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JHS Pedals Bonsai Multi-Overdrive

We were just wondering if JHS was going to announce a new pedal (or two) for this year's NAMM, when the answer was delivered to us through these two video demos of the Bonsai Multi-Overdrive - and what an answer! The JHS Pedals Bonsai offers, reportedly, exact replicas of nine rare, classic…... Click for more

JHS Pedals Bonsai Multi-Overdrive

Ethos TWE-1 overdrive

The Ethos TWE-1 Overdrive is a compact version of a family of preamps, built by manufacturer Custom Tone, that got progressively smaller - you can find them all here. The soundbite the company uses to present this stompbox is "Clean-to-Scream with just the turn of your guitar's volume control" - which…... Click for more

Ethos TWE-1 overdrive

One Control Baby Blue OD

A full size pedal by One Control, known for manufacturing high end mini-pedals, the Baby Blue OD is an overdrive peculiarly based on a fuzz circuit (the BJFe creation FUZZ 1). Because of this, it sounds like a mix of the two effects, thanks to a "discrete circuit that combines…... Click for more

One Control Baby Blue OD

Burnt Audio Effects Smooth Driver

Assembled and built in Moorhead, Minnesota, The Smooth Driver is... A light-medium overdrive built by Burnt Audio Effects. It can be easily dialed in for light grit, creamy leads, or anywhere in-between. Built with high quality parts to ensure the best tone with the lowest noise floor. True Bypass ensures…... Click for more

Burnt Audio Effects Smooth Driver

8 Gain Pedals you’ll be able to try at the upcoming BK Stompbox Exhibit

The 8th Brooklyn Stompbox Exhibit is coming up fast (it's free, RSVP here!) and we want to share some of the tasty sonic treats you'll be able to experience at our pedal party! Here's a gallery of 8 great gain pedals (7 overdrives and 1 distortion) you'll be able to…... Click for more

8 Gain Pedals you’ll be able to try at the upcoming BK Stompbox Exhibit

Chase Bliss Audio Condor Analog EQ

The Minneapolis based manufacturer Chase Bliss Audio has been specializing in an "army knife" approach to stompboxes, offering great sounding devices boasting an incredibly wide palette of features, accessible both from the front and top panels (on the latter, each of their pedals has their signature two rows of dip…... Click for more

Chase Bliss Audio Condor Analog EQ

Southampton Pedals Indie Dream Overdrive

Hosted in our Stompbox Booth, at NAMM 2018 Southampton Pedals unveiled a new device that should arouse interest among all the guitarists out there into genres like dream pop, psych rock, and shoegaze: it's called the Indie Dream! Overdrive on the right side, delay and reverb on the left - both effects can be…... Click for more

Southampton Pedals Indie Dream Overdrive

Andertones blind test the JHS Bonsai Multi-Overdrive

A new hilarious videos by Andertons of the JHS Bonsai Multi-Overdrive, a pedal that faithfully replicates 9 classic Tube Screamers! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxfH1N5Qdio Here are the Sweetwater and Livingroom Gear Demos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXIdqmUnwKA&t=0s... Click for more

Andertones blind test the JHS Bonsai Multi-Overdrive

PedalPalFX PAL 959 Plexi Emulator Overdrive

Plexi-style stompboxes, i.e. amps-in-a-box emulating the sound of Marshall amps, never seem to be going out of style, and the 959 Plexi Emulator from Venezuelan builder PedalPalFX PAL is a solid new entry in a crowded field we covered in depth in this Plexi-style pedals shopping guide. The 959 uses the same circuit schematic…... Click for more

PedalPalFX PAL 959 Plexi Emulator Overdrive

Wren and Cuff Two Five Overdrive

Wren and Cuff recently unveiled the Two Five Overdrive, a pedal that runs on 25v, and because of this features an extended dynamic range, more headroom and a lot more output than your regular stompbox. A Voice toggle switch alternates between a circuit featuring two Mosfet transistors used as diodes and…... Click for more

Wren and Cuff Two Five Overdrive

Malekko Heavy Industry Downer Wavefolder/Saturation/Octave/Filter

If you like your guitar tone deep-down low and distorted, Malekko Heavy Industries has a new pedal that can take it to new depths. The appropriately named Downer - a pedal whose prototype we saw at NAMM 2018 - is a combination wavefolder/saturation and pitch-shifting pedal. Saturation, the more “subtle” of…... Click for more

Malekko Heavy Industry Downer Wavefolder/Saturation/Octave/Filter

One Control Launches New BJF Baby Blue and Super Apricot Overdrive Pedals

One Control has introduced the Baby Blue and Super Apricot overdrive pedals to its BJF collection of effects. The Japanese switcher and effect pedal company created the new stompboxes in collaboration with pedal designer Björn Juhl, whose BJF series is rapidly growing. Both pedals are now shipping to dealers. One…... Click for more

One Control Launches New BJF Baby Blue and Super Apricot Overdrive Pedals