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Discomfort Designs Riemann’s Grave

Those interested in a king of gnarliness that goes beyond the one produced by fuzz pedals should check out the Discomfort Designs Riemann's Grave, which combines three filters with a sample rate crusher and 4 toggles that modify the way the signal is handled. To quote Jamie of Harsh Tones,…Click on the title for more

Discomfort Designs Riemann’s Grave

Legendary Pedals: Analogman King of Tone Dual Overdrive

In a market (the pedal one) where more and more companies seem to focus exclusively on growth and margins while giving up craftmanship for industrial assembly and replacing real-life connection with YouTube videos, it's refreshing to know that there are still a helluva lot of guitarists who value what companies…Click on the title for more

Legendary Pedals: Analogman King of Tone Dual Overdrive

MXR Sugar Drive M294

The MXR Sugar Drive is the company's take on the Klon Centaur mania! One of the few mini-klones available on the market (at least for now), the Sugar Drive 's simplicity is deceptive. The drive knob in this circuit blends the clean guitar signal with the overdriven one as…Click on the title for more

MXR Sugar Drive M294

Stomp Under Foot Sonic Generator Fuzz

The Stomp Under Foot Sonic Generator is a fuzz pedal created with the goal of blending two types of fuzz tones: a smooth fuzz sonic base with a ripping, Velcro-style fuzz on top of it. Inspired by the guitar sound of American Desert Rock and Stoner bands like Queens of…Click on the title for more

Stomp Under Foot Sonic Generator Fuzz

The Best Octavia Fuzz Pedals in 2023: Clones and Evolutions

[lwptoc depth="4" hierarchical="0" numeration="decimal" title="TABLE OF CONTENTS (click to jump)" titleFontSize="125%" titleFontWeight="semibold" itemsFontSize="110%" skipHeadingLevel="h1" skipHeadingText="Octavia Fuzz Shoot Out Video|Related Delicious Audio Posts:"] List Updated on March 09, 2023 The original Octavia Fuzz circuit was designed in 1967 by engineer Roger Mayer specifically for Jimi Hendrix. The circuit uses ring modulation…Click on the title for more

The Best Octavia Fuzz Pedals in 2023: Clones and Evolutions

Updated Pedal: Vahlbruch Octavia V2 Fuzz

The Vahlbruch Octavia V2 is a high-end, handmade-in-Germany evolution of the Tychobrahe Octavia Fuzz (read: the octave-up-style fuzz used by Jimi Hendrix) that uses a custom-made transformer and Schottky diodes to reproduce the sound of the vintage units (v1 used new old stock germanium ones). A toggle switch lets you…Click on the title for more

Updated Pedal: Vahlbruch Octavia V2 Fuzz

Demedash Effects Spidola Germanium Fuzz

Winnipeg, Manitoba's Demedash Effects got us used to original pedal circuits that defy tradition, and the company's first fuzz pedal keeps faith to this approach, with more subtlety than their other designs. The company's new Spidola Fuzz uses the same Germanium transistors found in the vintage fuzzes of the '70s,…Click on the title for more

Demedash Effects Spidola Germanium Fuzz

Eventide Blackhole Reverb

Eventide just released a stompbox version of their popular reverb plugin - the Blackhole! The pedal is presented as an ambient device and features six knobs, all offering an alternate function. Gravity is the most original control here, affecting the direction of the decay (forward or inversed), and replacing in…Click on the title for more

Eventide Blackhole Reverb

Frost Giant Osiris Overdrive

The Frost Giant Osiris is an original overdrive circuit based on a circuit that introduces some innovation in a pedal niche that's been mostly developing around a few established designs, with the specific goal of turning small amps into huge-sounding tone monsters. Running internally at 18v, the Osiris is a…Click on the title for more

Frost Giant Osiris Overdrive

Custom Tone Ethos Overdrive Preamp

Designed by Vermont-based builder Custom Tone, the Ethos Overdrive is the original, "deluxe-expensive" version of what became, after its release, a family of increasingly more streamlined pedals inspired by the tone of the uber-boutique Dumble amplifiers - aka D-Style Overdrives. An extremely versatile and tweakable analog device, the Ethos features…Click on the title for more

Custom Tone Ethos Overdrive Preamp

New Pedal: Spun Loud & Rare Buzz Phoezar

The Spun Loud & Rare Buzz Phoezar is a phase+fuzz circuit born out of an encounter of minds between two small US pedal builders, initiated by an Instagram comment posted back in 2021 which teaches us that a pedal can take much longer than 9 months to be born from…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Spun Loud & Rare Buzz Phoezar

New Pedal: Marshall ShredMaster

As implied by its name, the Marshall ShredMaster is a distortion pedal for guitarists with shredding tendencies, therefore of the high-gain variety. Released in the early '90s, it was one of the first pedals to target metal and hard rock guitarists. Marshall has reissued it in all its glory in…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Marshall ShredMaster