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New Pedal Manufacturers: Cast Engineering and the Mike Zito Peace Drive

Based in Atlanta, Cast Engineering has been forging stompboxes (and amps) since 2015, shortly after its founder Steve Evans decided it was time to quit the... professional bowling career! Ok, ok, not exactly "shortly after": the man has a long history running and owning engineering companies, and, as it often happens, at…... Click for more

New Pedal Manufacturers: Cast Engineering and the Mike Zito Peace Drive

Chase Bliss Audio Brothers Analog Gain Stage

New demo video of the Chase Bliss Audio Dual OverdriveBrothers by Pro Guitar Shop https://www.youtube.com/embed/4lX3CWRnxbc... Click for more

Chase Bliss Audio Brothers Analog Gain Stage

Chase Bliss Audio Brothers demo by Knobs

The pedal demos by Knobs are unmissable, here's the one for the new Chase Bliss Audio dual distortion, named Brothers. We highlighted it a few weeks ago as a "Best of NAMM 2017" pedal here and had the pleasure of seeing it/hearing it at our Austin Stompbox Exhibit a few weeks ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7jn_hEd-FI... Click for more

Chase Bliss Audio Brothers demo by Knobs

Lightning Boy Audio LB II High Voltage Tube Overdrive with CH2 Sidecar Module

We just caught this video below legendary GermanDude, and we couldn't help but being intrigued by the word "sidecar" - to date, without any doubt the coolest vehicle invented by humanity. In this circumstance, the sidecar concept is applied - as you might have guessed - to a guitar pedal: the (hand…... Click for more

Lightning Boy Audio LB II High Voltage Tube Overdrive with CH2 Sidecar Module

Strymon debuts Sunset Dual Overdrive at Austin Stompbox Exhibit

Strymon, at last, seems to have gotten the distortion bug - and overcome their aversion for the color red! The Californian stompbox manufacturer just unveiled their second distortion pedal ever, after 2016's Riverside Overdrive (since their birth in 2008, they had only released non-distortion pedals, developing a reputation for luscious clean sounds, although…... Click for more

Strymon debuts Sunset Dual Overdrive at Austin Stompbox Exhibit

Manufacturers Profiles: Pettyjohn Electronics

Based in Albany, Oregon, Pettyjohn Electronics is a new-ish face in the community of boutique pedal manufacturers, but one that is receiving a certain amount of attention (and flattering reviews). Entirely focused, at least for now, on the dirt and color realms, they have been releasing six all analog pedals since 2014 , all featuring distinctive…... Click for more

Manufacturers Profiles: Pettyjohn Electronics

T-Rex Alberta II

The first version of the T-Rex Alberta Overdrive was one of the post popular distortions released by the Danish manufacturer, probably because of its versatility, which allowed guitarists to easily forge tones that worked both for creamy rhythm sounds and cutting ones for solos. This double use of the pedal…... Click for more

T-Rex Alberta II

Pedal Review: Fulltone GT-500

Every effect manufacturer, from tiny boutique companies to huge multinational conglomerates, makes at least one distortion pedal. So when Fulltone announced the GT500, my first question was: "why?" Why are they competing with their own product line--which already contains some great distortions, overdrives, and fuzzes--in a market that could already…... Click for more

Pedal Review: Fulltone GT-500