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Farm Pedals AB Double Drive

The peculiar pedal building / farm running company of Farm Pedals caught many ears' attention at the 2018 Brooklyn Stompbox Exhibit. Here's a demo of their Boost + Overdrive AB Double Drive. It features the circuit of their now discontinued Peach Drive on one side and a clean boost on…... Click for more

Farm Pedals AB Double Drive

Greer Amps Tomahawk Deluxe Drive

A straightforward medium gain “second stage” overdrive pedal, the Greer Tomahawk Deluxe Drive barks and snarls, but it can also lean back and simply shift your tone just a bit. Here are a few demos of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF-QKtATmHI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI_x78HruyQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U6-zfxWCaU This is Mike Hermans' take on this pedal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy5NBBo9T2g Nick Greer…... Click for more

Greer Amps Tomahawk Deluxe Drive

New Pedals: 6 Degrees FX Hyper Catalyst

6 Degrees FX, a Vancouver builder specializing in high-end gain pedals, just unveiled a new JFET Preamp Overdrive called Hyper Catalyst, a flexible stompbox that can be used either as a regular overdrive or as a versatile "stacking device." When feeding other drives, the Hyper Catalyst can add saturation, harmonics, tighter…... Click for more

New Pedals: 6 Degrees FX Hyper Catalyst

Orange Getaway Driver Overdrive

Known for their guitar amps (very dear to early Oasis, among others), UK manufacturer Orange has entered the stompbox market a few years ago and keeps churning out new gain pedals on a regular basis. The latest one is the Getaway Driver, an amp-in-a box kind of pedal with 18v of headroom and cab sim output.…... Click for more

Orange Getaway Driver Overdrive

Lounsberry Tall Fat & Wide Stereo Boost and Drive

The Lounsberry Tall Fat and Wide is a stereo boost pedal based on a FET design. It is not just designed for guitar players, integrating very well in a keyboard, organ, or bass guitar setup. There are only two controls with Fat setting the amount of drive, while Tall sets…... Click for more

Lounsberry Tall Fat & Wide Stereo Boost and Drive

D-Sound Sunny Distortion

The Sunny Distortion is a one knob distortion (volume, the gain is set at full blast) based on the sound of the Sunn Model T amp, manufacturers by Russian company D-Sound. Here's the video by Shnobel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubfKfCz4aqc This is a distortion pedal, based on Sunn Model T sound. Great way to get…... Click for more

D-Sound Sunny Distortion

NEO Instruments Drive In Overdrive

Mike Hermans took a shot at the NEO Instruments Drive In Overdrive in the video below, a rich and nuanced medium gain drive for blues and rock players. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3Di1vXxHFc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsaUWsHY3b4 With the advent of the drive in restaurant, the sounds that a guitar could produce changed radically too. They became…... Click for more

NEO Instruments Drive In Overdrive

Vertex Effects Tone Secret Overdrive

The new Tone Secret is an overdrive, and although it doesn't have one green spot, it shares something in common with the ubiquitous Tube Screamer: its sonic DNA (at least accordingly to its builder, Vertex). And then start the differences: [It] only utilises 50% of the gain found in a traditional…... Click for more

Vertex Effects Tone Secret Overdrive

New Pedals: Animals Pedal Vintage Van Driving is Very Fun

Animals Pedal is an emerging Japanese pedal company known for their colorful pedal art and quirky names, which has attracted attention in the USA with their recent design collaborations with American builders Skreddy Pedals and Wren and Cuff. Their latest device is a, simple, affordable and flexible overdrive/boost called "Vintage Van…... Click for more

New Pedals: Animals Pedal Vintage Van Driving is Very Fun

Abasi Pathos High Gain Overdrive

Founder and lead guitarist of prog-metal band Animal as Leaders, Tosin Abasi has recently unveiled the first pedals under his company Abasi Concepts. It's a flexible high gain overdrive called Pathos he engineered with the help of Brian Wampler of Wampler pedals. Voiced after the classic sound of American tube…... Click for more

Abasi Pathos High Gain Overdrive

Daredevil Drive BI

New from Chicago's Daredevil Pedals, the Drive BI is a raw sounding dual channel, op-amp gain circuit designed to cover medium to high level amp style drive. The HI/LO switch selects between the two gain channels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odxgoLYd-qI The Drive – Bi is a dual channel, op-amp gain circuit. Designed to…... Click for more

Daredevil Drive BI

Robert Keeley Aria Compressor + Drive

Robert Keeley’s new Aria Compressor Drive combines two essential guitar effects in one versatile pedal. The Area Compressor Drive combines the tone and blend features of Keeley’s Compressor Plus pedal with a two-mode overdrive. The order of the compressor and drive can be swapped instantly with a flick of a…... Click for more

Robert Keeley Aria Compressor + Drive