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Silktone Fuzz

Silktone is a boutique amp company based in Roseville, CA that has just launched its first pedal, simply named Fuzz - a Germanium Fuzz Face-inspired circuit with a couple of cool tricks up its sleeve to widen the original's sonic palette. The most unusual setting here is the Bias knob…Click on the title for more

Silktone Fuzz

Jackson Audio The Optimist Drive

Texas' Jackson Audio is one of the few emerging pedal builders that's bringing innovation to an effect niche that lagged behind others in exciting features: the niche of gain pedals. Packed with features and enhanced by clever digital functionality, the company's pedals retain an analog core while widening the player's…Click on the title for more

Jackson Audio The Optimist Drive

Upcoming pedal: Blind Panic Devices Super Nintendecho

Built by a small UK builder without a website (yet), the Blind Panic Devices Super Nintendecho is a delay to be released in 2023 based on the PT2399 chip with some quirky and original features obviously inspired by everyone's favorite vintage gaming console. Just like that console's controller, the Super…Click on the title for more

Upcoming pedal: Blind Panic Devices Super Nintendecho

JHS 3 Series Octave Reverb

The JHS 3 Series Octave Reverb is the Kansas City-based pedal builder's $99 take on the so-called "Shimmer" effect, a circuit that marries a long ambient reverb with an octave effect placed in the reverb's decay. Appeared on the scene in 1984 when Brian Eno came up with it while…Click on the title for more

JHS 3 Series Octave Reverb

Rare Buzz Effects Octave Distortion

The Rare Buzz Effects Octave Distortion is a combo pedal that marries the company's 1970 Distortion and 1970 Octave pedals. The two effects feature separate controls and footswitches, which allow to play them separately or in series (Octave into Distortion). The three knobs for the Octave are: Gain: level fed…Click on the title for more

Rare Buzz Effects Octave Distortion

Victory V1 the Copper Drive

The Victory V1 The Copper is an amp-in-a-box that completes the three-member family of pedals inspired by the British company's Copper V35 amplifier, which, in turn, is voiced after the Vox AC-30. Released in a V1 line comprising four more pedals, this compact pedal version was designed in collaboration with…Click on the title for more

Victory V1 the Copper Drive

Way Huge Atreides Analog Weirding Module

Way Huge just announced - quite curiously, through the JHS Pedal YouTube channel! - a new, unexpectedly creative pedal called Atreides (after the characters in cult sci-fi movie Dune), with the uber-intriguing subtitle "Analog Weirding Module." The pedal, inspired by the 1980 mini-synthesizer keyboard by Electro-Harmonix, like the original only…Click on the title for more

Way Huge Atreides Analog Weirding Module

Colfax Recorders Porcelain Fuzz

Colfax Recorders appears to be originally a California-based one-man musical project that recently ventured into manufacturing pedals with the release of three dirt boxes. The Porcelain is the fuzz in the bunch. Not directly inspired to any existing circuits, the Porcelain is a fuzz of the gnarly and dirty variety…Click on the title for more

Colfax Recorders Porcelain Fuzz

Alexander Pedals Space Force Stereo Reverb

Alexander Pedals just unveiled their new multi-mode stereo reverb, the Force Reverb, which looks like an evolution of the 2018 Space Race. The new pedal also launches a new series called "Leap," destined to take over from the company's popular Neo series. The big upgrades of the Leap series, compared…Click on the title for more

Alexander Pedals Space Force Stereo Reverb

JHS 3 Series Harmonic Tremolo

The JHS 3 Series Harmonic Tremolo is the Kansas City-based company's take on the effect created by Leo Fender in 1960, a modulation effect that splits the signal into high and low-frequency channels, with the center split frequency constantly changed by an LFO (oscillator), producing a dreamy tremolo effect reminiscent…Click on the title for more

JHS 3 Series Harmonic Tremolo

New Pedal: OPFXS Electric Vibe Phaser/Vibrato

Hailing from La Spezia, Italy, the OPFXS Electric Vibe is a peculiar (and neat-looking) take on the Uni-Vibe and the phaser, at once. It features a design similar to the classic Uni-Vibe, an optical circuit that modulates the signal by going through four phase shifting stages, but it can apply…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: OPFXS Electric Vibe Phaser/Vibrato

Milkman The Amp 50 Pedal Power Amp

The Milkman The Amp 50 is a Class D hybrid tube/solid-state amp that can fit on your desktop (or your pedalboard, although it's not super-compact). It uses a 12ax7 preamp tube that can be pushed or overdriven just like any tube amp. The power stage can be run into a…Click on the title for more

Milkman The Amp 50 Pedal Power Amp