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Pine Box Customs Motel Distortion

The Pine Box Customs Motel is a RAT-inspired circuit that aims at widening the palette of tones produced by that popular distortion pedal. It's also the first distortion pedal released by this Memphis-based company that mostly focuses on dirt boxes. The Motel's circuit features an internal voltage doubling circuit that…Click on the title for more

Pine Box Customs Motel Distortion

New Pedal: Catalinbread CB30 Vox-Style Overdrive

The latest pedal by Portland, Oregon's Catalinbread is the CB30, a simple Vox-AC30-style overdrive with Treble and Bass knobs. With this baby, it's all in that elusive "chimey" tones you get from saturating the circuit, so we'll let you hear it, without further ado, in the videos below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-YkbE-LbBc&t=46s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmOFX_dlnY…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Catalinbread CB30 Vox-Style Overdrive

EarthQuaker Devices Aqueduct Vibrato

It's a busy week for pedal releases: it's only Wednesday and Seymour Duncan, Mooer and JHS announced new pedals. Today, it's EarthQuaker Devices' turn. The Akron, Ohio based manufacturer unveiled a new "vintage-inspired pitch vibrato" pedal called Aqueduct, which by the company's standards looks like a fairly simple device, with two…Click on the title for more

EarthQuaker Devices Aqueduct Vibrato

MXR Dookie Drive V3

The MXR Dookie Drive is an overdrive pedal celebrating the 25th anniversary of Green Day's legendary album Dookie, and the band's "dirty and punchy with the perfect amount of articulation to express the musicality of his fast, melodic riffs." Billie Joe Armstrong’s guitar tone on Green Day’s groundbreaking album Dookie sounded dirty…Click on the title for more

MXR Dookie Drive V3

Hotone Mojo Attack Nano Legacy Floor Amp

Reviews for musical gear have always been riddled with conflicts of interest - let's just say that a reviewer writing for a publication that runs an ad about the product he's reviewing is not in the ideal position to be objective... This is why videos like the ones streaming below…Click on the title for more

Hotone Mojo Attack Nano Legacy Floor Amp

Horizon Devices Flux Echo + Reverb

Horizon Devices, founded by Periphery's Misha Mansoor, is well known for its devices designed specifically for artists playing Prog Metal, Prog Rock and other similar punchy yet adventurous genres. The Flux Echo is their first foray into non-gain-related effects. A Stereo delay/reverb with Tap Tempo and Freeze function, the Flux…Click on the title for more

Horizon Devices Flux Echo + Reverb

New Pedal: Lefty Guitars Daily The Cannon

Designed by pedal videographer Eric Merrow as an all-in-one gain solution for any pedalboard, the Lefty Guitars Daily The Cannon is multi-gain stage overdrive featuring an extra boost with separate footswitch and controls. The amount of boost can be controlled through the orange knob and it's placed before the drive,…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Lefty Guitars Daily The Cannon

Pettyjohn Rous Distortion

The RAT Distortion belongs to that very exclusive pedal circuit "elite" that provides seemingly infinite inspiration to stompbox builders. We know something about it, since we've been working for over a year on a comprehensive article about RAT clones, and each and every time we try to finalize it we…Click on the title for more

Pettyjohn Rous Distortion

Win a Red Panda Context V2 Reverb through Effectopia 2020 (Ended)

Our Stompbox Exhibit is back in virtual format on November 1st under the Effectopia 2020 moniker (it's a free event, RSVP here!), and, with it, are a bunch of wonderful pedal giveaways! This week we give our readers the chance to take home a Red Panda Context V2, a Stereo…Click on the title for more

Win a Red Panda Context V2 Reverb through Effectopia 2020 (Ended)

JHS Pedals Supreme Fuzz

The JHS Pedals Supreme, from the Legends of Fuzz Series, is a faithful recreation of the Univox Super Fuzz. Read the story of the pedal at the bottom of the page. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDJyt09xmz8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MTSY2q0vDs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kGWOlf_--E In the late 1960’s, Japan was bursting at the seams with amazing guitar pedal companies and…Click on the title for more

JHS Pedals Supreme Fuzz

Hotone Ampero Multi-Effect

The multi-effect pedal Hotone Ampero was announced at Music China 2018 and then unveiled in the US at the NAMM 2019 show. Driven by the company's CDCM HD (Comprehensive Dynamic Circuit Modeling High Definition) and F.I.R.E. (Field Impulse Response Enhancement) systems, the Ampero is a stereo, dual-core modeling digital pedal featuring…Click on the title for more

Hotone Ampero Multi-Effect

Pyu Pyu Electronics Kongsberg Reverb + Fuzz

Pyu Pyu Electronics is an emerging pedal builder based in Oslo, Norway, mostly focused on designing creative pedals and mods. Their Kongsberg is a hybrid circuit featuring an ambient Reverb and a Fuzz, with a separate footswitch for each effect (the DRONN one is for the fuzz). Check out the…Click on the title for more

Pyu Pyu Electronics Kongsberg Reverb + Fuzz