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Emerald Ox Kronos Fuzz

The Emerald Ox Kronos is an extreme fuzz with a wide sonic palette that somehow manages to maintain a fair amount of touch sensitivity. Besides the Volume and Gain knobs, the pedal features two 3-way toggle switches simply named "!" and "?," which are interactive and produce a total of…Click on the title for more

Emerald Ox Kronos Fuzz

New Pedal: Spaceman Effects Equinox

The Spaceman Effects Equinox is here to remind us that a great-sounding EQ is an essential tool on any pedalboard. Even more so if it's a recreation of the most legendary studio EQ of all time: the vintage Pultec EQP-1a, currently selling for anywhere between $8k and $16k, with new…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Spaceman Effects Equinox

Montréal Assembly Count to 5 Granular Delay

The Montréal Assembly Count to 5 is a unique delay/sampler with three modes that can create sped-up and slowed-down—as well as forward and backward—tape effects, audio slicing, looping and overdubbing. Quantized pitch-shifting makes it possible to create tones that are harmonized chromatically or in perfect fifths and octaves, or you…Click on the title for more

Montréal Assembly Count to 5 Granular Delay

New Pedal: 3rd Power Love Drive

The 3rd Power Love Drive is an overdrive pedal built by the Nashville-based amp company owned and run by guitarist Dylana Nova Scott of San Francisco's '80s glam-metal band Vain. R.J. Ronquillo seems sincerely excited about it, describing it as "one the most amp-like overdrives / preamp pedals I've ever…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: 3rd Power Love Drive

Source Audio Atlas Multi-Mode Compressor

The Source Audio Atlas Compressor is a pedal that, with its modes replicating various types of classic compressors, will satisfy the studio gear connoisseurs while doing the job just right for anyone who just needs some help with their performance's dynamics - whether they play guitar or bass. This little…Click on the title for more

Source Audio Atlas Multi-Mode Compressor

Rainger FX Echo X v2

The Rainger FX Echo X v2 is David Rainger's take on the mini-echo format, and those familiar with this London-based pedal designer know there are sonic surprises to be expected inside this little device. In this effect offering up to 540ms of delay time, you get the "normal" controls found…Click on the title for more

Rainger FX Echo X v2

JHS PackRat Distortion

We were wondering if the novel YouTube star Joshua Scott of JHS Pedals was still actively working on new stompbox designs, considering how important (and presumably, time-consuming) the video channel appears to have become for him and his team. The release of the PackRat multi-mode distortion answers that wonderment with…Click on the title for more

JHS PackRat Distortion

New Pedal: Malaise Forever Iron Fistula Drive

Joining the numerous club of Plexi-style overdrives, the Malaise Forever Iron Fistula uses JFET transistor to emulate tube amp saturation, and introduces some interesting mods to the classic Marshall-inspired pedal circuit. One of these is an EQ section with an active bass control (Body) placed in the circuit just before…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Malaise Forever Iron Fistula Drive

BLAMMO! Electronics Total Garbage Fuzz

A device conceived for the truly devoted fuzz connoisseurs, the BLAMMO! Electronics Total Garbage Fuzz is a circuit inspired by an old stompbox that has surged to cult status: Tim Escobedo's Ugly Face. This is a gnarly fuzz with a synthy tone thanks to the added envelop filter and octave-down…Click on the title for more

BLAMMO! Electronics Total Garbage Fuzz

Kittycaster FX Tremdriver

The Kittycaster FX Tremdriver is a high headroom (and high-quality, selling at $399!) preamp + harmonic tremolo combo built by Jean Mastaler and her small Portland, OR-based team. The company offers another pedal with a similar layout and structure, called Groovy Wizard Fuzz Driver. With its combination of vintage all-discrete…Click on the title for more

Kittycaster FX Tremdriver

Bleak District Electric Miraj

The Bleak District Electric Miraj is a dual-mode, tap-tempo enabled, analog modulation pedal hand-made in the UK that can recreate the sound of two classic vintage effects: The Uni-Vibe and the Phase 90, with the great added benefit of letting you chose out of eight LFO wave shapes. The knob…Click on the title for more

Bleak District Electric Miraj

Big Ear Slice of Pie Fuzz

In case you are wondering whether this is a real pedal, yes it is, but it ain't edible (unless you enjoy bent steel, which is what the enclosure is made of)! A collaboration between Newyorker company turned Nashvillian Big Ear Pedals and guitar podcast The Tone Mob, the Slice of…Click on the title for more

Big Ear Slice of Pie Fuzz