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Fender Pelt Fuzz

Fender's Pelt Fuzz is a classic silicon fuzz with a series of added tonal controls: two toggle switches called Mid and Thick allow the player to boost the effect's frequencies respectively in the mid and low range, while a more a classic Tone control knob deals with the overall brightness. However, the…Click on the title for more

Fender Pelt Fuzz

Gamechanger Audio Plus Pedal Sustain Stompbox

The Gamechanger Audio Plus Pedal is one of those devices that do one thing no other device does, and do it well. As its shape might suggest, it offers piano-style sustain not just for guitar, but for all instruments, through a clever automatic looping algorithm. Check out the videos below. More…Click on the title for more

Gamechanger Audio Plus Pedal Sustain Stompbox

Mooer E7 Polyphonic Synth Micro Pedal

Since we posted this article about the best synth pedals a few weeks ago, we've had a series of releases of new products belonging to that category, and today's announcement by Chinese manufacturer MOOER represents some sort of turning point because their new E7 synth pedal is the first stompbox…Click on the title for more

Mooer E7 Polyphonic Synth Micro Pedal

Victory The Kraken V4 Preamp Pedal

Those in need of a helluva portable, two-channel tube preamp for heavy tones might have found what they were looking for in the Victory Amplification The Kraken V4, a device developed in collaboration with UK's one and only Rabea Massaad and created with heavy, progressive and extended-range overdrive tones in…Click on the title for more

Victory The Kraken V4 Preamp Pedal

Free the Tone Ambi Space AS-1R Stereo Digital Reverb

The digital domain has in recent years conquered the reverb realm thanks to increasingly powerful/portable CPUs. The Free the Tone Ambi Space AS-1R Digital Reverb is a noteworthy contender in this niche. By using FTT’s original algorithm, the AMBI SPACE combines various elements to achieve a mechanism for producing complex reverberation, through…Click on the title for more

Free the Tone Ambi Space AS-1R Stereo Digital Reverb

Aclam Windmiller Preamp (Grampian’s Type 636 Reverb Emulation)

In 2019, Spanish boutique pedal builder Aclam surprised many with the release of the Dr. Robert Overdrive, a pedal inspired by the Normal channel of the Vox UL730, dear to the Beatles. At Believe in Music 2021 (the virtual event that's replacing NAMM due to the COVID-19 pandemic) the company…Click on the title for more

Aclam Windmiller Preamp (Grampian’s Type 636 Reverb Emulation)

NUX Ace of Tone Dual Overdrive

Chinese pedal builders have been stepping up their tone game in the last couple of years, offering an ever-increasing range of incredibly affordable yet good-sounding pedals. NUX is one of the companies at the heart of it all. Their Ace of Tone is a new dual, configurable overdrive stacking two…Click on the title for more

NUX Ace of Tone Dual Overdrive

Menatone Dirty B Overdrive

The Menatone Dirty B Overdrive (previously known as "Dirty Blonde") is a fantastically dynamic low-medium gain OD that recalls the blonde tolex amps of the early 60's. Tons of responsiveness and expression with a singing midrange and control over the amount of compression using the Soul control. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTfXlE1xDWY A downright…Click on the title for more

Menatone Dirty B Overdrive

Stone Deaf FX Q Boost/Distortion

Father and son British pedal builders Stone Deaf FX released some ingenious and imaginative stompboxes in the past, but today they unveiled something rather simple yet extremely intriguing. At a first look, the (Mickey Mouse-themed) Q Boost appears to be a simple boost pedal/preamp with an extra, sweepable mid-frequency boost,…Click on the title for more

Stone Deaf FX Q Boost/Distortion

LPD Pedals Seventy4 Deluxe Distortion

The LPD' Seventy4 is the two channel version of (one of) the company's flagship Plexi overdrive, an in-the-box recreation of the full distortion delivered by Marshall Plexi and Master Volume amps from the mid to late '70. The two channels are not identical, with the Red one being very similar…Click on the title for more

LPD Pedals Seventy4 Deluxe Distortion

Tech 21 SansAmp Classic

Today's guitarists take amp and cab simulation pedals for granted as an option to add a variety of tonal flavor to their "real" amp and cabs. But things were very different until the year 1989, when the only amp/cab sound one could get was through... an actual amp/cab combo, as…Click on the title for more

Tech 21 SansAmp Classic

NativeAudio Kiaayo Overdrive

Mike Trombley's NativeAudio unveiled a new pedal that represents the builder's debut in the gain realm: the Kiaayo Overdrive. Faithful to the company's somewhat deceiving "less is more" approach, the Kiaayo hides a lot of engineering ingenuity under its three-knob layout. The designer's priority was to create a dynamic overdrive…Click on the title for more

NativeAudio Kiaayo Overdrive