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To check out at NAMM: Lunastone Pedals

With a population just under 6 million, Denmark is one of the smallest countries in Europe. But if we measured each country's size by how many pedals it sells, it would certainly be one of the largest, mostly because of stompbox powerhouse TC Electronic (the company was recently purchased by German Behringer,…Click on the title for more

To check out at NAMM: Lunastone Pedals

Influential Vintage Pedals: Lovetone Meatball

In April 1995, Dan Coggins gave up his night shifts as a BBC engineer and the Lovetone company was founded. That summer, Dan and partner Vlad Naslas took their Meatball envelope filter production prototype to effects guru Pete Cornish, who provided them with some solid advice moving forward. The Meatball…Click on the title for more

Influential Vintage Pedals: Lovetone Meatball

RayGun FX Super Fuzz Boy (Game Boy Fuzz)

There's only one thing that's more powerful than passion: two of them at once! There are many guitarists who are so into fuzz pedals they can't stop buying new ones that (to the uninitiated) sound ever so slightly different than other ones they already own. It's safe to assume that a considerable percentage…Click on the title for more

RayGun FX Super Fuzz Boy (Game Boy Fuzz)

Greenhouse Effects Drifter Analog Tremolo

We are always grateful when video demos of guitar pedals feature really cool parts (preferably original ones): we feel like that does a great service to the demoed stompbox while making the experience of watching the video a lot more enjoyable. While browsing through the various YouTube demos for the new Greenhouse Drifter Analog…Click on the title for more

Greenhouse Effects Drifter Analog Tremolo

How to use amp distortion with pedal effects – by Wampler & Strymon

Those who like the distortion of their amp but still use stompboxes for delay and modulation effects, should be aware of how to connect the various pieces together - the order greatly influences the results! The educational videos below by Brian at Wampler Pedals go through the basics. Those of you who like…Click on the title for more

How to use amp distortion with pedal effects – by Wampler & Strymon

Adventure Audio unveils the Dream Reaper Fuzzy Modulation Machine

We love crazy pedals with lotsa knobs and we also love the quirky but beautifully shot videos produced by Knobs. One of their latest is about... this crazy pedal with lotsa knob by Adventure Audio, called the Dream Reaper. Wanna know what it does? Here's how the manufacturer presents it:…Click on the title for more

Adventure Audio unveils the Dream Reaper Fuzzy Modulation Machine

Best Guitar Pedals of 2016 according to Gearphoria

Our friends at Gearphoria recently published the list of the best guitar FX of 2016. Below you can find an interactive gallery linked to this article - each picture links to the pedal's most popular YouTube video! You can read the reviews for each pedal in the full feature in the…Click on the title for more

Best Guitar Pedals of 2016 according to Gearphoria

Devi Ever’s new pedal designs under the Fuzz Goddess moniker

In the aughts, Devi Ever's boutique pedal manufacturer Devi Ever : FX built extreme sounding stompboxes (like the Shoe Gazer and the Hyperion) that became some kind of cult among guitarists into noisy and adventurous genres like noise rock and shoegazer. Devi sold the company to Dwarfcraft in 2014, but re-acquired it in…Click on the title for more

Devi Ever’s new pedal designs under the Fuzz Goddess moniker

Surf Rock is Dead’s Guitar Pedals

With a sound both meditative and gothy, Brooklyn duo Surf Rock is Dead pairs sunny melodies to melancholic tinges, ala the Drums. Their guitar sound, although not distorted, has heavy shoegazer leanings, a genre that's tightly connected to the use of stompboxes. Since guitarist Kevin Pariso confided us that he often gets asked about the…Click on the title for more

Surf Rock is Dead’s Guitar Pedals

Manufacturers Profiles: Pettyjohn Electronics

Based in Albany, Oregon, Pettyjohn Electronics is a new-ish face in the community of boutique pedal manufacturers, but one that is receiving a certain amount of attention (and flattering reviews). Entirely focused, at least for now, on the dirt and color realms, they have been releasing six all analog pedals since 2014 , all featuring distinctive…Click on the title for more

Manufacturers Profiles: Pettyjohn Electronics

Pedal order: Reverb into Delay or Delay into Reverb? – advice from Wampler

The selection of the ideal stompboxes for your effect rig is made a lot more complicated by how they interact with each other, and - of course - by the order you put them in. One the the eternal questions related to pedal order is: what goes first, reverb or delay?…Click on the title for more

Pedal order: Reverb into Delay or Delay into Reverb? – advice from Wampler

Pavo Pavo’s Gear and Creative Process

https://www.youtube.com/embed/K9P5p94x2Os With psychedelic leanings and spacey synths that could believably been beamed down from Pluto, Brooklyn-based Pavo Pavo has a sound that's both warm and familiar, and yet hard to place. In their stunning debut album 'Young Narrator in the Breakers' the band seems to comfortably straddle between the deeper trenches of…Click on the title for more

Pavo Pavo’s Gear and Creative Process