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18v Pedals

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

Engl Amplifiers Fuzzyhead

Engl continues to supplement its line of amplifiers with stompboxes that offer players versatility in sound. The Engl Amplifiers Fuzzyhead Fuzzyhead Custom Pedal is the latest addition to the lineup, and it has a lot of bite to it for sure. This ferocious little stompbox has the traditional gain and…Click on the title for more

Engl Amplifiers Fuzzyhead

Tru-Fi COLORDRIVER Overdrive/Fuzz

Sometimes you can tell how much a videographer likes a pedal from how good is the music in his or her video of it. Well, it doesn't get much better than what Barrero did for the Tru-Fi COLORDRIVER 18v video below. This is an overdrive/ fuzz made in the USA…Click on the title for more

Tru-Fi COLORDRIVER Overdrive/Fuzz

Idiotbox FX Power Drive

A development of their original take on the legendary Colorsound Power Boost (a pedal revered by David Gilmour), the Idiotbox FX Power Drive is a lot more than a boost pedal. Dirty, raw and full of gain, this is not a transparent pedal by any means. The high and low knobs…Click on the title for more

Idiotbox FX Power Drive

Bondi Effects Breakers Overdrive

Pedal geeks might be familiar with Australian stompbox manufacturer Bondi Effects for their popular Sick As Klon "evolution." Breakers is an overdrive released in 2017 that "started as a revision to our Del Mar Overdrive, and quickly took on a whole new character." Besides your usual controls for Level, Gain, Bass…Click on the title for more

Bondi Effects Breakers Overdrive

Diezel VH4-2 Two-Channel Preamp/Overdrive

The first version of the Diezel VH4 Preamp/Overdrive pedal (based on the company's high-gain VH4 tube amplifier' Mega channel) was launched in 1994 and became an instant classic for metal guitarists. Recently, the German company has unveiled a 2nd version of the pedal, called VH4-2, featuring two separate channels of that same circuit…Click on the title for more

Diezel VH4-2 Two-Channel Preamp/Overdrive

Greer Amps Tomahawk Deluxe Drive

A straightforward medium gain “second stage” overdrive pedal, the Greer Tomahawk Deluxe Drive barks and snarls, but it can also lean back and simply shift your tone just a bit. Here are a few demos of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF-QKtATmHI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI_x78HruyQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U6-zfxWCaU This is Mike Hermans' take on this pedal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy5NBBo9T2g Nick Greer…Click on the title for more

Greer Amps Tomahawk Deluxe Drive

Crazy Tube Circuits Ziggy V2 Dual Overdrive/Distortion

At NAMM 2018 we caught up also with our friends from Crazy Tube Circuits (part of the numerous contingent of Greek pedal companies participating in the Anaheim convention). The manufacturer showed us their second version of the Ziggy Overdrive, a two -channel Plexi-style distortion that's one of the company's most…Click on the title for more

Crazy Tube Circuits Ziggy V2 Dual Overdrive/Distortion