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LPD Pedals OFFSET Delay

Recently LPD Pedals, a boutique builder that made its name in the Plexi overdrive ring, has been announcing and releasing a lot of new, streamlined, high-quality non-gain pedals, and the OFFSET is the company's take on the 4-knob digital delay with Tap Tempo. The controls are exactly what you may…Click on the title for more

LPD Pedals OFFSET Delay

Fowl Sounds Backstabber 2.0 Distortion

The Fowl Sounds Backstabber 2.0 is a RAT-style distortion pedal designed for bass but that also works well with drop-tuned and baritone guitars. It employs a more modern circuit to deliver tighter and more responsive tones and a series of filters to improve the low-end. This is basically a two-channel…Click on the title for more

Fowl Sounds Backstabber 2.0 Distortion

Victory The Kraken V4 Preamp Pedal

Those in need of a helluva portable, two-channel tube preamp for heavy tones might have found what they were looking for in the Victory Amplification The Kraken V4, a device developed in collaboration with UK's one and only Rabea Massaad and created with heavy, progressive and extended-range overdrive tones in…Click on the title for more

Victory The Kraken V4 Preamp Pedal

LPD Pedals Seventy4 Deluxe Distortion

The LPD' Seventy4 is the two channel version of (one of) the company's flagship Plexi overdrive, an in-the-box recreation of the full distortion delivered by Marshall Plexi and Master Volume amps from the mid to late '70. The two channels are not identical, with the Red one being very similar…Click on the title for more

LPD Pedals Seventy4 Deluxe Distortion

Vertex Steel String Supreme, D-Style Drive

D-Style overdrives - i.e. pedals recreating the tone of the legendary Dumble amps - are becoming so looked after that their buzz is currently getting very close to Klon Centaur levels. While several pedal builders focused their cloning "laser" on the most famous Dumble amp - the Overdrive Special -…Click on the title for more

Vertex Steel String Supreme, D-Style Drive

Vaderin Pedals HP-X Harmonic Percolator-style Fuzz

Estimators of the vintage Harmonic Percolator now have a new option to get that venerable fuzz sound in their sonic arsenal: the Vaderin Pedals HP-X. Deceptively simple, this pedal offers the traditional two controls of the original plus a 3-way clipping switch. However, the two knobs (Harmonics/input and Balance/output) have…Click on the title for more

Vaderin Pedals HP-X Harmonic Percolator-style Fuzz

TC Electronic ZEUS Drive

Music Tribes' TC Electronic just unveiled another pedal from their new series of affordable mini-stompboxes, the ZEUS Drive, which, from the sound of it, seems to be at least in part intended to deliver Klon-style gain goodness at a decimal fraction of the cost. It's presented as a dynamic and…Click on the title for more

TC Electronic ZEUS Drive

Stone Deaf FX Warp Drive

Since its inception in 2010, Manchester, UK based Stone Deaf FX has been able to stand out from the pack of new stompbox manufacturers by offering effects at once quirky looking, edgy sounding and overall inspiring. That this company belongs to the "forward-thinking" segment of the pedal manufacturing field is clearly stated…Click on the title for more

Stone Deaf FX Warp Drive

Cornerstone Gladio SC

The original Cornestone Gladio, a two-channel Dumble-Style overdrive pedal that quite literally took the electric guitar community by storm in 2020, placed in the top 10 of the most searched pedals in our blog. The Italian company started 2021 by unveiling a single channel version of that same pedal, the…Click on the title for more

Cornerstone Gladio SC

Wrought Iron Effects H-1 Germanium Carrier Rocket Fuzz

Lovers of crazy fuzz pedals may want to pay attention to this classy-looking fuzz by Wrought Iron Effects, named H-1 Germanium Carrier Rocket and inspired by the soviet moon rocket that exploded 100 meters off the launch pad, "causing one of the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions in human history." This,…Click on the title for more

Wrought Iron Effects H-1 Germanium Carrier Rocket Fuzz

Ground Control Audio Locust Fuzz

We covered Montreal's Ground Control Audio back in 2017 in this manufacturer profile, but the company has been adding several new pedals since then. However, the Locust is one of the builder's earliest designs. This fuzz pushes discrete silicon amplification into loud and sluggish distortion territory. The two mid-notch depth…Click on the title for more

Ground Control Audio Locust Fuzz

Retroactive Pedals Dot Chaser Cassette-Style Echo with Modulation

The PT2399 chip is found in a lot of modulated delay pedals inspired by old tape machines - you can find a list of the most popular in this section about the Best Creative PT2399-Based Echo Pedals. Nashville's Retroactive Pedals has an intriguing stompbox that fits this profile called Dot…Click on the title for more

Retroactive Pedals Dot Chaser Cassette-Style Echo with Modulation