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TAMPCO Tone Oven Custom Overdrive

The TAMPCO Tone Oven Custom is a limited edition of an overdrive celebrated for its warmth and transparency. While the original design required cracking open the enclosure to tweak internal trimmers, this special release relocates those crucial Bass and Comp controls straight to the front panel for effortless adjustments on…... Click for more

TAMPCO Tone Oven Custom Overdrive

Westerlund One Preamp

[caption id="attachment_215718" align="aligncenter" width="612"] https://www.westerlundaudio.com/product/westerlund-one[/caption] Designed less like a traditional stompbox and more like a high-end studio preamp for your instrument, the Westerlund ONE treats your core tone as something to elevate rather than replace. Built around three unique FET-based op-amp gain stages and a FET tone recovery stage, it…... Click for more

Westerlund One Preamp

MXR EVH Modern High Gain Distortion

Let's talk Van Halen tone, folks! The old MXR EVH 5150 Overdrive is the black-and-yellow classic. MOSFET clipping, three-band EQ, that legendary boost that doesn't just push your amp - it becomes your amp. It's the brown sound in a box. The history of Van Halen from "Eruption" to "Right…... Click for more

MXR EVH Modern High Gain Distortion

Sushi Box More V2 Preamp

Building on the original design in collaboration with guitarist Doug Weiand, the MORE v2 Harmonic Enhancer is a fully tube-driven box designed to elevate your entire rig without altering its core identity. Rather than serving as an overdrive or distortion, it functions as a genuine thermionic preamp stage. Running…... Click for more

Sushi Box More V2 Preamp

Flatley Reaper Distortion 10th Year Anniversary Edition

To mark a decade since their very first release, UK-based Flattley Pedals has revisited where it all started. Built as part of their handcrafted Platinum Range, the new Flattley Reaper 10 AE takes the op-amp core of the original 2016 Reaper and evolves it into a much more aggressive, rodent-inspired…... Click for more

Flatley Reaper Distortion 10th Year Anniversary Edition

Positive Grid Spark Pedal

Before shrinking their ecosystem down to the floor, Positive Grid built a massive reputation on software modeling and desktop practice amplifiers, most notably pioneering the BIAS amp-building software and the wildly popular Spark series of smart practice amps. Folding that same powerful technology into a portable floor processor, the Positive…... Click for more

Positive Grid Spark Pedal

New Pedal: Mad Professor Milestone Fuzz

[caption id="attachment_215676" align="aligncenter" width="612"] https://mpamp.com/product/131[/caption] Crafting germanium fuzz into something that behaves on a modern board without fighting your buffers is an old engineering puzzle, and Mad Professor has tackled it head-on. Handwired in Finland by the boutique shop renowned for classics like the Sweet Honey Overdrive, the new Mad…... Click for more

New Pedal: Mad Professor Milestone Fuzz

Strymon Volante Magnetic Echo Machine

Strymon, an effect builder that will be remembered for breaking the guitarists' skepticism about digital technology applied to guitar pedals, unveiled their delay/looper pedal Volante in early 2019 - their first pedal release in two years. Featuring four delay playback heads with individual feedback, panning, and level controls, the Volante…... Click for more

Strymon Volante Magnetic Echo Machine

Fairfield Circuitry Placeholder BBD-based Reverb

Quebec prides itself with being different, and the province's most prominent pedal maker has always done things a little sideways, with devices that don't sound quite like anybody else's. The Fairfield Circuitry Placeholder keeps that streak alive. It's an analog reverb built around BBD chips, but it's not trying to…... Click for more

Fairfield Circuitry Placeholder BBD-based Reverb

TWA Source Code Overdrive

For decades, the TubeScreamer has been a staple on pedalboards worldwide. Now, prepare for its ultimate evolution. Totally Wycked Audio has unveiled the Source Code, a next-generation soft-clip overdrive designed by none other than Susumu Tamura, the original creator of the legendary TS808. This isn't just another clone; it's a…... Click for more

TWA Source Code Overdrive

EAE Scattering Stereo Reverb

Stepping away from traditional, diffuse ambient washes, the Electronic Audio Experiments Scattering approaches spatial processing through a complex multi-tap delay network that feels refreshingly alive. Tracing its spiritual roots back to EAE’s earlier Hypersleep - which was ultimately limited by exhausted supplies of the rare MN3011 bucket brigade chip -…... Click for more

EAE Scattering Stereo Reverb

New Pedal: JHS AT Mini Andy Timmons Signature Overdrive

The JHS AT Mini is a (more than) compact - but not quite mini - version of the company's renowned overdrive AT+ pedal developed with guitarist Andy Timmons to deliver his signature dynamic drive tones in a space-saving format. Like the original, it delivers a versatile range of sounds, from…... Click for more

New Pedal: JHS AT Mini Andy Timmons Signature Overdrive