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Bispell Audio Saxon Overdrive

The Bispell Audio Saxon Overdrive is a tweakable Plexi-style circuit by a rather new company based out of the UK that's getting good reactions from a couple of fine-eared YouTubers like Brett Kingman and the inimitable Henning Pauly . It has a few more EQ controls than your average Plexi…Click on the title for more

Bispell Audio Saxon Overdrive

Heather Brown Sensation Fuzzdrive

The Heather Brown Sensation Fuzzdrive is the second release by a pedal builder who was able to create a name for herself with her only release before this one, the Blessed Mother overdrive. The new device is a very tweakable blend of fuzz and overdrive that can deliver the best…Click on the title for more

Heather Brown Sensation Fuzzdrive

Flower Pedals Sunflower Deluxe Tremolo

Flower Pedals has unveiled its most advanced pedal yet, the Sunflower Deluxe Tremolo. Taking the digital brain / analog heart approach pioneered by Chase Bliss and Robert Keeley, the Sunflower features a full analog signal path, stereo in and out, tap tempo, blendable amplitude / harmonic tremolo, tempo ramping, tempo…Click on the title for more

Flower Pedals Sunflower Deluxe Tremolo

Now Shipping: Anasounds Full Story Multi-Muff Clone

The Anasounds Full Story is an ambitious new pedal by a French company enamored with wood, that aims at becoming the ultimate all-things Big Muff. It consists of a dual circuit featuring replaceable "tone cards," each recreating specific versions of the venerable fuzz pedal, with a foot-switchable Treble Booster clone…Click on the title for more

Now Shipping: Anasounds Full Story Multi-Muff Clone

Black Mass Electronics The First Herald

The folks at Black Mass Effects, out of Salem, MA, describe their debut pedal, named The First Herald and recently redesigned to fit in a compact case, as a device that "does not reinvent the wheel, but reinforces it" and also "not death itself, but a definitive statement reminding you…Click on the title for more

Black Mass Electronics The First Herald

New Pedal: Sinvertek N5 MGAT-1 Preamp

The Sinvertek N5 MGAT-1 Preamp is the latest release by a Chinese boutique company that might be the best-kept secret in the pedal realm - in particular for those guitarists who enjoy gain pedals that allow for a variety of tonal options. A Plexi variation to their popular N5+ drive,…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Sinvertek N5 MGAT-1 Preamp

Wampler Phenom Distortion

The Wampler Phenom Distortion is one of two releases from a new affordable line of pedals called "Collective" by a US-based boutique company with a record of best-selling dirt boxes. Joining a trend developed in recent years by US boutique builders to manufacture quality, compact gain pedals with a price…Click on the title for more

Wampler Phenom Distortion

Dreadbox Raindrops Delay

The Dreadbox Raindrops delay was unveiled by the Greek synth veterans at NAMM 2022; it's a full stereo hybrid analog + digital pitch shifting delay. It delivers delay times from 50ms to 1000ms with lo-fi sounds above 700ms. Key features include: Three algorithms: modulated delay, pitch shifting delay, and reverb…Click on the title for more

Dreadbox Raindrops Delay

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