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Strymon built a reputation on digital wizardry—big boxes, deep menus, endless presets. But behind all that DSP lives an analog team that's been quietly designing circuits nobody gets to see. Times are a-changing.... Click on the title for more
Beetronics took their gloriously overcomplicated Seabee and stripped it down to the good parts.
The Seabee Lite is still a fully analog BBD chorus, but now you don't need a PhD to operate it. Three modes, six knobs, two toggles, and a pair of footswitches that do more than just bypass.
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Math class was useless. This isn't.
The Summer School Fuzz 101 features two BC108 silicon transistors. The same ones that made London sound like London in the '60s. High-gain, noisy, glorious. Summer School took that DNA, added a few legendary mods, and somehow didn't screw it up.... Click on the title for more
Here's a pedal that admits what most overdrives pretend isn't true: your favorite records sound the way they do because of noise reduction.
The CompanDrive 65 (aka SoloDallas CD65) is a compander. Compress on the way in, expand on the way out. That's what Dolby did to tape in 1965. That's what this pedal does to your guitar. Four stages, one signal path, no digital fakery.... Click on the title for more
The Source Audio Pathways is a tremolo and reverb pedal that understands its lineage. Spring reverb and tube tremolo have lived together since the days when amps came with both built in—because motion and dimension just work together. Pathways takes that classic pairing and expands it without overcomplicating it.... Click on the title for more
Meet your new tonal soulmate: the 
OBNE killed the 
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Polyend saw the pedal world and decided it needed more chaos. The 
We’re getting excited for the 
Another BBD chorus. Great. Just what the world needs. But wait. There's an Aliasing knob!... Click on the title for more
