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Donner Ultimate Comp Mini Compressor

The Donner Ultimate Comp is a surprisingly subtle, great-sounding mini compressor. Best for a spanky sound, not so much for sustain. Works well for country, blues, funk, and jazz rhythm tones. Also sold under the Rowing and VSN brands. We added this pedal to our article about the best mini…Click on the title for more

Donner Ultimate Comp Mini Compressor

Walrus Audio Iron Horse V3

We wrote just last week about the Walrus Audio Iron Horse, in the context of our article about RAT Pedals and their clones and evolutions. Today the company announced V3 of this LM308-based high-gain distortion pedal, featuring an intriguing new knob replacing the 3-way clipping toggle found in the previous…Click on the title for more

Walrus Audio Iron Horse V3

Gibson Maestro Pedal Line

Gibson reissued, in partnership with Reverb.com, an updated version of their Maestro line of pedals, which were the first pedals ever released and are almost impossible to find in their original version, dating back as far as 1962. The 5 line of stompboxes includes distortion (Invader), overdrive (Ranger), delay (Discoverer),…Click on the title for more

Gibson Maestro Pedal Line

Earthquaker Devices Night Wire V2 Harmonic Tremolo

The Earthquaker Devices Night Wire V2 does what classic harmonic tremolos do, but adds an envelope tremolo option that is quite unheard of. When both toggles are set to Manual mode, the circuit splits your signal into high and low-frequency ranges and then applies an LFO to each that is…Click on the title for more

Earthquaker Devices Night Wire V2 Harmonic Tremolo

Black Mass Electronics 1312 V3 Multi-Voice Distortion

Released in May of 2020, the Black Mass Electronics 1312 was something very close to the JHS Packrat, one of the most hyped pedals of the winter of 2022: a multi-mode RAT distortion pedal. Now in its 3rd version, the 1312 has the same identical layout as its illustrious descendant,…Click on the title for more

Black Mass Electronics 1312 V3 Multi-Voice Distortion

Sonicake Rude Mouse Distortion

The Sonicake Rude Mouse is an incredibly affordable RAT-style distortion with two modes: Classic and Hot, which adds extra gain. It's available on Amazon and reverb and gets an average of 4.6 out of five stars, which is very good for products this affordable. We added it to our article…Click on the title for more

Sonicake Rude Mouse Distortion

Blackstar Dept. 10 Boost

Part of the Dept 10 series, the Blackstar Boost is a high voltage boost circuit that, when plugged in your pedal chain, is like adding two extra hot valve stages to your amp. It also features a 2-way passive James-Baxandall EQ for Low and High frequencies and a Built-in Buffer…Click on the title for more

Blackstar Dept. 10 Boost

One Control Lemon Yellow Compressor

The One Control Lemon Yellow is a very musical compressor in a mini case, with controls for compression ratio, amount of compression, and level. A switch on the side allows for increased release time (more sustain), and a small footprint and solid construction round out the feature set. We added…Click on the title for more

One Control Lemon Yellow Compressor

Wampler Belle Overdrive

Indiana's Wampler has an impressive record in the pedal overdrive niche, having released several best-selling units with various voicing flavors, from classic Plexi-style drives to authentic emulations of highly valued circuits like the Centaur Klon and the Dumble Amps. Their release of a new overdrive is therefore a quite eventful…Click on the title for more

Wampler Belle Overdrive

Dawner Prince Pulse Revolving Speaker Emulator

We had insider news of an upcoming Dawner Prince pedal release in collaboration with David Gilmour for over a year and we assumed it was going to be some kind of super high-end uni-vibe or Binson Echorec emulation. Well, we are excited to share the news that it's neither of…Click on the title for more

Dawner Prince Pulse Revolving Speaker Emulator

Electronic Audio Experiments Hypersleep V2 Analog Reverb + Modulation

The Electronic Audio Experiments Hypersleep V2 is an analog reverb. But - some may say - "don't you need springs to make an analog reverb?" Well, not if you are after something that's not necessarily vintage-sounding or realistic. The Hypersleep is based on the unusual MN3011 bucket-brigade device, obsolete to…Click on the title for more

Electronic Audio Experiments Hypersleep V2 Analog Reverb + Modulation

Donner Tutti Love Chorus

The Donner Tutti Love Chorus is a simple, incredibly affordable (under $40!), 100% analog, true-bypass circuit that provides warm chorusing. Dial it in with level, depth, and rate controls. Not groundbreaking, but gives you access to a variety of classic chorus sounds. We added it to our article about the…Click on the title for more

Donner Tutti Love Chorus