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gear giveaway

OVERDRIVE PEDALS

Based in Montreal (the Canadian city hosting this weekend's Stompbox Exhibit!) Ground Control Audio is a small boutique pedal manufacturer that is getting more and more attention for its quality, hand made effects, so far exclusively focused on gain related designs: the company is currently offering three pedals tackling boost, overdrive and…... Click for more

Pedal Manufacturer Profile: Ground Control Audio

Lightning Boy Audio LB II High Voltage Tube Overdrive with CH2 Sidecar Module

We just caught this video below legendary GermanDude, and we couldn't help but being intrigued by the word "sidecar" - to date, without any doubt the coolest vehicle invented by humanity. In this circumstance, the sidecar concept is applied - as you might have guessed - to a guitar pedal: the (hand…... Click for more

Lightning Boy Audio LB II High Voltage Tube Overdrive with CH2 Sidecar Module

Mixed Distortion board at the ATX Stompbox Exhibit 2017

If you are in Austin this week, bring your guitar to the Lewis Carnegie Gallery (hosting the ATX Stompbox Exhibit 2017) and give these bad babies a try!... Click for more

Mixed Distortion board at the ATX Stompbox Exhibit 2017

New (Crazy) Pedals: TWA Dynamorph

We saw this pedal by NJ based TWA (an acronym for "Totally Wicked Audio") at our NAMM 2017 mixed booth and it looked intriguing indeed, if anything for the name of its controls - there's a Kafka/Ovid switch, and a "Gestation" mini-knob! The effect's presentation is also interesting: "Distortion? Fuzz? Filter? Synth?…... Click for more

New (Crazy) Pedals: TWA Dynamorph

Strymon debuts Sunset Dual Overdrive at Austin Stompbox Exhibit

Strymon, at last, seems to have gotten the distortion bug - and overcome their aversion for the color red! The Californian stompbox manufacturer just unveiled their second distortion pedal ever, after 2016's Riverside Overdrive (since their birth in 2008, they had only released non-distortion pedals, developing a reputation for luscious clean sounds, although…... Click for more

Strymon debuts Sunset Dual Overdrive at Austin Stompbox Exhibit

Klon + Tube Screamer in one pedal: Greenchild K818 Dual Overdrive

We briefly covered the Greenchild K818 in our Klones shopping guide a few weeks ago. Roman from Shnobel Tone" just posted a demo video of it on YouTube so we are taking the opportunity to repost it. This is a very intriguing and unique pedal because it features recreations of the two…... Click for more

Klon + Tube Screamer in one pedal: Greenchild K818 Dual Overdrive

Best of NAMM 2017: Chase Bliss Audio’s Brothers Analog Gain Stage Pedal

With regular sized pedals featuring incredibly deep functionality (but still holding on to - as they like to say - an "analog heart"), in just a few years Chase Bliss Audio (established in 2013) has been able to create a new standard for the beloved stompbox format. At the NAMM 2017 show,…... Click for more

Best of NAMM 2017: Chase Bliss Audio’s Brothers Analog Gain Stage Pedal

New Pedals: Classic Audio Effects Stumphouse Drive

Thinking outside the (stomp)box is a strategy that's risky but may prove rewarding. It gave birth to classic pedals like the Wah and the Whammy, and it's particularly exciting because it tends to to stimulate creativity in new ways. South Carolina pedal manufacturer Classic Audio just came out with a drive…... Click for more

New Pedals: Classic Audio Effects Stumphouse Drive

To check out at NAMM: Lunastone Pedals

With a population just under 6 million, Denmark is one of the smallest countries in Europe. But if we measured each country's size by how many pedals it sells, it would certainly be one of the largest, mostly because of stompbox powerhouse TC Electronic (the company was recently purchased by German Behringer,…... Click for more

To check out at NAMM: Lunastone Pedals

New Pedals: TWA – Hot Sake Overdrive/Distortion

https://www.youtube.com/embed/hTK2VooyrB0 Japanese engineers excel at many things, but seem to have a knack for musical instrument circuits. If they certainly outshine the rest of the world at manufacturing synthesizers (think Korg, Roland and Yamaha!), nobody can fault them for their guitar pedal creations either. BOSS (also part of Roland) is a brand known to the…... Click for more

New Pedals: TWA – Hot Sake Overdrive/Distortion

Demos of the Strymon Riverside Multi Stage Overdrive

The Strymon Riverside was certainly one of the most anticipated pedals of 2016, if anything because it represented the first take on distortion from a manufacturer that was able, in recent years, to redefine the stompbox format for pretty much any other kind of effect, from modulation to delay to reverb.…... Click for more

Demos of the Strymon Riverside Multi Stage Overdrive

New Pedals: Nunomo Limbo Overdrive

Newcomers to the pedal game Nunomo are offering an innovative take on overdrive with the Limbo Overdrive. The coolest feature of this pedal is the ability to tailor the clipping voltage, which enables a very wide range of overdrive sounds. The standard ‘Drive’, ‘Tone’, and ‘Volume’ controls are present with the…... Click for more

New Pedals: Nunomo Limbo Overdrive