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Updated Pedal: October Audio Robotic Celebrity Head V3

An overdrive with fuzzy leanings inspired by an obscure single-transistor design of the '70s, the October Audio Robotic Celebrity Head bears a bizarre name referring to one of these creepy robotic busts of Elvis. Using Schottky type diodes in this 3rd version (instead of Germanium), this one-knob mini-pedal is very…Click on the title for more

Updated Pedal: October Audio Robotic Celebrity Head V3

Win an ASM Hydrasynth Explorer via LA Synth & Pedal Expo! [ENDED]

To properly celebrate the return of the Los Angeles Synth & Pedal Expo we are giving away an utterly cool device... Ashun Sound Machines, aka ASM, together with its Hydrasynth, is one of the best new things that happened to the synth world in the last few years - this…Click on the title for more

Win an ASM Hydrasynth Explorer via LA Synth & Pedal Expo! [ENDED]

New Pedals: Mask Audio Screws Octave Fuzz

The Mask Audio Screws is a two-knob octave fuzz that abuses an op-amp to deliver an ever-present octave, specializing in tones from the lo-fi to the gnarly. A three-way toggle switch allows for brighter and bassier voices. The builder claims that this pedal will deliver the octave in the fuzz…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Mask Audio Screws Octave Fuzz

New Pedal: Wampler Mofetta (Mostortion-Style)

The Wampler Mofetta is not the latest device inspired by the Ibanez MT10 Mostortion overdrive/distortion, (here's are other recent ones), a pedal known for producing a variety of tones (and love/hate feelings). Brian Wampler gave the circuit the treatment it got us accustomed to with all his dirt boxes, enhancing…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Wampler Mofetta (Mostortion-Style)

Henning Pauly went to the Berlin Stompbox Exhibit 2024

Do you know one of the reasons why Henning Pauly of YouTube channel EytschPi42 is one of the coolest guitar and pedal videographers out there? Because if he knows there's a guitar show (or a Stompbox Exhibit) near where he is, he'll visit it out of his own will and…Click on the title for more

Henning Pauly went to the Berlin Stompbox Exhibit 2024

Win Pedals by Chase Bliss, Pigtronix & AmpMojo via the LA Synth & Pedal Expo

Hasta a vista pedalovers! We have a first pedal giveaway linked to our upcoming Los Angeles Synth & Pedal Expo 2024, scheduled for June 8-9!Click on the title for more

Win Pedals by Chase Bliss, Pigtronix & AmpMojo via the LA Synth & Pedal Expo

Upcoming Pedal: Diamond Vibrato (V2)

Canadian pedal brand Diamond, well known in the aughts for the Memory Lane series of delays, had another huge hit with its Vibrato pedal, which now sells used for close to $1,000. Purchased in the early '20s by fellow Montrealese pedal-makers SolidGoldFX, Diamond is back after a few years of…Click on the title for more

Upcoming Pedal: Diamond Vibrato (V2)

New Pedal: Keeley California Girls 12 String Simulator

Those among you owning a 6 string and interested in the sparlky sound of a 12-string guitar should lend an ear to the Keeley California Girls, a 12 String Simulator pedal. Released together with the "I Get Around" Rotary simulator and in synch with the Disney+ documentary on the Californian…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Keeley California Girls 12 String Simulator

New Pedal: Electro-Harmonix LPB-3 Linear Power Booster & EQ

Electro-Harmonix has released the LPB-3, an updated version of their classic LPB-1 booster pedal, which was the first stompbox they ever released in 1968. The LPB-3 features an active EQ with a powerful parametric mid control for precise tone shaping and offers up to 33dB of clean boost, with an…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Electro-Harmonix LPB-3 Linear Power Booster & EQ

Win 4 Pedals via the Berlin Stompbox Exhibit [ENDED]

Hello EU and UK box-stompers, this giveaway linked to our Berlin Stompbox Exhibit is reserved for you and you only!Click on the title for more

Win 4 Pedals via the Berlin Stompbox Exhibit [ENDED]

Cosmodio Pet Yeti Fuzztortion + Bitcrusher

The Pet Yeti is the colorful debut pedal by Massachusetts-based builder Cosmodio. A super-flexible, fully analog fuzzstortion with an added bit crusher circuit, the Pet Yeti is an original design that can offer tones from the classic to the unusual, and from the subtle to the monstrous. The circuit offers…Click on the title for more

Cosmodio Pet Yeti Fuzztortion + Bitcrusher

2024 UPDATE! The Best Distortion Pedals | A Buyer’s Guide

This regularly updated page gathers a list of what can be considered the best distortion pedals on the market according to a list of reputable online sources and reviews. Together with fuzz and overdrive, distortion stompboxes fall under what electric guitarists commonly refer to as the "dirt box" umbrella. If…Click on the title for more

2024 UPDATE! The Best Distortion Pedals | A Buyer’s Guide