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Fender Engager Boost

The Engager is Fender's very versatile boost pedal delivering up to 20db of clean gain and featuring a three band EQ including a toggle switch that selects two different frequencies for the mids. A switch on the back panel lets you select true or buffered bypass. Here's the video demo…Click on the title for more

Fender Engager Boost

First video of the Lunastone Blue Drive

We took a video of the Lunastone Blue Drive at our Stompbox Booth at NAMM 2018 (the second one under here). It's a medium gain overdrive built with blues in mind, and features a combination of cascade coupled gain stages and diode clipping. You can get tones from sustain-y clean…Click on the title for more

First video of the Lunastone Blue Drive

Zander Circuitry Cafetiere Distortion Fuzz

From Essex in the UK, comes Zander Circuitry and its latest pedal Cafetiere, a "distortofuzz" featuring two separate circuits of... you know what! This is an evolution of the infamous Harmonic Percolator fuzz, featuring an extra gain stage with separate footswitch and a 6-way clipping diode selector. The purple pedal…Click on the title for more

Zander Circuitry Cafetiere Distortion Fuzz

Zorg Effects Small Basstar

Originally built as a smaller/simpler version of this beast of a pedal, the (French) Zorg Effects Small Basstar is a peculiar overdrive obviously intended for bass but also intriguing-sounding on guitar. The circuit also gained its own quirks during the designing process. The controls are pretty self explanatory, the toggle switch in the…Click on the title for more

Zorg Effects Small Basstar

Bondi Effects Art Van Delay + Modulation

Today Reverb.com posted this preview video of the Bondi Effects Art Van Delay, a tap tempo enabled, bucked brigade delay + modulation pedal inspired by the delay pedals of the late '70s and early '80s. Among the extra features, there's the always useful subdivision function. Also, the Tap Tempo footswitch…Click on the title for more

Bondi Effects Art Van Delay + Modulation

Old Blood Noise Endeavors Reflector Chorus V3

There's an update to the OBNE flagship chors - the Reflector V3! - with a new reverb chorus mode called Washed. These are all the modes: Wrinkle Mode: A Vibrato-esque warble chorus with the added option of pitch selection, meaning the Modulate knob goes from one octave down to one octave up, with…Click on the title for more

Old Blood Noise Endeavors Reflector Chorus V3

Spaceman Effects Explorer Deluxe Optical Phaser

Oregon is home to a fair number of pedal companies, and Spaceman Effects, established in 2009, is one of the most established. The manufacturer recently unveiled their first phaser, called Explorer Deluxe! This is a very versatile, optical, photocell-based phaser featuring six sweeping stages. As you can hear from this demo by Elevation…Click on the title for more

Spaceman Effects Explorer Deluxe Optical Phaser

Function f(x) Gate Crasher Octave Fuzz

Based in Elk Grove Village, IL, just outside of Chicago, Function f(x) makes edgy stompboxes that are fun to explore. Recently Mike Hermans took a look at the Gate Crasher Octave Fuzz, a gnarly, octave up gated fuzz based on CMOS logic integrated circuits. Besides the expected Gate and Volume knobs,…Click on the title for more

Function f(x) Gate Crasher Octave Fuzz

Anasounds Utopia Delay

The Utopia Analog Delay is a simple yet interesting take on the tape echo with modulation effect coming directly from France, via stylish builder Anasounds. Shawn Tubbs just posted this video demo of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj0FQq4AF0gClick on the title for more

Anasounds Utopia Delay

VFE Dragon Dynamic Overdrive

In a few words, the VFE Dragon overdrive deconstructs the logic behind all the most popular overdrive circuits (i.e. cutting bass before distortion and cutting treble after it) and lets you play with it through separate knobs controlling a Lo-Pass and a High Pass filter. A drive pushing up to 50db…Click on the title for more

VFE Dragon Dynamic Overdrive

Flux Effects Liquid Ambience Polyphonic Reverb

Reverb pedal designs continue to become more evolved, and the Liquid Ambience Polyphonic Reverb from Flux Effects is truly at the head of the pack. Two different kinds of circuits contribute to the lush tone – a hall reverb and a polyphonic octave generator. The controls take a little getting…Click on the title for more

Flux Effects Liquid Ambience Polyphonic Reverb

Two Notes Le Crunch Overdrive

The Two Notes Le Crunch is a great pedal if you need a very versatile dual channel drive that can get you from Hendrix-like Plexi cleans to… well, Hendrix-like drive. It also features great extras like a cab sim and a great sounding XLR-out, as well as a headphone out.…Click on the title for more

Two Notes Le Crunch Overdrive