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Empress Effects Drive

Empress Effects Drive Empress Effects, a Canadian pedal builder known for making pedals for people who read manuals for fun, hasn't entirely shied away from dirt boxes: their Heavy Menace is a precision kill box. But a loose, interactive overdrive? That seemed beneath them. Until they patched a discontinued Germ Drive circuit into the middle of a Heavy Menace prototype. It wasn't elegant, but nobody wanted to stop playing it.... Click on the title for more

Empress Effects Drive

New Pedal: Meris Ottobit X

Meris Ottobit X Some pedals evolve. The Meris Ottobit X resurrects - louder, stranger, and fully reborn.... Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Meris Ottobit X

New Pedal: Pedal Pawn Freaky Fuzz

Some fuzz pedals sit on your board like obedient pets. The Pedal Pawn Freaky Fuzz is not one of them. This thing is a three-silicon-transistor circuit bred in the UK by Pedal Pawn for pure psychedelic chaos, and it has exactly one setting: more.... Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Pedal Pawn Freaky Fuzz

New Pedal: Crazy Tube Circuits Triptychon

Bananana Mandala Glitch Pedal

Bananana Mandala The Bananana-Mandala isn’t just another “fun-toy” glitch box—it’s a tiny, hand-wired manifesto that says the future of chaos lives on a printed circuit board the size of a postage stamp.... Click on the title for more

Bananana Mandala Glitch Pedal

Beetronics Pollinator Hazee Multi-Modulated Delay

Beetronics Pollinator Hazee Beetronics finally went digital. After years of building analog dirt boxes in those signature hand-painted enclosures, the California-via-Brazil hive unleashed the Pollinator Hazee Delay—their first fully digital pedal . And thank fuck. Because you can't do what this does with bucket brigades and capacitors.... Click on the title for more

Beetronics Pollinator Hazee Multi-Modulated Delay

New Pedal: Caroline Aron Graves Overdrive

Caroline Aron Graves Overdrive So you want to know about the Caroline Aaron Graves Overdrive. Fine. Caroline Guitar Company, the same lunatics who made you fall in love with a reverb tank that sounds like a falling building, decided to build a pedal that is not just a pedal. It is a goddamn sermon.... Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Caroline Aron Graves Overdrive

New Pedal: LPD Spearhead Boost

LPD Spearhead The LPD Spearhead isn’t a boost; it’s a weapon forged for anyone who’s tired of polishing a dull tone with cheap tricks. Co?designed with Michael Nielsen of Big Hairy Guitars, this front?end shaper slams together five brutal stages that lock together like a well?tuned assault rifle.... Click on the title for more

New Pedal: LPD Spearhead Boost

New Pedal: Mad Professor Deep Blue Delay (Handwired)

Polyend Endless Stereo AI-Powered Pedal

Polyend Endless We saw this "thing" at NAMM 2026. The booth was crowded with similarly looking pedals with a varying range of graphics. Guitarists were frantically typing things like "reverse reverb that pitches up an octave" into a laptop and then stepping on a pedal that actually did it. People were losing their minds.... Click on the title for more

Polyend Endless Stereo AI-Powered Pedal

New Pedal: Voltic Mountain Drive

New Pedal: RHPF Electronics Mosrawr Fuzz

RHPF Electronics Mosrawr Fuzz Right. You want to get mean. Enter the RHPF Electronics Mosrawr Fuzz. The Velcro Roar. A name that sounds like a bad '90s cartoon villain or the noise your amp makes when you drop it down a flight of stairs. Either way, I'm listening.... Click on the title for more

New Pedal: RHPF Electronics Mosrawr Fuzz