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Valco IMP Boost

Like the pedals in the company's KGB series, the Valco IMP Boost leverages a Variable Impedance Selector to alter the feel and response of your entire signal chain - or not if used as a simple boost pedal! Compatible with both line-out and instrument-out levels, the IMP Boost will soften…Click on the title for more

Valco IMP Boost

Cunningham Amps Dual Range Fuzz

The Cunningham Amps Dual Range Fuzz is a high-end, hand-wired Tone Bender-inspired circuit made in New Zealand. The circuit is based on the MK 1.6 of the venerable vintage fuzz, but the clipping transistor diode is customizable with these options, each hand selected and tested: Germanium (premium select NOS devices)…Click on the title for more

Cunningham Amps Dual Range Fuzz

Source Audio True Spring Reverb

While working on their dual processor, "do-it-all" reverb pedal Ventris, Massachusetts' builder Source Audio put a lot of effort into creating a digital spring reverb that sounded as good and as natural as the ones generated by spring coils found in vintage amps. So much so that, in the Ventris, the…Click on the title for more

Source Audio True Spring Reverb

Anasounds Tape Preamp

Hailing from France, the Anasounds Tape Preamp is a simple 2-knob + 1 toggle device with a wide sonic range, inspired by the preamp stage found in vintage tape echoes like the Echoplex, which imparted a particularly pleasing color to the signal, even when the echo effect was off. The…Click on the title for more

Anasounds Tape Preamp

JPTR FX Katastrophe Octave Up Distortion

German buitique pedal builder JPTR FX likes to make its devices big and noisy and also original, and the Katastrophe finds its originality angle in being an octave overdrive/distortion (as opposed to an octave fuzz). This is a pedal that allows you to radically tweak your tone through two gain…Click on the title for more

JPTR FX Katastrophe Octave Up Distortion

New Pedal: Beautiful Noise Exploder Distortion + White Noise

Handmade in Newcastle, Australia, the Beautiful Noise Exploder is a distortion pedal for the heavy yet tweaking-inclined guitarist, with a couple of interesting twists. Besides the expected (white) Gain and Master knob and a 3-way EQ section with (smaller black) Low Mid, and Hi controls, the Exploder offers a 3-way…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Beautiful Noise Exploder Distortion + White Noise

Funny Little Boxes 1991 “Pearl Jam” Distortion

The dude at the Let's Play All YouTube Channel is very much into the guitar sound of the '90s, and some time in the first half of 2021 he asked a friend at Funny Little Boxes (a small UK pedal builders) if he could create a pedal that reproduced the…Click on the title for more

Funny Little Boxes 1991 “Pearl Jam” Distortion

ProCo RAT2 Distortion

The ProCo RAT2 distortion pedal is an update on a classic from the early 1980s. With an appearance similar to the footswitch of a Marshal Amplifier, the pedal’s sound is reminiscent of the dirty channel on those British tube amps. However, Rat2 also features a thinner crunch characterized by solid…Click on the title for more

ProCo RAT2 Distortion

Daddy Daughter My Little Klony

The Daddy Daughter My Little Klony is the latest addition to the ever-expanding family of Klon Clones (aka, "klones"). This particular variant on the most hyped overdrive circuit in the history of pedals does not attempt to improve or expand the sound of the original but, like several others, simply…Click on the title for more

Daddy Daughter My Little Klony

MXR has been releasing a string of well-received overdrive pedals in the last couple of years, and the FOD Drive shows a continued interest in continuing this trend. The company presents this pedal as a dual mode overdrive modeled after "a pair of heavily customized guitar amplifiers of legendary make…Click on the title for more

MXR FOD Drive

Pedal Line: Catalinbread Elements

The latest trend among boutique builders seems to be to release... lines of pedals, a bunch at a time! Following (probably) JHS's lead, the Catalinbread Elements is a new line of rather inexpensive yet hand-made one-knob pedals comprising - for now - three devices: Fuzz, Distortion and Overdrive. While we'll…Click on the title for more

Pedal Line: Catalinbread Elements

Win 5 Pedals & 3 Accessories with the Brooklyn Pedal & Synth Expo! [ended]

The pedal giveaway fever reaches its full peak this week, thanks to this radical giveaway link to our FREE Brooklyn Pedal & Synth Expo! Check out the list of prizes, adding up to over $1,500, in strict REVERSED alphabetical order!! Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 3 TWA Triskellion 3.0 PRS Guitar…Click on the title for more

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