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New Pedals: Gearmanndude Luther Drive v.3

Y'all may know GermannDude for his very popular demo videos of stompboxes - we actually aggregate many of them in the "pedal strip" on our site's homepage (under the blog's top picture). Even though the dude is probably among the most knowledgeable human beings in the guitar effect department (he's got almost 2k…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Gearmanndude Luther Drive v.3

SolidGoldFX Imperial BC183 Fuzz

Living Room Gear demo of the SolidGoldFX Imperial BC183! Although inspired by the classic 4-stage muff circuits of yesterday the Imperial BC183 is more than just another Big Muff clone. Built around a fine tuned high-impedance JFET preamp the Imperial BC183 offers incredibly stable buffer friendly operation, as well as…Click on the title for more

SolidGoldFX Imperial BC183 Fuzz

Shift Line A+ Live Reverb

Living Room demo of the A+ Live Reverb! The pedal’s diverse sound is constituted by 8 reverb algorithms (patches) that add depth and color to the guitar signal via different reverberation types, such as room, long hall, plate, spring and organ hall. The available algorithms provide reverb types that fit…Click on the title for more

Shift Line A+ Live Reverb

Wampler Dracarys Distortion

Guitar Effects Pedal Demo - Wampler - Dracarys High Gain Distortion https://www.youtube.com/embed/I1kMSLNr9bYClick on the title for more

Wampler Dracarys Distortion

Walrus Audio Monument Harmonic Tap Tremolo (demo)

Living Room Gear demo of the Walrus Audio Monument Harmonic Tap Tremolo! "Inspired by the beautifully jagged, red-sand desert landscape of Monument Valley, the Monument Tremolo is both a harmonic, and standard tremolo that produces a rich, luscious, warm pulsating modulation capable of peaks and valleys as smooth or as jagged…Click on the title for more

Walrus Audio Monument Harmonic Tap Tremolo (demo)

Emerging Pedal Manufacturer: Side Effects

Greece has some interesting things going on stompbox-wise, and Side Effects is certainly contributing with some pedals leaning towards the atmospheric and ambient-y. Based in glorious Athens, this is a tiny operation (they use the word 'DIY' to describe their business model) building small batches of beautifully hand painted original…Click on the title for more

Emerging Pedal Manufacturer: Side Effects

Rainger FX Deep Space Pulsar – demo video by Knobs

We wrote about this crazy baby (Rainger FX Deep Space Pulsar) a few weeks ago, can't miss the Knobs video of it! In a few words, it recreates the effect employed by mixing engineers knows as "ducking." It's a little like a trigger controlled tremolo, check it out. https://www.youtube.com/embed/6pJPl__SMqMClick on the title for more

Rainger FX Deep Space Pulsar – demo video by Knobs

Adventure Audio Whateverb gets 4.5 stars on bestguitareffects.com

We were among the first ones to see and hear Adventure Audio's Whateverb - the company's owner and designer Christian Terjesen unveiled it at our 2016 Toronto Stompbox Exhibit just about one year ago - and we were instantly intrigued by it. The pedal has been a little bit of a sleeper, so it's great…Click on the title for more

Adventure Audio Whateverb gets 4.5 stars on bestguitareffects.com

New Pedals: Caroline’s Shigeharu Octave Up Fuzz

Based in Columbia, South Carolina, Caroline Guitar Company is not exactly a new face in the stompbox realm (they were founded in 2010), but offers products that have the "freshness" (of ideas and execution) of a startup, combined with the quality and sturdiness of a veteran in the field. One…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Caroline’s Shigeharu Octave Up Fuzz

By Living Room Gear: Hiero Effects Heretic Fuzz

We love it when we get to know a new stompbox manufacturer through a YouTube demo of one of their pedals! No information can be found about the company (at least not written in English - the company appears to be Russian) but Hiero Effects' specializes in gain pedals, with an…Click on the title for more

By Living Room Gear: Hiero Effects Heretic Fuzz

Pedal demos: Dwarfcraft Devices’ Super Wizard (by Knobs)

Here's a spanking new video by Knobs about the Dwarfcraft Devices' new Super Wizard, described by the manufacturer as "a behemoth of pitch shifting, glitching, and lo-fi echo delights!" It's sample based pitch shifting identical to the one found in their Wizard of Pitch," but with the added functionality of the…Click on the title for more

Pedal demos: Dwarfcraft Devices’ Super Wizard (by Knobs)

Lightning Boy Audio LB II High Voltage Tube Overdrive with CH2 Sidecar Module

We just caught this video below legendary GermanDude, and we couldn't help but being intrigued by the word "sidecar" - to date, without any doubt the coolest vehicle invented by humanity. In this circumstance, the sidecar concept is applied - as you might have guessed - to a guitar pedal: the (hand…Click on the title for more

Lightning Boy Audio LB II High Voltage Tube Overdrive with CH2 Sidecar Module