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Pedal Pawn Fuzz Germanium LTD Edition

UK's Pedal Pawn is a success story in today's challenging boutique pedal builder environment. The company just unveiled a pricey, limited edition Germanium Version of their popular Fuzz through an exclusive Reverb release (you can buy it here). There are only 50 units of this baby and they'll go out…Click on the title for more

Pedal Pawn Fuzz Germanium LTD Edition

Tech 21 SansAmp Classic

Today's guitarists take amp and cab simulation pedals for granted as an option to add a variety of tonal flavor to their "real" amp and cabs. But things were very different until the year 1989, when the only amp/cab sound one could get was through... an actual amp/cab combo, as…Click on the title for more

Tech 21 SansAmp Classic

NativeAudio Kiaayo Overdrive

Mike Trombley's NativeAudio unveiled a new pedal that represents the builder's debut in the gain realm: the Kiaayo Overdrive. Faithful to the company's somewhat deceiving "less is more" approach, the Kiaayo hides a lot of engineering ingenuity under its three-knob layout. The designer's priority was to create a dynamic overdrive…Click on the title for more

NativeAudio Kiaayo Overdrive

Free the Tone Flight Time FT-2Y Delay

Free the Tone has made a name for itself in the realm of time-based effects, through high-end digital devices full of features. The Flight Time Delay is probably their more straightforward take on the digital echo format. Running on a 32bit DSP processor, this device accepts instruments and line-in signals…Click on the title for more

Free the Tone Flight Time FT-2Y Delay

SolidGoldFX Lysis MKII Polyphonic Octave Fuzz Modulator

The SolidGoldFX Lysis made a splash when it was first unveiled at our Stompbox Booth at NAMM 2019, making it into reverb.com's top 7 of the new NAMM releases. The Montreal-based company just upgraded it with a MkII version that takes this modulated octave fuzz/synth to a new level. Driven…Click on the title for more

SolidGoldFX Lysis MKII Polyphonic Octave Fuzz Modulator

Tone Cloud Jaffa Fuzz

Tone Cloud Effects is an up-and-coming builder from Australia exclusively dedicated to fuzz pedals, and the Jaffa Fuzz is the company's take on the Fuzz Face circuit. This touch-responsive pedal utilizes four silicon transistors to ensure tonal stability and adds one gain stage to the traditional fuzz face circuit for…Click on the title for more

Tone Cloud Jaffa Fuzz

Valco FX KGB Fuzz

Valco FX, a subsidiary of Canadian eccentric guitar builder Eastwood Guitars, unveiled their second pedal after the Bloodbuzz (which we covered here a few months ago): it's a very tweakable fuzz bearing a rather disquieting name: KGB. Designed to work with both instrument and line inputs (read: it works well…Click on the title for more

Valco FX KGB Fuzz

Effectrode Delta-Trem Tube Stereo Tremolo

UK manufacturer Effectrode specializes in guitar pedals featuring vacuum tubes in them, and their Delta-Trem tremolo has two 12AU7 peaking out of the right side of its case, protected by to metal bars. The company's preference for tube-centered circuits reflects its effort to perfect and modernize the technology that gave…Click on the title for more

Effectrode Delta-Trem Tube Stereo Tremolo

Keeley Compressor Mini

Robert Keeley has developed a rock-solid reputation for his compression pedals, and today his company finally announced the release of its first mini-version of this effect - available in two color schemes. The Keeley Compressor Mini is not a rehash of an old design, but a brand new circuit delivering…Click on the title for more

Keeley Compressor Mini

Win a Red Panda Context, a SurfyTrem and Hosa Cables [ENDED]

The giveaways linked to our Los Angeles Outdoor Pedal & Synth Expo aren't over quite yet! This week the potentially free awesomeness involves a Red Panda Context 2 Multi-Mode Reverb and a Surfy Industries SurfyTrem Tremolo, plus a bunch of cables from Hosa to connect your new pedals! Get to…Click on the title for more

Win a Red Panda Context, a SurfyTrem and Hosa Cables [ENDED]

Now Shipping: VS Audio Blackbird Overdrive

Notwithstanding its recent financial troubles and a past not exactly imbibed with rock'n'roll, Greece is emerging as one of the most prolific countries in the guitar pedal realm. VS Audio is one of the newest builders, joining the likes of Jam Pedals, Crazy Tube Circuits and Tsakalis Audio Works, all…Click on the title for more

Now Shipping: VS Audio Blackbird Overdrive

BSRI Audio TFZ Fuzz

The TFZ is a vintage transistor-based fuzz by Baltimore Sonic Research Institute (aka BSRI), a company whose name sounds like some kind of government-supported facility, but that's actually just one dude called David Gill who is into Doom Metal. Rather, it's more than a fuzz, since David wanted to create…Click on the title for more

BSRI Audio TFZ Fuzz