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Pedal Pawn Texas Twang

Inspired by a steady aural diet of Steve Ray Vaughan, the Pedal Pawn Texas Twang is a combo boost/overdrive is a two-knob device built to interact with your guitar and amp, cleaning up nicely at low guitar output. The right knob is a three-way rotary switch that produces glassy and…... Click for more

Pedal Pawn Texas Twang

VS Audio Platinum Plexi Overdrive

Presented at the NAMM 2023 show, the VS Audio Platinum Preamp and Overdrive uses hand-selected discrete JFETs to create a unique blend of Plexi and Marshall-style tones. Based on the coveted Marshall 1987 Silver Jubilee amp, this circuit provides a similar high gain, dark, and smooth output. The controls are…... Click for more

VS Audio Platinum Plexi Overdrive

New Pedal: Electric Love Aquatone Drive

The Electric Love Aquatone is a BOSS Blues driver variant built in collaboration with Brian Wampler of Wampler Pedals. In addition to serving up great tone, the Aquatone pedal serves a bigger purpose: raising funds for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF). The Aquatone offers two voicing through the central…... Click for more

New Pedal: Electric Love Aquatone Drive

Victory V1 The Duchess Preamp

One-fifth of the UK company's V1 series of compact preamp pedals, the Victory V1 The Duchess is a little bit like the child with a double passport in that family of stompboxes, since it can deliver both American-styled cleans and break up with a British accent, just like the amp…... Click for more

Victory V1 The Duchess Preamp

LPD Pedals Sixty8 Deluxe

Designed to sound like the company owner's own and beloved 1968 Plexi 12000 series, the LPD Sixty8 Deluxe delivers that dynamic Plexi tone, with the vintage Marshall amps' signature sustain at relatively low distortion settings, plus an extra switchable higher gain channel and ALSO a separate boost circuit placed before…... Click for more

LPD Pedals Sixty8 Deluxe

New Pedal: Muir Silicon Steel Drive

The Muir Silicon Steel is a dirt box that blends a solid state overdrive with a transformer-based gain circuit, subtly adding non-linearity and magnetic saturation to your signal. The transformer gain stage is Silicon Steel's secret sauce—low strings resonate with chords, higher gain delivers a distinctive overdrive with a unique…... Click for more

New Pedal: Muir Silicon Steel Drive

Okko FX Diablo Dual Overdrive

The Diablo overdrive (now out of production) was one of OKKO's most successful stompbox designs, featuring some novel fine-tuning controls like the Headroom switch (which ups the circuit's headroom to 18v), the Feed knob (controlling the amount of bass in the input signal) and the Body knob (affecting mids and dynamics). The pedal's main selling point was…... Click for more

Okko FX Diablo Dual Overdrive

CKK SHXC Super Overdrive (Klon Variant)

Yes, many Chinese pedal builders make super affordable (if not downright cheap) pedals with questionable quality control, but this doesn't mean that there aren't some top-notch boutique pedal builders in China. Enter the CKK SHXC Super Overdrive, a new, hand-made Klon variant that's getting great reviews from the handful of…... Click for more

CKK SHXC Super Overdrive (Klon Variant)

Updated Pedal: KingTone Duellist V2

Featured in our guide to the best Blues Breaker-style pedals, the KingTone Duellist V2 is an update to an already popular dual overdrive. A higher gain option than most Blues Breaker variants, the Duellist is a tone-tweaker’s delight that's hand-made in the US. The “Heavy Hand” side is a highly…... Click for more

Updated Pedal: KingTone Duellist V2

New Pedal: Bardic Audio Devices Rival Distortion

The Bardic Audio Devices Rival is an amp-in-a-box inspired by the Mark V (Mesa Boogie) line of amps. It's based on a circuit as complex as the one found in the original, modeling each vacuum tube stage through the use of JFET op-amps, and doesn't fail to feature the graphic…... Click for more

New Pedal: Bardic Audio Devices Rival Distortion

New Pedal: Electro-Harmonix Pico Triboro Bridge

These days it really feels like we write something along the lines of "a pedal that can deliver anything from overdrive to distortion to fuzz" on a daily basis. However, with the Electro-Harmonix Pico Triboro Bridge, we believe it's first time we write those words for a mini pedal. The…... Click for more

New Pedal: Electro-Harmonix Pico Triboro Bridge

New Pedal: Tone For Punk Trebled Youth

The many punk-leaning guitarists among our readers might have found a stompbox that suits their nihilistic tendencies. Enter the Tone For Punk (name of the company) Trebled Youth (name of the pedal), a tweakable dirt box that can deliver anything from mildly dirty tones to the uncompromising fuzz that's at…... Click for more

New Pedal: Tone For Punk Trebled Youth