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Valco FX KGB Fuzz

Valco FX, a subsidiary of Canadian eccentric guitar builder Eastwood Guitars, unveiled their second pedal after the Bloodbuzz (which we covered here a few months ago): it's a very tweakable fuzz bearing a rather disquieting name: KGB. Designed to work with both instrument and line inputs (read: it works well…Click on the title for more

Valco FX KGB Fuzz

Effectrode Delta-Trem Tube Stereo Tremolo

UK manufacturer Effectrode specializes in guitar pedals featuring vacuum tubes in them, and their Delta-Trem tremolo has two 12AU7 peaking out of the right side of its case, protected by to metal bars. The company's preference for tube-centered circuits reflects its effort to perfect and modernize the technology that gave…Click on the title for more

Effectrode Delta-Trem Tube Stereo Tremolo

Keeley Compressor Mini

Robert Keeley has developed a rock-solid reputation for his compression pedals, and today his company finally announced the release of its first mini-version of this effect - available in two color schemes. The Keeley Compressor Mini is not a rehash of an old design, but a brand new circuit delivering…Click on the title for more

Keeley Compressor Mini

Now Shipping: VS Audio Blackbird Overdrive

Notwithstanding its recent financial troubles and a past not exactly imbibed with rock'n'roll, Greece is emerging as one of the most prolific countries in the guitar pedal realm. VS Audio is one of the newest builders, joining the likes of Jam Pedals, Crazy Tube Circuits and Tsakalis Audio Works, all…Click on the title for more

Now Shipping: VS Audio Blackbird Overdrive

BSRI Audio TFZ Fuzz

The TFZ is a vintage transistor-based fuzz by Baltimore Sonic Research Institute (aka BSRI), a company whose name sounds like some kind of government-supported facility, but that's actually just one dude called David Gill who is into Doom Metal. Rather, it's more than a fuzz, since David wanted to create…Click on the title for more

BSRI Audio TFZ Fuzz

BOSS HM-2w Waza Craft Heavy Metal Distortion

BOSS recently announced a Waza Craft version of their classic Heavy Metal HM-2, which has been discontinued in 1991. The pedal is now shipping The new version has a better noise floor and +3db volume, and also adds a new mode (Custom mode) which sounds slightly more polished and modern…Click on the title for more

BOSS HM-2w Waza Craft Heavy Metal Distortion

Carl Martin Ottawa Optical Envelope Filter

Denmark's veteran boutique pedal builder Carl Martin released Ottawa, a 3-mode envelop filter powered by an optical circuit. A redesign of the company's previous auto-wah, the Ottawa offers deep control over the filters affected frequencies not only through the three-way filter toggle (High-Pass, By-Pass and Low Pass), but also through…Click on the title for more

Carl Martin Ottawa Optical Envelope Filter

Flattley Solaris Pro Fuzz

This rather gorgeous-looking high-end Big Muff-style fuzz with extra boost footswitch comes from Gloucester, UK's Flatley Pedals, and it's called Solaris Pro. The pedal shares the controls of its muse, but with a lot more gain added to the Sustain knob, so that the amount of distortion can be easily…Click on the title for more

Flattley Solaris Pro Fuzz

Vertex Steel String Supreme, D-Style Drive

D-Style overdrives - i.e. pedals recreating the tone of the legendary Dumble amps - are becoming so looked after that their buzz is currently getting very close to Klon Centaur levels. While several pedal builders focused their cloning "laser" on the most famous Dumble amp - the Overdrive Special -…Click on the title for more

Vertex Steel String Supreme, D-Style Drive

Crazy Tube Circuits Cyclone phaser

Greek pedal builder Crazy Tube Circuits just released the Cyclone, an analog, multi-mode, tap tempo-enabled phaser pedal that emulates four classic vintage phasers. The manufacturer took painstaking steps to faithfully reproduce the original units, adding then extra control function to increase the sonic and testural possibilities. Here's a list of…Click on the title for more

Crazy Tube Circuits Cyclone phaser

Jackson Audio Bloom V2 Compressor/EQ

In the last couple of years, innovation in the pedal realm has been mostly about fitting in a compact enclosure what in previous years would fit in larger cases. However, a handful of companies went beyond that goal, and Houston's Jackson Audio belongs to that shortlist. Their Bloom v2 can…Click on the title for more

Jackson Audio Bloom V2 Compressor/EQ

Vaderin Pedals HP-X Harmonic Percolator-style Fuzz

Estimators of the vintage Harmonic Percolator now have a new option to get that venerable fuzz sound in their sonic arsenal: the Vaderin Pedals HP-X. Deceptively simple, this pedal offers the traditional two controls of the original plus a 3-way clipping switch. However, the two knobs (Harmonics/input and Balance/output) have…Click on the title for more

Vaderin Pedals HP-X Harmonic Percolator-style Fuzz