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Jack White of the Black Stripes' fame has regularly collaborated with several pedal companies to manufacture a 
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JRAD reliably churns out quality pedals in the most compact and sturdy builds on the market. A low-gain overdrive, the J Rockett Blue Note is considered by many as the company's take on the Blues Breaker circuit, although the company has been challenging that assumption.... Click on the title for more
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A radical pedal giveaway for our Canadian friends linked to MTL KnobSession (it's free, 
The Keeley MkIII Driver (briefly known as the "Muse Driver") is an overdrive pedal that furthers the builder's collaboration with guitarist Andy Timmons, already involved in the design of the Halo delay and the Super AT Mod overdrive. The Muse Driver merges a three-control blues driver circuit with two switches for the voicing Drive and Tone characteristics, providing players with an expansive palette of drive tones.... Click on the title for more
A shrunken version of a 2019 pedal popular among shoegazers and any other guitarists inspired by the guitar tone of the '80s, the Crazy Tube Circuits Sidekick Jr. is a 3-in-one stompbox that (quite remarkably) combines delay, reverb and modulation into one compact enclosure.
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The Emerald Ox FX Chimeric Percolator is a handmade pedal that addresses the quandary of "perfecting the Harmonic Percolator circuit" in a peculiar way. Rather than arbitrarily deciding what the best sound is for this famously sonically unreliable vintage circuit, the builder, after comparing the varying tone of several units, decided to lay at your feet all the options so that you can choose your preferred Percolator sound (or three).... Click on the title for more
Guru pedal designer Adrian Thorpy of ThorpyFx has a page on his company's website dedicated to his "Special Projects," gathering all the brand's one-offs, special runs, or Charity donation devices. The WOPR is a pedal created for a friend that wanted to have a (Triangle Muff-style) Thorpy Fallout Cloud and a Rangemaster Trablebooster-style circuit in the same pedal.... Click on the title for more
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For such a small country (although densely populated, with its 18 million souls), the Netherlands is extremely good at producing 
