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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

The Best Pedals for Synths with CV in/out in 2022

You may be also interested in our article about the best analog-style synth pedals for guitars and the one about the best creative pedals for synths that accept line in. --- Updated on May 03, 2022 A Guide to the Best Pedals for Synths with CV Compatibility CV (an acronym…Click on the title for more

The Best Pedals for Synths with CV in/out in 2022

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

Danelectro Roebuck Distortion

The Danelectro Roebuck is a recreation of the vintage and rare Ibanez Mostortion, a pedal that has many fans among session players because of its flexibility, being able to sound good at a variety of gain ranges and offering a three-band EQ for tone sculpting. Te Roebuck adds two extra…Click on the title for more

Danelectro Roebuck Distortion

CKK Electronic Fluid Time MKII Analog Delay

Chinese pedal brands CKK Electronics and Sinvertek (they are the same company) have been gaining more and more respect among the community of pedal lovers for their well designed and affordable stompboxes offering a mind-blowing host of features - so much so that we are tempted to call them the…Click on the title for more

CKK Electronic Fluid Time MKII Analog Delay

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

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

STOMPBUZZ ALERT! Jackson Audio El Guapo Programmable Distortion

The Jackson Audio El Guapo is available for sale from our favorite indie pedal store The Sound Parcel - buying it there you'll support our site as well! --- The Google searches for this pedal have gone through the roof in the last week, so we'd issue a StompBuzz Alert!…Click on the title for more

STOMPBUZZ ALERT! Jackson Audio El Guapo Programmable Distortion

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

Laney Black Country Custom Spiral Array Chorus

Few effects beat the sound of a gloriously lush chorus - in particular in stereo - and the Spiral Array, part of the Black Country Customs series of pedals manufactured by UK's builder Laney Amplification, promises exactly that, in three variations. A toggle switch in the center of the pedal…Click on the title for more

Laney Black Country Custom Spiral Array Chorus

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