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New Pedals: One Control Butter Yellow Auto Quack

Autowah pedals are deceivingly simple devices: a lot of care is required not only in the design of the filter (it's all in the tone!) but also in the way the envelope interacts with the player's dynamics. Japanese pedal builder One Control has developed a very solid reputation through their…... Click for more

New Pedals: One Control Butter Yellow Auto Quack

Pecan Audio Edera Stereo Distortion

Stereo is slowly but surely becoming the standard in the stompbox realm, and even though, for obvious reason, this trend began with time-based and modulation effects, it's now expanding to dirt boxes - coincidentally, we blogged earlier this week about the first stereo pedal guitar amp. One of the big…... Click for more

Pecan Audio Edera Stereo Distortion

Greenchild Amplification Klazo Drive

Greenchild Amplification's most recent design is the Klazo Drive, an overdrive featuring a unique design based on "current driven transconductance amplifier topology with floating diodes" that deliver musical clipping across the entire frequency spectrum. Check out the videos below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5kN46YUpH4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOt1NxeKJ9o Our Klazo Drive is a smooth sounding overdrive designed…... Click for more

Greenchild Amplification Klazo Drive

New Pedals: Anarchy Audio Aftermath Modulation Obliterator

While reverb and delay pedals have been the favorite effects of creative guitarists since the psychedelic '60s, the trend of creative modulation pedals is rather new. Australian pedal builder Anarchy Audio just released their take on this effect niche, and - as one may expect from their name - it's…... Click for more

New Pedals: Anarchy Audio Aftermath Modulation Obliterator

Tsakalis Audioworks Molecular Boost / Preamp

The new Tsakalis Audioworks Molecular Boost is a highly configurable Boost and Buffer that can also act as a Volume pedal if connected to an Expression device. Four DIP switches on the side panel let you transform it into a frequency booster (depending on the configuration of the first two…... Click for more

Tsakalis Audioworks Molecular Boost / Preamp

McGregor Pedals Crunch Plus Overdrive

Vancouver's McGregor Pedals recently unveiled an "upscale" version of their Crunch Transparent Overdrive, the Crunch Plus. This circuit adds a third gain stage and a second clipping stage to the original circuit, giving you the transparent tones of its cousin a low gain but taking things to a new level…... Click for more

McGregor Pedals Crunch Plus Overdrive

Jetter Pedal X Overdrive

Based in Marietta, Georgia, Jetter Gear is a pedal manufacturer exclusively dedicated to dirt boxes - and increasingly focused on overdrives - that makes an effort to "keep as much of the build process in-house or closely under our direct control." Their circuit boards are designed and manufactured in the…... Click for more

Jetter Pedal X Overdrive

Caline CP-24 10 band Graphic EQ

The BOSS GE-7 is a very useful pedal to sculpt your tones, whether clean or distorted. Guitarists who want more than 7 EQ bands should take a look at this Caline CP-24, which offers a similar solution with a 10 band EQ, for under $40!!! Check out the video, below.…... Click for more

Caline CP-24 10 band Graphic EQ

CKK Infinite Reverb Stereo

While compiling this list of the Best Stereo Reverb Pedals, we've been researching that pedal niche in depth, and totally missed this stompbox by CKK Electronics (we added it now!) - the Infinite Reverb. CKK is a Chinese company whose pedals have been slowly getting more and more attention, in…... Click for more

CKK Infinite Reverb Stereo

Bogner Ecstasy Blue Mini Plexi in a Box

The Bogner Ecstasy Mini Blue is the compact version of the company's popular blue pedal, recreating the tone and setting of their renowned Plexi-style Ecstasy amp through a higher internal voltage that allows for increased headroom. EytschPi42 and Alberto Barrero have only good things to say about this pedal in…... Click for more

Bogner Ecstasy Blue Mini Plexi in a Box

New Pedals: Mr. Black Analog Chorus/Vibrato Deluxe

The Mr. Black Analog Chorus/Vibrato Deluxe is an expansion of their limited edition, three-knob Analog Chrorus/Vibrato featuring Tap Tempo and extra controls Shine and Lag, for a wide variety of tonal possibilities. The effect's incredible clarity might make you think it's digital, but, as its name underlines, it's not. The…... Click for more

New Pedals: Mr. Black Analog Chorus/Vibrato Deluxe

ToneTuga Salvage Fuzz

Sometimes limitations can be more creatively inspiring than an abundance of options. The new ToneTuga Salvage Fuzz is a circuit born out of necessity, designed at a time when the closing of many plants due to the pandemic was limiting the availability of components used for making pedals (or any…... Click for more

ToneTuga Salvage Fuzz