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Sometimes utility pedals can open the door to interesting and creative ideas. The 
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The 29 Pedals FLWR is the first "almost normal" pedal (in this case, a dirt box) by a Californian company whose previous products walked the line between utility boxes and signal conditioners. The "almost" in the previous sentence is due to the pedal's semi-modular nature.
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Hailing from Australia, the 
The Crazy Tube Circuit While Whale is a very tweakable real spring reverb (i.e. it has an actual spring tank under the hood, hence the size), with knobs for depth, speed, tone and dwell and three different springs for varied depth. It also features a tremolo inspired by Fender blackface and brownface amps with its own footswitch.... Click on the title for more
Australian builder PastFX has gotten us used to tweakable variations of classic pedal circuits, and a RAT-style distortion couldn't be missing from its roster. The PastFX Mixchief fills in that gap through a circuit featuring the original LM308 op-amp found in the vintage RATs, with a series of useful additions.... Click on the title for more
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Our friends at Pedals and Effects just premiered a new pedal by a Los Angeles based manufacturer called Meris that's been making waves mostly for its pro audio 500 series products. This is the second pedal the company develops after a series 500 device, the first one being the Mercury 7 Reverb.... Click on the title for more
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When it was released in the '50s, the 
Before fuzz pedals existed, expert engineers with experimental inclinations could achieve fuzzy sounds by massively overloading their console preamps. The 
