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McGregor Pedals Cozmic Fuzzball

The Cozmic Fuzzball from Vancouver's McGregor Pedals is a personal, high-end take on the gnarliest of pedal effects, stacking hard clipping with soft clipping and adding an overdriven transistor to deliver a range of tones from distortion to increasingly sustained fuzz. Somewhat misleadingly, the Attack knob controls the amount of…Click on the title for more

McGregor Pedals Cozmic Fuzzball

Ground Control Noodles Tone Shaper

Montreal's Ground Control Audio, the Noodles is an original take on the tone-shaping box/boost pedal. It features three EQ bands (Bass, Mids and Treble) each with its own footswitch, boost/cut knob, and a three-way push button that gives you a choice of frequency per band. If you add up all…Click on the title for more

Ground Control Noodles Tone Shaper

Retroactive Pedals Dot Chaser Cassette-Style Echo with Modulation

The PT2399 chip is found in a lot of modulated delay pedals inspired by old tape machines - you can find a list of the most popular in this section about the Best Creative PT2399-Based Echo Pedals. Nashville's Retroactive Pedals has an intriguing stompbox that fits this profile called Dot…Click on the title for more

Retroactive Pedals Dot Chaser Cassette-Style Echo with Modulation

Meris Polymoon Modulated Delay

Meris in 2018 was probably the most buzzworthy new builder to hit the pedal scene. The Polymoon is their take on modulated delays. It's a very deep stereo modulated delay that can take you from familiar earthly environments to parallel sonic universes. It boasts 6 delays in series, dual dynamic…Click on the title for more

Meris Polymoon Modulated Delay

Seymour Duncan Vapor Trail Deluxe

The original Vapor Trail delay+modulation was one of the most popular pedals by Seymour Duncan, a company mostly known for their electric guitar pickups. The new Deluxe version of that design adds several features to the original design through extensive digital controls, maintaining a fully analog signal path. The most…Click on the title for more

Seymour Duncan Vapor Trail Deluxe

Becos FX Ziffer Overdrive TS8-JZ

Hailing from Constanta, Romania, Becos FX builds high-quality pedals targeting players with tweaking instincts, and are particularly well-respected for their line of compressors, which includes this insane monster. They just released one of their most streamlined pedals to date, the Ziffer Overdrive. This is a Jordan Ziff signature, mini evolution of…Click on the title for more

Becos FX Ziffer Overdrive TS8-JZ

Warm Audio Jet Phaser

Texas-based Warm Audio is a pro audio company dedicated to manufacturing a variety of analog gear with a classic flavor (from mics to preamps to sound processors), often inspired by legendary vintage models. They have two guitar pedals under their roster, and the Jet Phaser is their recreation of the…Click on the title for more

Warm Audio Jet Phaser

Pete Cornish GC-1 High Gain Crunch Drive

British pedal engineer Pete Cornish is a true legend of the scene, having worked with the likes of Paul McCartney, David Gilmour and Mark Knopfler, among many other rock'n'roll stars. The GC-1 is the stompbox he chose to celebrate his 45th year of designing and building professional stage equipment. Although…Click on the title for more

Pete Cornish GC-1 High Gain Crunch Drive

Thermion Zero Stereo Pedal Amp

Henning at EytschPi42 is freaking out about the Zero pedal amp by Spanish company Thermion. While major pedal companies are busy trying to reduce the size of pedal amps to the compact stompbox format (i.e. the size of a regular BOSS pedal), Thermion has taken a different approach, focusing on…Click on the title for more

Thermion Zero Stereo Pedal Amp

Fairfield Circuitry Long Life EQ

Quebec-based pedal maker Fairfield Circuitry has built a solid following thanks of a line of stompboxes that's at once stylishly minimalistic and inspiringly creative. Today the company released not one but two pedals! The Long Life is in its essence an analog, parametric, resonant EQ channel with extra controls to…Click on the title for more

Fairfield Circuitry Long Life EQ

3 Creative Features of the Hologram Microcosm: Hold Sampler, Arp Mode, Granules

Since it was announced in February 2020, the Hologram Microcosm has been consistently the most searched pedals on this blog (it's July 22nd at the time of writing). But look beyond the hype and you’ll find that this pedal is a serious creative and compositional tool. It can be used…Click on the title for more

3 Creative Features of the Hologram Microcosm: Hold Sampler, Arp Mode, Granules

Nocturne JR Barnyard Pre-War Hot Preamp V2

From San Diego, CA, hails Nocturne, a family company that hand-builds pedals, amps and preamps led by a self-described "ol' American rockabilly boy true to old school heritage ." The JR Barnyard is their take on the vintage 1930's-40s octal tube amp circuit found in early Gibson and Dickerson amps…Click on the title for more

Nocturne JR Barnyard Pre-War Hot Preamp V2