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Tubesteader Beekeeper Overdrive

The Beekeper is the first pedal by Canadian company Tubesteader, a boutique shop that prides itself with building its devices to order - and in embedding real vacuum tubes in them! The circuit is a dual-channel overdrive inspired by the legendary Dumble Special Overdrive amp, famous for delivering a sparkling…... Click for more

Tubesteader Beekeeper Overdrive

Marshall BluesBreaker (aka Blues Breaker) Reissue

It looks like with the new reissue of the original 1991 Blues [space] Breaker overdrive, Marshall has decided to surrender to the common misspellings of this pedal's name, as in "BluesBreaker" (without a space), since their entire online literature spells it that way. However, if our friends at Pedaltown are…... Click for more

Marshall BluesBreaker (aka Blues Breaker) Reissue

New Pedal: Silktone Green Hell Overdrive

Built out of a love-hate relationship with the classic Tube Screamer, the Silktone Green Hell by builder Charles Henry keeps the heart of the legendary mid-focused overdrive intact while completely re-engineering the gain architecture around it. Rather than cranking internal clipping diodes into harsh, odd-harmonic gridlock, Henry locked the core…... Click for more

New Pedal: Silktone Green Hell Overdrive

Origin Effects Halcyon Gold Drive

The Origin Effects Halcyon Gold is the British company's take on the Klon Centaur circuit, the most influential, modded, and cloned overdrive circuit ever. As expected from a company that got us used to an intelligent approach to reinventing classic effect designs, this is not a simple clone (or klone,…... Click for more

Origin Effects Halcyon Gold Drive

New Pedal: AJG Devices Hysteris overdrive/distortion

The AJG Devices Hysteris is an unconventional overdrive/distortion pedal that rejects traditional diode clipping in favor of a dual-branch architecture operating in parallel: op-amp saturation and hysteretic switching. By combining standard drive with unconventional circuit behavior, it generates deeply interactive, highly playable gain textures. Op-Amp Branch (Gain): Dictates overall drive…... Click for more

New Pedal: AJG Devices Hysteris overdrive/distortion

Strymon La Brea Analog Tape Drive

Can a dedicated stompbox truly distill the organic, reactive behavior of studio-grade reel-to-reel magnetic tape entirely within the analog domain? Eschewing digital processors for pure analog grit, the Strymon La Brea translates a decade-long R&D focus on tape physics—heavily inspired by the iconic design principles of the Strymon Deco—into a…... Click for more

Strymon La Brea Analog Tape Drive

New Pedal: The King of Gear Oxford Monarch

Capturing the aggressive versatility of iconic 1990s dirt boxes, the Oxford Monarch by The King Of Gear (TKOG) packs a dual-channel overdrive and distortion engine into a compact 1590BB enclosure equipped with soft-touch knobs and top-mounted jacks. As highlighted by Guitar Pedal X, the pedal functions as an ultimate "3-in-1"…... Click for more

New Pedal: The King of Gear Oxford Monarch

Updated Pedal: Cornerstone Gladio MK 3 D-Style Double Preamp

Continuing the Italian builder’s obsession with capturing elusive D-style tube amp response, the Cornerstone Gladio MkIII elevates the flagship double preamp that built the brand's reputation. Designed and hand-built in Varese, Italy, the MkIII retains the core dual-channel architecture inspired by the dynamic touch sensitivity of rare Dumble-style circuits, while…... Click for more

Updated Pedal: Cornerstone Gladio MK 3 D-Style Double Preamp

New Pedal: Crazy Tube Circuits Rapture Overdrive

Bringing the core foundation stage of the company's Triptychon to a standalone format, the Crazy Tube Circuit's Rapture condenses the response of a cranked tube amplifier into a dedicated low-to-medium overdrive. Designed to capture a tube circuit at its operational sweet spot, it focuses on organic dynamic compression, rich harmonic…... Click for more

New Pedal: Crazy Tube Circuits Rapture Overdrive

JHS Wanderer Dual Overdrive

Combining some of JHS’s two most enduring circuit designs—the Marshall-inspired Morning Glory V4 and the Bill Finnegan-derived NOTAKLÖN (featuring the Boston-nodding "Shamrock" mod)—the JHS Wanderer represents a structural leap forward for the dual-overdrive format. Housed in a compact vertical chassis with top-mounted jacks and power (9VDC, 165mA) with silent soft-touch…... Click for more

JHS Wanderer Dual Overdrive

Gigagain Golden Legacy Plexi Overdrive

Just when you thought the universe had manufactured enough stamped-aluminum boxes to choke every basement guitarist from here to purgatory, a brand called Gigagain crawls out of the woodwork waving a Marshall-in-a-box named the "Golden Legacy." It retails for roughly a hundred and twenty-nine bucks. For that price, what do…... Click for more

Gigagain Golden Legacy Plexi Overdrive

Sitek Vixen Germanium Booster

Based out of Poland, husband and wife-run Sitek is a raising profile in the realm of stompboxes. Their Germanium booster Vixen is one of the standout pedals in a roster mostly focused on dirt boxes. Vixen is a Rangemaster-inspired Booster built with New Old Stock Germanium transistor and diodes with…... Click for more

Sitek Vixen Germanium Booster