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Defects FX Dirty Filter

The Defects FX Dirty Filter is a very tweakable, limited edition resonant fuzz + filter (in that order) hailing from Prague, where it's lovingly hand-built. Each effect has its separate footswitch, but the filter gets the lion's share of the controls, with knobs for Frequency, Filter Type (bypass, low-pass and…Click on the title for more

Defects FX Dirty Filter

Way Huge Supa-Puss Analog Delay

The Way Huge Supa-Puss is a fully featured modulated analog delay with Tap Tempo, subdivisions, and several fine-tuning options, including Tone and Mix knobs and EXP In. The “out there” Chase mode gets your repeats to cycle through each of the subdivision values. Holding the Tap Tempo button enables…Click on the title for more

Way Huge Supa-Puss Analog Delay

LPD Pedals Dutch² Dual Overdrive

The LPD Pedals Dutch² is the latest dual overdrive circuit by what's probably one of the most prolific boutique pedal companies of the decade. It's a dual version of a one-channel limited version pedal that you won't easily find in the second-hand market, whose tone is described by some as…Click on the title for more

LPD Pedals Dutch² Dual Overdrive

Seymour Duncan Powerstage 170

Although it's not technically a pedal (it has no footswitch, but you don't really need one in this case), the Seymour Duncan Powerstage 170 is a powerful mini amp head pushing 170w of power with a clean preamp section, and it's made to fit on your board. It has a…Click on the title for more

Seymour Duncan Powerstage 170

Keeley + Pedal Partners Realizer Reverb

For those into the musical genre known as Shoegazer, "heavenly" pink is not a color like any other. It's the color of My Bloody Valentine's masterpiece shoegazer record, Loveless, a gritty yet mind-altering. avant-dream-pop experiment that took years in the making and pretty much invented a new genre - incidentally,…Click on the title for more

Keeley + Pedal Partners Realizer Reverb

Fjord Fuzz Hedda

The Fjord Fuzz Hedda is a two-knob Fuzz Face-inspired circuit designed to sound as dynamic as possible - which is not exactly a common thing for fuzz pedals, since they tend to sound extremely compressed. Company owner and engineer Daniel Thornhill, who's been focused for ten years to this date…Click on the title for more

Fjord Fuzz Hedda

New Pedal: October Audio MNTNS Phaser

Hand-built in Richmond VA, the October Audio MNTNS is an analog, OTA-based, variable stage phaser with vibrato and gain modes inspired by the classic effects heard in the best records of the '70s. While the two large black knobs allow controlling the circuit's Rate and Gain (i.e. a JFET op-amp…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: October Audio MNTNS Phaser

Catalinbread STS-88 Flanger + Reverb

The Catalinbread STS-88 is a flange + reverb compact pedal by the Portland builder, whose engineering team, apparently, has a true passion for flangers. The STS-88's circuit was created after countless hours spent researching and playing with the most established flanger pedals, with the intent of designing a pedal with…Click on the title for more

Catalinbread STS-88 Flanger + Reverb

Acorn Amps Solid State Preamp

The Acorn Amps Solid State Preamp is a compact version of the company's Peavy-amp-inspired Solid State power pedal without the 10 Watt power section. Peavy amps were solid-state guitar amplifiers from the '90s that were massively overlooked for a while (mostly for lacking the "tube" buzzword) but whose once popular…Click on the title for more

Acorn Amps Solid State Preamp

Benson Germanium Boost

Out-of-the-box thinking can lead to more than one ideas or discoveries. Chris at Benson Amps stumbled upon the circuit for the new Germanium Boost while working on his temperature-controlled Face Fuzz clone, also Germanium-based. Both pedals deliver uniquely consistent performance thanks to different ways to address the same issue: the…Click on the title for more

Benson Germanium Boost

Pedal Update: Poison Noises The Crook V4 Overdrive

Highlighted by the JHS show as one of the best new guitar pedals of 2021, the Poison Noises The Crook is a $99 (v3) and now $119 (v4) Mosfet overdrive made by a prolific upstate NY company that's rapidly gaining momentum. The device was updated to V3 in late 2021…Click on the title for more

Pedal Update: Poison Noises The Crook V4 Overdrive

Sonicake Tone Group Graphic EQ

The Sonicake Tone Group EQ is a new, sub-$50 entry in the world of graphic EQ pedals. There isn't much to say about this device, besides that it's fully analog and offers ±15dB of boost or cut for a total of 1- frequency bands, and an overall volume knob placed…Click on the title for more

Sonicake Tone Group Graphic EQ