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The Il Diavolo Overdrive features a classic circuit that’s been hot-rodded for enhanced midrange and low end frequencies with a three-position Hi/Low switch to select your preferred clipping style, from a smooth organic boost to sweet, smoky overdrive to full-on grind. Check out the video demos and reviews below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC_Oj2W41lk…... Click for more

MXR Il Diavolo

J Rockett Pedals IQ Compressor and Majestic OD

Two interesting new pedals by J Rockett. The IQ compressor, featuring a clean compressor with integrated, pre-compression graphic EQ, which allows you to choose what frequencies to "squuze" more. The Majestic is a new overdrive - not much information about it online, maybe because it's not quiet out yet! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICoPDa9dHjE... Click for more

J Rockett Pedals IQ Compressor and Majestic OD

Ground Control Audio Blood Oath

Living Room Gear demo of the Ground Control Audio Blood Oath! The Blood Oath - A low to mid gain overdrive with a flexible tone control offering enough range for bass players and an independent pre-gain stage essentially allowing two overdrive modes. Can act as a subtle clean boost just…... Click for more

Ground Control Audio Blood Oath

JHS Pedals The Calhoun V2 Overdrive/Fuzz

The JHS Calhoun V2 is a collaborative signature pedal for legendary guitarist, writer, and producer Mike Campbell. Mike is most known for his role in Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, but he has worked closely with such artists as Don Henley, Bob Dylan, Stevie Nicks, George Harrison, Jackson Browne, Brian Setzer,…... Click for more

JHS Pedals The Calhoun V2 Overdrive/Fuzz

New Pedals: Gearmanndude Luther Drive v.3

Y'all may know GermannDude for his very popular demo videos of stompboxes - we actually aggregate many of them in the "pedal strip" on our site's homepage (under the blog's top picture). Even though the dude is probably among the most knowledgeable human beings in the guitar effect department (he's got almost 2k…... Click for more

New Pedals: Gearmanndude Luther Drive v.3

Chase Bliss Audio Brothers Analog Gain Stage

New demo video of the Chase Bliss Audio Dual OverdriveBrothers by Pro Guitar Shop https://www.youtube.com/embed/4lX3CWRnxbc... Click for more

Chase Bliss Audio Brothers Analog Gain Stage

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