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New Pedals: One Control Tornado Drive

The One Control Tornado Drive is a new collaboration between pedal designer Björn Juhl with Japanese celebrity guitarist TK (Tory Kitajima), part of a new line of pedals called TORNADO Fx. There are two versions of this original, non-clone, high-gain overdrive circuit: Aluminum and Brass, with the latter featuring a…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: One Control Tornado Drive

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

Electronic Audio Experiments Limelight V2 Overdrive

The Electronic Audio Experiments Limelight V2 includes several improvements to the circuit of this overdrive + boost pedal developed in collaboration with LA-based post-hardcore band Touche Amore, including noise reduction and refined bypass switching functionality. The goal here was to create an op-amp overdrive that could deliver both chimey and…Click on the title for more

Electronic Audio Experiments Limelight V2 Overdrive

Mythos Air Lane Drive (Novo Guitars collab)

The Mythos Air Lane Drive is a limited edition, stripped-down, dual overdrive pedal built in collaboration with Nashville's Novo Guitars. The two channels have their own footswitch and gain knob and are based around the same single transistor topology, each slightly tweaked, including hard-clipping diode arrangements made to optimize stacking.…Click on the title for more

Mythos Air Lane Drive (Novo Guitars collab)

Gamechanger Audio Plasma Coil (with Third Man Records)

Everyone closely following the stompbox "scene" should be aware of Latvian builder Gamechanger Audio's intriguing devices. The Plasma Distortion is an original design that employs "a series of continuous high-voltage discharges within a xenon-filled tube" to create distortion. Third Man Record owner Jack White, of The White Stripe fame, evidently…Click on the title for more

Gamechanger Audio Plasma Coil (with Third Man Records)

Ibanez Vemuram TSV808 Tube Screamer

The Ibanez TSV808 is a collaboration with Vemuram, a popular boutique pedal manufacturer in Japan. Billed as a “Next Generation Tubescreamer” the TSV808 is a marriage of the Tubescreamer and Vemuram’s Jan Ray overdrive. Aesthetically it looks fairly similar to the standard Tubescreamer, but underneath the hood it combines the…Click on the title for more

Ibanez Vemuram TSV808 Tube Screamer

Electrofoods Ultd. + Dirge Electronics RBMK

For those born too late to know or remember, RBMK was the name of the (lovely) model of nuclear reactor that melted in Chernobyl that day in 1986. If you wanted to find just a word to described it, probably "unstable" would be it. Electrofoods Ultd.'s RBMK is a boost/overdrive/distortion…Click on the title for more

Electrofoods Ultd. + Dirge Electronics RBMK

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

Redbeard Effects Honey Badger Octave Fuzz

The Redbeard Effects Honey Badger is the second release by this new company comprised of seasoned rock guitarist and self-confessed rock & roll gear head, Mikey Demus (of UK based band, Skindred), and internationally renowned pedal designer and manufacturer, Adrian Thorpe (of ThorpyFX). This is a completely original circuit that…Click on the title for more

Redbeard Effects Honey Badger Octave Fuzz

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

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

TC Electronic MojoMojo Paul Gilbert Edition

known for his technical guitar work with Racer X and Mr. Big and voted number 4 on a list in GuitarOne magazine of the "Top 10 Greatest Guitar Shredders of All Time", Paul Gilbert has long been a fan of TC Electronic's affordable MojoMojo overdrive. The Danish builder took the…Click on the title for more

TC Electronic MojoMojo Paul Gilbert Edition