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Victory V1 The Sheriff Overdrive

Designed in collaboration with Adrian Thorpe of ThorpyFX, the Victory V1 The Sheriff is a high-end amp-in-a-box version of the company's actual guitar amp, inspired by the sound of the Marshall Plexi line of amps. It's part of the first line of compact pedals released by the British builder. The…... Click for more

Victory V1 The Sheriff Overdrive

Tone Electronix Animalizzer Fuzz

Tone Electronix (aka T.X Pedals) is a one man pedal builder from Portugal. The company's signature pedal is the Animalizzer, a fuzz beast that can recreate all sorts of fuzz sounds thanks to two clipping stages (first LED + Silicon, then Germanium + LED + Silicon) preceded by a boost…... Click for more

Tone Electronix Animalizzer Fuzz

Fjord Fuzz Berserk V2

Norwegian pedal manufacturer Fjord Fuzz builds edgy and sturdy stompboxes with a consistent bronze-looking finish. The new Fjord Fuzz V2 is an original circuit inspired by two legendary fuzz circuits of the '60s: the Tone Bender and the Fuzz Face. This 2nd version is a complete redesign of the original…... Click for more

Fjord Fuzz Berserk V2

Catalinbread Soft Focus Reverb

Guitarists with shoegazing tendencies (for the unaware, "shoegaze" is a musical genre featuring cascades of heavily reverberated distorted guitars) should take a look at the Catalinbread Soft Focus, a reverb + modulation pedal based on some algorithms of the Yamaha FX500, a digital rack effect of the late '80s that…... Click for more

Catalinbread Soft Focus Reverb

5 New Maestro Pedals

We were all expecting some more pedals in the Maestro line, recently revived by Gibson, in particular a phaser, since the company's Maestro PS-1 Phase Shifter was the very first phaser pedal ever created! Our expectations were met with the addition of five new circuits to the previous five. Priced…... Click for more

5 New Maestro Pedals

Source Audio True Spring Reverb

While working on their dual processor, "do-it-all" reverb pedal Ventris, Massachusetts' builder Source Audio put a lot of effort into creating a digital spring reverb that sounded as good and as natural as the ones generated by spring coils found in vintage amps. So much so that, in the Ventris, the…... Click for more

Source Audio True Spring Reverb

MXR Power 50 Overdrive TBM1

Yes, we were there, in our early twenties, when Rage Against The Machine released their debut LP. We were part of a generation of young semi-rebels with an impeccable taste for alternative rock, whose minds were blown by the tense, explosive sound of that band and by the incredibly inventive…... Click for more

MXR Power 50 Overdrive TBM1

Crazy Tube Circuits Splash Reverb Mk IV

The Splash reverb series by Crazy Tube Circuits gains a new member with this 4th version presented at NAMM 2020. The Splash MK IV gathers all the algorithms from the previous versions of the Splash Mk III and Sidekick pedals and adds on top three entirely new ones, for a…... Click for more

Crazy Tube Circuits Splash Reverb Mk IV

Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi Hardware Plugin

NYC's Electro-Harmonix is known for pushing the pedal effect envelope, but their latest release is something else entirely: the Big Muff Pi Hardware Plugin is a software plugin that routes your DAW's signal via USB to an analog Muff pedal that also acts as a controller and headphone monitor. While…... Click for more

Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi Hardware Plugin

Death By Audio Exploding Head Echo

Released as a Reverb exclusive to celebrate the 13th year anniversary of A Place to Bury Strangers' wall-of-sound-breaking "Exploding Head" LP, the Death By Audio Exploding Head Echo Destroyer is another sonically murderous pedal by the Brooklyn-based builder. Featuring three delay circuits connected in series, each with controls for Time,…... Click for more

Death By Audio Exploding Head Echo

BOSS RE-2 Space Echo

Since BOSS worked on a new version of their legendary RE-201 Space Echo (the RE-202), while they were at it they also developed a smaller version of it that retains the most crucial features: enter the BOSS RE-2 Space Echo, compact version! This digital echo is a virtual multi-head tape…... Click for more

BOSS RE-2 Space Echo

JPTR FX Katastrophe Octave Up Distortion

German buitique pedal builder JPTR FX likes to make its devices big and noisy and also original, and the Katastrophe finds its originality angle in being an octave overdrive/distortion (as opposed to an octave fuzz). This is a pedal that allows you to radically tweak your tone through two gain…... Click for more

JPTR FX Katastrophe Octave Up Distortion