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Cornerstone Aquarium Uni-Vibe

Cornerstone, the makers of the lauded Gladio, has released their first modulation pedal: the ultra-boutique Aquarium vibe. This is a uni-vibe pedal that uses the same rotating bulb technology of the original Shin-ei Uni-vibe, but has been updated to modern specs to ensure no volume loss or tonal change. The…Click on the title for more

Cornerstone Aquarium Uni-Vibe

Mad Professor The Green Wonder

An updated version of the popular Little Green Wonder, the Mad Professor The Green Wonder is a high-output overdrive/boost pedal optimized to sound great with single coil and humbucking pickups and different amplifiers no matter if clean, overdriven, or distorted. It delivers the uncompressed and touch-sensitive tones of the predecessors…Click on the title for more

Mad Professor The Green Wonder

Surfy Industries SurfyTrem Deluxe

Surfy Industries, which is mainly known for their analog spring reverb units, has updated their SurfyTrem pedal to a deluxe version in a slightly bigger casing. The Surfy Industries SurfyTrem Deluxe features the same analog amplitude and harmonic tremolo circuits (black panel fender and brown panel Fender modes) with some…Click on the title for more

Surfy Industries SurfyTrem Deluxe

Keeley Caverns V2 Delay/Reverb

Keeley Electronics' version 2 of their take on the Tape Echo style Delay with Reverb, called Caverns, blends their two most popular time-based circuits. V2 builds on the old Caverns pedal by giving players a more open and logical control layout and more space between the foot switches. For an…Click on the title for more

Keeley Caverns V2 Delay/Reverb

Zero G IOD Honey Coma Fuzz

There are a number of fuzz circuits that lost the tone wars to the 7 kings of fuzz, but are still sought after by the pedal-obsessed. The '70s Roland Bee Baa fuzz is such a device, and the Zero G IOD Honey Coma Fuzz is a variant of it. The…Click on the title for more

Zero G IOD Honey Coma Fuzz

Pedal Pawn Chicken Quiff Tremolo

UK builder Pedal Pawn is one of the most buzzworthy new companies in that niche of manufacturers that could be called "classic refiners." Their new tremolo Chicken Quiff is a faithful clone of the rare Cesar Diaz Texas Tremodillo, a legendary, discontinued pedal that sells used for around $1k…Click on the title for more

Pedal Pawn Chicken Quiff Tremolo

Fender Hammertone Distortion

The Fender Hammertone Distortion is one-ninth of the new affordable line of pedals released by the electric guitar giant in early 2022. The US company's 2018 Pugilist distortion was very well received (and it's currently on top of our article about the best distortion pedals) but we don't know if…Click on the title for more

Fender Hammertone Distortion

Tape Audio Co. ONE Fuzz

Tape Audio Co. ONE is a new pedal company run by folks who've been working on guitar effects for over 15 years, and ONE is the builder's debut stompbox, a stylish-looking original fuzz circuit with two faders and one old-style button switch. Although the two Silicon SE4010 transistors in the…Click on the title for more

Tape Audio Co. ONE Fuzz

Spaceman FX Sputniuk III Germanium Fuzz

Originally built in small batches, the Spaceman FX Sputnik is an all-germanium fuzz featuring vintage Soviet transistors which became instantly hard to find. Today the Portland builder announced version III, which incorporates all the functions from the previous iterations, plus some new features, and will be released both in a…Click on the title for more

Spaceman FX Sputniuk III Germanium Fuzz

Fender Hammertone Series

Lovers of affordable stompboxes have a new $79-99 line to choose from, manufactured by the best-known name in the electric guitar realm: Fender. The company is now shipping the Hammertone line of compact pedals, for now comprising of 9 streamlined effects covering all the basics (3 gain, 1 fuzz, 2…Click on the title for more

Fender Hammertone Series

Mosky Black Rat Distortion

The Mosky Black Rat Distortion is a very affordable mini OEM RAT clone, it uses the same LM308 Op-amp as the original. It also comes with “vintage” and “turbo” distortion voicings. You'll find identical models by Eno, Mosky and Donner. We added it to our article about the best Rat…Click on the title for more

Mosky Black Rat Distortion

Eastwood Black Box Series

Eastwood Guitars just unveiled a new line of 6 pedals called Black Box Series comprising two delays (analog and modulated), one spring reverb, one vibe, one compressor, and an overdrive. Like most series of pedals released all at once, these are classic effects with streamlined controls, but the manufacturer stresses…Click on the title for more

Eastwood Black Box Series