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Fender Hammertone Fuzz

Fender Hammertone Fuzz The Fender Hammertone Fuzz is one-ninth of the new affordable line of pedals released by the electric guitar giant in early 2022.... Click on the title for more

Fender Hammertone Fuzz

Chase Bliss Audio Blooper

Chase Bliss Audio Blooper Pedal We've been following the genesis of Chase Bliss Audio's creative looper Blooper since NAMM 2019.... Click on the title for more

Chase Bliss Audio Blooper

AC Noises Urla CMOS Fuzz + Filter

The AC Noise Urla is an uncompromising new stompbox from one of the most interesting pedal companies to emerge as of late. It's an uber-tweakable CMOS fuzz in front of a dual resonant filter, with separate footswitches for each.... Click on the title for more

AC Noises Urla CMOS Fuzz + Filter

New Pedal: Warm Audio ODD Box Overdrive (OCD clone)

Warm Audio ODD Box Overdrive The Warm Audio ODD Box is a stompbox based on the Fulltone OCD overdrive, the most successful pedal design by Michael Fuller, a controversial, recently retired builder known - among other things - for not taking kindly news about his circuits getting cloned.... Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Warm Audio ODD Box Overdrive (OCD clone)

Pigtronix Gloamer Volume Swell + Compressor

Victory V1 The Kraken High Gain Preamp

Victory V1 The Kraken The Victory V1 Kraken is the third pedal (and the only compact one) in a series of high-gain stompboxes by UK Victory Amplification. Its siblings are a 180w power amp and a bigger preamp "V4" model.... Click on the title for more

Victory V1 The Kraken High Gain Preamp

Walrus Audio Melee Distortion + Reverb

The Walrus Audio Melee, a distortion + reverb combo pedal, represents for the Oklahoma-based company both a step forward and a tribute to its past, reminiscent as it is of its early stompbox Janus, which similarly blended two different effects (fuzz and tremolo), sporting not one but two joysticks.... Click on the title for more

Walrus Audio Melee Distortion + Reverb

Spaceman Meridian Modulator

BOSS DS-1w Distortion

BOSS DS-1W Distortion The BOSS DS-1w Distortion was an expected update to what's in all likelihood the best-selling pedal ever. Like other models in the Waza Craft, the DS-1w offers a new, modern mode, together with one replicating the original circuit.... Click on the title for more

BOSS DS-1w Distortion

New Pedal: Moth Electric P. Isabella

Moth Electric P. Isabella Utilizing carefully selected parts and rigorous circuit design, the Moth Electric P. Isabella is a hand-built fuzz/distortion based on an old Russian classic (read, Russian Muff) by an emerging builder based in Portland, Oregon.... Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Moth Electric P. Isabella

Universal Audio UAFX Galaxy ’74 Tape Echo

Universal Audio UAFX Galaxy '74 The Universal Audio UAFX Galaxy '74 Tape Echo is a stereo pedal that encapsulates the essence of the '70s Roland Tape Echo into an almost compact case, adding extra features like presets, dual stereo effects, Tap Tempo, a momentary footswitch function, and doubled delay times and tap tempo that allow to create rhythmic subdivisions not possible on the original hardware.... Click on the title for more

Universal Audio UAFX Galaxy ’74 Tape Echo

Kasleder Pipergate (Buzz Tone / Syd Barrett-Inspired)

Kasleder Pipergate Fans of Syd Barrett, the unstable but genius lead songwriter/guitarist of early Pink Floyd, should lend an eye and an ear to the Kasleder Pipergate, a tribute to that incredibly influential artist who presumably used a Selmer Buzz Tone (mixed with an assortment of delays and reverbs) for his palette of tones that all but defined the psychedelic sound of the '60s.... Click on the title for more

Kasleder Pipergate (Buzz Tone / Syd Barrett-Inspired)