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MXR Booster Mini

Boost pedals should really give you as much gain as possible and take as little space on your board as possible, and the MXR Booster Mini does just that. Let's see also how it sounds in this video by the Living Room Gear. The MXR Booster Mini gives you the…Click on the title for more

MXR Booster Mini

Smallsound/bigsound Pretty Years Distortion

This blog and its blogger have seen a fair amount of gear in their lives, but an outboard rack effect that deals with distortion (not just saturation or subtle "warming") was missing from the list. This changed today, when, while looking into PA-based pedal builder smallsound/bigsound, we realized that its…Click on the title for more

Smallsound/bigsound Pretty Years Distortion

Baroni Lab Mini Amp Custom 50W Amp/Cab Sim

Italian amp and pedal builder Baroni Lab will be at NAMM in 2018 to showcase - among things - their new Amp/Cab simulators in stompbox format. Here's a demoby Brett Kingman of the Mini Amp Custom 50W Amp/Cab Sim. The BaroniLab Mini-Amp is a top-of-the-line 4-in-1, stage-ready guitar amplifier. It offers…Click on the title for more

Baroni Lab Mini Amp Custom 50W Amp/Cab Sim

Best Selling NEW Distortion, Overdrive and Fuzz Pedals of 2017 according to Reverb.com

A the end of each year, most of us enjoy reading "Best of" lists of all kinds - a habit that helps us simplify choices, in particular when faced with fields overcrowded with products (like the gain stompbox one!). Guitar critics can say whatever they want about what new pedals…Click on the title for more

Best Selling NEW Distortion, Overdrive and Fuzz Pedals of 2017 according to Reverb.com

Servus! Pedale – GLAM Programmable Distortion + Boost

Servus! Pedale is another emerging German manufacturer - lately we stumbled upon a bunch of them! GLAM Programmable Distortion. Dennis Kayzer just posted this video of their GLAM Programmable Distortion, a dual stages gain pedal with analog path and digital controls which offers... ...a classic 70's-early 80's British amp-like distortion.…Click on the title for more

Servus! Pedale – GLAM Programmable Distortion + Boost

NUX Tube Man MKII Overdrive

NUX won a Best in Show at the past Summer NAMM, the fact that Mike Hermans picked one of their pedals for his video series is also very promising: here's his demo of the Tube Man MKII Overdrive - quite obviously, a Tube Screamer clone. More gain! That was the overall…Click on the title for more

NUX Tube Man MKII Overdrive

Best 5 Stompboxes of 2017 according to The Tone Report

Andy from the The Tone Report / Reverb.com just published this video (also streaming at the bottom of this post) listing the Top 5 Pedals of 2017. For your convenience, we created this interactive gallery linking to all these pedals' demos. Catalinebread Belle Epoch Tape Echo Greer Amps Lamplighter Optical…Click on the title for more

Best 5 Stompboxes of 2017 according to The Tone Report

Red House Electronics – Heat Wave Tremolo

Our friend Eric Merrow just posted this video of the Heat Wave Tremolo of Troy, Ohio's Red House Electronics. Here's how the company introduces this pedal: An analog-optical tremolo pedal that expands on the technology found in vintage amplifiers. By utilizing digital control, the Heat Wave offers five waveforms global to its…Click on the title for more

Red House Electronics – Heat Wave Tremolo

New Creative Pedals: Nunomo Grain

One of the coolest new pedals we were able to try at the latest L.A. Stompbox Exhibit was the Grain, a creation of California based manufacturer Nunomo, run by Japanese designer Ryosuke Kojima. This stompbox is an intriguing take on granular tremolo with added overdrive and pitch shifting circuits -…Click on the title for more

New Creative Pedals: Nunomo Grain

Cusack Music Tap-A-Delay Deluxe

Here's a video by the Pedal Zone about the fully loaded 750ms delay from Cusack Music, released early this year 2017. It's name is Tap-A-Delay! The Tap-A-Delay is a 750mS digital delay that mixes the original analog signal with the delayed signal. It is gritty, a bit noisy, and very…Click on the title for more

Cusack Music Tap-A-Delay Deluxe

Electro Faustus – Guitardämmerung

You'll be hard-pressed to find a pedal manufacturer whose products are crazier than the ones conceived by New York's Electro Faustus'. The two friends behind this company are actually coming from the synth world, as you can tell from their latest stompbox, the EF111 Guitardämmerung. The product doesn't seem to have…Click on the title for more

Electro Faustus – Guitardämmerung

L.A. Stompbox Exhibit 2017’s Best Emerging Manufacturer Contest Results

The results for the Best Pedal Emerging Manufacturer Contest at the L.A. Stompbox Exhibit 2017 are in! But, before we get to the results, a little explanation: WHAT IS THIS? The Stompbox Exhibit's "Best Emerging Pedal Manufacturer Contest" is an idea we launched in September of 2017 at the 7th…Click on the title for more

L.A. Stompbox Exhibit 2017’s Best Emerging Manufacturer Contest Results