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Engl Powerball Distortion Pedal

Based on the company's Lead2 channel of the Powerball II amp, the Engl Powerball Distortion Pedal recreates the gain stages of the amp. It's a high-quality analog distortion for the aggressive guitarist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jDnG1R0VaU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odlkSJTJgys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srhCZDMfUuI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNFQIji_dNY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rin0PPt5CRU The Powerball pedal is tonally based on the Lead2 channel of the Engl…Click on the title for more

Engl Powerball Distortion Pedal

BAE Audio Hot Fuzz – Fuzz + Boost

The BAE Audio Hot Fuzz – a beast of a pedal we first saw at our 8th Brooklyn Stpompbox Exhibit – combines a high-frequency boost and an English 1970s-style fuzz box that can be used independently or together in series to create high-frequency distortion. The Hi Freq Boost and Fuzz sections…Click on the title for more

BAE Audio Hot Fuzz – Fuzz + Boost

JHS Pedals Smiley Fuzz

The JHS Pedals Smiley, from the Legends of Fuzz Series, is a faithful recreation of the Dallas-Arbiter Fuzz Face. Find the story of the pedal at the bottom of the page. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cPFrij1Q5k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hItYuxVb8Kw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llp8wyidI6Y In 1966, a salesman named Ivor Arbiter saw the rising British rock scene demanding the effect…Click on the title for more

JHS Pedals Smiley Fuzz

Stone Deaf FX Noise Reaper Gate Pedal

The Stone Deaf FX Noise Reaper is a simple, high-quality noise gate designed for line-level instruments. The only knob controls the db threshold under which the signal is silenced, with a LED indicating if the noise gate is active or not. However, this is not your regular manual gate: The…Click on the title for more

Stone Deaf FX Noise Reaper Gate Pedal

New Pedals: Ernie Ball Ambient Delay

Ernie Ball's Expression series takes the wah/volume pedal chassis concept and applies it to other effect types, therefore allowing a sweepable foot control for some paramters. The Ambient Delay has standard knobs to control the feedback, delay time, and reverb level, but the foot sweep provides a throttle control for…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Ernie Ball Ambient Delay

Danelectro Roebuck Distortion

The Danelectro Roebuck is a recreation of the vintage and rare Ibanez Mostortion, a pedal that has many fans among session players because of its flexibility, being able to sound good at a variety of gain ranges and offering a three-band EQ for tone sculpting. Te Roebuck adds two extra…Click on the title for more

Danelectro Roebuck Distortion

Anasounds Element Analog Spring Reverb

Straight from France comes the Anasounds Element, with Le Bon, La Brute and Le Truand in tow. The Element is an all-analog spring reverb transducer unit, which connects to one of three different real spring reverb tanks to add the finest in reverb to any amps without one or whose…Click on the title for more

Anasounds Element Analog Spring Reverb

Spiral Electric FX Brute Fuzz

Spiral Electric FX is the project of ex DigiTech circuit designer Tom Cram, and the Brute - unveiled at NAMM 2019 - is a muscular and dark fuzz pedal designed for the needs of guitarists with bright amps who want to have a bassy options. It features a complex circuit including…Click on the title for more

Spiral Electric FX Brute Fuzz

Carl Martin Atlantic Chorus

The Carl Martin Atlantic is a rather unusual analog chorus where the Rate control knob blends in vibrato for some more extreme in-depth chorus modulations. The Level control can act as a boost. Check out the videos below, we added the Carl Martin Atlantic to our article about the Best…Click on the title for more

Carl Martin Atlantic Chorus

Haunted Labs Scorched Earth Fuzz

This silicon fuzz by North Carolina's Haunted Labs, called Scorched Earth, has a versatile tone knob that can take it from vintage sounding to gnarly. Check out the videos - the one at the bottom was shot directly inside our Stompbox Booth at NAMM 2020! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLhBWbTubeE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvOJJVbV34c Unpredictable and ground-shaking…Click on the title for more

Haunted Labs Scorched Earth Fuzz

Collision Devices The Ranch Dynamic Tremolo, Drive & Boost

Marrying sustainability and vintage look, The Ranch, by French pedal builder Collision Devices, is a drive with separate boost footswitch and an added dynamic tremolo that's gaining "buzz status" among the pedal connoisseurs. Interestingly, more than half of the pedal's presentation text is about materials (it's made of US Walnut…Click on the title for more

Collision Devices The Ranch Dynamic Tremolo, Drive & Boost

PettyJohn Rail Fuzz

We had a chance to "meet" the Pettyjohn Electronics Rail fuzz at our latest Portland Stompbox Exhibit in early March, and we are happy to see the first videos of it being published. Hosted in a beautiful, black, blunt compact case, this pedal is a full range fuzz and the…Click on the title for more

PettyJohn Rail Fuzz