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BAE Audio Hot Fuzz – Fuzz + Boost

The BAE Audio Hot Fuzz – a beast of a pedal we first saw at our 8th Brooklyn Stpompbox Exhibit – combines a high-frequency boost and an English 1970s-style fuzz box that can be used independently or together in series to create high-frequency distortion. The Hi Freq Boost and Fuzz sections…Click on the title for more

BAE Audio Hot Fuzz – Fuzz + Boost

JHS Pedals Smiley Fuzz

The JHS Pedals Smiley, from the Legends of Fuzz Series, is a faithful recreation of the Dallas-Arbiter Fuzz Face. Find the story of the pedal at the bottom of the page. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cPFrij1Q5k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hItYuxVb8Kw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llp8wyidI6Y In 1966, a salesman named Ivor Arbiter saw the rising British rock scene demanding the effect…Click on the title for more

JHS Pedals Smiley Fuzz

Stone Deaf FX Noise Reaper Gate Pedal

The Stone Deaf FX Noise Reaper is a simple, high-quality noise gate designed for line-level instruments. The only knob controls the db threshold under which the signal is silenced, with a LED indicating if the noise gate is active or not. However, this is not your regular manual gate: The…Click on the title for more

Stone Deaf FX Noise Reaper Gate Pedal

New Pedals: Ernie Ball Ambient Delay

Ernie Ball's Expression series takes the wah/volume pedal chassis concept and applies it to other effect types, therefore allowing a sweepable foot control for some paramters. The Ambient Delay has standard knobs to control the feedback, delay time, and reverb level, but the foot sweep provides a throttle control for…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Ernie Ball Ambient Delay

Danelectro Roebuck Distortion

The Danelectro Roebuck is a recreation of the vintage and rare Ibanez Mostortion, a pedal that has many fans among session players because of its flexibility, being able to sound good at a variety of gain ranges and offering a three-band EQ for tone sculpting. Te Roebuck adds two extra…Click on the title for more

Danelectro Roebuck Distortion

Vaderin Pedals Tone Fox Overdrive Distortion

Vaderin Pedals is a new, Los Angeles-based builder specializing in dirt boxes. The Tone Fox is an overdrive/distortion "designed to shape your tone through a crisp-yet-warm tube-like gain stage featuring tight lows, thick mids and present highs." The Teeth knob behaves in a rather original way: clockwise for increased volume, symmetrical…Click on the title for more

Vaderin Pedals Tone Fox Overdrive Distortion

Win a Korg minilogue_xd through our Online Synth Expo! [closed]

Hello synthpathizers! On the heels of our always-packed (and therefore currently not allowed due to pandemic) real-life Synth & Pedal Expos, we are organizing an online Synth Event on October 4th called Synthesthesia 2020 - it's free, you can RSVP here! (We'll announce soon also a virtual Stompbox Exhibit!) To celebrate…Click on the title for more

Win a Korg minilogue_xd through our Online Synth Expo! [closed]

TEFI Vintage Lab Gegé Germanium Fuzz

Tefi Vintage Lab is an Italian pedal of quality stompboxes with a knack for flexibility and adorned with super fun illustrations depicting intriguing characters. Gegé is their take on the classic Germanium fuzz circuit, sporting two hand-picked Germanium transistors AC152, and delivers a dynamic fuzz sound with long sustain and…Click on the title for more

TEFI Vintage Lab Gegé Germanium Fuzz

Skrydstrup DST1 Distortion

A spartan looking, sturdy and rather large device hailing from Hannover, Germany, the Skrydstrup DST1 is a three-knob, high-end level distortion pedal that delivers a range of tones from crancked plexi sounds to singing lead sounds with the dynamics of a tube amplifier. There isn't much to say about this…Click on the title for more

Skrydstrup DST1 Distortion

Spiral Electric FX Brute Fuzz

Spiral Electric FX is the project of ex DigiTech circuit designer Tom Cram, and the Brute - unveiled at NAMM 2019 - is a muscular and dark fuzz pedal designed for the needs of guitarists with bright amps who want to have a bassy options. It features a complex circuit including…Click on the title for more

Spiral Electric FX Brute Fuzz

Carl Martin Atlantic Chorus

The Carl Martin Atlantic is a rather unusual analog chorus where the Rate control knob blends in vibrato for some more extreme in-depth chorus modulations. The Level control can act as a boost. Check out the videos below, we added the Carl Martin Atlantic to our article about the Best…Click on the title for more

Carl Martin Atlantic Chorus

CKK Electronic Fluid Time MKII Analog Delay

Chinese pedal brands CKK Electronics and Sinvertek (they are the same company) have been gaining more and more respect among the community of pedal lovers for their well designed and affordable stompboxes offering a mind-blowing host of features - so much so that we are tempted to call them the…Click on the title for more

CKK Electronic Fluid Time MKII Analog Delay