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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

Strymon El Capistan V2 Tape Delay

The Strymon El Capistan is a lush stereo emulation of a vintage Tape Echo device, in a cleverly simple box. It offers three Tape modes emulating different reading head configurations (Fixed, Multi and Single) and three ways to slightly tweak each one of them. Separate controls for Tape Age and…... Click for more

Strymon El Capistan V2 Tape Delay

New Pedal: Crazy Tube Circuits White Whale Junior

At 15.4 × 8.3 × 6.8 cm (6" x 3.2" x 2.6"), the Crazy Tube Circuits White Whale Junior is almost certainly the smallest fully analog real spring reverb - with the added benefit of a tremolo to boost. That's not a typo. That's a three-spring tank in a box…... Click for more

New Pedal: Crazy Tube Circuits White Whale Junior

R2R Time-O-Lite Fuzz

Waterslide Guitars and R2R Electric spent two years figuring out how to turn a 1960s darkroom timer into a fuzz pedal without just bolting new knobs onto it. The result is exactly as weird and wonderful as that sounds. Each unit starts with a vintage Time-O-Lite timer chassis. The existing…... Click for more

R2R Time-O-Lite Fuzz

Updated Pedal: JHS NOTADÜMBLË V2 Pedal Kit

The original JHS NOTADÜMBLË was a beautiful disaster. JHS accidentally loaded the John Mayer BBC-1 preamp into the clean side instead of the intended "Box It Later" buffer. Josh Scott called it the biggest mistake of his career. Discontinued the pedal. Offered refunds. The whole thing sold out anyway because…... Click for more

Updated Pedal: JHS NOTADÜMBLË V2 Pedal Kit

New Pedal: Stonegate FX The Figure Filter Fuzz

[caption id="attachment_215289" align="aligncenter" width="612"] https://stonegatefx.com/products/the-figure-filter-fuzz[/caption] Stonegate FX is a Toronto builder we've been familiarizing with at our Canadian Synth and Pedal Expos, and the Figure Filter Fuzz is exactly the kind of pedal that makes you glad you showed up. Most fuzz pedals hand you a wall of noise and…... Click for more

New Pedal: Stonegate FX The Figure Filter Fuzz

Way Huge Doom Hammer Fuzz

The Way Huge Doom Hammer Fuzz's lineage traces back to 1998, when designer Jeorge Tripps modified a late-'70s op-amp fuzz circuit for the band Oranger. Prized for its less pronounced mid-scoop compared to many vintage fuzzes, the circuit was valued for its tighter low-end response and reliable live performance. Decades…... Click for more

Way Huge Doom Hammer Fuzz

Walrus Audio Highpoint Optical Compressor

The folks at Walrus Audio looked at the compressor section of a Neve console, realized nobody was going to tour with one, and built the Highpoint. It's an all-analog optical compressor that runs on a ±15V internal rail—double the headroom of most pedals, zero starved-voltage compromise. The result is compression…... Click for more

Walrus Audio Highpoint Optical Compressor

New Pedal: RHPF Electronics MOSTARD

RHPF Electronics MOSTARD. Up to +30 dB of clean gain that leans bright and gets brighter the more you push it. Low settings are warm and smooth. High settings are glassy, focused, and cut through anything. The EQ is where it gets interesting. No bass-mid-treble boost knobs. Instead, each control…... Click for more

New Pedal: RHPF Electronics MOSTARD

Red Panda RD-1 Pitch Delay

Red Panda has spent years proving that digital doesn't have to mean cold. The Raster was their deep-dive pitch delay - a brilliant box with menus, alternate functions, and enough parameters to make a synth programmer weep with joy . It was also, for the stomp-and-go guitarist, a lot. Enter…... Click for more

Red Panda RD-1 Pitch Delay

JHS Fumble JFET Preamp

Here's the thing about mistakes: some of them you bury. Some of them you put in a box and sell for eighty-nine dollars. JHS dropped the NOTADÜMBLË in May 2025—a solderless DIY kit with two circuits. One was an overdrive based on the Dumble lead sound. The other was supposed…... Click for more

JHS Fumble JFET Preamp

Empress Effects Drive

Empress Effects, a Canadian builder known for making pedals for people who read manuals for fun, hasn't entirely shied away from dirt boxes: their Heavy Menace is a precision kill box. But a loose, interactive overdrive? That seemed beneath them. Until they patched a discontinued Germ Drive circuit into the…... Click for more

Empress Effects Drive