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After its introduction at NAMM 2018, it took Canadian builder 
For a minute, we thought that L.A. via Brazil Beetronics had unprecedentedly given one of their pedals a name not related to the world of bees. How wrong were we: Abelha means "bee" in Portuguese, which, for the unaware, is also the language spoken in Brazil, the country where artists like Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil founded the late-'60s music, art and political protest movement known as Tropicália - something this pedal celebrates.... Click on the title for more
The EarthQuaker Devices Disaster Transport Legacy Reissue was supposed to be what its name states - a "reissue" of a pedal that started the delay + modulation trend back in 2019 - but it ended up becoming more than that, because, to quote the press release: "the OG of EQD, Jamie Stillman, couldn’t resist tinkering and improving the whole thing."... Click on the title for more
A dark and sludgy take on the early fuzz circuitry, the 
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Newly-revived brand DOD (owned by Harman's DigiTech) has announced a versatile new overdrive/distortion pedal, appropriately named the Gunslinger. Utilizing a MOSFET circuit, the Gunslinger is capable of providing a very wide range of overdriven tones from light grit to full saturation.
Given the MOSFET design, the Gunslinger provides the touch-sensitivity and articulation of playing a tube amp, available in a compact, familiar looking stompbox. The Gunslinger performs equally well when used to drive an already dirty amp, as the main overdrive sound, or simply as a boost.... Click on the title for more
For those in search of a high-end tone sweetener, the 
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Boston's pedal builder Source Audio in the last few years has seemed intent in focusing on products that take the most purely "tonal" effects to the next level. After the EQ2, a programmable equalizer, comes Zio, a multi-voice analog preamp/boost designed in collaboration with Christopher Venter, the owner and sole engineer at SHOE Pedals, who previously worked with DOD on the Looking GLass overdrive.... Click on the title for more
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