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BOSS RE-2 Space Echo

BOSS RE-2 Space Echo Since BOSS worked on a new version of their legendary RE-201 Space Echo (the RE-202), while they were at it they also developed a smaller, (still) stereo version of it: enter the BOSS RE-2 Space Echo, compact version!... Click on the title for more

BOSS RE-2 Space Echo

JPTR FX Katastrophe Octave Up Distortion

JPTR FX Katastrophe German builder JPTR FX likes to make its pedal big and noisy and also original, and the Katastrophe finds its originality angle in being an octave overdrive/distortion (as opposed to an octave fuzz).... Click on the title for more

JPTR FX Katastrophe Octave Up Distortion

Fairfield Circuitry Barbershop V2 Overdrive

Fairfield Circuitry is a tiny oddball, boutique audio effects company from Canada. I note the canadian heritage in that the physical aesthetic choices as well as the functions of the effects are reminiscent of a backwoods experiment by bearded men with too much time and whiskey on their hands. Fairfield stompboxes come with no fancy graphics. They are housed in utilitarian chassis with a minimalist font that emphasises the power that these pedals have. The knobs and switches feel solid and well thought out as if to give confidence that these pedals can take a heavy band practice with musician stomping abound. I was given two pedals to review The Unpleasant Surprise and The Barbershop. ... Click on the title for more

Fairfield Circuitry Barbershop V2 Overdrive

New Pedal: Beautiful Noise Exploder Distortion + White Noise

Beautiful Noise Exploder Distortion Handmade in Newcastle, Australia, the Beautiful Noise Exploder is a distortion pedal for the heavy yet tweaking-inclined guitarist, with a couple of interesting twists.... Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Beautiful Noise Exploder Distortion + White Noise

Orange Guitar Butler Dual Preamp

The Orange Guitar Butler is a two-channel preamp pedal that offers a Clean and a Dirty channel voiced after the UK builder's popular guitar amps, and that can work in conjunction with any amp to provide the unmistakeable character of the Orange amplifiers.... Click on the title for more

Orange Guitar Butler Dual Preamp

Latent Lemon Audio Hurts Fuzz V2

Based in Luton, UK, Latent Lemon is a boutique pedal builder laser-focused on building quality gain (and fuzz) devices.... Click on the title for more

Latent Lemon Audio Hurts Fuzz V2

Spaceman Saturn VI Harmonic Boost

  The stompboxes by Portland's Spaceman Effects always have something special about them, and we are not surprised that their version of what's argualby the least "special" of effects (a booster) turns out to be a lot more than what its name implies.... Click on the title for more

Spaceman Saturn VI Harmonic Boost

Earthquaker Devices Afterneath V3

Earthquaker Devices Afterneath

The EarthQuaker Devices Afterneath is an otherworldly reverberation machine that uses a cluster of short delays to create wild and cavernous reverberations with scattered, rhythmic reflections.... Click on the title for more

Earthquaker Devices Afterneath V3

Jam Pedals Delay Llama mk3

Jam Pedals Delay Lama mk3 Greek builder Jam Pedals has established itself as one of Europe's most trusted makers of boutique stompboxes, and the analog Delay Llama was undeniably the pedal line that helped this company come to the forefront of the guitar effects scene. The Delay Llama mk3 is the latest evolution of the BBD-based pedal that started it all.... Click on the title for more

Jam Pedals Delay Llama mk3

New Pedal: Westminster Piper Drive V3

Westminster Piper Drive The Westminster Piper Drive V3 is a high-gain pedal inspired by the Fulltone OCD but optimized for metallic musical genres.... Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Westminster Piper Drive V3

Subdecay M3 – 3 oscillator guitar synth pedal

The "elite" group of synth pedals featuring one or more tracking oscillators has just gained a new member: the Subdecay M3.... Click on the title for more

Subdecay M3 – 3 oscillator guitar synth pedal