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Dreadbox Disorder Fuzz

The Dreadbox Disorder isn't a new pedal (the video of the original version dates back to 2014), but the Greek company, after focusing for almost a decade on its line of synths, in the early '20s has switched its attention back to stompboxes, triggering new attention to their old designs.…... Click for more

Dreadbox Disorder Fuzz

New Pedal: Ghoib Elektronik Clang Invasion

As you may have guessed from the color scheme and control layout, the Ghoib Elektronik Clang Invasion is a replica of the Harmonic Percolator, the clangy and noisy fuzz pedal brought to fame by Steven Albini, a producer specializing in noisy indie-rock. The enclosure here is much smaller than the…... Click for more

New Pedal: Ghoib Elektronik Clang Invasion

Bardic Audio Devices & Dirty Haggard Audio The Thing

Collaborating with another pedal builder is always an opportunity for learning from a like-minded colleague, but also a creative and fun experience. The Bardic Audio Devices & Dirty Haggard Audio The Thing seems to be the product of a successful dual brainsplosion of that kind... In a few words, this…... Click for more

Bardic Audio Devices & Dirty Haggard Audio The Thing

Valco FX KGB Loop

The Valco FX KGB Loop is a utility pedal built for guitar, bass, and synthesizer/keyboards featuring an FX Loop with blendable controls, a boost, and a Variable Input Impedance that can also be used for sculpting purposes, just like in the other pedals in the KGB line. The peculiarity of…... Click for more

Valco FX KGB Loop

Keeley Moon Fuzz

The Keeley Moon Fuzz is the first new fuzz release of the Oklahoma-based builder in years, and it's a variant on the fuzz circuit included in their popular Dark Side multi-effect. This is a rather simple, 3-knob + 1-toggle quad op-amp Muff-style fuzz with a massive tone due to the…... Click for more

Keeley Moon Fuzz

Heather Brown Sensation Fuzzdrive

The Heather Brown Sensation Fuzzdrive is the second release by a pedal builder who was able to create a name for herself with her only release before this one, the Blessed Mother overdrive. The new device is a very tweakable blend of fuzz and overdrive that can deliver the best…... Click for more

Heather Brown Sensation Fuzzdrive

Now Shipping: Anasounds Full Story Multi-Muff Clone

The Anasounds Full Story is an ambitious new pedal by a French company enamored with wood, that aims at becoming the ultimate all-things Big Muff. It consists of a dual circuit featuring replaceable "tone cards," each recreating specific versions of the venerable fuzz pedal, with a foot-switchable Treble Booster clone…... Click for more

Now Shipping: Anasounds Full Story Multi-Muff Clone

Black Mass Electronics The First Herald

The folks at Black Mass Effects, out of Salem, MA, describe their debut pedal, named The First Herald and recently redesigned to fit in a compact case, as a device that "does not reinvent the wheel, but reinforces it" and also "not death itself, but a definitive statement reminding you…... Click for more

Black Mass Electronics The First Herald

Way Huge Atreides Analog Weirding Module

Way Huge just announced - quite curiously, through the JHS Pedal YouTube channel! - a new, unexpectedly creative pedal called Atreides (after the characters in cult sci-fi movie Dune), with the uber-intriguing subtitle "Analog Weirding Module." The pedal, inspired by the 1980 mini-synthesizer keyboard by Electro-Harmonix, like the original only…... Click for more

Way Huge Atreides Analog Weirding Module

Colfax Recorders Porcelain Fuzz

Colfax Recorders appears to be originally a California-based one-man musical project that recently ventured into manufacturing pedals with the release of three dirt boxes. The Porcelain is the fuzz in the bunch. Not directly inspired to any existing circuits, the Porcelain is a fuzz of the gnarly and dirty variety…... Click for more

Colfax Recorders Porcelain Fuzz

Tone Electronix Animalizzer Fuzz

Tone Electronix (aka T.X Pedals) is a one man pedal builder from Portugal. The company's signature pedal is the Animalizzer, a fuzz beast that can recreate all sorts of fuzz sounds thanks to two clipping stages (first LED + Silicon, then Germanium + LED + Silicon) preceded by a boost…... Click for more

Tone Electronix Animalizzer Fuzz

Fjord Fuzz Berserk V2

Norwegian pedal manufacturer Fjord Fuzz builds edgy and sturdy stompboxes with a consistent bronze-looking finish. The new Fjord Fuzz V2 is an original circuit inspired by two legendary fuzz circuits of the '60s: the Tone Bender and the Fuzz Face. This 2nd version is a complete redesign of the original…... Click for more

Fjord Fuzz Berserk V2