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Now Shipping: Anasounds Full Story Multi-Muff Clone

The Anasounds Full Story is an ambitious new pedal by a French company enamored with wood, that aims at becoming the ultimate all-things Big Muff. It consists of a dual circuit featuring replaceable "tone cards," each recreating specific versions of the venerable fuzz pedal, with a foot-switchable Treble Booster clone…Click on the title for more

Now Shipping: Anasounds Full Story Multi-Muff Clone

Black Mass Electronics The First Herald

The folks at Black Mass Effects, out of Salem, MA, describe their debut pedal, named The First Herald and recently redesigned to fit in a compact case, as a device that "does not reinvent the wheel, but reinforces it" and also "not death itself, but a definitive statement reminding you…Click on the title for more

Black Mass Electronics The First Herald

Wampler Phenom Distortion

The Wampler Phenom Distortion is one of two releases from a new affordable line of pedals called "Collective" by a US-based boutique company with a record of best-selling dirt boxes. Joining a trend developed in recent years by US boutique builders to manufacture quality, compact gain pedals with a price…Click on the title for more

Wampler Phenom Distortion

Win a Carl Martin Ampster! [ended]

The Carl Martin Ampster is the Danish company’s take on the tube amp + speaker simulator pedal, and we have a unit here in desperate search of a talented and possibly good-looking owner! Responsive to your performance and organic-sounding, this fully analog unit features a single tube-driven power amp and…Click on the title for more

Win a Carl Martin Ampster! [ended]

Jackson Audio The Optimist Drive

Texas' Jackson Audio is one of the few emerging pedal builders that's bringing innovation to an effect niche that lagged behind others in exciting features: the niche of gain pedals. Packed with features and enhanced by clever digital functionality, the company's pedals retain an analog core while widening the player's…Click on the title for more

Jackson Audio The Optimist Drive

Blind Panic Devices Super Nintendecho

Built by a small UK builder without a website (yet), the Blind Panic Devices Super Nintendecho is a delay to be released in 2023 based on the PT2399 chip with some quirky and original features obviously inspired by everyone's favorite vintage gaming console. Just like that console's controller, the Super…Click on the title for more

Blind Panic Devices Super Nintendecho

SolidGoldFX buys Diamond Pedals

Well, that is some news! For the unaware, Diamond is a Canadian effect company that was known in particular for their high-quality delay line called Memory Lane, launched in the late aughts. The use of digital technology in Diamond pedals was a major factor in their popularity and success: it…Click on the title for more

SolidGoldFX buys Diamond Pedals

JHS 3 Series Octave Reverb

The JHS 3 Series Octave Reverb is the Kansas City-based pedal builder's $99 take on the so-called "Shimmer" effect, a circuit that marries a long ambient reverb with an octave effect placed in the reverb's decay. Appeared on the scene in 1984 when Brian Eno came up with it while…Click on the title for more

JHS 3 Series Octave Reverb

Rare Buzz Effects Octave Distortion

The Rare Buzz Effects Octave Distortion is a combo pedal that marries the company's 1970 Distortion and 1970 Octave pedals. The two effects feature separate controls and footswitches, which allow to play them separately or in series (Octave into Distortion). The three knobs for the Octave are: Gain: level fed…Click on the title for more

Rare Buzz Effects Octave Distortion

Victory V1 the Copper Drive

The Victory V1 The Copper is an amp-in-a-box that completes the three-member family of pedals inspired by the British company's Copper V35 amplifier, which, in turn, is voiced after the Vox AC-30. Released in a V1 line comprising four more pedals, this compact pedal version was designed in collaboration with…Click on the title for more

Victory V1 the Copper Drive

Way Huge Atreides Analog Weirding Module

Way Huge just announced - quite curiously, through the JHS Pedal YouTube channel! - a new, unexpectedly creative pedal called Atreides (after the characters in cult sci-fi movie Dune), with the uber-intriguing subtitle "Analog Weirding Module." The pedal, inspired by the 1980 mini-synthesizer keyboard by Electro-Harmonix, like the original only…Click on the title for more

Way Huge Atreides Analog Weirding Module

Colfax Recorders Porcelain Fuzz

Colfax Recorders appears to be originally a California-based one-man musical project that recently ventured into manufacturing pedals with the release of three dirt boxes. The Porcelain is the fuzz in the bunch. Not directly inspired to any existing circuits, the Porcelain is a fuzz of the gnarly and dirty variety…Click on the title for more

Colfax Recorders Porcelain Fuzz