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Veri-Tone Azzurro Tube Preamp

Fans of Eric Clapton's tone with the Blues Breakers (a band from the '60s headed by John Mayall), might be familiar with the term "Beano Tone," a warm yet edgy sound that became the signature of those records. If you are wondering what amp Clapton used with that band, you…Click on the title for more

Veri-Tone Azzurro Tube Preamp

SUV Pedals High Rider Overdrive

German pedal company SUV Pedals has only two pedals under its belt, but that's enough to gain attention among tone lovers. Henning from EytschPi42 posted this glowing review of the High Rider, a mid-gain overdrive that's perfect to push your amp beyond its inevitable gain limits. The pedal features a…Click on the title for more

SUV Pedals High Rider Overdrive

Flower Pedals Poppy Dual Boost

Sometimes simple yet innovative ideas are the best ones we come up with, and Flower Pedals' Poppy seems to belong to that category: it's a dual boost with separate in/outs for each channel, so that you can insert the two circuits anywhere you want in your pedal chain. If you…Click on the title for more

Flower Pedals Poppy Dual Boost

RC Pedals Mr Eric (Early Years) Overdrive

A tribute to the first Marshall Bluesbreaker Mark I (black box), the RC Pedals Mr Eric (Early Years) improves on the original design by sounding less thin at higher gain settings and less dark at lower ones. The four knobs are for Gain, Volume, Treble and Bass Cut. The latter…Click on the title for more

RC Pedals Mr Eric (Early Years) Overdrive

Orion Effekte Kafka Reverb

Cool new reverb pedal with a cool new name by German manufacturer Orion Effekte. It's the Kafka, a reverb designed to generate dark premonition and "unfathomable feelings" - we are in! One cool feature about this effect is an effects loop that allows you to access the reverb signal only, so…Click on the title for more

Orion Effekte Kafka Reverb

BLAMMO! Electronics Tomb Sender Ge Fuzz

A modern take of the venerable Tone Bender MkIII, the BLAMMO! Electronics Tomb Sender is a Germanium fuzz with an extra gain stage for more output and a beefed-up EQ section. The toggle switch in the middle of the pedal operates a simple noise gate that removes the background noise/muck between…Click on the title for more

BLAMMO! Electronics Tomb Sender Ge Fuzz

Idiotbox Effects Mad Doctor Deluxe Tremolo

The Idiotbox Effects Mad Doctor Deluxe is a tremolo pedal with 8 LFO modes, including some "out there" ones that borderline on glitchy/stutter: ramp up, ramp down, square pulse, triangle, sine, sweep, random levels and random slope. This pedal can create some interesting textures, and it's Tap-Tempo enabled. Check out…Click on the title for more

Idiotbox Effects Mad Doctor Deluxe Tremolo

New Pedals: One Control Butter Yellow Auto Quack

Autowah pedals are deceivingly simple devices: a lot of care is required not only in the design of the filter (it's all in the tone!) but also in the way the envelope interacts with the player's dynamics. Japanese pedal builder One Control has developed a very solid reputation through their…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: One Control Butter Yellow Auto Quack

Pecan Audio Edera Stereo Distortion

Stereo is slowly but surely becoming the standard in the stompbox realm, and even though, for obvious reason, this trend began with time-based and modulation effects, it's now expanding to dirt boxes - coincidentally, we blogged earlier this week about the first stereo pedal guitar amp. One of the big…Click on the title for more

Pecan Audio Edera Stereo Distortion

Greenchild Amplification Klazo Drive

Greenchild Amplification's most recent design is the Klazo Drive, an overdrive featuring a unique design based on "current driven transconductance amplifier topology with floating diodes" that deliver musical clipping across the entire frequency spectrum. Check out the videos below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5kN46YUpH4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOt1NxeKJ9o Our Klazo Drive is a smooth sounding overdrive designed…Click on the title for more

Greenchild Amplification Klazo Drive

The Monthly Stompbuzz, November 2020 – Most Searched Pedals on Our Blog

The Monthly StompBuzz is back, with the usual update on the most searched pedals on our site in the previous 30 days period - in this case, that is November 2020! For some inscrutable reason, last month was the month of the Plexi Pedal - not one, not two, but…Click on the title for more

The Monthly Stompbuzz, November 2020 – Most Searched Pedals on Our Blog

New Pedals: Anarchy Audio Aftermath Modulation Obliterator

While reverb and delay pedals have been the favorite effects of creative guitarists since the psychedelic '60s, the trend of creative modulation pedals is rather new. Australian pedal builder Anarchy Audio just released their take on this effect niche, and - as one may expect from their name - it's…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Anarchy Audio Aftermath Modulation Obliterator