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Black Mass Electronics Kill Chain Fuzz

Handmade in Salem, MA, the Black Mass Electronics Kill Chain is a one-knob transistor fuzz with a few tricks up its sleeve. The knob controls the volume of the output without affecting the fuzz, so the only way to decrease the amount of fuzz is through your guitar volume knob…Click on the title for more

Black Mass Electronics Kill Chain Fuzz

NuX Tape Echo NDD-7

Chinese up-and-coming pedal builder NUX unveiled a stereo, digital, stylized yet expanded clone of the classic Roland Space Echo: the Nux Tape Echo. The pedal will be shipping soon. With its 1600ms of delay, a 40-second stereo looper, tap tempo, subdivisions, seven modes based on different tape head combinations, and…Click on the title for more

NuX Tape Echo NDD-7

Calico Effects Antlers Fuzz

The Calico Effects Antlers is a tribute to the Green Muff and also the first pedal released by this Rhode Island-based small builder. The regular knobs found in the original (Volume, Tone and Disatortion) are integrated by three toggle switches affecting mids, gain and diode configuration (turn them all in…Click on the title for more

Calico Effects Antlers Fuzz

Vaderin Pedals Kroaked Boost/Distortion

The Vaderin Pedals Kroaked is an all-transistor 3-knob dirt-box that can go from pristine cleans to super-saturated and compressed distortion. The LVL knob, when the other two controls are at zero, works as a clean boost. It's not the output but a linear clean boost that precedes the pedal’s second…Click on the title for more

Vaderin Pedals Kroaked Boost/Distortion

Strymon El Capistan V2 Tape Delay

The Strymon El Capistan is a lush stereo emulation of a vintage Tape Echo device, in a cleverly simple box. It offers three Tape modes emulating different reading head configurations (Fixed, Multi and Single) and three ways to slightly tweak each one of them. Separate controls for Tape Age and…Click on the title for more

Strymon El Capistan V2 Tape Delay

Upcoming Pedals: Hagerman Thermionic Reinforcer

To be released in the next few weeks, the Hagerman Thermionic Reinforcer is a pedal featuring the entire 2-channel preamp section of the company's Push-Pull 12W Amplifier including the two 12AX7 tubes. The first channel is a rather traditional overdrive, warm and dynamic, while the second one, triggered by the…Click on the title for more

Upcoming Pedals: Hagerman Thermionic Reinforcer

Sonicake Rockstage Multi-FX Bar

To never be found unprepared is a determining quality of professionals. For this reason, an increasing number of guitarists have been carrying around a multi-fx bar like the Sonicake Rockstage next to their regular pedalboard, just in case anything went wrong with their main rig. Ultra-small (it's only 8" wide) and…Click on the title for more

Sonicake Rockstage Multi-FX Bar

Walrus Audio Eons Multi-Fuzz

After the Ages Overdrive and the Eras Distortion, we would be lying if we said that we didn't see this one coming: the multi-mode fuzz Walrus Audio Eons. Built on the same form factor of the aforementioned pedals, and therefore featuring 5 modes, the Eons is born to do all…Click on the title for more

Walrus Audio Eons Multi-Fuzz

Glowfly Albert Gramophone Simulator

While some lo-fi pedals out there recreate the sonic artifacts of vinyl record players, the Glowfly Albert takes things one notch further by giving us the sound of the record player's grandpa: the gramophone. You can reduce the frequency bandwidth of your tone to make it sound thin or phone-like…Click on the title for more

Glowfly Albert Gramophone Simulator

Harley Benton Double Vision Chorus + Tremolo

The Harley Benton Double Vision is a $66 dual effect pedal featuring a Chorus circuit on the left side and a Tremolo on the right. Based on circuits made popular by Mooer's mini-pedals, the two effects here can be routed one into the other or triggered in a way that…Click on the title for more

Harley Benton Double Vision Chorus + Tremolo

Orange Vintage Series Phaser

The Orange Vintage Series Phaser is part of a pedal line the British amp builder launched in September 2022, inspired by old line of large vintage stompboxes from the '70s. This one-knobbed box does exactly what's expected, delivering a luscious psychedelic swirl at various speeds. Originally named "Phazer," the pedal…Click on the title for more

Orange Vintage Series Phaser

Pedal Update: Crazy Tube Circuits Stardust V3 Overdrive

The Crazy Tube Circuits Stardust V3 is the Greek company's update to their Fender Blackface-inspired circuit. The layout is very simple with knobs for Volume, Tone and Gain and a 3-way toggle switch that delivers the tone of three different Blackface amp models: BSM is voiced after a Bassman, an…Click on the title for more

Pedal Update: Crazy Tube Circuits Stardust V3 Overdrive