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First videos of Lunastone’s Four New Pedals Presented at NAMM 2018

Danish manufacturer Lunastone debuted four new pedals at Winter NAMM 2018, and you can watch the first videos of them below. The pedals are the Distortion 1, the Red Fuzz 1, the Smooth Drive 1 and the Blue Drive 1. The company describes Distortion 1 as “a dedicated hard rock…... Click for more

First videos of Lunastone’s Four New Pedals Presented at NAMM 2018

Mad Professor announces the Little Tweedy Drive

Mad Professor’s new Little Tweedy Drive pedal captures the tone of a 1958 tweed Fender Deluxe amp in a compact stompbox. It’s an easy and affordable way to recreate the complex, organic overdrive that makes Fender tweed amps so coveted among guitarists. The Little Tweedy Drive is voiced after the…... Click for more

Mad Professor announces the Little Tweedy Drive

Fender Announces Six New Guitar Effect Pedals at NAMM 2018

Fender has announced six new guitar effect pedals, including overdrives, distortion, reverb, delay and more. The company is unveiling the stompboxes at the 2018 Winter NAMM show. The full lineup includes the Marine Layer Reverb, the Mirror Image Delay, the Santa Ana Overdrive, the Pugilist Distortion, the Bends Compressor and…... Click for more

Fender Announces Six New Guitar Effect Pedals at NAMM 2018

Best “Non-Clone” Overdrive/Distortion Pedals of 2017 according to In The Blues

After compiling and publishing the list of the Best Selling Overdrives of 2017, which features almost exclusively units built by established companies, we were looking for an online "Best Of Lists" featuring mostly smaller manufacturers. This video by Australian videographers In The Blues not only fit our criteria, but it exceeded it:…... Click for more

Best “Non-Clone” Overdrive/Distortion Pedals of 2017 according to In The Blues

Beetronics Overhive Medium Gain Overdrive

We featured Brazilian pedal builder Beetronics in this very blog a few months ago and we are psyched to see that Reverb.com / The Tone Report picked up their Overhive Overdrive for a video demo. Check out the footage below and find more info about the pedal at the bottom of this…... Click for more

Beetronics Overhive Medium Gain Overdrive

Wilson Effects Stoned Grasshopper Fuzz/Overdrive/Boost

Wilson Effects is a Guilford, Indiana based pedal builder with a noteworthy number of pedals under its belt (we are talking about 20+!), mostly gain related. Many of this manufacturer's most recent offerings are centered on circuits featuring multiple gain stages. Just Nick picked up one of these, the Stoned Grasshopper…... Click for more

Wilson Effects Stoned Grasshopper Fuzz/Overdrive/Boost

Orion Effekte + Twangtone – Dakota Red II OD + Boost

German pedal manufacturers seem to be all the rage these days! Orion Effekte is a one-man boutique operation whose pedals are loved by noteworthy artists like Noveller among others. Sofa Jams just posted this demo of the Dakota Red II, a low gain overdrive and FET-clean boost they designed in collaboration with another…... Click for more

Orion Effekte + Twangtone – Dakota Red II OD + Boost

SoundBrut DrVa Gets Premier Guitar’s Award

Premier Guitar just issued a "Premier Gear" award for this intriguing looking (and sounding) drive + boost from Swedish builder SoundBrut, called DrVa. Currently, this is the only pedal produced by this manufacturer. Although its drive section is quite transparent, the Drva shines in delivering tones that are full of character, thanks…... Click for more

SoundBrut DrVa Gets Premier Guitar’s Award

XTS Pedals Imperial Overdrive

Gearmandude returns with a new demo of the XTS Pedals Imperial Overdrive, check it out! The XTS Imperial Overdrive is a clear, open-voiced, wide-bandwidth overdrive that has been optimized for low gain to higher-mid gain tones. We developed the Imperial with a great deal of input from our Nashville clients.…... Click for more

XTS Pedals Imperial Overdrive

Xotic Effects BB Preamp Andy Timmons

The Xotic Effects BB Preamp (a pedal that can be used to overdrive your amp and fine-tune your tone's EQ) had already a stellar reputation, this version tweaked by guitar legend Andy Timmons (Danger Danger, Pawn Kings, Andy Timmons Band) adds an extra aura of prestige to it. Xotic Effects combines forces…... Click for more

Xotic Effects BB Preamp Andy Timmons

Ibanez announces the NTS Nu Tube Screamer

The Ibanez Tube Screamer is undoubtedly one of the most popular and successful overdrive pedals of all time. The company launched the line in the late Seventies with the TS808 and currently produces seven different Tube Screamer models. Now the lineup is about to get a new flavor. Ibanez has…... Click for more

Ibanez announces the NTS Nu Tube Screamer

Best Selling Overdrive Pedals of 2017

Those wondering why there are so many emulations of the Ibanez Tube Screamer should find a final explanation in this chart of the best selling overdrive pedals of 2017: [foogallery id="30181"] 35 years after its launch, the green stompbox known as TS9 is still the best selling guitar overdrive on…... Click for more

Best Selling Overdrive Pedals of 2017