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Crazy Tube Circuits Heatseeker

The Crazy Tube Circuits Heatseeker is a stompbox that continues in the Greek company's mission to forge uber-tweakable pedal versions of legendary dirt-box + amp-in-a-box combos, a trend launched with their Unobtanium pedals and continued with the recent Hi Power. This time the devices being paid homage are the Schaffer-Vega…Click on the title for more

Crazy Tube Circuits Heatseeker

Alabs Timeslip Stereo Delay

Alabs is a new Chinese pedal brand that was able to take the "affordable compact pedal" concept to the next level by releasing a series of multi-algorithms stereo stompboxes chock-full of features. The Alabs Timeslip, mostly sold through Amazon, is the delay in this line. Offering a mix of…Click on the title for more

Alabs Timeslip Stereo Delay

Voltic Electronic Devices DTF – Dual Transistor Fuzz

The Dual Transistor Fuzz (DTF) is a guitar pedal created by Voltic Electronics, a business split between Delaware, Philadelphia and New Jersey. It's based on the HP-2 circuit designed by Dan Weiss of Interfax Electronics, also known as "Harmonic Percolator." The DTF uses a PNP 2N404A germanium transistor and NPN 2N3565…Click on the title for more

Voltic Electronic Devices DTF – Dual Transistor Fuzz

Gamechanger Audio Auto Series

If one thing can be said about the folks at Gamechanger Audio is that they don't do normal, and their recently unveiled new products confirm that habit: a stereo, semi-modular pedal series called Auto (originally promoted with the "Mod" name) with a dynamic angle. The Latvian company unveiled three pedals…Click on the title for more

Gamechanger Audio Auto Series

Empress Effects Zoia Modular Multi-Effects Pedal

After its introduction at NAMM 2018, it took Canadian builder Empress Effects more than a year to finalize their noteworthy modular stompbox Zoia, but it was worth the wait: this is a pedal like no other, with truly infinite potential. This page gathers all the news about the Zoia in…Click on the title for more

Empress Effects Zoia Modular Multi-Effects Pedal

Universal Audio UAFX Knuckles Rev F Double Rectifier

With the Knuckles '92, Universal Audio continues its series of stereo, amp-inspired stompboxes (part of the broader UAFX line) with what has now become a signature format blending a compact footprint with a noteworthy amount of tweakability. The guitar amp subject to pedal cloning (or sound snatching!) is the venerable…Click on the title for more

Universal Audio UAFX Knuckles Rev F Double Rectifier

Chase Bliss Clean Stereo Compressor

Can what's arguably the most creative pedal maker of this decade make the most boring effect ever exciting? Enter the Chase Bliss Clean and find out. Clean is a studio-grade, two-stage stereo analog compressor with an out-of-the-box approach that - to quote the builder - "brings the interactivity of distortion…Click on the title for more

Chase Bliss Clean Stereo Compressor

Strymon Mobius Multi-Modulation Pedal

Strymon is a company that focuses heavily on... getting it right. They use powerful DSP processing to create pedals that echo and sometimes surpass the most fabulous designs of the past, but with a modern spin of course. I reviewed the TimeLine a while back and gave an extremely detailed…Click on the title for more

Strymon Mobius Multi-Modulation Pedal

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

Old Blood Noise Dark Star Stereo Reverb

The Old Blood Noise Dark Star Stereo takes one of the most successful circuits of the Oklahoma City-based brand to its logical next level. The original Dark Star, released in the early '20s, is a 3-algorithm reverb. It became a go-to pedal for many ambient guitarists for its ability to…Click on the title for more

Old Blood Noise Dark Star Stereo Reverb

Vahlbruch Kaluna II Tube Overdrive

German pedal builder Vahlbruch has just unveiled an update to their tube overdrive, the Kaluna II, a high voltage original circuit operating at 250v, and featuring an ECC83/12AX7 tube. The tube requires a little 30-second warm-up, during which the status LED will flash while the pedal remains in bypass mode.…Click on the title for more

Vahlbruch Kaluna II Tube Overdrive

KMA Machines Endgame Amp and Cab Sim

The KMA Machines ENDGAME is an amp and cabinet simulator that offers a range of features, including a foot-switchable stereo effects loop, dual cabinet simulation, ambience control, and a foot-switchable true double-tracker with a width knob. The pedal also has switchable tube power amp simulation, flexible internal signal routing, and analog,…Click on the title for more

KMA Machines Endgame Amp and Cab Sim