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The 6 Best Power Amp Pedals in 2024 | A Buyer’s Guide

This article is about guitar amplifiers in a pedal format, not simple preamp-style pedals or amp/cab simulators. --- Most electric guitarists agree that having to carry an amplifier around to gigs and rehearsals sucks royally. This sentiment tends to grow stronger as the years go by when lower back problems…Click on the title for more

The 6 Best Power Amp Pedals in 2024 | A Buyer’s Guide

New Pedal: Valeton VLP-200 Multi-Track Sampler

For those looking for a looper pedal, for $129, the Valeton VLP-200 Multi-Track Sampler provides a lot of bang for your buck. It features two loopers and a variety of drum rhythm patterns thanks to an embedded drum machine, making it a great option for songwriting, practice, and live performance.…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Valeton VLP-200 Multi-Track Sampler

New Pedals: Kyro Audio Crunch Power Amp Pedal

Guitar pedal amps are a technological development that every musician who can't afford a roadie should celebrate and embrace. The Kyro Audio Crunch is a new entry in this category by a boutique brand from Bulgaria. This device's specs are very impressive and it's getting good reviews for its sounds,…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Kyro Audio Crunch Power Amp Pedal

Most overdrive and distortion pedals are based on pre-existing circuits if not downright clones of stompboxes that have stood the test of time. That can't be said for the JHS Hard Drive, a high gain distortion publicized by the brand as their first attempt "at a full-blown and respectable modern…Click on the title for more

JHS Hard Drive

MWFX Judder Lofi/Glitch Echo/Sampler

An extremely unique device, the MWFX Judder is part echo, looper, and phrase sampler all rolled into one science experiment of a guitar pedal. It’s designed around analog chip technology to provide degrading repeats like those found in tape echo units. Utilizing an innovative switching system it can inject echo,…Click on the title for more

MWFX Judder Lofi/Glitch Echo/Sampler

New Pedal: Anasound + Third Man La Grotte Mechanical Reverb

Jack White of the Black Stripes' fame has regularly collaborated with several pedal companies to manufacture a variety of rigorously black and yellow stompboxes exclusively sold through his label Third Man's store. The latest collaboration is with French boutique brand Anasound, known for their beautiful wooden enclosures, and for a…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Anasound + Third Man La Grotte Mechanical Reverb

New Pedal: J. Rockett Blue Note Select Overdrive

JRAD reliably churns out quality pedals in the most compact and sturdy builds on the market. A low-gain overdrive, the J Rockett Blue Note is considered by many as the company's take on the Blues Breaker circuit, although the company has been challenging that assumption. This "Select" model is in…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: J. Rockett Blue Note Select Overdrive

Black Mass Ceremonial Show of Force Drive

The Black Mass Ceremonial Show of Force (CSOF) is an all-analog, discrete overdrive pedal, that forgoes opamps or diode clipping relying entirely on cascading transistor gain stages to deliver a versatile and uniquely textured overdrive. The most interesting control of this pedal is the bias switch, which delivers vintage pushed…Click on the title for more

Black Mass Ceremonial Show of Force Drive

New Pedal: Gokko Magrane’ Echo Machine

Gokko Audio is a brand that manufactures pedals in China under Italian supervision we weren't familiar with. Their price level is extremely affordable (as expected) and the model offering is vast. You can find them on sale on Amazon. The Gokko Magrane' is a rather simple echo effect that recreates…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Gokko Magrane’ Echo Machine

Keeley MkIII Driver

The Keeley MkIII Driver (briefly known as the "Muse Driver") is an overdrive pedal that furthers the builder's collaboration with guitarist Andy Timmons, already involved in the design of the Halo delay and the Super AT Mod overdrive. The MkIII merges a three-control blues driver circuit with two switches for…Click on the title for more

Keeley MkIII Driver

Crazy Tube Circuits Sidekick Jr.

A shrunken version of a 2019 pedal popular among shoegazers and any other guitarists inspired by the guitar tone of the '80s, the Crazy Tube Circuits Sidekick Jr. is a 3-in-one stompbox that (quite remarkably) combines delay, reverb and modulation into one compact enclosure. Loaded with 6 reverb modes, 3…Click on the title for more

Crazy Tube Circuits Sidekick Jr.

Emerald Ox FX Chimeric Percolator

The Emerald Ox FX Chimeric Percolator is a handmade pedal that addresses the quandary of "perfecting the Harmonic Percolator circuit" in a peculiar way. Rather than arbitrarily deciding what the best sound is for this famously sonically unreliable vintage circuit, the builder, after comparing the varying tone of several units,…Click on the title for more

Emerald Ox FX Chimeric Percolator