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New Pedals: Function F(x) The Third Rail Overdrive

After the successful launch of their first pedal, the Clusterfuzz, the Elk Grove Illinois stompbox manufacturer Function F(x) is back with their sophomore product, The Third Rail, the company’s first foray into overdrive, which provides a one stop shop for discerning crunch aficionados. The box features two distinct overdrive channels in one box, each…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Function F(x) The Third Rail Overdrive

Klon KTR Overdrive – Acid Dad’s favorite pedal

NYC's Acid Dad, elected as The Deli's Best Emerging Band of 2015 just a few months ago) boast an electric sound that welcomes psychedelia, garage rock, and post punk in constantly varying doses, and a rock'n'roll attitude that screams "NYC late '60s" (and at times "Manchester late '80s). From what we hear, a…Click on the title for more

Klon KTR Overdrive – Acid Dad’s favorite pedal

New Pedals: MXR EVH 5150 Overdrive

The 5150 amplifier, originally designed by Peavey, is well-known in the guitar and audio worlds as one of the best-sounding amps around, capable of delivering a very wide range of tones. MXR/Dunlop and guitar god Eddie Van Halen have had a successful partnership for years, and their latest signature pedal…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: MXR EVH 5150 Overdrive

MXR Il Torino Overdrive

MXR pedals have been among the best selling stompboxes for quite some time, and the brains behind the US brand - originally based in Rochester, NY, but now owned by California based Dunlop Manufacturing - must have thought that a little bit of Italian (sonic) flair might be something good…Click on the title for more

MXR Il Torino Overdrive

Browne Amplification Carbon X Dual Bluesbreaker

Pedal connoisseurs - in particular those deeply invested in the quest for the best overdriven tone - should be familiar with Kansas City's own Browne Amplification, a boutique builder of high-end dirt boxes. The Carbon, a Blues Breaker variant, was the pedal that put them on the map; the Carbon…Click on the title for more

Browne Amplification Carbon X Dual Bluesbreaker

Soldano SLO Pedal High Gain Drive

The trend of (stomp)boxing guitar amps has been gaining momentum since the turn of the decade, and the Soldano SLO Pedal is the latest release in this direction, encapsulating the sound of one of the most sought-after (and expensive) modern high-gain amps. Based on a cascading-gain-stage circuit, the SLO (as…Click on the title for more

Soldano SLO Pedal High Gain Drive

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

One Control Honey Bee OD 4K Mini Standard

The Honey Bee OD 4K Mini Standard is the latest interaction - the first one in mini version - of this popular low-gain overdrive circuit by designer Bjorn Juhl (of Mad Professor fame), celebrating its twentieth anniversary. This is, in its essence, an amp-in-a-box recreating the warm and syrupy tone…Click on the title for more

One Control Honey Bee OD 4K Mini Standard

Acorn Amps Solid State

Peavey's solid-state amps have been subject to many sarcastic jokes by tube amps snobs, little matters that they were the sonic centerpiece of the groundbreaking power rock sound of bands like Pixies and Queens of the Stone Age. Acorn Amps Solid State is here to fix this with a pedal…Click on the title for more

Acorn Amps Solid State

All About the Klon Centaur

All About the Klon Centaur Professional Overdrive It seems as though we are always on the search for the ultimate overdriven tone as guitarists. Sometimes we may find it in a particular tube amp, others may dig a particular pedal, and sometimes there emerges an indisputable hero. The Klon…Click on the title for more

All About the Klon Centaur

Red Panda Bitmap 2 Stereo Bitcrusher

Among the (not easy to navigate) content of Believe in Music 2021, we somehow missed that Detroit's experimental pedal maker Red Panda had released version 2 of their Bitmap, a Stereo bit crusher with fractional bit reduction and sample rate modulation. The new version features one extra footswitch, an entirely…Click on the title for more

Red Panda Bitmap 2 Stereo Bitcrusher

Browne Amplification Gritador

The Browne Amplification Gritador is a take on the Tube Screamer overdrive by a Kansas City-based company that was able to earn the trust of tone connoisseurs thanks to a series of simple but great-sounding devices inspired by classic circuits - the Protein above them all. The clue is in…Click on the title for more

Browne Amplification Gritador