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The Dominion Electric Faceless Fuzz is a Canada-made, handbuilt pedal inspired, as you may have guessed, by the vintage Fuzz Face designed around quite literally "hand-picked" NOS Germanium/Silicon transistors and other quality components: the builder lets you pick from Texas Instruments BC183L (Silicon), Telefunken BC108C (Silicon). RCA 2N404 (Germanium) and BART (Germanium). Needless to say, each transistor will impart a slightly different character to the fuzz.... Click on the title for more
One-knob devices have their charm, in particular when they sound really good, and that is, in a few words, what Falmouth, UK's pedal builder 
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Sometimes utility pedals can open the door to interesting and creative ideas. The Great Eastern FX XO Variable Crossover might be such a device, with its ability to split the signal into a high and low-frequency band and send each out to a separate loop chain, allowing you to use different effects for each, and then blend them back together or send them to different amps.
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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 
