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Caline Pegasus (Klon Clone)

The Caline Pegasus is a super-affordable, straightforward "Klone" that gets mixed reviews on Amazon but sells quite well. It gets a thumbs up in the intheblues video review. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv58_Vy4ro4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR0my8I20Nw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUZC8SLVslY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH3bzj3DNSg Click on the title for more

Caline Pegasus (Klon Clone)

BIG EAR Albie Modulated Reverb

We are happy to see our old Brooklyn friends, now Nashville-based, BIG EAR Pedals release a new pedal, and a really intriguing one for that matter: the two-knob modulated reverb called ALBIE. This stompbox delivers a "less is more" approach to reverb by limiting the control knobs to one (Blend)…Click on the title for more

BIG EAR Albie Modulated Reverb

BOSS NS-1X Noise Suppressor

The BOSS NS-1X Noise Suppressor is the latest addition to the X series lineup of compact pedals by the Japanese builder, featuring advanced Multi-Dimensional Processing (MDP) technology. The NS-1X is designed to effectively eliminate unwanted noise without compromising the natural tone and feel of your guitar or bass. Its swift…Click on the title for more

BOSS NS-1X Noise Suppressor

UAFX Orion Tape Echo

The UAFX Orion, probably the most interesting among the four pedals released by Universal Audio in the launch of their Compacts line, encapsulates the Echoplex-inspired EP-III algorithm taken from the UAFX Starlight, with expanded voicing thanks to a three-way toggle and a more affordable price tag. The three modes simulate the…Click on the title for more

UAFX Orion Tape Echo

Beetronics Seabee Harmochorus

The Beetronics Seabee Harmochorus is a creative (and intensely deep!) take on the chorus effect designed and assembled in LA by those mad geniuses at Bettronics FX. The Seabee is presented as a multi-chorus delivering analog bucket brigade chorus tones that goes a few steps farther than your regular modulation…Click on the title for more

Beetronics Seabee Harmochorus

New Pedal: Rainger FX Dr. Freakenstein Chop Fuzzz

The Rainger FX Dr. Freakenstein Chop Fuzzz (with three zs) belongs to a family of appropriately monstrous fuzz devices built by London-based mad pedal scientist David Rainger. One of those was the Chop Fuzz with just two zs, the predecessor of the Chop Fuzzz, which is a rather deep, still…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Rainger FX Dr. Freakenstein Chop Fuzzz

Dunlop Cry Baby DareDevil Fuzz Wah

The Dunlop Cry Baby DareDevil is a hand-built combo wah/fuzz developed in collaboration with Johnny Wator, owner and designer of Daredevil Pedals and frontman of Chicago's hard rockers The Evictions. A fan of aggressive fuzz tones, Wator forged a circuit that marries a modded Cry Baby Wah with a gnarly…Click on the title for more

Dunlop Cry Baby DareDevil Fuzz Wah

All Pedal Slamurai Overdrive Kit

The All Pedal Slamurai is an overdrive pedal that comes either fully built or a as DIY kit. With its 3-band EQ, soft footswitch, top-mounted jacks and sleek graphics, this is no rudimentary pedal, but a fully-fledged modern high gain overdrive that gets good reviews from metal tone connoisseurs. It…Click on the title for more

All Pedal Slamurai Overdrive Kit

Vongon Polyphrase Stereo Echo

We were very proud to host the launch of the new Vongon Polyphrase at our 10th Brooklyn Stompbox Exhibit (yeah, after all what happened since our 2019 edition we kind of forgot that this was the event's ten year anniversary!). The Polyphrase is a stereo echo with an infinite feedback loop,…Click on the title for more

Vongon Polyphrase Stereo Echo

Catalinbread CBX Gated Reverb

The Catalinbread CBX is the second pedal released this year that does something quite unusual for a stompbox: gated reverb. This is a type of reverb derived from a studio trick consisting in cuttin out the tail end of the effect abrubtly, creating an interesting angular reflection that works particularly…Click on the title for more

Catalinbread CBX Gated Reverb

Strymon Flint V2 Tremolo + Spring Reverb

The Strymon Flint is a thorough (and incredibly successful) stereo exploration of vintage spring reverb and tremolo tones, with three Tremolo types (emulating '61 Harmonic, '63 Power Tube and '65 Photocell) and three Reverb types ('60s Spring, '70s Electronic Plate and '80s Hall Rack). Reverb has controls for Color (tone),…Click on the title for more

Strymon Flint V2 Tremolo + Spring Reverb

TC Electronic Plethora X3 Stereo Multi-FX

A device manufactured by an industrial complex we like to refer to as the Scrooge of the music instrument industry, the TC Electronic Plethora X3 is a stereo multi-effect pedal with looper, tuner and cab sim, with three slots where can be inserted a selection of virtual recreations of existing…Click on the title for more

TC Electronic Plethora X3 Stereo Multi-FX