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Well, it turns out somebody is making guitar pedals even in Turkey! Here's Brett Kingman's demo of the 
Brooklyn's post-hardcore/metal quartet Husbandry sounded pretty darn heavy on 2016's debut full length "Fera," but the 2017's "Bad Weeds Never Die" EP takes things to an entirely new level, with metal influences seemingly taking over emo and post-punk ones. Their distorted guitars, in the latest record, are a lot more explosive and dynamic, so we thought we'd ask them a few questions about it.... Click on the title for more
Boost pedals should really give you as much gain as possible and take as little space on your board as possible, and the 
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 
