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Old Blood Noise Black Fountain V3 Delay

The Old Blood Noise Black Fountain is a delay that emulates vintage echo devices based on the short-lived but full of character "oil can" technology from the '50s, a Ry Cooder's favorite. In this pedal, the Fluid control adds those devices' typical dark modulation on the repeats, originally generated by…Click on the title for more

Old Blood Noise Black Fountain V3 Delay

Teisco Overdrive

The Teisco Overdrive is a simple low- to medium-gain transparent overdrive with an added Kick toggle switch that takes it into medium-gain territory. Introduced at NAMM 2020, it integrates the new (and gorgeous looking) Teisco line of guitar pedals launched the previous year. This low-gainer is designed to be harmonically…Click on the title for more

Teisco Overdrive

Win 3 pedals by Maxon, Heather Brown and Crazy Tube Circuits + accessories! [ENDED]

Hello, insatiable pedal consumers! This week we have a bunch of awesome effects over here (with cables and a PSU to power them all!) waiting to be shipped to the luckiest among y’all! Here’s the list of the goods in alphabetical order: Crazy Tube Circuit Memphis Vibrato Maxon 808 Overdrive…Click on the title for more

Win 3 pedals by Maxon, Heather Brown and Crazy Tube Circuits + accessories! [ENDED]

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