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Dirt brings the crushing intensity, squalling lead tones, and chugging riffs of 90's hard rock and metal to your pedalboard. From Alice In Chains to Slipknot via Silverchair, Tool, and Tom Morello, The Dirt has all your headbanging bases covered and then some. Plug in; Switch on and let the Riffage commence!... Click on the title for more
The idea of embedding a drum machine in a guitar pedal is not new, but the 
A revisitation of one of the South Carolina-based company's early unreleased prototypes, the 
The Mad Professor Royal Blue is engineered to be more than a simple gain pedal; it’s an expressive amplifier-in-a-box designed for dynamic response. Unlike heavily compressed drives, its circuit allows your guitar’s natural character and playing dynamics to shine through. The amount of breakup is directly controlled by your picking intensity and your instrument’s volume knob, offering a level of touch-sensitive interaction typically found in high-end tube amps.... Click on the title for more
Judging from the fanfare of the intro video below, one could think that (once) Danish company TC Electronic (now owned by the Scrooge of the music gear world) invented the BBD chip - which is pretty much the only chip you'll find in any analog delay pedal ever made. As you may have gathered, they did not. However, they did release a new pedal called "Bucket Brigade."... Click on the title for more
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One of the most talked-about pedals to emerge from the 2025 NAMM Show was the 
The original Doom Dweller was a beautiful accident. One knob. One job. You twisted it, and the walls got bigger, the shadows got longer, the riffs started breathing like something alive in the room with you. Simple. Elegant. Dumb in the best possible way - like a sledgehammer or a bottle of cheap whiskey.... Click on the title for more
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The Revv Dirt Dog is a soulful, amp-like overdrive born from necessity. When Joey Landreth recorded The Bros. Landreth’s Dog Ear album, he relied on a heavily modified vintage-inspired amp he built himself—a small, quirky Fender Princeton-style circuit that delivered exquisite, harmonically rich breakup but proved too fragile for touring. Revv co-founder Dan Trudeau collaborated with Landreth to capture that volatile, “about-to-explode” magic in a rugged, all-analog pedal.... Click on the title for more
The ongoing creative partnership between Keeley Electronics and revered guitarist Andy Timmons (a 
