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New Pedal: Ibanez Mini Flanger FLMINI

The Ibanez series of MINI pedals represents a solid, no-frill offering in the "bread and butter stompbox effect" realm. Needless to say, their mini Tube Screamer is among the best selling pedals in the world, but the analog mini delay is also extremely popular. The Japanese company recently unveiled a…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Ibanez Mini Flanger FLMINI

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)

Pladask Elektrisk Draume Reverb

The Pladask Elektrisk Draume is a reverb pedal built on an intriguing premise: that digital reverb is not supposed to recreate the sound of a space, but should be a creative effect in itself, free from real-life emulation constraints. Can a space sound dry, old, veiled or broken? what ambiance…Click on the title for more

Pladask Elektrisk Draume Reverb

Rude Tech 3MuF-14 Muff-style 3-in-1 Fuzz

Russian Big Muff lovers, rejoice! The Rude Tech's 3MuF-14 is a three-in-one muff style distortion/fuzz, emulating three different Russian fuzz circuits (Black, Green and Civil War) through a 3-way toggle, while also offering a fourth sound achievable by entirely bypassing the "Version" circuit; this produces a tone that keeps the…Click on the title for more

Rude Tech 3MuF-14 Muff-style 3-in-1 Fuzz

BOSS MD-200 Multi-Modulation Pedal

It's pretty amazing how, while most pedal manufacturers work on one stompbox at a time and rarely release more than one product every few months, BOSS is so ahead of the game that they can afford the luxury of unveiling, on the same day, not two, but a series of…Click on the title for more

BOSS MD-200 Multi-Modulation Pedal

Old Blood Noise Sunlight Dynamic Reverb

If creative reverbs with intriguing momentary effects are your kind of thing, you should take a look at the new pedal by Old Blood Noise, the Sunlight Dynamic Reverb. The Sunlight doesn't do "regular" reverb. Its three reverb algorithms are unique and each has the ability to react dynamically to…Click on the title for more

Old Blood Noise Sunlight Dynamic Reverb

Walrus Audio Ages Five-State Overdrive

Walrus Audio just unveiled a new, multi-mode Overdrive called Ages. The pedal offers a rather simple knob layout, with knobs for Volume + Gain, Bass + Treble, and a Dry control to reintegrate some of the clean signal. But the heart of this pedal is the Mode knob which discloses the…Click on the title for more

Walrus Audio Ages Five-State Overdrive

JHS Pedals PG-14 Paul Gilbert Signature Distortion

Here's a new signature distortion pedal by JHS just in time for NAMM 2020. The JHS Pedals PG-14 features a FET engine and an active mid-frequency preamp placed in front of it, offering a parametric mids section - just like in the studio consoles. The circuit was engineered in close collaboration…Click on the title for more

JHS Pedals PG-14 Paul Gilbert Signature Distortion

Mattoverse Inflection Point Tremolo/Vibrato

We profiled Mattoverse Electronics some time ago in this article, and since then the small Wisconsin manufacturer has added a bunch of really interesting designs to its line. The builder's latest stompbox is an update to their Inflection Point multi-wave tremolo/vibrato pedal with tap tempo and clock input - the new…Click on the title for more

Mattoverse Inflection Point Tremolo/Vibrato

Old Blood Noise Black Fountain V3 Delay

The Old Blood Noise Black Fountain is a delay that emulates vintage echo devices based on the short-lived but full of character "oil can" technology from the '50s, a Ry Cooder's favorite. In this pedal, the Fluid control adds those devices' typical dark modulation on the repeats, originally generated by…Click on the title for more

Old Blood Noise Black Fountain V3 Delay

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