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Cosmodio Pet Yeti Fuzztortion+Bitcrusher

The Pet Yeti is the colorful debut pedal by Massachusetts-based builder Cosmodio. A super-flexible, fully analog fuzzstortion with an added bit crusher circuit, the Pet Yeti is an original design that can offer tones from the classic to the unusual, and from the subtle to the monstrous. The circuit offers…... Click for more

Cosmodio Pet Yeti Fuzztortion+Bitcrusher

Walrus Audio ACS1 MkII Amp & Cab Simulator

Walrus Audio updated their Amp/Cab Simulator ACS-1 with a MkII, after the original version's 2.0 firmware introduced some new features. Firmware 2.0 Changes The firmware update, made public in August 2023, bring these improvements: Improved dynamic range on the gain knob on the existing amp simulators to allow for extra…... Click for more

Walrus Audio ACS1 MkII Amp & Cab Simulator

Old Blood Noise Pardner Fuzz with Looper

To their credit, Oklahoma City's Old Blood Noise Endeavours has yet to attempt to make a "normal" guitar pedal, and the Pardner Fuzz (depicted here in its purple variant, but also available in teal blue and yellow-tan) confirms this inclination by mixing two normally antithetic effects: a fuzz and an…... Click for more

Old Blood Noise Pardner Fuzz with Looper

Line 6 POD Express Black

Although the original Line 6 POD Express was quite black, the new POD Express Black is even more black, because... it's a metal pedal! In it, you will find all the sonic goodness of the regular pod (7 amp models, 7 cab simulations, and 17 effects based on cutting-edge HX-derived technology, along…... Click for more

Line 6 POD Express Black

Crazy Tube Circuits High Power

The Crazy Tube Circuits High Power is a David Gilmour "Wish You Were Here"-era inspired pedal, combining variants of two units the Pink Floyd guitarist adopted in that phase of his career: the Colorsound Power Boost and the (now ultra-rare) Hiwatt DR103 AP amp - each with its separate footswitch.…... Click for more

Crazy Tube Circuits High Power

Collision Devices Crushturnal

The Collision Devices Crushturnal is the latest inspiring device by a French pedal brand that has gotten us accustomed to delivering complex yet intuitive creative effects. Available for preorder, it will ship in the 2nd half of June 2024. Inspired by the glitch created by clock change on digital processors…... Click for more

Collision Devices Crushturnal

EarthQuaker Devices Sunn O))) Life Pedal V3

It should come as no surprise that EarthQuaker Devices’s aesthetic dabbles into the occult from time to time, and the brand’s collaboration with Sunn O))) cemented that fact. The pedal, dubbed “Life Pedal” in conjunction with the release of Sunn O)))’s Life Metal features a presentation like not much else,…... Click for more

EarthQuaker Devices Sunn O))) Life Pedal V3

JHS Colour Box V2

The JHS Colour Box was born in 2014 as a pedal that allows guitarists to recreate through a simple stompbox the classic sound and tonal palette of a guitar plugged directly into the preamp of a high-end studio console (a sound made famous by the Beatles on "Revolution"). Today the…... Click for more

JHS Colour Box V2

New Pedal: Analog Music Company SHSL Mk3 (So High So Low) Preamp + Filter

The Analog Music Company SHSL Mk3 (an acronym for "So High So Low") is a preamp pedal inspired by two other devices: the pleasantly colored preamp section of the Moogerfooger pedals by Moog, and the high-pass/low-pass filters found on the vintage KORG MS-20. As an extra nod to synth players,…... Click for more

New Pedal: Analog Music Company SHSL Mk3 (So High So Low) Preamp + Filter

Champion Leccy Skitzy Dual Modulated Reverb

Wolly of Pensyllvenya-based Champions Leccy has slowly morphed a very peculiar and creative identity for his company: creative and quirky, his devices feature quirky illustrations reminiscent of indie comic books, and the brand new Skitzy, a Dual Modulated Reverb, is no exception. Blending the circuits (and the names) of two…... Click for more

Champion Leccy Skitzy Dual Modulated Reverb

REVV G4 Distortion

Manitoba's REVV Amplification has built a solid reputation designing and building high-quality boutique guitar amps, and have expanded to the pedal market in the spring of 2018 with the (purple) REVV G3 Distortion, which instantly found lots of love among many pedal videographers. The Canadian builder surprised everybody by releasing…... Click for more

REVV G4 Distortion

Joyo TaiChi Overdrive

The Joyo Taichi is the newest addition to their R series, which is a low gain D-style overdrive with 4 simple controls. Volume, Gain, and Tone are simple enough, but the Voice knob is where the design really gets interesting. It works in conjunction with the Gain and Tone knobs…... Click for more

Joyo TaiChi Overdrive