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Distortion Pedals
Synth enthusiasts often overlook the effects falling under the "Distortion" or "Saturation" umbrella. Truth is, these are effects that can do a variety of things to any sound they are fed, and have a powerful and almost unique secret weapon: they create harmonics of the upper kind, as exemplified in…Click on the title for more
Using Distortion Pedals with Drum Machines and Synths
In 1982, Tom Scholz of Boston fame unveiled the Rockman X100, a headphone amplifier that encapsulated the soaring, chorus-drenched guitar tones of 1980s arena rock. The sound of that device is reborn in the MXR Rockman X100—a compact, modern homage to Scholz’s design based on the same MN3007 bucket brigade…Click on the title for more
MXR Rockman X100 Stereo Preamp
Handmade in Massachusetts by a promising up-and-coming builder, the Cosmodio Instruments Gravity Well is an analog tremolo and wavefolder pedal that combines two effects into one unit. It features a tremolo on one side and a wavefolder on the other, with the option to combine them into a unique modulation…Click on the title for more
Cosmodio Instruments Gravity Well
Among the (not easy to navigate) content of Believe in Music 2021, we somehow missed that Detroit's experimental pedal maker Red Panda had released version 2 of their Bitmap, a Stereo bit crusher with fractional bit reduction and sample rate modulation. The new version features one extra footswitch, an entirely…Click on the title for more
Updated Pedal: Red Panda Bitmap 2.1 Stereo Bitcrusher
Juxtaposing and integrating two entirely different dirt box circuits, the fully analog Karma Machine Shop is a dual-overdrive pedal that lets guitarists craft a wide range of tones, from subtle boost, to transparent overdrive, to searing high-gain distortion. The ODR side, inspired by the Nobels ODR-1, provides smooth, transparent overdrive,…Click on the title for more
New Pedal: Karma Machine Shop Dual Overdrive
The Jam Pedals Rattler Mk.2 is an updated version of the company's highly regarded RAT-style distortion pedal. While Mk 1 featured the legendary (and now almost impossible to find) LM308 chip found in the vintage RATs, for this new version the Jam team designed their own custom op-amp that delivers…Click on the title for more
Jam Pedals Rattler Mk.2 Distortion
The Whimsy Machines Sweet Tooth, whose prototype was seen at our 2024 Brooklyn Stompbox Exhibit, is a distortion pedal as peculiar as the name of its maker. In a few words, it's a LED-induced distortion that can do all sorts of things from subtle to radical (including wavefolding!), followed by…Click on the title for more
New Pedal: Whimsy Machines Sweet Tooth Distortion + EQ
Krozz Devices is a rather young pedal company from Brazil that turned heads in the early '20s with two intriguing analog modulation pedals and a compressor. The Royalbreaker is their first foray into the realm of dirt boxes, a 2-voice distortion with a wide tonal range that can also deliver…Click on the title for more
New Pedal: Krozz Devices Royalbreaker Distortion
The Frost Giant Soma V2 is the new, updated, and improved version of this fuzz pedal made for Doom and Metal aficionados, a variant of the company's popular Massif Fuzz. Within a smaller case, now in the classic compact size, this new circuit packs more volume and more bass for…Click on the title for more
Frost Giant Soma V2 Heavy Fuzz
The One Control Dyna Red Distortion 4k is an upgrade to the previous Barefoot version of this full-on Plexi pedal, featuring an extra Presence knob that tames some of the hard mid-range. It's designed to deliver an organic distortion reminiscent of the early to mid-70s UK voiced amplifiers, cranked up…Click on the title for more
One Control Dyna Red 4k Plexi Drive now shipping
The REVV amps G2 Distortion delivers the expressive and organic warm lead tones delivered by REVV amps' Green channel with three voicing options through the middle toggle switch: Off gives you a full-range boost with 3-band EQ suitable for enhancing your clean tone or boosting your amp. Blue is the…Click on the title for more
REVV G2 Distortion
The Pet Yeti is the colorful debut pedal by Massachusetts-based builder Cosmodio. A super-flexible, fully analog fuzzstortion with an added bit crusher circuit, the Pet Yeti is an original design that can offer tones from the classic to the unusual, and from the subtle to the monstrous. The circuit offers…Click on the title for more
Cosmodio Pet Yeti Fuzztortion+Bitcrusher
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