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New Pedals: Keeley Electronics Sweet Spot Super Drive

The Keeley Electronics Sweet Spot Super Drive is a new, simple overdrive designed in collaboration with country-blues legend Johnny Hiland. It delivers clean, warm tones from boost to overdrive and has "a tube-like response with an elegant JFET discrete transistor input." A toggle switch gives you access to two gain…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Keeley Electronics Sweet Spot Super Drive

Randale Pedale Buzztard OD/Distortion/Fuzz

Randale Pedale's Buzztard is a RAT inspired pedal with an added NPN Germanium transistor that takes it further into fuzz territory. It can also deliver overdrive and distortion dirt just like the original rodent, with and added three-way EQ section to dial in the desired or necessary tone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFPFw7qOMuo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERyUH2wWD0k…Click on the title for more

Randale Pedale Buzztard OD/Distortion/Fuzz

Mojo Hand FX RVT (Reverb + Tremolo/Vibrato)

It doesn't look like the classic combination of Tremolo + Reverb will stop inspiring pedal manufacturers any time soon. At Summer NAMM 2019 Mojo Hand FX introduced the RVT, a compact, two-mode circuit that offers a spring-style Reverb with either Tremolo or Vibrato in a simple three-knob package, just like…Click on the title for more

Mojo Hand FX RVT (Reverb + Tremolo/Vibrato)

New Pedal: Walrus Audio EB-10 EQ/Boost

The YouTube-sphere is being invaded by videos of Walrus Audio's new EB-10, a utility stompbox with EQ and Boost similar to the 2018's DEFCON4 but with added programmability (it lets you save up to three presets). The three switches by the EQ knobs can get them to boost or cut,…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Walrus Audio EB-10 EQ/Boost

Countdown Audio Pneuma Drive

The Pneuma Drive is the first pedal by Countdown Audio Guitar Effects (aka CAGE), a brand new US pedal builder committed to great tone achieved through disciplined design and top-notch components. The Pneuma is a dynamic overdrive with amp-like quality that provides a natural distortion, and it shines also as…Click on the title for more

Countdown Audio Pneuma Drive

Electro-Harmonix 5MM Guitar Power Amp

Having a power amp the size of a pedal is a dream come true for all those guitarists who damaged their back carrying huge heads in and out of venues, although - of course - such a small item comes with power limitations. The question is: do you really need…Click on the title for more

Electro-Harmonix 5MM Guitar Power Amp

WMD Geiger Counter Pro

WMD (a name that plays with the two acronyms for Weapons of Mass Destruction and William Mathewson Devices) has been at the vanguard of the stompbox / Eurorack cross-pollination phenomenon, although in recent years they company has been mostly focusing on the modular synth side of things. In the late…Click on the title for more

WMD Geiger Counter Pro

Dropping Acid Pedal Etching #rip boost

Dropping Acid Pedal Etching is a small builder that, up until now, was mostly busy modding and recreating effect circuits made popular by other manufacturers. The #rip, an LM386 based Op-Amp distortion, is their first foray into creating a fully original circuit. This device can do different things but all…Click on the title for more

Dropping Acid Pedal Etching #rip boost

Delicious Giveaway: Win THREE Danelectro Pedals!

From a company with a history of unique and often playful designs come three new stompboxes that can add a creative palette of sonic colors to any pedalboard in need of a new spark. This week we give our readers the chance to win these three pedals from Danelectro: 3699…Click on the title for more

Delicious Giveaway: Win THREE Danelectro Pedals!

Fender Lost Highway Phaser

For Fender, NAMM 2019 was the year of modulation pedals: they unveiled three of them, all sharing a few features with each other. Like a Rotary pedal, the Highway has two footswitchable speeds, each separately adjustable through separate rate and depth knobs. There are also controls for Blend, Feedback and Sens…Click on the title for more

Fender Lost Highway Phaser

Toronto Pedal & Synth Expo draws 1,000 to Downtown Basement

On the weekend of November 9-10, the second edition of our Toronto Stompbox Exhibit and Synth Expo (aka the Pedal and Synth Expo) brought over 1,000 musicians to a downtown basement for an event filled with discovery and educational opportunities. We uploaded hundreds of pictures of the show here (pedals)…Click on the title for more

Toronto Pedal & Synth Expo draws 1,000 to Downtown Basement

Mr Black OD-503 Dynamic Amplifier Overdrive

Mini pedals aren't necessarily made in China with cheap components. As a matter of fact, several US-based boutique manufacturers have embraced the format and build them by hand with the best components without outsourcing; Portland's MR. Black is one of them. Their latest mini stompbox is the OD-503, a low…Click on the title for more

Mr Black OD-503 Dynamic Amplifier Overdrive