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Collector//Emitter & Mask Audio Electronics Cascader

The Cascader is the second collaborative pedal by pedal YouTuber collector//emitter and Mask Audio (after the Part Garden Dual Fuzz). This is an aggressive fuzz inspired by Devi Ever and EHX circuits, combining a smooth fuzz with a low gain gated fuzz to conjure a dense yet tight mix of…Click on the title for more

Collector//Emitter & Mask Audio Electronics Cascader

1981 Inventions DRV Drive/Distortion

Born as a mod of the RAT distortion circuit, the DRV by Nashville based 1981 Inventions slowly "found" its own sound during the three years it took to finalize it. The first batch of the pedal sold out pretty fast, but a second one, with a case slightly different in color,…Click on the title for more

1981 Inventions DRV Drive/Distortion

BOSS / JHS JB2 Angry Driver

We celebrated collaborative pedals in our 2016 Brooklyn Stompbox Exhibit issue of The Deli Magazine with this article written by the guys at Gearphoria. in the fall of 2017, two extremely relevant pedal companies that hadn't previously participated in this sort of cross-pollination (BOSS and JHS) rather unexpectedly came out…Click on the title for more

BOSS / JHS JB2 Angry Driver

ThorpyFX Field Marshal Fuzz

The Field Marshal is another Thorpy take on a classic Lovetone pedal: this time the Big Cheese. Once again, Adrian Thorpy enlisted Lovetone's Dan Coggins for this third collaboration with the legendary circuit designer. This is a heavy fuzz with an option to activate/bypass the tone section, on the fly,…Click on the title for more

ThorpyFX Field Marshal Fuzz

Thorpy FX Camoflange Flanger

After delivering, in collaboration with legendary effect designer Dan Coggins of Lovepedal, the Deep Oggin Chorus in 2018 to widespread acclaim, UK's Thorpy FX is back at it with another modulation pedal born from the same engineering minds: the Camoflange, an original circuit inspired (at least in part) by the…Click on the title for more

Thorpy FX Camoflange Flanger

Thorpy FX The Deep Oggin Chorus

Lately, creative (and crazy sounding) effect pedals have dominated most "Best of" lists - whether year-end ones or NAMM-related ones. Yet, some more traditional pedals are still able to make the cut just because of how good they sound. Enter Thorpy FX's The Deep Oggin chorus, selected by Reverb's Andy…Click on the title for more

Thorpy FX The Deep Oggin Chorus

Mooer Ocean Machine

Mooer got us used to tiiiiiny pedals, so the large stompbox called Ocean Machine stands out, to say the least, as an unexpected device from the Chinese manufacturer. The product is a collaborative effort with Canadian producer/guitarist Devin Townsend, and it has gathered a lot of fans since its launch…Click on the title for more

Mooer Ocean Machine

Jam Pedals Harmonious Monk Tremolo

A trip to Athens kick-started a pedal collaboration between the British YouTubers at That Pedal Show and Greek stompbox artisans Jam Pedals. A monstrously geeky meeting between the two parts developed into the idea of a collaboration on a harmonic tremolo with a very peculiar character - which is now…Click on the title for more

Jam Pedals Harmonious Monk Tremolo

BOSS TB-2W Tone Bender

The Tone Bender, introduced to the musical instrument market by Sola Sound in 1965, is a fuzz pedal that made the history of Rock'n'Roll and is now incredibly rare and abundantly cloned. It was one of the first fuzz circuits ever produced and intended as the British answer to the…Click on the title for more

BOSS TB-2W Tone Bender

Chase Bliss Audio MOOD

While the folks at Chase Bliss Audio were publicly working on two ambitious projects (the automatic-fader-driven Preamp MkII and the uber-documented looper Blooper) they were also secretly designing a new two-channel granular micro-looper called M O O D, which they unveiled today (06.20.2019) through a video of their favorite Toronto…Click on the title for more

Chase Bliss Audio MOOD

Third Man Coppersound Triplegraph Octaver

Mr. Jack White of The White Stripes' fame is known for loving noisy and sometimes quirky pedals, so much so that, in the last few years, he's been commissioning selected builders to create custom-tweaked stompboxes to sell exclusively through his label Third Man Records - previous examples include pedals by…Click on the title for more

Third Man Coppersound Triplegraph Octaver

Chase Bliss & Meris CXM 1978 Reverb

At NAMM 2021 Chase Bliss Audio and Meris unveiled the prototype of a pedal adaption of the venerable Lexicon 224 studio reverb, built on the moving-fader format of Chase Bliss Audio's Automatone series and featuring three algorithms (Hall, Room, Plate). The pedal was named CXM 1978 after the year ofd…Click on the title for more

Chase Bliss & Meris CXM 1978 Reverb