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Line 6 just unveiled the smallest sibling in the Helix family: the 
Welcome to our super-thorough buyer's guide to the best phaser pedals, organized by features and price.... Click on the title for more
The Cornerstone Nero Fuzz is a hybrid fuzz/overdrive circuit designed by an Italian builder that's been churning out a series of impressive overdrive pedals, but no fuzzes until today. One of these overdrives is the company's bestseller Gladio, an amp-in-a-box inspired by the rare line of Dumble amps. That circuit found its way inside Cornerstone's first fuzz pedal.... Click on the title for more
The Volta 1987 PRO is the "deluxe" version of the company's 1987 overdrive, a hand made dual Plexi-style pedal (read, it sounds like a Marshall Plexi amp) by an emerging Italian builder that has turned heads and years in the last few years. As specified in the "subtitle" the pedal is voiced after a "Hot Rodded" Plexy amp, referring to the popular modification sound technicians used to do to those amps to make them sound more distorted.... Click on the title for more
Hand building their pedals in the small town of Todi in Puglia (Italy), 
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Of the (many) new pedal companies that have been popping out in the last few years, 
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The Pladask Etterslep is another highly experimental pedal by this Norwegian manufacturer that has treated us for a while now with several creative devices. It's describde by the builder as a "time-based audio processor combining granular synthesis, tapped delay line and modified sample playback."... Click on the title for more
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Like other pedals by the NY-based pedal builder, the 
The Xotic XW-1 is a top-notch wah based on the original 1967-68 Clyde McCoy, and the new XW-2 (pictured here in the limited red version) is a streamlined version of it that further refines that design, although losing the four knobs on the right panel that made the original rather unique. Because of this it's also about 1/5th smaller than its sibiling.... Click on the title for more
