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Based in Montreal (the Canadian city hosting this weekend's Stompbox Exhibit!) Ground Control Audio is a small boutique pedal manufacturer that is getting more and more attention for its quality, hand made effects, so far exclusively focused on gain related designs: the company is currently offering three pedals tackling boost, overdrive and…Click on the title for more

Pedal Manufacturer Profile: Ground Control Audio

Black Cat Monster K-Fuzz

The Kay Fuzztone was a quirky, cheap looking, treadle-based fuzz pedal from the 60’s. It sounded quite unique though, and Black Cat pedals has ushered this idea into the modern era (and developed it further) with their Monster-K, an octave fuzz that is capable of complete sonic mayhem. The pedal's first…Click on the title for more

Black Cat Monster K-Fuzz

Walrus Audio Monument Harmonic Tap Tremolo (demo)

Living Room Gear demo of the Walrus Audio Monument Harmonic Tap Tremolo! "Inspired by the beautifully jagged, red-sand desert landscape of Monument Valley, the Monument Tremolo is both a harmonic, and standard tremolo that produces a rich, luscious, warm pulsating modulation capable of peaks and valleys as smooth or as jagged…Click on the title for more

Walrus Audio Monument Harmonic Tap Tremolo (demo)

Fire Custom Carpe Diem

Fire Custom Shop is a Brazilian boutique manufacturer we were not too familiar with - even though they have already released 16 pedals of all kinds, including a wah! Check out below the recent demo by Shnobel of their hand made 'Carpe Diem' - a plexi style stompbox. By the way, if you…Click on the title for more

Fire Custom Carpe Diem

Rainger FX Deep Space Pulsar – demo video by Knobs

We wrote about this crazy baby (Rainger FX Deep Space Pulsar) a few weeks ago, can't miss the Knobs video of it! In a few words, it recreates the effect employed by mixing engineers knows as "ducking." It's a little like a trigger controlled tremolo, check it out. https://www.youtube.com/embed/6pJPl__SMqMClick on the title for more

Rainger FX Deep Space Pulsar – demo video by Knobs

New Pedals: Caroline’s Shigeharu Octave Up Fuzz

Based in Columbia, South Carolina, Caroline Guitar Company is not exactly a new face in the stompbox realm (they were founded in 2010), but offers products that have the "freshness" (of ideas and execution) of a startup, combined with the quality and sturdiness of a veteran in the field. One…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Caroline’s Shigeharu Octave Up Fuzz

By Living Room Gear: Hiero Effects Heretic Fuzz

We love it when we get to know a new stompbox manufacturer through a YouTube demo of one of their pedals! No information can be found about the company (at least not written in English - the company appears to be Russian) but Hiero Effects' specializes in gain pedals, with an…Click on the title for more

By Living Room Gear: Hiero Effects Heretic Fuzz

Pedal demos: Dwarfcraft Devices’ Super Wizard (by Knobs)

Here's a spanking new video by Knobs about the Dwarfcraft Devices' new Super Wizard, described by the manufacturer as "a behemoth of pitch shifting, glitching, and lo-fi echo delights!" It's sample based pitch shifting identical to the one found in their Wizard of Pitch," but with the added functionality of the…Click on the title for more

Pedal demos: Dwarfcraft Devices’ Super Wizard (by Knobs)

James Supercave’s favorite pedal and synth

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James Supercave’s favorite pedal and synth

Pedal to the Metal: Keeley Filaments

New releases by Keeley Electronics always tickle the wallet of many pedal aficionados. We are detecting an above average amount of buzz for the company's new high gain distortion that's about to drop in stores, called Filaments, maybe because the stompbox in question doesn't have one, nor two, but THREE stages of gain, which,…Click on the title for more

Pedal to the Metal: Keeley Filaments

Tone Report Demo for DigiTech FreqOut

There was a lot of buzz about the DigiTech FreqOut at NAMM 2017, since it promised natural sounding feedback at any level. Does it keep its promise? Judge for yourself from the video below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puXTs6zclT4Click on the title for more

Tone Report Demo for DigiTech FreqOut

Chase Bliss Audio Brothers demo by Knobs

The pedal demos by Knobs are unmissable, here's the one for the new Chase Bliss Audio dual distortion, named Brothers. We highlighted it a few weeks ago as a "Best of NAMM 2017" pedal here and had the pleasure of seeing it/hearing it at our Austin Stompbox Exhibit a few weeks ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7jn_hEd-FIClick on the title for more

Chase Bliss Audio Brothers demo by Knobs