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18v Pedals

Spiral Electric FX White Spiral/Secret Chord Dual Boost/Distortion

The Spiral Electric FX White Spiral is a dirty boost with 18v internal operation that exploits a dual JFET circuit inspired by Jimmy Page’s use of the Barcus Berry Preamp. It uses a dual JFET for amplification and the Grit, which is a combination of JFET and Silicon clipping found…Click on the title for more

Spiral Electric FX White Spiral/Secret Chord Dual Boost/Distortion

Greer Amps Royal Velvet Overdrive/Preamp

We are in full overdrive blooming season, folks! It feels like all we've been blogging about, in the last few weeks, is: new overdrives. Greer Amps, a company with a pretty darn good track record in this niche, just announced the Royal Velvet, an amp-in-a-box with preamp inspired in equal…Click on the title for more

Greer Amps Royal Velvet Overdrive/Preamp

Flower Pedals Poppy Dual Boost

Sometimes simple yet innovative ideas are the best ones we come up with, and Flower Pedals' Poppy seems to belong to that category: it's a dual boost with separate in/outs for each channel, so that you can insert the two circuits anywhere you want in your pedal chain. If you…Click on the title for more

Flower Pedals Poppy Dual Boost

Red Noise Butterfly Tremolo & Tonal Amusement Park

Red Noise Pedals is the project of Atlanta-based guitarist Ariel Scherbacovsky, who turned into a pedal designer after the birth of his first daughter put an end to a 10-year touring career (probably, in hindsight, a good thing, since COVID has put an end to touring, at least for a…Click on the title for more

Red Noise Butterfly Tremolo & Tonal Amusement Park

Pine Box Customs Motel Distortion

The Pine Box Customs Motel is a RAT-inspired circuit that aims at widening the palette of tones produced by that popular distortion pedal. It's also the first distortion pedal released by this Memphis-based company that mostly focuses on dirt boxes. The Motel's circuit features an internal voltage doubling circuit that…Click on the title for more

Pine Box Customs Motel Distortion

Pettyjohn Rous Distortion

The RAT Distortion belongs to that very exclusive pedal circuit "elite" that provides seemingly infinite inspiration to stompbox builders. We know something about it, since we've been working for over a year on a comprehensive article about RAT clones, and each and every time we try to finalize it we…Click on the title for more

Pettyjohn Rous Distortion

Hotone Ampero Multi-Effect

The multi-effect pedal Hotone Ampero was announced at Music China 2018 and then unveiled in the US at the NAMM 2019 show. Driven by the company's CDCM HD (Comprehensive Dynamic Circuit Modeling High Definition) and F.I.R.E. (Field Impulse Response Enhancement) systems, the Ampero is a stereo, dual-core modeling digital pedal featuring…Click on the title for more

Hotone Ampero Multi-Effect

PettyJohn Rail Fuzz

We had a chance to "meet" the Pettyjohn Electronics Rail fuzz at our latest Portland Stompbox Exhibit in early March, and we are happy to see the first videos of it being published. Hosted in a beautiful, black, blunt compact case, this pedal is a full range fuzz and the…Click on the title for more

PettyJohn Rail Fuzz

Engl Alpha Drive

The Engl Alpha Drive produces the vintage overdrive of a tube amp and has a rather unique feature: it can be operated with voltages from 6v to 18v, with results from the very to compressed to the incredibly dynamic. The two-way EQ section lets you add and cuts 7.5 dbs…Click on the title for more

Engl Alpha Drive

Cooper FX Outward V2 Delay / Sampler

The Cooper FX Outward V2 is a digital sampling device that records audio and plays it back in different ways (freezing, stutter, and time stretching effects) depending on the mode. V2 adds a new line of mini-knobs to fine-tune Clock, Tone, Mix and Volume and a new PIT l DIR…Click on the title for more

Cooper FX Outward V2 Delay / Sampler

Jackson Audio Belle Star Overdrive

The Jackson Audio Belle Star is an overdrive born from the collaboration between the Huston based company and Drew Shirley from the band Switchfoot, a guitarist known for using small, low-wattage amps. To recreate that signature sound. the Belle Star relies on an original, MOSFET-based clipping circuit that delivers low/mid…Click on the title for more

Jackson Audio Belle Star Overdrive

Vahlbruch BBQ XL Buffer, Booster, Equalizer

The Vahlbruch BBQ XL is a buffer, booster and equalizer with two identical channels with the same controls (Volume and a three-band EQ section) and separate footswitches. Besides acting as a double-boost, the BBQ-XL can also help fine-tune different guitars to your amplifier without having to turn knobs during the…Click on the title for more

Vahlbruch BBQ XL Buffer, Booster, Equalizer