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One Control Honey Bee OD 4K Mini Standard

The Honey Bee OD 4K Mini Standard is the latest interaction - the first one in mini version - of this popular low-gain overdrive circuit by designer Bjorn Juhl (of Mad Professor fame), celebrating its twentieth anniversary. This is, in its essence, an amp-in-a-box recreating the warm and syrupy tone…... Click for more

One Control Honey Bee OD 4K Mini Standard

Volta 1987 V2 Dual Plexi Overdrive

The 1987 v2 is a two-channel overdrive designed to sound like a Plexi hot-rod pushed to the max. Hand-made in Italy by a company that recently changed its name from Nabla to Volta Custom, this is, in essence, an overdrive with a foot-switchable boost appropriately called "11," whose gain can…... Click for more

Volta 1987 V2 Dual Plexi Overdrive

Acorn Amps Solid State

Peavey's solid-state amps have been subject to many sarcastic jokes by tube amps snobs, little matters that they were the sonic centerpiece of the groundbreaking power rock sound of bands like Pixies and Queens of the Stone Age. Acorn Amps Solid State is here to fix this with a pedal…... Click for more

Acorn Amps Solid State

Tubesteader Magnezium Dual Tube Preamp

Voiced after the legendary Magnatone Super 59 M80 amp, the Tubesteader Magnezium is the latest dirt box by a Montreal-based small builder who specializes in gain pedals with real tubes in them. Equipped with a pair of 12X7 tubes operating at full 250VDC, this pedal offers two separate gain channels:…... Click for more

Tubesteader Magnezium Dual Tube Preamp

New Pedal: Daredevil Aces Hybrid Amp

The Daredevil Aces Hybrid Amp is a pedal for those who like simple things: it's a two-gain stages preamp with just one knob and one on/off footswitch. Inspired by an RCA data sheet from the '50s, the Aces' circuit uses both Germanium and Silicon components to deliver a saturated tone…... Click for more

New Pedal: Daredevil Aces Hybrid Amp

Beetronics Royal Jelly Fuzz/OD Blender

Uber-cool Brazilian manufacturer Beetronics unveiled the Royal Jelly pedal at NAMM 2018. The company portrays this pedal as a unique "Fuzz/OD blender," since it can run both effects in parallel, and also offers blending features, so that instead of switching sounds you just layer them - you can even blend in…... Click for more

Beetronics Royal Jelly Fuzz/OD Blender

Pedal Update: Dunn Effects Pvrifier V2 LoFi Filter Drive

The Dunn Effects Pvrifier is a take on the circuit of the Ibanez LF7, a lo-fi analog filter overdrive pedal that has recently found a niche of fans among the stompbox collectors. A lot more flexible and useful than the original unit, the Pvrifier features a Hi- and Lo-pass filters…... Click for more

Pedal Update: Dunn Effects Pvrifier V2 LoFi Filter Drive

New Pedal: 3rd Power Love Drive

The 3rd Power Love Drive is an overdrive pedal built by the Nashville-based amp company owned and run by guitarist Dylana Nova Scott of San Francisco's '80s glam-metal band Vain. R.J. Ronquillo seems sincerely excited about it, describing it as "one the most amp-like overdrives / preamp pedals I've ever…... Click for more

New Pedal: 3rd Power Love Drive

New Pedal: Malaise Forever Iron Fistula Drive

Joining the numerous club of Plexi-style overdrives, the Malaise Forever Iron Fistula uses JFET transistor to emulate tube amp saturation, and introduces some interesting mods to the classic Marshall-inspired pedal circuit. One of these is an EQ section with an active bass control (Body) placed in the circuit just before…... Click for more

New Pedal: Malaise Forever Iron Fistula Drive

Airis Electric Dragon Distortion

The Airis Electric Dragon is a distortion pedal by a Canadian builder laser-focused on releasing hand-made stompboxes for metal players. It's actually two effects in one, combining a tubescreamer-based overdrive (right side) and a circuit inspired by the TC Integrated Preamp (left side), each with their own footswitches and volume…... Click for more

Airis Electric Dragon Distortion

Mad Professor The Green Wonder

An updated version of the popular Little Green Wonder, the Mad Professor The Green Wonder is a high-output overdrive/boost pedal optimized to sound great with single coil and humbucking pickups and different amplifiers no matter if clean, overdriven, or distorted. It delivers the uncompressed and touch-sensitive tones of the predecessors…... Click for more

Mad Professor The Green Wonder

Decibelics The Reverend

Scheduled to be released in late August of 2022, the Decibelics The Reverend is the latest pedal by the Spanish company responsible for one of the most highly regarded Klon Centaur clones on the market, the Golden Horse. It's also a recreation of a sought-after circuit with a mythical name,…... Click for more

Decibelics The Reverend