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New Pedal: Kingtone Minifuzz V2

Recently upgraded to V2, the Kingtone Minifuzz is a vintage tone machine that uses the highest quality components and comes with tons of tweakable options so that you can capture any classic fuzz sound you’re looking for. The huge volume control allows you to crank the pedal onstage with your…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Kingtone Minifuzz V2

New Pedal: Fuzzrocious Tyrannochorus Fuzz + Chorus

If, at first sight, you thought that the Fuzzrocious Tyrannochorus was a traditional four-knob chorus pedal, welcome to the club. This device is actually a fuzz embedded in a chorus circuit, or, to use the words of the NJ-based builder, a "chorus with gated fuzz in wet loop." That means…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Fuzzrocious Tyrannochorus Fuzz + Chorus

Blammo! + Dirty Haggard Deth Pedal Distortion

Boutique pedal creators BLAMMO! and Dirty Haggard have joined forces to forge a foot-operated, limited edition device inspired by EQD's Life pedal, known as...the DETH PEDAL! Much like the original, this pedal combines a Rat distortion with an analog octave up circuit, featuring a blend control and a separate footswitch…Click on the title for more

Blammo! + Dirty Haggard Deth Pedal Distortion

New Pedal: Westerlund One Preamp

The Westerlund ONE is the first pedal release by a young Okmahoma-based builder, and it was built to be your "desert island" preamp/overdrive pedal, which implies high-end components, top-notch tone - and a higher-than-average price tag. Designed to integrate perfectly with your guitar and amp, the ONE offers plenty of…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Westerlund One Preamp

Side FX Sputnik Modulated Reverb/Delay

Presented as a "modulated ambient machine, the Side FX Sputnik is a rather intense stereo (or mono, via a toggle switch) delay+reverb pedal with a lot of extra effects embedded in the circuit, including pitch modulation, filter, tremolo, and a kill dry switch, just to mention a few. Hosted in…Click on the title for more

Side FX Sputnik Modulated Reverb/Delay

Rorschach Devices Apophenia Delay

Cool delay pedals with interesting features are released almost on a daily basis, and the Rorschach Devices Apophenia, the debut, hand-built product by a new St. Louis-based company, is a rather unique digital circuit with a particular emphasis on the interaction between echo and filters, and a peculiar approach to…Click on the title for more

Rorschach Devices Apophenia Delay

New Pedal: Summer School Pep Rally Fuzz

The Summer School Pep Rally Fuzz is a simple three-knob fuzz by a small company that gave us the Science Fair, one of the most buzzworthy pedals of 2022. A louder and "meaner" development of a limited fuzz pedal released by the company also in 2022 (the Stone Thrower) the…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Summer School Pep Rally Fuzz

Intensive Care Audio Death Drive

Born in full pandemic crisis (June 2020) from a rib of what can be called the equivalent to Frankenstein in pedal form (Rainger FX) Intensive Care Audio is a new London-based company with a name for the ages. They already have three cool-looking black pedals in their roster bearing names…Click on the title for more

Intensive Care Audio Death Drive

REVV Tilt Boost

The REVV Tilt Boost is the Canadian's builder pedal launched at NAMM 2023, based on the circuit in Shawn Tubbs' signature Overdrive of the same name. It offers an additional 20 dBs of sparkly-clean boost to your output. While the Boost knob adds clean volume to the signal, the "TiltEQ"…Click on the title for more

REVV Tilt Boost

NativeAudio Buffalo Days Multi-Reverb

The NativeAudio Buffalo Days is a compact, streamlined multi-mode reverb pedal by an emerging, US pedal company owned and run by a Native American engineer called Mike Trombley. The four reverb types, inherited from the more sophisticated Ghost Ridge reverb, can be switched via the central knob and need no…Click on the title for more

NativeAudio Buffalo Days Multi-Reverb

Frost Giant Electronics The Mountain V2

We had the pleasure to host Texan pedal builder Frost Giant Electronics at our NAMM 2020 Stompbox Booth, and we are therefore excited to see it get some coverage on YouTube. The Mountain V2 is a Rat-inspired pedal that can deliver many flavors of distortion, from overdrive to fuzz, thanks…Click on the title for more

Frost Giant Electronics The Mountain V2

Gamechanger Audio Plasma Distortion

Gamechanger Audio's Plasma distortion turned a lot of heads and ears at NAMM 2018, and finally the first official video demos are arriving. The pedal uses a new method of achieving signal clipping: instead of using LED circuits, transistors or vacuum tubes to produce overdrive, the PLASMA PEDAL transforms your…Click on the title for more

Gamechanger Audio Plasma Distortion