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
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
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
Red Panda has spent years proving that digital doesn't have to mean cold. The Raster was their deep-dive pitch delay - a brilliant box with menus, alternate functions, and enough parameters to make a synth programmer weep with joy . It was also, for the stomp-and-go guitarist, a lot.... Click on the title for more
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
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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
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