Blur EQ

The Mask Audio Line Blur (for which we can't find a web page yet) is a semi-parametric EQ and overdrive pedal for guitar and bass with audiophile-grade op amps, meaning that it's lo-fi in a hi-fi kind of way (those are components you'll find in a home stereo system rather than in a studio rack equalizer).... Click on the title for more

Mask Audio Line Blur EQ

Pigtronix Constellator Mini Analog Delay

The Pigtronix Constellator is an analog delay with modulation that can get rather spacey. We added it to our lists of our Best Tape Delay Pedals and Best Mini Delay Pedals.... Click on the title for more

Pigtronix Constellator Mini Analog Delay

DSM Humboldt Black Clouds Distortion

The DSM Humboldt Black Clouds is a new pedal by the collaborative Chilean company that rose to prominence through the Simplifier, an analog amp/cab simulator. It's their own take on the flexible high-gain distortion pedal (read: this is not a clone).... Click on the title for more

DSM Humboldt Black Clouds Distortion

Best Burns Buzzaround Fuzz Clones & Evolutions in 2023

The Original: Baldwin-Burns Buzzaround

The Buzzaround Fuzz was designed by Gary Hurst in 1966 for the Baldwin-Burns company. It featured 3 NKT213 Germanium transistors and was meant to be a competitor to the Sola Sound Tone Bender. The circuit is very similar to the Tone Bender’s but the controls are a bit different: Sustain (fuzz), Balance, which acts as a Bias starve control to one of the transistors, and Timbre, a volume/tone contour in one. Apparently, it was the first pedal to offer a tone knob.... Click on the title for more

Best Burns Buzzaround Fuzz Clones & Evolutions in 2023

Soundslice FX X-Ray Box (Buzzaround Fuzz)

The Soundslice FX X-Ray Box is a fuzz handmade in Victoriaville, Canada and inspired by the Burns Buzzaround, a pedal from the '60s not too dissimilar from the Tone Bender (but heavier-sounding), and that has become a collector's item.... Click on the title for more

Soundslice FX X-Ray Box (Buzzaround Fuzz)

Simon the Magpie Stutterphone V2: the Silence Looper

Those who are not familiar with Swedish mad scientist Simon the Magpie miss out on some bizarrely genius stompboxes, and synths. The Stutterphone V2 is the new version of a stunning pedal that embeds a vintage rotary phone dial. Even better, it promises to loop... silence!... Click on the title for more

Simon the Magpie Stutterphone V2: the Silence Looper

Old Blood Noise BL-44 Reverse

The Old Blood Noise BL-44 Reverse is a new release by a boutique company that more than others has been leveraging the fascination for reverse effects through popular textural pedals like the Rever and the Minim. However, the BL-44 is a quirkier and experimental beast, blending true reverse with pitch bending and glitch-like effects in a very unique way.... Click on the title for more

Old Blood Noise BL-44 Reverse