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• Best Klon Centaur Clones
• Best Plexi Style Overdrives
• Best Dumble-Style Pedals
• Best Tweed-Style Overdrives
• Best Vox-Style Pedals
• Best Clark Gainster/Hoochee-Mama Clones

Below, the latest news about fuzz pedals

New Pedals: TCJ Effects’ Amalgam Smooth Overdrive

T. Jauernig Electronics, or TCJ Effects, is a small Wisconsin based manufacturer of hand made pedals that's been around since 2004. They just finalized the New "Amalgam" Smooth Overdrive. The company states that this pedal is very touch sensitive and smooth, working in the mild to moderate gain range. If you…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: TCJ Effects’ Amalgam Smooth Overdrive

Guitar Pedal News: DMB Pedals Whiskey Bender

Boutique pedal maker DMB Pedals will be releasing the Whiskey Bender Overdrive/Fuzz on May 1st. To celebrate, the company is doing a giveaway on Facebook in which, if you share the contest link everyday before the pedal's release, you'll have more opportunities to win it. The Whiskey Bender is described as…Click on the title for more

Guitar Pedal News: DMB Pedals Whiskey Bender

Guitar Pedal News: Dawner Prince Effects Diktator and Starla

Super stoked on these two new pedals! Dawner Prince Effects has imposed a new standard in the world of high-end class guitar effects. Being fully professionally designed and hand built, each pedal offers long term reliability and studio sound quality in an appealing casing – durable powder coated and screen printed…Click on the title for more

Guitar Pedal News: Dawner Prince Effects Diktator and Starla

Guitar Pedal News: T-Rex Møller 2 and Sweeper 2

We are already seeing the press releases rolling in. All the Pedal Manufacturers are getting geared up for the 2013 Winter NAMM Conference that takes place annually in Anaheim, CA. Looks like T-Rex is updating a few of its pedals. The Møller 2 (Retail: $399/ Street: $299) delivers the same classic analog…Click on the title for more

Guitar Pedal News: T-Rex Møller 2 and Sweeper 2

Pedal News: Mesa Boogie announces 4 overdrive pedals

Mesa/Boogie just announced a new line of overdrive pedals called "Four on the Floor" and consisting of the Tone-Burst, Grid Slammer, Flux-Drive, and Throttle Box, created using the same craftsmanship and quality components from their custom amplifiers. Here's a quick look at them: The Throttle Box is the most aggressive of the bunch, featuring…Click on the title for more

Pedal News: Mesa Boogie announces 4 overdrive pedals

Mooer Hustle Drive

Mooer’s Hustle Drive distortion pedal ($88), packs a surprising amount of versatility into a very small package. Though the Hustle Drive’s footprint is not much bigger than a couple of packs of chewing gum, you’ll find mini-knobs for volume and tone, plus a two-way switch for choosing high-peak or low-peak distortion characteristics, basically…Click on the title for more

Mooer Hustle Drive

Pedal Review: VFE Blues King

For irredeemable tone tweakers, this “low-gain” distortion pedal (it actually has plenty on tap) VFE’s Blues King (street $144) is a Pandora’s box of grind. Built by hand by a small family business out of Pennsylvania, the Blues King has “Buy American” credibility right off the bat. Couple that with…Click on the title for more

Pedal Review: VFE Blues King

Pedal Review: Pigtronix Fat Drive

In a world where you can’t swing a guitar without knocking 10 Tubescreamer clones off the shelf, new entrants to the oversaturated overdrive market had better have something new to say. Pigtronix’s new Fat Drive (street $140) accomplishes this by exploiting what some might perceive as a weakness in Fender-style…Click on the title for more

Pedal Review: Pigtronix Fat Drive

Pedal News: Mad Professor’s Golden Cello

Pedal and amp manufacturer Mad Professor recently created a new guitar pedal to be sold exclusively through Guitar Center and its subsidiary, Musician’s Friend. Available later this month for $199, the Golden Cello is an Overdrive/Fuzz with a Delay circuit, designed to give you that classic late 70’s/early 80’s lead…Click on the title for more

Pedal News: Mad Professor’s Golden Cello

Review: Way Huge Red Llama MkII

Way Huge’s Red Llama MkII is a simple pedal that does one thing awesomely well: highly musical overdrive/distortion. While the name implies a redesign, it’s more of a second coming. The Red Llama (street $120) is a reissue of what became a highly sought-after pedal after it disappeared in 1999,…Click on the title for more

Review: Way Huge Red Llama MkII

DIY Pedal Review: Mod Kits DIY Persuader

The Persuader from MOD Kits DIY (available at modkitsdiy.com for about $65) is a U-build-it, starved plate, 12ax7 distortion box kit. It arrives as a collection of parts to be assembled into a powder-coated purple, pre-drilled Hammond-style cast-aluminum box. A 16 page assembly manual identifies all the included components, and…Click on the title for more

DIY Pedal Review: Mod Kits DIY Persuader

Pedal Review: T-Rex HOBO Drive

The T-Rex HOBO DRIVE is one of the best sounding, most flexible distortion pedals I’ve ever come across. That said, calling this pedal a distortion pedal is a little misleading; it’s less a distortion pedal, and more of a preamp. Manufactured in Denmark and assembled in Taiwan, the HOBO DRIVE (yes,…Click on the title for more

Pedal Review: T-Rex HOBO Drive