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Boost Footswitch

Morley 20/20 Power Wah/Volume (with Boost)

In the summer of 2019 Morley announced a new line of pedals called 20/20 including ten devices to be released over the following months and featuring updated version of the best of the company's circuits. The new features include a new pedalboard friendly size, a new Buffer circuit (called 20/20)…Click on the title for more

Morley 20/20 Power Wah/Volume (with Boost)

Veri-Tone Azzurro Tube Preamp

Fans of Eric Clapton's tone with the Blues Breakers (a band from the '60s headed by John Mayall), might be familiar with the term "Beano Tone," a warm yet edgy sound that became the signature of those records. If you are wondering what amp Clapton used with that band, you…Click on the title for more

Veri-Tone Azzurro Tube 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

Hotone Mojo Attack Nano Legacy Floor Amp

Reviews for musical gear have always been riddled with conflicts of interest - let's just say that a reviewer writing for a publication that runs an ad about the product he's reviewing is not in the ideal position to be objective... This is why videos like the ones streaming below…Click on the title for more

Hotone Mojo Attack Nano Legacy Floor Amp

New Pedal: Lefty Guitars Daily The Cannon

Designed by pedal videographer Eric Merrow as an all-in-one gain solution for any pedalboard, the Lefty Guitars Daily The Cannon is multi-gain stage overdrive featuring an extra boost with separate footswitch and controls. The amount of boost can be controlled through the orange knob and it's placed before the drive,…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Lefty Guitars Daily The Cannon

BOSS OD-200 Hybrid Drive

Although many guitarists prefer to defer gain-related duties to traditional, "one function" analog stompboxes, the case for multi-mode, digital dirt boxes has become more and more compelling with the advancement of digital and DSP technology in the audio realm. The BOSS OD-200, with its powerful processor and 32-bit/96KHz sampling rate,…Click on the title for more

BOSS OD-200 Hybrid Drive

Fender Full Moon High Gain Distortion

2018 has seen guitar giant Fender aggressively enter the stompbox market with two "waves" of pedal releases, the latest of which included a trifecta of gain pedals, including the Full Moon Distortion, one of their most option-heavy effects. A high-gain distortion featuring an always useful boost with separate footswitch (delivering…Click on the title for more

Fender Full Moon High Gain Distortion

Sitek Freya (Joss Allen Signature) Boost + Overdrive

Freya is a family-run pedal company based in Poland that focuses on hand-building gain pedals. Designed in collaboration with metal guitarist Joss Allen, the Sitek Freya is a Boost + Overdrive combo featuring a low to mid-gain drive and a transparent high headroom booster. The overdrive circuit features a toggle…Click on the title for more

Sitek Freya (Joss Allen Signature) Boost + Overdrive

Formula B Super Plexi Overdrive

The Formula B Super Plexi Distortion is a two-channel overdrive pedal with a clean boost on one side and a Marshall JTM45 emulation on the other, using transistors to mimic the character of the tubes. Each channel features its own footswitch, and a toggle switch lets you place the boost…Click on the title for more

Formula B Super Plexi Overdrive

BAE Audio Hot Fuzz – Fuzz + Boost

The BAE Audio Hot Fuzz – a beast of a pedal we first saw at our 8th Brooklyn Stpompbox Exhibit – combines a high-frequency boost and an English 1970s-style fuzz box that can be used independently or together in series to create high-frequency distortion. The Hi Freq Boost and Fuzz sections…Click on the title for more

BAE Audio Hot Fuzz – Fuzz + Boost

Collision Devices The Ranch Dynamic Tremolo, Drive & Boost

Marrying sustainability and vintage look, The Ranch, by French pedal builder Collision Devices, is a drive with separate boost footswitch and an added dynamic tremolo that's gaining "buzz status" among the pedal connoisseurs. Interestingly, more than half of the pedal's presentation text is about materials (it's made of US Walnut…Click on the title for more

Collision Devices The Ranch Dynamic Tremolo, Drive & Boost

MG Music Midnight Rambler Overdrive

A tribute to the sound of The Rolling Stones (and more specifically their late '60s/early '70s tone), the Midnight Rambler Overdrive, by Brazilian company MG Music, borrows a sophisticated circuit used in high-end preamps to deliver a warm and balanced overdrive with vintage character. A second footswitch adds extra gain,…Click on the title for more

MG Music Midnight Rambler Overdrive