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Amptweaker PressuRizer Compressor Boost

The Pressurizer is an interesting take on compression + boost from Amptweaker, here's the manufacturer's presentation, check out the Pro Guitar Shop video below. Sustain without compression…a common suggestion Amptweaker™ receives that means “don’t mess with my attack.” The Amptweaker PressuRizer™ compressor accomplishes this in several unique ways, and includes…Click on the title for more

Amptweaker PressuRizer Compressor Boost

J Rockett Pedals IQ Compressor and Majestic OD

Two interesting new pedals by J Rockett. The IQ compressor, featuring a clean compressor with integrated, pre-compression graphic EQ, which allows you to choose what frequencies to "squuze" more. The Majestic is a new overdrive - not much information about it online, maybe because it's not quiet out yet! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICoPDa9dHjEClick on the title for more

J Rockett Pedals IQ Compressor and Majestic OD

Summer camp can really have a crucial impact on people's lives. Just ask Dave Fox, owner of New Jersey's pedal company Foxrox Electronics: My fascination with electronics began as a kid at summer camp, where I learned how to solder parts into circuit boards. From then on, I was intrigued with…Click on the title for more

Pedal Manufacturer Profile: Foxrox Electronics

DOD Gonkulator Ring Mod + Distortion

A reissue of the DOD ring modulator with distortion from the '90s. Our friends at Pedals and Effects just shot this new video about it, check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIrl325-vNI Click on the title for more

DOD Gonkulator Ring Mod + Distortion

Malekko board at the Montreal SBE 2017

The guys at Malekko Heavy Industry definitely like to think outside the box, and their latest effects have been more and more interesting and unusual. They also participate to most of our events, so we thought it would be cool to highlight the pedals in the board they have sent to our latest…Click on the title for more

Malekko board at the Montreal SBE 2017

Death By Audio Micro Dream Delay

Guitar demo by The Pedal Zone of the lo-fi echo machine, the Micro Dream Delay by Death By Audio. The Micro Dream is a distilled version of Death By Audio's smash-hit delay, the Echo Dream II, offering the same magical lo-fi delays in a more compact and affordable solution. The…Click on the title for more

Death By Audio Micro Dream Delay

New Pedal Manufacturers: Cast Engineering and the Mike Zito Peace Drive

Based in Atlanta, Cast Engineering has been forging stompboxes (and amps) since 2015, shortly after its founder Steve Evans decided it was time to quit the... professional bowling career! Ok, ok, not exactly "shortly after": the man has a long history running and owning engineering companies, and, as it often happens, at…Click on the title for more

New Pedal Manufacturers: Cast Engineering and the Mike Zito Peace Drive

Old Blood Noise board at the Montreal SBE

For those of you who missed our Montreal Stompbox Exhibit, we just thought of a way to give you the opportunity to experience it, one board at a time, in a... flawed but interactive way! Old Blood Noise sent the pictured mini-board for that show;o we have recreated it below in our…Click on the title for more

Old Blood Noise board at the Montreal SBE

Wampler Faux Tape Echo V2

Demo of the Wampler Faux Tape Echo from Pro Guitar Shop Based on the hugely popular best seller of the previous models, the v2 offers the same purity of signal path, the same depth of tone on the repeats and most importantly, the addition of sub divisions on the tap…Click on the title for more

Wampler Faux Tape Echo V2

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Pedal manufacturer profile: Retro-Sonic

Chase Bliss Audio Brothers Analog Gain Stage

New demo video of the Chase Bliss Audio Dual OverdriveBrothers by Pro Guitar Shop https://www.youtube.com/embed/4lX3CWRnxbcClick on the title for more

Chase Bliss Audio Brothers Analog Gain Stage

6 of the best vintage guitar effect circuits (by Gearphoria)

We love it when our friends at Gearphoria publish these articles about vintage effect designs, this one is about the 6 classic circuits every stompbox geek should know! Attention, some of them were not originally found in pedals, like the Electra distortion (which was inside the guitar) or the Armstrong Green Ringer…Click on the title for more

6 of the best vintage guitar effect circuits (by Gearphoria)