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If you've been dreaming of being able to play through a legendary optical studio compressor during live performances or rehearsals, today is a good day. The 
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The All Pedal Slamurai is an overdrive pedal that comes either fully built or a as DIY kit. With its 3-band EQ, soft footswitch, top-mounted jacks and sleek graphics, this is no rudimentary pedal, but a fully-fledged modern high gain overdrive that gets good reviews from metal tone connoisseurs. It does clean boost well too.... Click on the title for more
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The Catalinbread CBX is the second pedal released this year that does something quite unusual for a stompbox: gated reverb. This is a type of reverb that cuts out the tail end of the effect rather soon, creating an interesting angular reflection. It had its heyday in the '80s when Phil Collins pioneered it on some of his famous pop hits.
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The Strymon Flint is a thorough (and incredibly successful) Stereo exploration of vintage spring reverb and tremolo tones, with three Tremolo types (emulating '61 Harmonic, '63 Power Tube and '65 Photocell) and three Reverb types ('60s Spring, '70s Electronic Plate and '80s Hall Rack).... Click on the title for more
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Inspired by a steady aural diet of Steve Ray Vaughan, the Pedal Pawn Texas Twang is a combo boost/overdrive is a two-knob device built to interact with your guitar and amp, cleaning up nicely at low guitar output. The right knob is a three-way rotary switch that produces glassy and bite on the Hi setting, tube-like warmth in the Mid setting and punchy growl in the Lo one.... Click on the title for more
The entire fuzz pedal niche is mostly based on variations on five or six vintage fuzz circuits (as you can read in our super comprehensive article about fuzz types). Considering the sheer yearly output of fuzz pedals, it seems like there's an underground world of engineers constantly modding those circuits in the hopes to come up with something that's at once classic and new: the MXR Hybrid Fuzz is a noteworthy child of this process.... Click on the title for more
Presented at the NAMM 2023 show, the VS Audio Platinum Preamp and Overdrive uses hand-selected discrete JFETs to create a unique blend of Plexi and Marshall-style tones. Based on the coveted Marshall 1987 Silver Jubilee amp, this circuit provides a similar high gain, dark, and smooth output.... Click on the title for more
