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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.... Click on the title for more
Italian amp and pedal builder 
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!).... Click on the title for more
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 goal. If you’re not playing through a real tube amp, cranked for overdrive, it’s difficult to get genuine tube overdrive sound.... Click on the title for more
Andy from the 
Our friend Eric Merrow just posted this video of the 
One of the coolest new pedals we were able to try at the latest L.A. Stompbox Exhibit was the 
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 analog sounding. This isn’t your clean studio quality digital delay with perfect repeats.... Click on the title for more
You'll be hard-pressed to find a pedal manufacturer whose products are crazier than the ones conceived by New York's 
Do you remember when reverb effects had two knobs? If you don't, 
