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Distortion Pedals

Using Distortion Pedals with Drum Machines and Synths

Synth enthusiasts often overlook the effects falling under the "Distortion" or "Saturation" umbrella. Truth is, these are effects that can do a variety of things to any sound they are fed, and have a powerful and almost unique secret weapon: they create harmonics of the upper kind, as exemplified in…Click on the title for more

Using Distortion Pedals with Drum Machines and Synths

Cosmodio Instruments Gravity Well

Handmade in Massachusetts by a promising up-and-coming builder, the Cosmodio Instruments Gravity Well is an analog tremolo and wavefolder pedal that combines two effects into one unit. It features a tremolo on one side and a wavefolder on the other, with the option to combine them into a unique modulation…Click on the title for more

Cosmodio Instruments Gravity Well

New Pedal: Krozz Devices Royalbreaker Distortion

Krozz Devices is a rather young pedal company from Brazil that turned heads in the early '20s with two intriguing analog modulation pedals and a compressor. The Royalbreaker is their first foray into the realm of dirt boxes, a 2-voice distortion with a wide tonal range that can also deliver…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Krozz Devices Royalbreaker Distortion

Frost Giant Soma V2 Heavy Fuzz

The Frost Giant Soma V2 is the new, updated, and improved version of this fuzz pedal made for Doom and Metal aficionados, a variant of the company's popular Massif Fuzz. Within a smaller case, now in the classic compact size, this new circuit packs more volume and more bass for…Click on the title for more

Frost Giant Soma V2 Heavy Fuzz

One Control Dyna Red 4k Plexi Drive now shipping

The One Control Dyna Red Distortion 4k is an upgrade to the previous Barefoot version of this full-on Plexi pedal, featuring an extra Presence knob that tames some of the hard mid-range. It's designed to deliver an organic distortion reminiscent of the early to mid-70s UK voiced amplifiers, cranked up…Click on the title for more

One Control Dyna Red 4k Plexi Drive now shipping

Cosmodio Pet Yeti Fuzztortion+Bitcrusher

The Pet Yeti is the colorful debut pedal by Massachusetts-based builder Cosmodio. A super-flexible, fully analog fuzzstortion with an added bit crusher circuit, the Pet Yeti is an original design that can offer tones from the classic to the unusual, and from the subtle to the monstrous. The circuit offers…Click on the title for more

Cosmodio Pet Yeti Fuzztortion+Bitcrusher

Line 6 POD Express Black

Although the original Line 6 POD Express was quite black, the new POD Express Black is even more black, because... it's a metal pedal! In it, you will find all the sonic goodness of the regular pod (7 amp models, 7 cab simulations, and 17 effects based on cutting-edge HX-derived technology, along…Click on the title for more

Line 6 POD Express Black

EarthQuaker Devices Sunn O))) Life Pedal V3

It should come as no surprise that EarthQuaker Devices’s aesthetic dabbles into the occult from time to time, and the brand’s collaboration with Sunn O))) cemented that fact. The pedal, dubbed “Life Pedal” in conjunction with the release of Sunn O)))’s Life Metal features a presentation like not much else,…Click on the title for more

EarthQuaker Devices Sunn O))) Life Pedal V3

REVV G4 Distortion

Manitoba's REVV Amplification has built a solid reputation designing and building high-quality boutique guitar amps, and have expanded to the pedal market in the spring of 2018 with the (purple) REVV G3 Distortion, which instantly found lots of love among many pedal videographers. The Canadian builder surprised everybody by releasing…Click on the title for more

REVV G4 Distortion

Holy Island Tides V2 Reverb > Distortion

Built in Wales, the Holy Island Tides is an atmospheric pedal featuring a reverb followed by two gain stages, creating over-the-top fuzzy walls of sound sprinkled with interesting harmonics and sonic artifacts. Each gain stage can be activated through a toggle switch: Gain I is a low gain, opamp-based overdrive…Click on the title for more

Holy Island Tides V2 Reverb > Distortion

JHS The Violet Distortion

The JHS The Violet is a Lari Basillo signature distortion pedal featuring a 3-way pre-distortion EQ with sweepable parametric mids. This allows for the creation of both mid-scooped and mid-heavy tones, although the pre-gain placement in the circuit delivers subtler changes. The Treble and Bass EQ controls are instead placed…Click on the title for more

JHS The Violet Distortion

Rainger FX Pull Focus Distortion + Chorus/Reverb

The Rainger FX Pull Focus, by the London-based kind of quirky pedals, is an analog distortion circuit (borrowed from previous units like the Reverb-X) routed into a second, faded-in digital effect, that can be either a chorus or a reverb. The name chosen for this device refers to a cinematographic…Click on the title for more

Rainger FX Pull Focus Distortion + Chorus/Reverb