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New Pedals: F-Pedals RobotHolic Distortion/Lo-Fi

If you belong to the category of guitarists who enjoy stompboxes that have the potential to inspire with their versatility and uniqueness, you should take a look at F-Pedals' RobotHolic. This is an interesting pedal that - quite surprisingly - manages to pack the following effects in a tiny (and truly…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: F-Pedals RobotHolic Distortion/Lo-Fi

Featured Pedals: HDR Amplification Bluerider

Another interesting Tubescreamer variation has come out of Czech Republic's HDR Amplification's labs, by the name of the Bluerider Overdrive. Offering the beloved mid-range warmth and classic bite of the venerable Ibanez design, HDR has expanded on the idea to create a slightly more versatile and far-reaching overdrive. The control scheme…Click on the title for more

Featured Pedals: HDR Amplification Bluerider

New Pedals: L0/Rez’s Mona Lisa

We are always excited when we find out about a new pedal manufacturer based in our hometown, NYC - there aren't many! Enter L0/rez, a north Brooklyn based company owned by engineer/designer Jared Hiller, that just introduced it second creation, the Mona Lisa Overdrive & Oscillation pedal. You may have stumbled upon L0/Rez's name in this interview we…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: L0/Rez’s Mona Lisa

New Pedals: EQD’s Tentacle Octave Up

Ohio's Earthquaker Devices has emerged in the last few years as one of the companies truly pushing the boundaries of the stompbox. They continue to come up with fresh ideas and innovations in the community of guitar FX manufacturers, and even though they normally don't disdain depth of features, one of…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: EQD’s Tentacle Octave Up

New Pedals: MXR EVH 5150 Overdrive

The 5150 amplifier, originally designed by Peavey, is well-known in the guitar and audio worlds as one of the best-sounding amps around, capable of delivering a very wide range of tones. MXR/Dunlop and guitar god Eddie Van Halen have had a successful partnership for years, and their latest signature pedal…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: MXR EVH 5150 Overdrive

WychElm Effects Dharma Drive

Working in your own studio with other artists can lead to great gear discoveries. I was turned onto the Dharma Drive from WychElm Effects by a band I was engineering due to its unique graphics, and stumbled on one of the best drive pedals I've tried in a while. Truly one…Click on the title for more

WychElm Effects Dharma Drive

New Pedals: SFG Music Supply’s Howlerr

British Columbia's SFG Music Supply may be new to the boutique effect pedal scene, but their debut stompbox is a unique and great-sounding overdrive – the Howlerr. A unit with versatile application, the Howlerr boasts a design based around a solitary transistor amplifier fed into the clipping section of the…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: SFG Music Supply’s Howlerr

New Pedals: MBS Effects Parallel Universe Routing + Mixer pedal

From MBS Effects out of Buenos Aires, Argentina comes a truly innovative design - the Parallel Universe. This unique pedal provides a variety of signal routing and blending options, offering rig routing choices that before might have only been daydreams. At its core, it is a mixer that allows you to…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: MBS Effects Parallel Universe Routing + Mixer pedal

New Pedals: Greer Amps Black Tiger Delay Device

With the exception of their tremolo, Athens, Georgia's boutique manufacturer Greer Amps has been focusing on producing great sounding, top quality distortion stompboxes. But since there's fun in change, they recently announced their first delay pedal – the Black Tiger Delay Device, which marries analog and digital techynology, priding itself of a warm decay that…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Greer Amps Black Tiger Delay Device

Boutique Pedal Manufacturers: TomKat Pedals

There aren't many pedal manufacturers in Brooklyn (the cost of housing certainly doesn't attract small businesses), but at our recent Stompbox Exhibit we had the chance to familiarize with a really interesting boutique one, called Tomkat Pedals. The company seems dedicated to rei-imagining classic fuzz circuits and incorporating some more modern modifications…Click on the title for more

Boutique Pedal Manufacturers: TomKat Pedals

New Pedals: Mr. Black Ambience Echoverb

Mr. Black, out of the great northwest, has been designing cutting-edge guitar pedals for a while now. Their latest innovation comes in the form of the Ambience Echoverb, born from the perfect marriage of a multi-tap delay and reverb. The Ambience falls somewhere between a delay, a reverb, and a…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Mr. Black Ambience Echoverb

Distortion board at the Bklyn Stompbox Exhibit

Here are the pedals hosted in our Distortion Mixed boards, part of the Brooklyn Stompbox Exhibit at Williamsburg's Main Drag Music. There will be a few hundred pedals for guitarists to try, do not miss!Click on the title for more

Distortion board at the Bklyn Stompbox Exhibit