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LPD Pedals Eighty7 Deluxe Dual Plexi Drive

Arizona's LPD Pedals (the project of Lawrence Petross) has been building a growing reputation among the dirt box stompbox fanatics. In particular, their Eighty7 Ditortion/Overdrive is considered one of the best boutique Plexi-Style pedals, and it's particularly appreciated for delivering two gain modes and generous tone-sculpting features. To celebrate the…... Click for more

LPD Pedals Eighty7 Deluxe Dual Plexi Drive

BO Effects OxyTone EPX Low Gain Drive

BO Effects is a French company with a solid reputation in Europe but not very well known in the rest of the world. The OxyTone EPX is their take on the two-channel low gain overdrive circuit, with a channel based on the preamp section of the EP3 Echoplex, and the…... Click for more

BO Effects OxyTone EPX Low Gain Drive

Audio Kitchen Fake Plastic Trees

Audio Kitchen is a boutique amp and pedal builder based in the UK that focuses on their own, scrupulously engineered designs, deliberately avoiding to "pay homage" to existing classics. The Fake Plastic Trees overdrive/distortion/fuzz is a solid state version of the line out of their own popular The Big Trees…... Click for more

Audio Kitchen Fake Plastic Trees

Dusky Toasted Overdrive

Durham's (NC) Dusky Electronics unveiled an update to their low-to-medium overdrive Toasted with a new look and an expanded sonic range. Based on a pair of pair of MOSFET gain stages cascaded one into the other, this discrete, class-A circuit can be used as a tool to take your amp's…... Click for more

Dusky Toasted Overdrive

Matthews Effects The Broker Overdrive

The pedal trend of the last decade has been to fit more "stuff" in smaller cases, and the Matthews Effects The Broker overdrive does just that, giving you two different overdrives in one compact case, with separate controls and footswitches. "Are they stackable?" - we hear you ask. Yes, they…... Click for more

Matthews Effects The Broker Overdrive

Sabbadius Triple Trouble V2

The Triple Trouble is an Overdrive+Booster+Fuzz pedal by Argentinean boutique builder Sabbadius that was discontinued a few years ago. The company just announced the upcoming release of V2. Counterintuitively, the silicon transistor fuzz is first in the chain, followed by a Tube Screamer-style overdrive and then the boost. The three…... Click for more

Sabbadius Triple Trouble V2

OD808 MKIII Dual Drive

Russian pedal builder Analogworm just released Mk III of their OD808, a dual overdrive featuring a Tube Screamer-style OR transparent drive on the left side and - for the joy of Mr. Michael Fuller, who clones others but hates to have his pedals cloned - an OCD-type circuit on the…... Click for more

OD808 MKIII Dual Drive

Victory The Kraken V4 Preamp Pedal

Those in need of a helluva portable, two-channel tube preamp for heavy tones might have found what they were looking for in the Victory Amplification The Kraken V4, a device developed in collaboration with UK's one and only Rabea Massaad and created with heavy, progressive and extended-range overdrive tones in…... Click for more

Victory The Kraken V4 Preamp Pedal

Aclam Windmiller Preamp (Grampian’s Type 636 Reverb Emulation)

In 2019, Spanish boutique pedal builder Aclam surprised many with the release of the Dr. Robert Overdrive, a pedal inspired by the Normal channel of the Vox UL730, dear to the Beatles. At Believe in Music 2021 (the virtual event that's replacing NAMM due to the COVID-19 pandemic) the company…... Click for more

Aclam Windmiller Preamp (Grampian’s Type 636 Reverb Emulation)

NUX Ace of Tone Dual Overdrive

Chinese pedal builders have been stepping up their tone game in the last couple of years, offering an ever-increasing range of incredibly affordable yet good-sounding pedals. NUX is one of the companies at the heart of it all. Their Ace of Tone is a new dual, configurable overdrive stacking two…... Click for more

NUX Ace of Tone Dual Overdrive

Caline Mellow Drive D-Style Overdrive

D-Style Overdrives ("D" stands for "Dumble," the name of a reclusive boutique amp builder with stellar reputation) are extremely sought after by roots and rock guitarists, and because of this several companies offer stompboxes that try to simulate the transparent and smooth tone of the Dumble amps. The Caline Mellow…... Click for more

Caline Mellow Drive D-Style Overdrive

Wilson Effects This Is The Art

Hailing from Guilford, IN, Wilson Effects unveiled a new pedal dedicated to those guitarists who find solace in the scooped tones of the Trash Metal heroes of the '80s, like Overkill, Testament and Pantera: the This Is The Art overdrive/distortion. Notwithstanding its rebellious DNA, the device in question cleans up…... Click for more

Wilson Effects This Is The Art