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Juxtaposing and integrating two entirely different dirt box circuits, the fully analog Karma Machine Shop is a dual-overdrive pedal that lets guitarists craft a wide range of tones, from subtle boost, to transparent overdrive, to searing high-gain distortion.
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The Cunningham Amplification Zonk MK1 is a high quality stompbox paying homage to two legendary fuzzes from the mid-60s: the ultra-rare Hornby Skewes Zonk Machine and the Sola Sound MK1 Tone Bender. This pedalboard edition is hosted in a much smaller case than the original trapezoid one.... Click on the title for more
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Swedish pedal brand Surfy Industry has quickly gained a status as one of the if not the best manufacturer of real spring reverb pedals, in considerable part also because of their more affordable and portable spring reverb, the Surfybear Compact. The company is now introducing an evolution of that pedal, featuring an added Tremolo effect: enter the Surfy Industries Surfybear Compact Deluxe.... Click on the title for more
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Synth pedals are among the most misunderstood devices in the stompbox universe.... Click on the title for more
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The new DOD 250 is a faithful reissue of an evergreen classic first released in the early '70s by circuit designer David Oreste Defrancesco (aka, DOD) as an attempt to create a pedal that could deliver a range of tones from boost to slightly saturated to distorted, something few pedals could offer at the time, when fuzz pedals were extremely popular, with all their lack of subtelty.... Click on the title for more
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The Spiral Electric Octina is an octave-up fuzz inspired by several vintage circuits that can produce a variety of tones thanks to the unusual Scramble knob, which will gradually morph your base fuzz into tones reminiscent of classic pedals like the Fuzzrite, the Superfuzz and the Tone Machine.... Click on the title for more
At NAMM 2021 
