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Best New Pedal 2022 | October Edition

October 2022 was a rather slow month as far as stompbox releases are concerned. This being said, some pretty rad pedals saw the light of the day, in particular from emerging builders like Vongon, Life is Unfair, DryBell, ValcoFX and Ola Englund's Solar - we'll let you explore them in…Click on the title for more

Best New Pedal 2022 | October Edition

Wrought Iron Effects Skipjack Overdrive

The Wrought Iron Effects Skipjack is a military-grade-looking device by a Wisconsin-based company that likes to stand out from the crowd of pedal builders with intriguing products. Named after a nuclear-powered Cold War Attack Submarine, the Skipjack is a low to medium-gain overdrive that's extremely responsive to the player's dynamics…Click on the title for more

Wrought Iron Effects Skipjack Overdrive

Dazatronyx Big Fuzz

Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, the Dazatronyx Big Fuzz is a well-respected Big Muff evolution with an extra Mids knob and a few mods available in the shape of internal switches. The Mids knob is one of the features more common in Big Muff variants, allowing it to overcome the original…Click on the title for more

Dazatronyx Big Fuzz

Soundslice FX This Is A Bad Idea

The Soundslice FX This Is A Bad Idea is a quirky-looking pedal sporting two separate fuzz circuits in one box with separate controls and footswitches. They can be played separately or stacked on top of each other, for beyond-gnarly tones. Hey, we just noticed that the graphics are inspired by some…Click on the title for more

Soundslice FX This Is A Bad Idea

Night Owl Parabellum V2 Drive

The Night Owl Parabellum V2 Drive is a tube EF86 preamp with with two parallel germanium distortion circuits designed by Dunwich Amps. One of these amplifies the high mids and highs with hard clipping characteristics, the other is focused on low mids and lows with soft clipping. The combined output…Click on the title for more

Night Owl Parabellum V2 Drive

Black Mass Electronics Kill Chain Fuzz

Handmade in Salem, MA, the Black Mass Electronics Kill Chain is a one-knob transistor fuzz with a few tricks up its sleeve. The knob controls the volume of the output without affecting the fuzz, so the only way to decrease the amount of fuzz is through your guitar volume knob…Click on the title for more

Black Mass Electronics Kill Chain Fuzz

NuX Tape Echo NDD-7

Chinese up-and-coming pedal builder NUX unveiled a stereo, digital, stylized yet expanded clone of the classic Roland Space Echo: the Nux Tape Echo. The pedal will be shipping soon. With its 1600ms of delay, a 40-second stereo looper, tap tempo, subdivisions, seven modes based on different tape head combinations, and…Click on the title for more

NuX Tape Echo NDD-7

Calico Effects Antlers Fuzz

The Calico Effects Antlers is a tribute to the Green Muff and also the first pedal released by this Rhode Island-based small builder. The regular knobs found in the original (Volume, Tone and Disatortion) are integrated by three toggle switches affecting mids, gain and diode configuration (turn them all in…Click on the title for more

Calico Effects Antlers Fuzz

Vaderin Pedals Kroaked Boost/Distortion

The Vaderin Pedals Kroaked is an all-transistor 3-knob dirt-box that can go from pristine cleans to super-saturated and compressed distortion. The LVL knob, when the other two controls are at zero, works as a clean boost. It's not the output but a linear clean boost that precedes the pedal’s second…Click on the title for more

Vaderin Pedals Kroaked Boost/Distortion

Hagerman Thermionic Reinforcer

To be released in the next few weeks, the Hagerman Thermionic Reinforcer is a pedal featuring the entire 2-channel preamp section of the company's Push-Pull 12W Amplifier including the two 12AX7 tubes. The first channel is a rather traditional overdrive, warm and dynamic, while the second one, triggered by the…Click on the title for more

Hagerman Thermionic Reinforcer

Sonicake Rockstage Multi-FX Bar

To never be found unprepared is a determining quality of professionals. For this reason, an increasing number of guitarists have been carrying around a multi-fx bar like the Sonicake Rockstage next to their regular pedalboard, just in case anything went wrong with their main rig. Ultra-small (it's only 8" wide) and…Click on the title for more

Sonicake Rockstage Multi-FX Bar

Walrus Audio Eons Multi-Fuzz

After the Ages Overdrive and the Eras Distortion, we would be lying if we said that we didn't see this one coming: the multi-mode fuzz Walrus Audio Eons. Built on the same form factor of the aforementioned pedals, and therefore featuring 5 modes, the Eons is born to do all…Click on the title for more

Walrus Audio Eons Multi-Fuzz