Amp-In-a-Box

Victory The Kraken V4 Preamp Pedal

Those in need of a helluva portable, two-channel tube preamp for heavy tones might have found what they were looking for in the Victory Amplification The Kraken V4, a device developed in collaboration with UK's one and only Rabea Massaad and created with heavy, progressive and extended-range overdrive tones in…Click on the title for more

Victory The Kraken V4 Preamp Pedal

2021 UPDATE: The Best Dumble Pedals (or D-Style Overdrives)

Check out also our guides to Klon Clones and Plexi-Style Pedals. Most of us will never get to play through an original Dumble amp, and in all likelihood, nobody reading this article will ever own one. Dumble tone has become legendary, and the fact that these amps sell for the…Click on the title for more

2021 UPDATE: The Best Dumble Pedals (or D-Style Overdrives)

Origin Effects Magma 57 Amp Vibrato and Drive

English pedal builder Origin Effects is on a mission to deliver sturdy and classic sounding stompboxes for tone connoisseurs with tweaking impulses. The Magma is presented as an amp-in-a-box with "true pitch modulation" - both name and description hint at a Magnatone emulation, precisely the legendary Magnatone 200 Series, known…Click on the title for more

Origin Effects Magma 57 Amp Vibrato and Drive

Westminster Augsburg Deluxe Amp Sim

We spotted the Westminster Effects Augsburg at our Summer NAMM 2021 booth and it's now shipping. Built on the same concept as the company's recent Geneva Amp Sim, the Augsburg is a version of that pedal with a different character, since it recreates the sound of a Fender Silverface and…Click on the title for more

Westminster Augsburg Deluxe Amp Sim

IK Multimedia X-Drive Multi-Mode Gain Pedal

Italian powerhouse IK Multimedia, a multifaceted builder of hardware and software for musicians, unveiled four new, multi-mode pedals powered by the algorithms of their popular audio plugin Amplitube. This post will take a closer look at the gain pedal in this line, called X-Drive. This is a multi-mode, do-it-all kind…Click on the title for more

IK Multimedia X-Drive Multi-Mode Gain Pedal

Thermion Zero Stereo Pedal Amp

Henning at EytschPi42 is freaking out about the Zero pedal amp by Spanish company Thermion. While major pedal companies are busy trying to reduce the size of pedal amps to the compact stompbox format (i.e. the size of a regular BOSS pedal), Thermion has taken a different approach, focusing on…Click on the title for more

Thermion Zero Stereo Pedal Amp

Fuzzlord Effects FET120 Overdrive

The FET120 overdrive is one of the most popular pedals of Fuzzlord Effects, a company laser-focused on creating pedals for Doom and Stoner Metal players. As hinted in the name, this is a pedal that reproduces, using FET technology, the classic tone of vintage 120 Watt amps of the '70s…Click on the title for more

Fuzzlord Effects FET120 Overdrive

REVV G2 Distortion

Here's the first "official" video of the REVV amps G2 Distortion. We shot a quick demo of it at our Brooklyn Stompbox Exhibit 2019 (see below). The pedal delivers the expressive and organic warm lead tones delivered by REVV amps' Green channel with three voicing options through the middle toggle…Click on the title for more

REVV G2 Distortion

Greer Amps Soma 63 Vintage Preamp

Greer Amps has released the Soma 63 Vintage Preamp, a must-have for vintage amp lovers that was rewarded the Best in Show award at NAMM 2019. Utilizing Greer's new XFR platform, this pedal delivers real amp-like tone, including a real transformer to simulate everything about amplifiers; in this case, vintage…Click on the title for more

Greer Amps Soma 63 Vintage Preamp

DryBell The Engine Dual Preamp

Our Croatian friends at DryBell, who have built a super-solid reputation with their Uni-Vibe emulations and the more recent utility pedal Unit67, unveiled at our NAMM 2020 Stompbox Booth a prototype of their first preamp/overdrive, and it looked right away like something special. Sporting a "Foundation Preamp" subtitle, the DryBell…Click on the title for more

DryBell The Engine Dual Preamp

Greer Amps Royal Velvet Overdrive/Preamp

We are in full overdrive blooming season, folks! It feels like all we've been blogging about, in the last few weeks, is: new overdrives. Greer Amps, a company with a pretty darn good track record in this niche, just announced the Royal Velvet, an amp-in-a-box with preamp inspired in equal…Click on the title for more

Greer Amps Royal Velvet Overdrive/Preamp

New Pedal: Victory V4 Copper Preamp

The Victory Amps V4 Copper is a tube preamp pedal made in the UK that can take over the preamp section of your amp (as long as it has an FX loop) with the handy effect of adding an extra channel to your regular setup - actually, two, since this…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Victory V4 Copper Preamp