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Westminster Armistice Overdrive

A collaboration with AZ guitar store Pedal.ly aimed at supporting veterans, and only available to purchase there, the Westminster Armistice is a versatile overdrive that can deliver tones useful for genres as disparate as blues and metal. Controls for Timbre, affecting the high-mids, and Texture, adding compression and saturation, are…Click on the title for more

Westminster Armistice Overdrive

GFI Skylar Stereo Reverb

GFI System is an Indonesian manufacturer that has been gaining traction in the pedalsphere thanks to forward-thinking hybrid digital effects like the Synesthesia and the Specular Tempus. The Skylar is a studio-quality, streamlined, multi-mode, stereo digital reverb that replaces the Specular Reverb in their line. It features four of its…Click on the title for more

GFI Skylar Stereo Reverb

Joyo Vintage Overdrive

At $35, the Joyo Vintage Drive is an incredibly affordable Tube Screamer clone delivering more defined mids and a wider gain range. We added it to our article about the best Tube Screamer original pedals, clones and variants. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSVHnlY7NJAClick on the title for more

Joyo Vintage Overdrive

BOSS VB-2w Vibrato

The BOSS WB-2w is a new/old take on the classic analog vibrato effect launched by the Japanese company in 1982. The new Waza Craft technology employs the classic BBD chips to authentically reproduces the original unit's sound and adds a new vibrato mode with a filter wave (Custom Mode) and…Click on the title for more

BOSS VB-2w Vibrato

TC Electronic 2290 P Digital Delay

The TC Electronic 2290 P is a modernized reissue of the the rackmount TC 2290 dynamic digital delay, which in the '80s and '90s left its pristine sonic mark in recording studios, live performances, and guitar rigs worldwide. This authentic recreation features a captivating vintage design, complete with iconic digital…Click on the title for more

TC Electronic 2290 P Digital Delay

LPD Pedals Embers Klon-inspired Overdrive

Mesa, Arizona's LPD Pedals in recent months has been releasing more streamlined pedals than the company got us used to, and the Embers Overdrive is their four knob take on the simplest and probably most hyped stompbox of all times: the Centaur Klon. This Klon-inspired circuit adds a Bass knob…Click on the title for more

LPD Pedals Embers Klon-inspired Overdrive

EarthQuaker Devices Disaster Transport Legacy Reissue

The EarthQuaker Devices Disaster Transport Legacy Reissue was supposed to be what its name states - a "reissue" of a pedal that started the delay + modulation trend back in 2019 - but it ended up becoming more than that, because, to quote the press release: "the OG of EQD,…Click on the title for more

EarthQuaker Devices Disaster Transport Legacy Reissue

DOD Chthonic Fuzz

A dark and sludgy take on the early fuzz circuitry, the DOD Chthonic Fuzz is the first release by the pioneering US pedal company since it was acquired by Cortek Guitars from Samson within the sale of DigiTech. In perfect DOD style, it's a pedal that caters to alternative guitarists,…Click on the title for more

DOD Chthonic Fuzz

DOD Gunslinger Distortion

The DOD Gunslinger is a versatile overdrive/distortion pedal, utilizing a MOSFET circuit and capable of providing a very wide range of overdriven tones from light grit to full saturation. Given the MOSFET design, the Gunslinger provides the touch-sensitivity and articulation of playing a tube amp, available in a compact, familiar…Click on the title for more

DOD Gunslinger Distortion

Disruptive Music Enhancifier

For those in search of a high-end tone sweetener, the Disruptive Music Enhancifier might be just what the doctor ordered. Described by veteran guitarist and YouTuber Shawn Tubbs as the "secret sauce boost pedal," this device aims at enhancing the quality of your instrument’s tone by adding harmonic complexity to…Click on the title for more

Disruptive Music Enhancifier

Zvex Box of Rock

Designed to nail the sound of a dimed Marshall JTM45, the Zvex Box of Rock was one of the early Plexi-style pedals (it was released in the mid aughts), and is still one of the best-selling ones. The controls couldn't be simpler - Drive, Tone, Volume, and a single volume…Click on the title for more

Zvex Box of Rock

Source Audio EQ2 Programable Equalizer

Presented at NAMM 2020, the Source Audio EQ2 Programable Equalizer improves upon the Boston company’s original Programmable EQ pedal. It offers a combination graphic and parametric equalizer with 10 fully adjustable frequency bands, stereo output and an eight preset system. Up to 12dB of boost. Additionally, EQs can be different…Click on the title for more

Source Audio EQ2 Programable Equalizer