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Fortin Fourteen Overdrive

Mike Fortin's FOURTEEN overdrive pedal takes his popular amp modifications and puts them in a dual-channel format, in essence, packing his best custom tweaks in one pedal. The pedal is designed to give players a lot of control over the amp's tone and push it into higher gain territory, as it often happens for this amp brand targeting mostly guitarists into a heavy sound.... Click on the title for more

Fortin Fourteen Overdrive

PedalPalFX PAL 800 Gold Overdrive V4

The PedalPalFX PAL 800 Gold Overdrive is one of those ever-green pedals that keep getting better and better with each new version. This Hot Rod JMC800 in a box was recently updated to V4, and the new features are relevant enough to push it up in our comprehensive article about the Best Plexi-Style Pedals.... Click on the title for more

PedalPalFX PAL 800 Gold Overdrive V4

Neural DSP Nano Cortex Amp/Cab Sim

Neuiral DSP has just entered the stompbox realm with the Neural DSP Nano Cortex, a compact yet powerful amp and effects processor, packing the (much larger) Quad Cortex’s top-tier sound into a pedal that fits in your hand.... Click on the title for more

Neural DSP Nano Cortex Amp/Cab Sim

Updated Pedal: Cornerstone Imperium V2 Dual Drive

The Cornerstone Imperivm is a new dual overdrive by an Italian company that has built a super solid reputation mostly through one of the best D-Style overdrives on the market, the Gladio. The new release marries that very circuit with the company's take on the Tube Screamer, aka the Antique overdrive. The two channels are stackable and have each its own footswitch.... Click on the title for more

Updated Pedal: Cornerstone Imperium V2 Dual Drive

DigiTech HammerOn

At NAMM 2025 it was good to see DigiTech back with some new pedal releases after a few transitional years due to the change of ownership. The HammerOn was one of these new products, announced at the NAMM show but not for sale yet.... Click on the title for more

DigiTech HammerOn

Chase Bliss Dirt Bird EQ

The Chase Bliss Dirt Bird is a limited edition modified version of the Minneapolis-based company's Condor HiFi EQ pedal intended to worsen - rather than fix or improve - a distortion issue found in the pedal, linked to an op amp-generated artifact called "phase reversal."... Click on the title for more

Chase Bliss Dirt Bird EQ

Montréal Assembly Count to 5 Granular Delay

The Montreal Assembly Count to 5 is a unique delay/sampler with three modes that can create sped-up and slowed-down—as well as forward and backward—tape effects, audio slicing, looping and overdubbing.... Click on the title for more

Montréal Assembly Count to 5 Granular Delay

Catalinbread Wake Chorus

The Catalinbread Wake is a chorus effect pedal that draws inspiration from the lush, studio-grade choruses of the ’80s and ’90s—particularly the dream pop era, where shimmering, modulated textures became a defining characteristic of the genre.... Click on the title for more

Catalinbread Wake Chorus

Tone City Holy Aura Distortion and Boost

The Tone City Holy Aura distortion captures the essence of classic American amp tone, delivering high-gain sustain and rich harmonics with exceptional clarity. Its 3-band EQ (Bass/Mid/Treble), Gain, Presence, and Volume controls provide precise tone shaping for everything from clean boosts to heavy metal distortion.... Click on the title for more

Tone City Holy Aura Distortion and Boost

Updated Pedal: Taurus Pedals Servo 3 Tone Enhancer

Hand-made in Poland, the Taurus Pedals Servo is a pedal that's slowly gaining a growing fanbase among the more "tone-oriented" guitarists.... Click on the title for more

Updated Pedal: Taurus Pedals Servo 3 Tone Enhancer

Echo Fix EF-P2 Real Spring Reverb

The Echo Fix EF-P2 is the latest release in the rather restricted niche of real spring reverb pedals, i.e. stompboxes utilizing the spring + tank technology found in the reverbs embedded in vintage amps like the Fender Deluxe.... Click on the title for more

Echo Fix EF-P2 Real Spring Reverb

Amplified Nation Bigger Bloom D-Style Drive

The Amplified Nation Bigger Bloom follows in the footsteps of the Big Bloom and the Double Bloom, part of a line of hand-made Dumble-style overdrives built by a family-run business (Taylor Cox and his wife Alyson) based in Boston, MA, whose main focus is high-end guitar amps.... Click on the title for more

Amplified Nation Bigger Bloom D-Style Drive