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Fender Announces Six New Guitar Effect Pedals at NAMM 2018

Fender has announced six new guitar effect pedals, including overdrives, distortion, reverb, delay and more. The company is unveiling the stompboxes at the 2018 Winter NAMM show. The full lineup includes the Marine Layer Reverb, the Mirror Image Delay, the Santa Ana Overdrive, the Pugilist Distortion, the Bends Compressor and…Click on the title for more

Fender Announces Six New Guitar Effect Pedals at NAMM 2018

Lastgasp Art Laboratories 88 Super Oscillo Fuzz

The 88 Super Oscillo Fuzz is a very intriguing looking and sounding pedal by Lastgasp Art Laboratories, check out video and manufacturer description below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwmpb3hoqrc The "Hachihachi shiki kebadate hizumaseki SUPER OSCILLO FUZZ" (88) is a fuzz distortion pedal with it's own internal oscillation system. Using a combination of its six switches,…Click on the title for more

Lastgasp Art Laboratories 88 Super Oscillo Fuzz

Game Changer Alert! Empress Effects’ Zoia Synth-Style Multi_Effect

Videographer extraordinaire Knobs just posted this video of an upcoming pedal by Canadian builder Empress Effects, which looks like something entirely new and exciting - so exciting we are giving it the freshly made up tag "Game Changer Alert"! The name of the device is Zoia, and it could be…Click on the title for more

Game Changer Alert! Empress Effects’ Zoia Synth-Style Multi_Effect

Pigtronix Ringmaster Ring Modulator

After driving the incredibly successful revival of the Supro amps, it looks like the guys at Pigtronix are refocusing their attention on their first love: guitar pedals. In advance of NAMM they announced the Pigtronix Ringmaster Analog Multiplier, an "intelligent" ring modulator effect that can sync to your notes frequencies to avoid the…Click on the title for more

Pigtronix Ringmaster Ring Modulator

Amptweaker announces CurveballTM Jr EQ

It looks like Cumming, GA pedal builder Amptweaker will have a busy NAMM show this year. The company just announced the release of the CurveballTM Jr EQ, a three way EQ with boost featuring three options for Mid (US, UK and Trash) and also the company's popular boost circuit from their Tight…Click on the title for more

Amptweaker announces CurveballTM Jr EQ

Mattoverse Fuzzy Gates Fuzz + Tremolo

The brand new Fuzzy Gates from Mattoverse combines monster fuzz tones with a footswitchable tremolo to create a diverse disintegration device. The fuzz section provides everything from light gain to gated fuzz tones which can be combined with an innovative tremolo that allows the user to run one tremolo rate…Click on the title for more

Mattoverse Fuzzy Gates Fuzz + Tremolo

New Monster Looper by EHX: the 95000 Performance Loop Laboratory

Going against all trends, that see looping pedals getting smaller and smaller and with fewer footswitches, Electro-Harmonix has just unveiled a monster looper called 95000 Performance Loop Laboratory. It's a 6-track looping station which functions almost as mini on-the-fly studio. Each track features an individual volume slider and panning knob for…Click on the title for more

New Monster Looper by EHX: the 95000 Performance Loop Laboratory

SolidGoldFX Electroman MKII Delay

Canadian manufacturer SolidGoldFX dared to unveil its new Electroman Delay MKII just over a week after NAMM. Now, that takes a certain dose of chutzpah, considering the stompbox nausea pedal lovers might experience immediately after the Anaheim convention's glut of new product announcements! The confidence might stem from the fact that this…Click on the title for more

SolidGoldFX Electroman MKII Delay

SoundBrut VA Boost

Swedish pedal manufacturer SoundBrut, who got their first magazine award a few weeks ago, didn't waste any time and unveiled a new stompbox, the VA, a Mosfet based clean boost. Check out Mike Hermans' video below and read more info about it at the bottom of this post or here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL_4b2z_TGw A…Click on the title for more

SoundBrut VA Boost

Best “Non-Clone” Overdrive/Distortion Pedals of 2017 according to In The Blues

After compiling and publishing the list of the Best Selling Overdrives of 2017, which features almost exclusively units built by established companies, we were looking for an online "Best Of Lists" featuring mostly smaller manufacturers. This video by Australian videographers In The Blues not only fit our criteria, but it exceeded it:…Click on the title for more

Best “Non-Clone” Overdrive/Distortion Pedals of 2017 according to In The Blues

Beetronics Overhive Medium Gain Overdrive

We featured Brazilian pedal builder Beetronics in this very blog a few months ago and we are psyched to see that Reverb.com / The Tone Report picked up their Overhive Overdrive for a video demo. Check out the footage below and find more info about the pedal at the bottom of this…Click on the title for more

Beetronics Overhive Medium Gain Overdrive

Wilson Effects Stoned Grasshopper Fuzz/Overdrive/Boost

Wilson Effects is a Guilford, Indiana based pedal builder with a noteworthy number of pedals under its belt (we are talking about 20+!), mostly gain related. Many of this manufacturer's most recent offerings are centered on circuits featuring multiple gain stages. Just Nick picked up one of these, the Stoned Grasshopper…Click on the title for more

Wilson Effects Stoned Grasshopper Fuzz/Overdrive/Boost