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Line 6 HX Stomp Multieffect Processor

Line 6, the company that introduced amp, effect and even guitar modelling to the masses, just unveiled their latest product in the Helix line, the HX Stomp, which packs all of the Helix line's amps, cabs, and effects into a stompbox roughly the size of a BOSS Space Echo.... Click on the title for more

Line 6 HX Stomp Multieffect Processor

Diffractor Soundings Chromatic Journey Stereo Analog Phaser

Diffractor Soundings Chromatic Journey Designed by a French one-man company based in beautiful Toulouse, the Diffractor Soundings Chromatic Journey is an analog stereo phaser with digital controls that really looks like the mother of all phaser pedals, just like their previous release, the Arboretum, looked like the mother of all tremolos.... Click on the title for more

Diffractor Soundings Chromatic Journey Stereo Analog Phaser

Spruce Effects Acadia Fuzz (Junior Ranger)

The Spruce Effects Acadia Fuzz is the smaller (and much more affordable) brother of the company's unit bearing the same name from the Americana Series - which is almost three times as expensive. It's an uber-tweakable fuzz with multiple gain stages. ... Click on the title for more

Spruce Effects Acadia Fuzz (Junior Ranger)

Chaos Audio Stratus

Chaos Audio Stratus Available for pre-order after a successful Kickstarted campaign, the Chaos Audio Stratus is a do-it-all pedal that can load any kind of effect through your smartphone.... Click on the title for more

Chaos Audio Stratus

Beetronics Whoctahell Low Octave Fuzz

Hailing from the Los Angeles-based workshops of a bunch of Brazilian bee (and pedal) lovers, the Beetronics Whoctahell is a renewed take on the company's first pedal, in a more compact and versatile format. It's a two-octave-down fuzz available in only 300 units (including 40 Custom Shop and 20 Limited Edition units).... Click on the title for more

Beetronics Whoctahell Low Octave Fuzz

Volta Black Tweed Plus Dual Drive

The Volta Black Tweed Plus is the deluxe/dual version of what was once known as the Nabla Black Tweed overdrive. This is due to the fact that the Italian company that manufactures this pedal recently renamed itself after Alessandro Volta, inventor of something crucial to pedals: the electric battery.... Click on the title for more

Volta Black Tweed Plus Dual Drive

Cosmodio Pet Yeti Fuzztortion+Bitcrusher

The Pet Yeti is the colorful debut pedal by Massachusetts-based builder Cosmodio. A super-flexible fuzzstortion with an added bitcrusher circuit, the Pet Yeti is an original design that can offer tones from the classic to the unusual, and from the subtle to the monstrous.... Click on the title for more

Cosmodio Pet Yeti Fuzztortion+Bitcrusher

Walrus Audio ACS1 MkII Amp & Cab Simulator

Walrus Audio ACS1 MkII Walrus Audio updated their Amp/Cab Simulator ACS-1 with a MkII, after the original version's 2.0 firmware introduced some new features.... Click on the title for more

Walrus Audio ACS1 MkII Amp & Cab Simulator

New Pedal: Tubesteader Roy Vox-Style Tube Preamp

With the Vox-style Tubesteader Roy overdrive, fellow Montrealer Olly Balan releases his first compact dual-channel pedal tube preamp - with double emphasis on the "compact," since fitting all of the above in such a small case is a remarkable achievement.... Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Tubesteader Roy Vox-Style Tube Preamp

Old Blood Noise Pardner Fuzz with Looper

To their credit, Oklahoma City's Old Blood Noise Endeavours has yet to attempt to make a "normal" guitar pedal, and the Pardner Fuzz (depicted here in its purple variant, but also available in teal blue and yellow-tan) confirms this inclination.... Click on the title for more

Old Blood Noise Pardner Fuzz with Looper

Line 6 POD Express Black

Although the original Line 6 POD Express was quite black, the new POD Express Black is even more black, because... it's a metal pedal!... Click on the title for more

Line 6 POD Express Black

Crazy Tube Circuits High Power

Crazy Tube Circuits High Power The Crazy Tube Circuits High Power is a David Gilmour "Wish You Were Here"-era inspired pedal, combining variants of two units the Pink Floyd guitarist adopted in that phase of his career: the Colorsound Power Boost and the (now ultra-rare) Hiwatt DR103 AP amp - each with its separate footswitch.... Click on the title for more

Crazy Tube Circuits High Power