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After years of relative quiet from the Dunlop-family brand, KHDK Electronics has reemerged with something unexpected . Not another high-gain monster for metalheads—though they've done those—but a filter-delay modulation pedal born from a two-year collaboration with Deftones' Chino Moreno.... Click on the title for more
Brian Wampler looked at the 1980s and saw two kinds of fire-breathing monsters. California boutique amps—smooth, articulate, punchy, the kind of gain that lets you bend a note and hear every microtonal ghost in between. British high-gain stacks—saturated, muscular, that cranked-Plexi crunch that made the decade sound the way it looked: dangerous and covered in hairspray .
He put both in one box. Emerald green sparkle. Gold hardware. The Wampler Golden Jubilee.... Click on the title for more



Oy, UK-based synth wizards and knob-twiddling witches,
This week,
The first Glue Fuzz was a sleeper. Two fuzzes in one box—a Fuzz Face and an Octavia—with controls that made no sense until you twisted them and the whole room tilted sideways. Velcro sounds. Synth sputters. That weird in-between space where fuzz stops being fuzz and starts being something broken in the best way.... Click on the title for more
Let's get one thing straight right now. You're looking at a box that crams two completely separate fuzz circuits into one enclosure and sells the whole mess for less than what the Heliotropic alone used to cost. One-forty-five for the Grey Stache, two-ten for the Helio. Now you get both for a hundred eighty-nine bucks. In this economy? That's not a deal. That's an aberration. That's some kind of beautiful capitalist glitch in the matrix.... Click on the title for more






