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Dazatronyx SPOT (Stereo Panning Optical Tremolo)

Designed by South-East Melbourne, Australia's Dazatronyx, the SPOT is a Stereo Panning Optical Tremolo with some interesting features. Your standard "Speed" and "Depth" knobs are integrated with a Boost knob that allows to compensate for any signal loss or actually boost the signal even more (the "Pad" switch also helps taming…Click on the title for more

Dazatronyx SPOT (Stereo Panning Optical Tremolo)

Doc Lloyd Face Ripper

The Doc Lloyd Face Ripper is a gated fuzz with 4 controls (Fuzz, Bias, Tone and Volume). All pretty straightfoward apart from the Bias knob, which "knob is used to starve the transistors to decrease the pulse width and introduce a gating effect that leaves your amp silent between bursts…Click on the title for more

Doc Lloyd Face Ripper

Dedalo FX alu9 Aliaser Pedal

We shot a video of the Dedalo FX alu9 Aliaser at our NAMM 2018 Stompbox Booth (embedded at the bottom of the post), and we are happy to finally see the first produced videos appear. This pedal hailing from Argentina belongs to the quirky family of lo-fi effects, but introduces some…Click on the title for more

Dedalo FX alu9 Aliaser Pedal

SolidGoldFX Apollo II (demo)

You can certainly say that phasers are back in phashion this year, and that might be why 60 Cycle Hum took a new look at the Apollo II by SolidGold FX, which was released in the closing months of 2017. This phaser offers 11 different waveforms and a Mode knob that…Click on the title for more

SolidGoldFX Apollo II (demo)

Ark Atom Grumpkin

New from Australia, Ark Atom unveiled their first pedal called the Grumpkin, a three knob overdrive with a "Magic" know that open things up a little on the high end. Check out the video by our favorite Australian pedal-videographers The SuperFunAwesomeHappyTime Pedal Show! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL8WoSU3Drc A Tube-like overdriven breakup with a “magic”…Click on the title for more

Ark Atom Grumpkin

Black Arts Toneworks Skyboost

Delivering anything "from a gentle full range boost, gritty treble boost, gassing up to a full aggressive fuzz," the Black Arts Toneworks Skyboost is one of the more flexible pedals from a manufacturers known for heavy gain effects. Check out the demo video by Mike Hermans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGxILyMVw34 You’ll find sounds from…Click on the title for more

Black Arts Toneworks Skyboost

TEFI Vintage Lab GainOver

The GainOver Overdrive by Italian TEFI Vintage Lab was designed "for the musician who needs to move from a soft crunch to pushed overdrive tones during the execution of a song, always preserving the same sound but with different gain and volume using a single stompbox." It features two gain circuits - one high and…Click on the title for more

TEFI Vintage Lab GainOver

Mozztronics TD-1 Tube Driver

The guys at the SuperFunAwesomeHappyTime Pedal Show are a big fans of the TD-1 Tube Driver, a stompbox featuring a real 12AX7 tube (used in the gain stages of the circuit) manufactured by Australian builder Mozztronics. The controls are pretty self explanatory, a 3 position CONTOUR switch to select between mild /…Click on the title for more

Mozztronics TD-1 Tube Driver

Aclam Guitars debuts its first pedal: Cinnamon Drive

Based in Barcelona, Spain, Aclam is a boutique guitar manufacturer that just debuted its first guitar pedal, called Cinnamon Drive This is a dual overdrive presented as an homage to the open and dynamic overdriven tones of the tube amps of the '60s and '70s, and features a combination of soft…Click on the title for more

Aclam Guitars debuts its first pedal: Cinnamon Drive

RPS Effects Red Sun Distortion

Hailing from Pittsburgh, PA, RPS effects is a brand new pedal manufacturer whose goal is to "produce a quality instrument that can be picked up and played by anyone, while at the same time providing nuanced and deep possibilities that reward exploration." Shnobel just posted a video of their Red Sun…Click on the title for more

RPS Effects Red Sun Distortion

Alexander Pedals Colour Theory Spectrum Sequencer

In the last couple of years Alexander Pedals has been churning out some truly exciting stompboxes. We were already rather stocked by their Quadrant delay, which was released only two weeks ago, but we are now utterly intrigued by their new pedal we just saw on Instagram: the Colour Theory Spectrum…Click on the title for more

Alexander Pedals Colour Theory Spectrum Sequencer

Massive FX Illusionist Fuzz

Brand new Californian company Massive FX Pedals is laser-focused on producing fuzz boxes for heavy rock genres like doom and metal. At this past NAMM convention they launched the Illusionist, a high end super heavy fuzz with Germanium and Silicon diode clipping, versatile blend tone knob and an “Octavio type” effect mixed…Click on the title for more

Massive FX Illusionist Fuzz