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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

Crazy Tube Circuits Super Conductor Multi-Boost

If you think boost pedals are kind of boring, the Crazy Tube Circuits Super Conductor is here to make you change your mind. This fully analog pedal delivers four flavors of boost, each inspired by established circuits producing different sonic characters. The big knob on the top deals with setting…Click on the title for more

Crazy Tube Circuits Super Conductor Multi-Boost

STOY Sound Pedals

STOY Sound is a brand new company from Denmark offering a series of traditional pedals in the $100 ballpark in stylish-looking but slightly bigger than compact enclosures. Currently, their roster includes the following devices, which are all getting positive reviews in the first video demos. Fuzzmaster: Muff-style fuzz Choirboy: Analog…Click on the title for more

STOY Sound Pedals

Sonicake Sonic IR Cab Simulator

At just around $60 (USD) the Sonicake Sonic IR might be the cheapest effect pedal out there with an XLR output and a USB input, and in all likelihood also the most affordable cab simulator pedal. This mini stompbox comes pre-loaded with 11 Cab Models (9 for guitar and 2…Click on the title for more

Sonicake Sonic IR Cab Simulator

JHS Morning Glory Overdrive

The pedal that put the Kansas City builder on the map, the JHS Morning Glory has probably become more famous than the pedal it's inspired by: the Marshall Blues Breaker - maybe even more popular than the legendary Analogman King of Tone, another Blues Breaker variant. This type of overdrive…Click on the title for more

JHS Morning Glory Overdrive

EarthQuaker Devices Special Cranker

The EarthQuaker Devices Special Cranker is an all-discrete, analog distortion from everyone's favorite Ohio-based pedal builder, based on the discontinued Speaker Cranker, a one-knob overdrive now selling used for about twice the amount of this new, 3-knobbed pedal. The Special Cranker is designed to give players a way to do…Click on the title for more

EarthQuaker Devices Special Cranker

Catalinbread Many Worlds 8-Stage Phaser

The Catalinbread Many Worlds is an 8-Stage Phaser born out of an experiment related to quantum physics and an orange MXR pedal. You can read about this mystical story here, but the bottom line here is that this circuit features the modulation of one LFO by another LFO, featuring eight…Click on the title for more

Catalinbread Many Worlds 8-Stage Phaser