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Cat Box Customs Bean Machine V2 Fuzz

Although it's presented in the name as an update, the Cat Box Customs Bean Machine V2 is actually a "deluxe version" of its older sibling. A variant of the Harmonic Percolator fuzz, the original featured a Volume and Fuzz knob, a 3-way diode clipping selection with Germanium/none/Silicon options, and two…Click on the title for more

Cat Box Customs Bean Machine V2 Fuzz

Blind Panic Devices Dilithium Delay

The Blind Panic Devices Dilithium Delay is a pedal that puts a smile on our faces even just by looking at it. It's a PT2399 based, analog-voiced, delay pedal with a unique, modulation section that affects the delay time based on the dynamics of the input signal. We'll use the…Click on the title for more

Blind Panic Devices Dilithium Delay

Shnobel Tone Mid Driver

YouTuber Roman from Shnobel started manufacturing guitar pedals in the early '20s under the Shnobel Tone label. The Shnobel Tone Mid Driver, unveiled just before the NAMM 2022 show, is his take on the "mid-rich" overdrive a-la Tube-Screamer, although it's not a clone. The pedal's circuit is a variant on…Click on the title for more

Shnobel Tone Mid Driver

OKKO FX Holy Grit Fuzz

Built by hand in Germany, the OKKO FX Holy Grit is an original circuit vaguely inspired by vintage fuzzes like the Fuzz Face and Tone Bender that can produce a variety of tones from gritty overdrive to low gain fuzz or vintage preamp. Rather than faithfully recreating the tones of…Click on the title for more

OKKO FX Holy Grit Fuzz

New Pedal: Stomp Under Foot Electric Warlord Fuzz

Out of Florida comes the hand-made Stomp Under Foot Electric Warlord Fuzz, a velcroy, tight, aggressive fuzz that's bound to excite the testosterone of heavy-leaning guitarists. The pedal maintains a great note definition and clarity notwithstanding the heaviness of the distortion, and can deliver gated-like fuzz at lower Fuzz levels.…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Stomp Under Foot Electric Warlord Fuzz

Dr. Scientist Dusk Filter Pedal

The Dr. Sicentist Dusk is a digitally controlled analog filter with an analog 24dB/Octave low pass filter based around an old-school integrated circuit called an Operational Transconductance Amplifier. It has three modes: Envelope, LFO and Cut, which makes it behave like a regular synth filter with frequency cut selected manually.…Click on the title for more

Dr. Scientist Dusk Filter Pedal

Lauren Audio Mustang V2 Preamp

Run by a recording engineer, Lauren Audio is a one-man builder based in California that offers custom amplifiers and preamps and, also a bunch of pedals, among which a preamp stompbox emulating the most legendary channel strip, the Neve 1073: enter the Lauren Audio Mustang V2. The Mustang has a…Click on the title for more

Lauren Audio Mustang V2 Preamp

New Pedal: LPD Pedals Mach I Distortion

The LPD Pedals Mach I Distortion is the latest pedal by a small builder that seems to be specializing in amp-in-a-box pedals. In this case, the "boxed" amp is in the Bogner/Boogie/KittyHawk style, producing think tones with lots of midrange heard in many '90s alt-rock records. The controls in this…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: LPD Pedals Mach I Distortion

Berry Pedals Double Doom Fuzz

Notwithstanding its innocuous appearance, the Berry Pedals Double Doom Fuzz is, in a word, evil. Hailing from Australia, this baby feeds a fuzz into another fuzz, with demonic results, in particular if you stack the two pedals together. It's a dual-channel version of the company's Doom Fuzz, which is already…Click on the title for more

Berry Pedals Double Doom Fuzz

Flamma FC21 Analog Comp

The Flamma FC21 Analog Comp is a repackaged but cheaper (and better looking) version of the Mooer Yellow Comp, an optical mini-compressor with controls for Compression, Volume and EQ. Optical compressors are based on a technology that produces slightly different compression from regular designs (normally VCA or FET). They can…Click on the title for more

Flamma FC21 Analog Comp

Westminster Effects 2716

Westminster Effects have collaborated with Seth Morrison of Christian Hard Rock band Skillet to create the 2716 signature distortion pedal. Meant to emulate Morrison's live setup, the 2716 takes cues from classic high gain tube amps such as the Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier Rev F, creating professional tight high gain…Click on the title for more

Westminster Effects 2716

Fender Pinwheel Rotary Emulation

For Fender, NAMM 2019 was the year of modulation pedals: they unveiled three of them, all sharing a few features with each other. The Pinwheel is a stereo in/out, rotary speaker emulator that works seamlessly with guitars and keyboards thanks to a voicing switch on the back panel (see image…Click on the title for more

Fender Pinwheel Rotary Emulation