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A few years ago we tried to figure out which were the best selling overdrive pedals on the market by looking at several online music stores' listings organized by "most popular." The answer we got from the data was unequivocal: the Ibanez Tube Screamer TS9 and its mini sibling won first and second place.... Click on the title for more
With a street price of just under $56 (although speaking of "street price" sounds very old fashion, in this web store age), the Sonicake Warped Dimension is an incredibly affordable mono multi-modulation digital pedal with four modes: Chorus, Flanger, Phaser and Tremolo.... Click on the title for more
The BOSS 200 series welcomes another member to its growing family, the SY-200, a rather compact yet fully featured latency-free synth pedal built on the successful polyphonic circuit of its little sibling SY-1, offering an expanded sound set, more tone-shaping possibilities, 128 memories for storing your presets, and two footswitches for preset navigation and other editable controls.... Click on the title for more
The NUX ‘6ixty5ive Overdrive is the latest amp-in-a-box by a Chinese builder that's getting an increasing number of fans in the US of A. Just like the pedal is inspired by (in tone and color), the Vemuram Jan Ray, it's voiced after the Black Panel Fender amps of the '60s.... Click on the title for more



While the pedal market starts feeling a little saturated with compressors voiced after the Teletronix LA2A and the uRei 1176 studio units, there aren't many pedals inspired by what's perhaps the most legendary studio compressor of all times: the
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Built by a boutique NYC-based company, the
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There will be plenty of Eurorack and boutique builders at the upcoming (and free!) 






