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New Pedal: Tubesteader Magnezium Dual Tube Preamp

Voiced after the legendary Magnatone Super 59 M80 amp, the Tubesteader Magnezium is the latest dirt box by a Montreal-based small builder who specializes in gain pedals with real tubes in them. Equipped with a pair of 12X7 tubes operating at full 250VDC, this pedal offers two separate gain channels:…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Tubesteader Magnezium Dual Tube Preamp

New Pedal: Daredevil Aces Hybrid Amp

The Daredevil Aces Hybrid Amp is a pedal for those who like simple things: it's a two-gain stages preamp with just one knob and one on/off footswitch. Inspired by an RCA data sheet from the '50s, the Aces' circuit uses both Germanium and Silicon components to deliver a saturated tone…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Daredevil Aces Hybrid Amp

AMI Effects Rough Cast Boost

The AMI Effects Rough Cast is a (great-looking) boost pedal hailing from France that does both clean and colored in a rather unique way. At its core, the circuit sports an ultra-transparent studio quality Boost with up to 20db of clean gain that doesn't add any saturation to your tone,…Click on the title for more

AMI Effects Rough Cast Boost

Mask Audio Electronics NO Fuzz

The sonic answer to its sibling YES (a dynamic yet gnarly gated fuzz), the Mask Audio Electronics NO is a chaotic fuzz based on a circuit using cascaded octave generators. Both pedals are handmade in small batches. Equally grating on bass or guitar, the NO delivers octave-rich, thick fuzz. The…Click on the title for more

Mask Audio Electronics NO Fuzz

Pedal Update: Dunn Effects Pvrifier V2 LoFi Filter Drive

The Dunn Effects Pvrifier is a take on the circuit of the Ibanez LF7, a lo-fi analog filter overdrive pedal that has recently found a niche of fans among the stompbox collectors. A lot more flexible and useful than the original unit, the Pvrifier features a Hi- and Lo-pass filters…Click on the title for more

Pedal Update: Dunn Effects Pvrifier V2 LoFi Filter Drive

New Pedal: Flamma FC17 Analog Delay

The Flamma FC17 Analog Delay fills a space that had remained empty in the pedal roster of this young Chinese builder: the one of a BBD based analog delay. Super-competitively priced at around $50, the FC17 is a mini-delay that offers classic analog repeats ranging from 25ms to 600ms, adjustable…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Flamma FC17 Analog Delay

Mask Audio Electronics YES Fuzz

The Mask Audio Electronics YES. is a thunderous fuzz that delivers dynamic gated tones, something difficult to achieve since the gating effect removes dynamics. And it does so with just two knobs appropriately named "Loud" and "More" - and a toggle switch. An evolution of an older circuit based on…Click on the title for more

Mask Audio Electronics YES Fuzz

New Pedal: Spaceman Effects Equinox

The Spaceman Effects Equinox is here to remind us that a great-sounding EQ is an essential tool on any pedalboard. Even more so if it's a recreation of the most legendary studio EQ of all time: the vintage Pultec EQP-1a, currently selling for anywhere between $8k and $16k, with new…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Spaceman Effects Equinox

New Pedal: 3rd Power Love Drive

The 3rd Power Love Drive is an overdrive pedal built by the Nashville-based amp company owned and run by guitarist Dylana Nova Scott of San Francisco's '80s glam-metal band Vain. R.J. Ronquillo seems sincerely excited about it, describing it as "one the most amp-like overdrives / preamp pedals I've ever…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: 3rd Power Love Drive

New Pedal: Malaise Forever Iron Fistula Drive

Joining the numerous club of Plexi-style overdrives, the Malaise Forever Iron Fistula uses JFET transistor to emulate tube amp saturation, and introduces some interesting mods to the classic Marshall-inspired pedal circuit. One of these is an EQ section with an active bass control (Body) placed in the circuit just before…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Malaise Forever Iron Fistula Drive

BLAMMO! Electronics Total Garbage Fuzz

A device conceived for the truly devoted fuzz connoisseurs, the BLAMMO! Electronics Total Garbage Fuzz is a circuit inspired by an old stompbox that has surged to cult status: Tim Escobedo's Ugly Face. This is a gnarly fuzz with a synthy tone thanks to the added envelop filter and octave-down…Click on the title for more

BLAMMO! Electronics Total Garbage Fuzz

Kittycaster FX Tremdriver

The Kittycaster FX Tremdriver is a high headroom (and high-quality, selling at $399!) preamp + harmonic tremolo combo built by Jean Mastaler and her small Portland, OR-based team. The company offers another pedal with a similar layout and structure, called Groovy Wizard Fuzz Driver. With its combination of vintage all-discrete…Click on the title for more

Kittycaster FX Tremdriver