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Malaise Forever Golden Guillotine Distortion

The Malaise Forever Golden Guillotine is a hand-made, heavy distortion pedal with pre-gain boost and a post gain knob by a very boutique one-man builder based in Columbus, OH. This dual-gain stages pedal also features a three-way switch for hard clipping diode control and clipping bypass for uncompressed high output.…Click on the title for more

Malaise Forever Golden Guillotine Distortion

Mad Professor Supreme Dual Overdrive

Mad Professor came out with a new dual overdrive called Supreme engineered in collaboration with famous blues guitarist Matt Schofield. The result is a two-in-one pedal with a Channel A mostly based on the company's low gain Royal Blue Overdrive (which shines with a neck pickup) and Channel B featuring…Click on the title for more

Mad Professor Supreme Dual Overdrive

The Monthly StompBuzz: the Most Hyped Pedals in May 2020

Today we start a new monthly appointment with the most hyped pedals of the month: The Monthly StompBuzz! The one below is the list of the stompboxes that had the most Google searches in the Month of May - this is data, not opinion! Click on the links below to…Click on the title for more

The Monthly StompBuzz: the Most Hyped Pedals in May 2020

The 7 Best Fuzz Friendly Wah Pedals in 2022

A Guide to the Best Fuzz Friendly Wah Pedal Wah and fuzz are two of the most popular effects for electric guitar, and also happen to sound great when played together. But there's a but: these two devices, in their original versions, have an impedance incompatibility that causes issues ranging…Click on the title for more

The 7 Best Fuzz Friendly Wah Pedals in 2022

Audio Disruption Devices Failed Transmission Fuzz/Overdrive

The Audio Disruption Devices Failed Transmission is the latest pedal, a fuzz, from this Mooresville, Indiana boutique pedal builder, that declares to be focusing on building "small quantities of weird things." The Failed Transmission keeps faith to this intent: it's a creative fuzz/overdrive with a separate and blendable noise oscillation…Click on the title for more

Audio Disruption Devices Failed Transmission Fuzz/Overdrive

KINK Guitar Pedals Russian Plague Fuzz

From Melbourne Australia comes the KINK Guitar Pedals Russian Plague, consisting in a RAT-style circuit stacked into a Civil war-style Muff. The effects can be turned on and off independently through dedicated footswitches and their order can be changed with the flick of a switch. The amount of distortion you…Click on the title for more

KINK Guitar Pedals Russian Plague Fuzz

Wampler Euphoria V2 D-Style Overdrive

The Wampler Euphoria is a popular pedal inspired to the Dumble Overdrive amps (aka D-Style) featuring a Bass knob functioning pre-gain, allowing you to dial in low-end that sounds thick, without muddying up your tone. A toggle switch lets you choose between three different styles of clipping: Smooth is low-gain, with…Click on the title for more

Wampler Euphoria V2 D-Style Overdrive

What is Montreal Assembly? A Pedal Builder For Non-Purists

Updated on 05.15.2020 Montreal Assembly: Builder Profile In the summer of 2007, Montreal based electrical engineer Scott Monk bought a bunch of cheap, second-hand microphones from a stranger, in Toronto. Six months later, on December 30th, that seemingly meaningless experience became the subject of his new blog's first post: he had opened the mics…Click on the title for more

What is Montreal Assembly? A Pedal Builder For Non-Purists

New Pedals: Old Blood Noise FAULT V2 Dual Overdrive/Distortion

The cool cats at Old Blood Noise Endeavors just unveiled V2 of their Fault dual overdrive and... the baby's got faders!!! Building on the core of the original two-gain pedal with separate footswitch for Gain 2, V2 maintains many of the same features and core sound, but includes a selectable…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Old Blood Noise FAULT V2 Dual Overdrive/Distortion

Moustache Audio Chevron Overdrive

The Ibanez Tube Screamer is the best selling pedal of all times, and also the most cloned one. The Moustache Audio Chevron Overdrive belongs to the family of TS emulation, and offers a "Swiss Knife" angle to the format, with five knobs (two gain and a three-band EQ) and three…Click on the title for more

Moustache Audio Chevron Overdrive

BECOS CIQ-5 Compiq Pro Stella Compressor

Those of you who like their compressor fully featured should take a look at the CIQ-5 Compiq Pro Stella from Romanian company BECOS. Hosted in your regular compact case, the CIQ-5 is a VCA-style analog compressor that packs a truly impressive amount of features, including: True RMS-level detector Ratio 1:1…Click on the title for more

BECOS CIQ-5 Compiq Pro Stella Compressor

Looperstar Effects Fuzz Junkie

The guys at Looperstar Effects are making things really easy for us with this awesome picture of their Fuzz Junkie... what else is there to say, besides that it sounds sick? This oscillating fuzz device has been around for a while (see Gearman Dude's videos at the bottom of this…Click on the title for more

Looperstar Effects Fuzz Junkie