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Glowfly Albert Gramophone Simulator

While some lo-fi pedals out there recreate the sonic artifacts of vinyl record players, the Glowfly Albert takes things one notch further by giving us the sound of the record player's grandpa: the gramophone. You can reduce the frequency bandwidth of your tone to make it sound thin or phone-like…Click on the title for more

Glowfly Albert Gramophone Simulator

Harley Benton Double Vision Chorus + Tremolo

The Harley Benton Double Vision is a $66 dual effect pedal featuring a Chorus circuit on the left side and a Tremolo on the right. Based on circuits made popular by Mooer's mini-pedals, the two effects here can be routed one into the other or triggered in a way that…Click on the title for more

Harley Benton Double Vision Chorus + Tremolo

Orange Vintage Series Phaser

The Orange Vintage Series Phaser is part of a pedal line the British amp builder launched in September 2022, inspired by old line of large vintage stompboxes from the '70s. This one-knobbed box does exactly what's expected, delivering a luscious psychedelic swirl at various speeds. Originally named "Phazer," the pedal…Click on the title for more

Orange Vintage Series Phaser

Pedal Update: Crazy Tube Circuits Stardust V3 Overdrive

The Crazy Tube Circuits Stardust V3 is the Greek company's update to their Fender Blackface-inspired circuit. The layout is very simple with knobs for Volume, Tone and Gain and a 3-way toggle switch that delivers the tone of three different Blackface amp models: BSM is voiced after a Bassman, an…Click on the title for more

Pedal Update: Crazy Tube Circuits Stardust V3 Overdrive

Polar Bear Petrichor Lo-Fi Delay/Sequencer

The Polar Bear Petrichor Delay is a pedal based on a chip that fortunately seems to be readily available in these days of supply chaos: the PT2399. Like most pedals emplying this device, the Petrichor is a lo-fi delay pedal, but its circuit features an extra creative tool: a step…Click on the title for more

Polar Bear Petrichor Lo-Fi Delay/Sequencer

New Pedal: LPD Pedals Broiler D-Style Overdrive

The LPD Pedals Broiler Overdrive is a take on the sought-after D-Style overdrive, i.e. an amp-in-a-box voiced after the tone of the legendary Dumble amps. With its pre-clipping bass controls and post-clipping mid and treble ones, the Broiler can deliver a wide range of tones from clean to singing sustain,…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: LPD Pedals Broiler D-Style Overdrive

Pedal Update: Mythos Positron Fuzz

The Mythos Positron is a compact and more "standard" version of the Positron Collider, a fuzz voiced after the Rams Head circuit released in 2018 as a Halloween special inspired by the classic sci-fi comedy film Ghostbusters. The Positron, however, offers a much wider range of tones mostly thanks to…Click on the title for more

Pedal Update: Mythos Positron Fuzz

J. Rockett Uni-Verb

Modulation + Reverb combo pedals have been a thing for a while now, but in most, if not all cases these are effects targeting the ambient/psychedelic guitarist, featuring long reverbs and a variety of swirly modulation options. The J. Rockett Uni-Verb - as we have come to expect by the…Click on the title for more

J. Rockett Uni-Verb

Orange Amps Distortion

The Orange Vintage Series Distortion is a high-quality reissue of a vintage and long-discontinued pedal by the UK amp manufacturer, rediscovered thanks to a photo in a message board, together with two other devices. Unlike the two other designs, this one underwent significant circuit "surgery:" the original’s back-to-back diode design was…Click on the title for more

Orange Amps Distortion

Funny Little Boxes 1991 “Pearl Jam” Distortion

The dude at the Let's Play All YouTube Channel is very much into the guitar sound of the '90s, and some time in the first half of 2021 he asked a friend at Funny Little Boxes (a small UK pedal builders) if he could create a pedal that reproduced the…Click on the title for more

Funny Little Boxes 1991 “Pearl Jam” Distortion

Victory V1 The Jack

Designed in collaboration with Adrian Thorpe of ThorpyFX and hand-built in the UK, the Victory V1 The Jack is a high-end amp-in-a-box version of the company's actual guitar amp by the same name that was designed in collaboration with guitarist Guthrie Govan with the goal of creating some sort of…Click on the title for more

Victory V1 The Jack

FFX Pedals All You Can Boost – Boost/Overdrive

Presented by the company as a Boost, the FFX Pedals All You Can Boost, with its two red boost knobs, is an extremely flexible gain pedal that has enough gain to act as an overdrive, when needed. The 3-band EQ section can be turned on and off through a separate footswitch.…Click on the title for more

FFX Pedals All You Can Boost – Boost/Overdrive