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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

Haunted Labs Scorched Earth Fuzz

This silicon fuzz by North Carolina's Haunted Labs, called Scorched Earth, has a versatile tone knob that can take it from vintage sounding to gnarly. Check out the videos - the one at the bottom was shot directly inside our Stompbox Booth at NAMM 2020! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLhBWbTubeE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvOJJVbV34c Unpredictable and ground-shaking…Click on the title for more

Haunted Labs Scorched Earth Fuzz

Collision Devices The Ranch Dynamic Tremolo, Drive & Boost

Marrying sustainability and vintage look, The Ranch, by French pedal builder Collision Devices, is a drive with separate boost footswitch and an added dynamic tremolo that's gaining "buzz status" among the pedal connoisseurs. Interestingly, more than half of the pedal's presentation text is about materials (it's made of US Walnut…Click on the title for more

Collision Devices The Ranch Dynamic Tremolo, Drive & Boost

Make Sounds Loudly Pedals Night Witch Fuzz + Phaser

Here's a Phaser + Fuzz by Make Sounds Loudly Pedals called Night Witch. It's a take on the Roland AP7 Jet Phaser. The Tone knob (on the fuzz side) amplifies lowe frequencies when turned down and high ones when turned up, while the phaser circuits features knobs for Resonance (phaser…Click on the title for more

Make Sounds Loudly Pedals Night Witch Fuzz + Phaser

Now Shipping: One Control Rocket Grey Fuzz

A curiously shaped Octave Up fuzz by One Control, the Rocket Grey Fuzz celebrates the 50th anniversary of fuzz and features two footswitches to control separately the two circuits, plus Volume and Intensity knobs. Perhaps the most intriguing feature about this pedal is that its input circuit automatically optimizes its…Click on the title for more

Now Shipping: One Control Rocket Grey Fuzz

Flattley DG Fuzz

The Flattley DG Fuzz is a two-transistor buffered pedal inspired by the fuzz sounds adopted by Pink Floyd's David Gilmour in the early '70s, which seems to imply it's a muff-style pedal. Besides the four knobs controlling Fuzz, Treble, Volume and Body (Bass), the device features an internal trim pot…Click on the title for more

Flattley DG Fuzz