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TC Electronic Magus Pro High Gain Distortion

After the acquisition by Behringer's Music Group, Danish pedal builder TC Electronic has been slowly changing its focus from high-end, highly creative stompboxes to super-affordable, bread and butter releases, for the despair of the company's old fans and the joy of a wider demographic of guitar players. The new Magus…Click on the title for more

TC Electronic Magus Pro High Gain Distortion

Ground Control Audio Locust Fuzz

We covered Montreal's Ground Control Audio back in 2017 in this manufacturer profile, but the company has been adding several new pedals since then. However, the Locust is one of the builder's earliest designs. This fuzz pushes discrete silicon amplification into loud and sluggish distortion territory. The two mid-notch depth…Click on the title for more

Ground Control Audio Locust Fuzz

EarthQuaker Devices Data Corrupter

The EarthQuaker Devices Data Corrupter is a Modulated Monophonic PLL Harmonizer with modulation. This ain't a simple pedal to describe in a few words, but we can certainly tell you that it belongs to EQD's tradition of experimental and even "synthy" stompboxes. Here's the intro from EQD's website: It takes…Click on the title for more

EarthQuaker Devices Data Corrupter

Spaceman Effects Artemis Modulated Filter

Portland's Spaceman Effects just came out with a new filter pedal that will catch the interest of the synthesis and psych-inclined guitarists out there: the Artemis. Featuring a 2-pole state-variable design, which allows to mix, at once, high-pass, band-pass, and low-pass filters, the Artemis can deliver both envelope or LFO…Click on the title for more

Spaceman Effects Artemis Modulated Filter

DryBell Unit67 EQ/Boost/Compressor

Up until 2019, Croatian manufacturer DryBell has been very focused on building the best possible Uni-Vibe pedal recreations. Everything changed today, with the release of their first non-vibe product called Unit67, a utility pedal that - knowing the company's designing rigor - promises to be a very useful and great…Click on the title for more

DryBell Unit67 EQ/Boost/Compressor

NUX Atlantic Delay & Reverb

The NUX Atlantic Delay & Reverb Offers 3 classic Delay ('60s, '70s and '80s) & 3 classic Reverb (Spring, Plate and Hall) algorithms, plus a bonus “Shimmer” effect. Tap tempo and tap division functions. This is one of the best-selling delays in this effect niche. We added it to our list…Click on the title for more

NUX Atlantic Delay & Reverb

Valco Five-O Drive/Tremolo/Reverb

While the cutting-edge pedal manufacturers of today are busy in a competition involving packing more and more features in increasingly smaller enclosures, some smaller up-and-coming builders defy this shrinking trend with ginormous (but great-looking) devices. Valco belongs to this category. The Five-O is their latest release, a beast of a…Click on the title for more

Valco Five-O Drive/Tremolo/Reverb

DigiTech Drop Polyphonic Drop Tune Pedal

The Black Keys and The White Stripes - there are some suspicious similarities. Both are two-piece acts. Both have "the color + plural noun" band names. Both went from Midwestern garage rock roots to become bands that your mom downloads from iTunes. There is another similarity that musicians may notice:…Click on the title for more

DigiTech Drop Polyphonic Drop Tune Pedal

Noise Space Audio Klone

For those who are wondering if the Klon-mania has reach Ukraine, the answer is: "yes." The Noise Space Audio Klone is hand-built by a one-person, Kiev-based builder that specializes in recreations and reinterpretations of popular gain circuits. This version of the Klon can be categorized as a reinterpretation, since it…Click on the title for more

Noise Space Audio Klone

Wampler Tumnus Deluxe Overdrive

The regular Wampler | Tumnus is one of the most popular Klon-style overdrives, with the added advantage of being a mini-pedal. Building on that success, the Indiana-based manufacturer unveiled the pedal's "posher" brother - it's a Deluxe model, baby! The Wampler Tumnus Deluxe has a lot more tonal flexibility and a…Click on the title for more

Wampler Tumnus Deluxe Overdrive

McGregor Pedals Cozmic Fuzzball

The Cozmic Fuzzball from Vancouver's McGregor Pedals is a personal, high-end take on the gnarliest of pedal effects, stacking hard clipping with soft clipping and adding an overdriven transistor to deliver a range of tones from distortion to increasingly sustained fuzz. Somewhat misleadingly, the Attack knob controls the amount of…Click on the title for more

McGregor Pedals Cozmic Fuzzball

Ground Control Noodles Tone Shaper

Montreal's Ground Control Audio, the Noodles is an original take on the tone-shaping box/boost pedal. It features three EQ bands (Bass, Mids and Treble) each with its own footswitch, boost/cut knob, and a three-way push button that gives you a choice of frequency per band. If you add up all…Click on the title for more

Ground Control Noodles Tone Shaper