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Distortion Pedals

Seen at NAMM 2020: Frost Giant Athos Distortion

Hosted in our own Stompbox Booth, Frost Giant Electronics at NAMM 2020 showcased their latest design, the Athos. This is a distortion pedal designed with one thing in mind: pure saturated distortion, but with breath and heft you can feel in your gut. It adds a carefully fine-tuned boost circuit…Click on the title for more

Seen at NAMM 2020: Frost Giant Athos Distortion

Stone Deaf PDF-1X Limited Edition

An original design offering Parametric EQ, Clean Boost, Distortion and Fuzz, Stone Deaf FX's PDF (Parametric Distortion Filter) is the most popular pedal of this British boutique builder, which is releasing a PDF-1X Limited Edition to celebrate its 10th anniversary. The 200 units come with custom graphics and signatures from…Click on the title for more

Stone Deaf PDF-1X Limited Edition

Randale Pedale Buzztard OD/Distortion/Fuzz

Randale Pedale's Buzztard is a RAT inspired pedal with an added NPN Germanium transistor that takes it further into fuzz territory. It can also deliver overdrive and distortion dirt just like the original rodent, with and added three-way EQ section to dial in the desired or necessary tone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFPFw7qOMuo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERyUH2wWD0k…Click on the title for more

Randale Pedale Buzztard OD/Distortion/Fuzz

Dropping Acid Pedal Etching #rip boost

Dropping Acid Pedal Etching is a small builder that, up until now, was mostly busy modding and recreating effect circuits made popular by other manufacturers. The #rip, an LM386 based Op-Amp distortion, is their first foray into creating a fully original circuit. This device can do different things but all…Click on the title for more

Dropping Acid Pedal Etching #rip boost

Handbuilt in Ontario, Canada, the pedals of Airis Effects have earned a reputation for their aggressive tone that offers as much versatility as volume. While the company's effects are flexible enough to handle a variety of styles, they are really designed for players that go for a heavier sound. Everything…Click on the title for more

Manufacturer Profile – Airis Effects

Fender MTG Tube Distortion

Designed with amp guru Bruce Egnater, the Fender MTG delivers true tube saturation and distortion from a US-made NOS 6205 preamplifier tube. Complete with a 3-band EQ and a Tight control to focus your tone, the MTG is basically a tube preamp pedal — you can run it into the…Click on the title for more

Fender MTG Tube Distortion

D-Sound Sunny Distortion

The Sunny Distortion is a one knob distortion (volume, the gain is set at full blast) based on the sound of the Sunn Model T amp, manufacturers by Russian company D-Sound. Here's the video by Shnobel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubfKfCz4aqc This is a distortion pedal, based on Sunn Model T sound. Great way to get…Click on the title for more

D-Sound Sunny Distortion

Abasi Pathos High Gain Overdrive

Founder and lead guitarist of prog-metal band Animal as Leaders, Tosin Abasi has recently unveiled the first pedals under his company Abasi Concepts. It's a flexible high gain overdrive called Pathos he engineered with the help of Brian Wampler of Wampler pedals. Voiced after the classic sound of American tube…Click on the title for more

Abasi Pathos High Gain Overdrive

Seymour Duncan Diamondhead Distortion and Boost

Seymour Duncan may be famous for its guitar pickups, but it has always been manufacturing also guitar pedals, and in the last few years the builder has put a lot of resources in this niche, coming up with interesting devices that push the stompbox format's standard features in ways that…Click on the title for more

Seymour Duncan Diamondhead Distortion and Boost

The Best Gain Pedals Released at NAMM 2019

GO HERE FOR NON-GAIN PEDALS --- ATTENTION! Not all pedals have a video link! We will keep adding pedals and videos during the 4 days of NAMM (and beyond). NAVIGATION INSTRUCTIONS: On Desktop Devices: 1. Mouseover gets you the pedal's description. 2. Click gets you streaming video or larger…Click on the title for more

The Best Gain Pedals Released at NAMM 2019

New at NAMM 2019: Vanflet Distortion1

The Distortion1 is a high-end, three knob, distortion by French boutique amps pedal manufacturer Vanflet that can deliver anything from simple boost to metallic saturation. Vintage hard rockers will find what they love in it. The company will make its debut at NAMM this year, you can find them in booth…Click on the title for more

New at NAMM 2019: Vanflet Distortion1

SnK VHD Distortion+ Preamp

The VHD from SnK Pedals is a recreation of the preamp circuit found in the long discontinued Ampeg VH140C, an amp beloved by hardcore and death metal guitarists of the '90s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9mhVkinZPA The Ampeg VH-140C Solid State Amplifier was a staple of the 1990's Hardcore and Death metal genres. Long…Click on the title for more

SnK VHD Distortion+ Preamp