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New Pedal: Tampco All-Bender Fuzz

Hailing out of Palaiseau, France, the Tampco All-Bender is a multi-voiced Tone Bender-style fuzz made by a company set to reinstate the reputation of solid-state circuitry. The circuit of this effect is organized in a rather peculiar way, with a rotary knob on the bottom right selecting between four voicings…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Tampco All-Bender Fuzz

Sonicake Rude Mouse Distortion

The Sonicake Rude Mouse is an incredibly affordable RAT-style distortion with two modes: Classic and Hot, which adds extra gain. It's available on Amazon and reverb and gets an average of 4.6 out of five stars, which is very good for products this affordable. We added it to our article…Click on the title for more

Sonicake Rude Mouse Distortion

Blackstar Dept. 10 Boost

Part of the Dept 10 series, the Blackstar Boost is a high voltage boost circuit that, when plugged in your pedal chain, is like adding two extra hot valve stages to your amp. It also features a 2-way passive James-Baxandall EQ for Low and High frequencies and a Built-in Buffer…Click on the title for more

Blackstar Dept. 10 Boost

AC Noises Ama V2 Reverb + Bit Crusher

The AC Noises Ama V2 is an ambient reverb followed by a switchable Bitcrusher (Crush toggle) and a modulation section (OSC knob). The Reverb knob balances both the amount of reverb and the length of the decay. The bit crusher gets things grainy and noisy and features knobs for Resolution…Click on the title for more

AC Noises Ama V2 Reverb + Bit Crusher

One Control Lemon Yellow Compressor

The One Control Lemon Yellow is a very musical compressor in a mini case, with controls for compression ratio, amount of compression, and level. A switch on the side allows for increased release time (more sustain), and a small footprint and solid construction round out the feature set. We added…Click on the title for more

One Control Lemon Yellow Compressor

Wampler Belle Overdrive

Indiana's Wampler has an impressive record in the pedal overdrive niche, having released several best-selling units with various voicing flavors, from classic Plexi-style drives to authentic emulations of highly valued circuits like the Centaur Klon and the Dumble Amps. Their release of a new overdrive is therefore a quite eventful…Click on the title for more

Wampler Belle Overdrive

Dawner Prince Pulse Revolving Speaker Emulator

We had insider news of an upcoming Dawner Prince pedal release in collaboration with David Gilmour for over a year and we assumed it was going to be some kind of super high-end uni-vibe or Binson Echorec emulation. Well, we are excited to share the news that it's neither of…Click on the title for more

Dawner Prince Pulse Revolving Speaker Emulator

Dogman Devices Go Fly A Kite Delay

Dogman Devices is the pedal project of Ohio's post-rock guitarist Lance Giles, and the Go Fly A Kite is his company's take on the 3-knob "analog-voiced" delay - which means that it's actually digital, but made to sound analog. The circuit of this pedal is taken from the delay section…Click on the title for more

Dogman Devices Go Fly A Kite Delay

Vntage Tone Bifurcator Dual Overdrive

Vntage Tone (yes, Vntage doesn't have an "i") is a boutique pedal builder out of Mexico, and the Bifurcator Dual Overdrive is their dual overdrive comprising two of their drive circuits in parallel: the Klon-style Prometheus and the VT 4558 Screamer. The Klon-style side (right channel) adds a Body control…Click on the title for more

Vntage Tone Bifurcator Dual Overdrive

Electronic Audio Experiments Hypersleep V2 Analog Reverb + Modulation

The Electronic Audio Experiments Hypersleep V2 is an analog reverb. But - some may say - "don't you need springs to make an analog reverb?" Well, not if you are after something that's not necessarily vintage-sounding or realistic. The Hypersleep is based on the unusual MN3011 bucket-brigade device, obsolete to…Click on the title for more

Electronic Audio Experiments Hypersleep V2 Analog Reverb + Modulation

Reeves Electro Leo Overdrive

Owned and operated by Marcus Reeves, UK's Reeves Electro builds point-to-point pedals like no other builder does. Because of the limited supply of pedals that can be built this way, Marcus opens his shop for orders only once in a while, announcing the date in advance, and placing orders in…Click on the title for more

Reeves Electro Leo Overdrive

Professor Pedalz Schock Rock Ocean Man Chorus

The Professor Pedalz Schock Rock Ocean Man is a limited edition, creative chorus with a couple of tricks up its sleeve. One of its three modes blends in a polyphonic octave-down to the chorus, while the other two modes (Tide and Wash) open up a world of modulation effects between…Click on the title for more

Professor Pedalz Schock Rock Ocean Man Chorus