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Old Blood Noise Sunlight Dynamic Reverb

If creative reverbs with intriguing momentary effects are your kind of thing, you should take a look at the new pedal by Old Blood Noise, the Sunlight Dynamic Reverb. The Sunlight doesn't do "regular" reverb. Its three reverb algorithms are unique and each has the ability to react dynamically to…Click on the title for more

Old Blood Noise Sunlight Dynamic Reverb

Spaceman Polaris Resonant Overdrive

If you think overdrive pedals are due for a facelift, you've got to check out the Spaceman Effects Polaris, a hand made medium-gain overdrive with a series of unexpected tone shaping features, including a "2-pole resonant filter, controllable via expression pedal for filter sweeps and out-of-this-world overdrive tones." The filter…Click on the title for more

Spaceman Polaris Resonant Overdrive

Catalinbread Epoch Boost Preamp/Buffer

Catalinbread's Epoch pedal series, inspired by the legendary Echoplex, seems to be something like a gift that keeps giving: at NAMM 2020 the Portland-based company unveiled their fourth Epoch pedal, namely the Epoch Boost, a device that emulates the character of the preamp section in the original Echoplex. Some legendary…Click on the title for more

Catalinbread Epoch Boost Preamp/Buffer

Walrus Audio Ages Five-State Overdrive

Walrus Audio just unveiled a new, multi-mode Overdrive called Ages. The pedal offers a rather simple knob layout, with knobs for Volume + Gain, Bass + Treble, and a Dry control to reintegrate some of the clean signal. But the heart of this pedal is the Mode knob which discloses the…Click on the title for more

Walrus Audio Ages Five-State Overdrive

JHS Pedals PG-14 Paul Gilbert Signature Distortion

Here's a new signature distortion pedal by JHS just in time for NAMM 2020. The JHS Pedals PG-14 features a FET engine and an active mid-frequency preamp placed in front of it, offering a parametric mids section - just like in the studio consoles. The circuit was engineered in close collaboration…Click on the title for more

JHS Pedals PG-14 Paul Gilbert Signature Distortion

Pedal Pawn Fuzz

Pedal Pawn is a small pedal builder based in Cambridgeshire, UK, and their Fuzz is a recreation of the venerable Face Fuzz - as a matter of fact, it was built with the goal of being an "end-all" version of that circuit, with an emphasis on fatness at high gain…Click on the title for more

Pedal Pawn Fuzz

Spaceman Polaris Resonant Overdrive

If you think overdrive pedals are due for a facelift, you've got to check out the Spaceman Effects Polaris, a hand made medium-gain overdrive with a series of unexpected tone shaping features, including a "2-pole resonant filter, controllable via expression pedal for filter sweeps and out-of-this-world overdrive tones." The filter…Click on the title for more

Spaceman Polaris Resonant Overdrive

Fowl Sounds Echonomicon Parallel Delay+Reverb and Distortion

Fowl Sounds is a small builder that specializes in pedals for down-tuned guitars, bass, heavy music, shoegaze and other alternative genres. Their Echonomicon is a parallel delay/reverb + distortion. The signal is split in two and sent, on one side, to the delay and then the reverb and, on the…Click on the title for more

Fowl Sounds Echonomicon Parallel Delay+Reverb and Distortion

Mattoverse Inflection Point Tremolo/Vibrato

We profiled Mattoverse Electronics some time ago in this article, and since then the small Wisconsin manufacturer has added a bunch of really interesting designs to its line. The builder's latest stompbox is an update to their Inflection Point multi-wave tremolo/vibrato pedal with tap tempo and clock input - the new…Click on the title for more

Mattoverse Inflection Point Tremolo/Vibrato

JHS Pedals 3 Series Fuzz

The JHS 3 Series Fuzz is the first fuzz pedal released by JHS with a price tag under $100 USD, belonging to the $99 JHS 3 Series. The effect straddles the line between vintage and modern with soaring sustain and clear articulation. The Bias knob gives it a more gated…Click on the title for more

JHS Pedals 3 Series Fuzz

Old Blood Noise Black Fountain V3 Delay

The Old Blood Noise Black Fountain is a delay that emulates vintage echo devices based on the short-lived but full of character "oil can" technology from the '50s, a Ry Cooder's favorite. In this pedal, the Fluid control adds those devices' typical dark modulation on the repeats, originally generated by…Click on the title for more

Old Blood Noise Black Fountain V3 Delay

Teisco Overdrive

The Teisco Overdrive is a simple low- to medium-gain transparent overdrive with an added Kick toggle switch that takes it into medium-gain territory. Introduced at NAMM 2020, it integrates the new (and gorgeous looking) Teisco line of guitar pedals launched the previous year. This low-gainer is designed to be harmonically…Click on the title for more

Teisco Overdrive