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Eastwood BB-01 Manalishi Drive

One-sixth of a new line of pedals unveiled in early 2022 by the established guitar builder, the Eastwood BB-01 Manalishi Drive is a simple 3-knob take on the Tube Screamer overdrive circuit. Compared to the original, the Manalishi drive has a wider gain range, easily getting into distortion territory at high…Click on the title for more

Eastwood BB-01 Manalishi Drive

New Pedal: Wren and Cuff Garbage Face Jr

J Mascis is a genius multi-instrumentalist/singer-songwriter who, at his creative peak in the late '80s and early '90s, inspired a generation of young slackers with a couple of unforgettable noise-pop records under the Dinosaur Jr. moniker. The distorted guitar tone he came up with in tracks like Feel the Pain…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Wren and Cuff Garbage Face Jr

New Pedal: Vaderin Laser 1 Fuzz

The Vaderin Laser 1 is an uncompromising frequency multiplier fuzz that, to mention the Philly-based builder, "saturates your signal in wild overtones, vicious upper harmonic clang, and an often synth-like cacophony of frequencies." These apocalyptic effects are generated by a circuit that randomly folds the signal in an attempt to…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Vaderin Laser 1 Fuzz

Berry Pedals Bad Vibes

The Berry Pedals Bad Vibes is a hand-made Uni-Vibe clone featuring a small but noteworthy mod: you can switch from Vibrato to Chorus by stomping on the right footswitch (the original featured a push button). Other than that, it maintains the light bulb-based circuit and the three controls of the…Click on the title for more

Berry Pedals Bad Vibes

New Pedal: Eastwood BB-03 Blue Vibe

One-sixth of a new line of pedals unveiled in early 2022 by the established guitar builder, the Eastwood Black Box BB-03 Blue Vibe is a simple 3-knob take on Jimi Hendrix's favorite modulation effect. Like most pedals of this kind (including the original), the Blue Vibe has also a Chorus…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Eastwood BB-03 Blue Vibe

7 New Must-Have Pedals in 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRTxT-lZe6w We got our talented friend Devon Blue Whitaker to shoot this glorious pedal video inspired by our Best Pedal of 2021 article, please check it out, there will be more like it soon! Here's our interactive gallery of these seven beauties. Click on the title for more

7 New Must-Have Pedals in 2022

Cult Overdrive Circuits: Clark Gainster Clones, and the Hoochee-Mama

The Story of the Clark Gainster Clones and the Hoochee Mama The Clark Amplification Gainster and Browntone Hoochie Mama are two overdrive pedals that are rarely mentioned separately. This might be due to the fact that the latter, although inspired by the former, is still able to deliver something different…Click on the title for more

Cult Overdrive Circuits: Clark Gainster Clones, and the Hoochee-Mama

JCA Texas Flood Boost/Overdrive

The JCA Texas Flood is a high-quality boost/overdrive pedal hand-made in Germany that encapsulates the sound of Stevie Ray Vaughan - or, as some say, it's an "SRV in a box." The reference tone for this stompbox is obviously the guitarist's debut album reference in its name, considered by many…Click on the title for more

JCA Texas Flood Boost/Overdrive

Tone Cloud Tone Snifter Fuzz

Hand-wired in Melbourne, Australia, the Tone Cloud Tone Snifter is inspired by the VOX Tone Bender fuzz, the Italian version of the circuit with a distinctly different sound from the more popular British version. But it's a lot more than that. The vintage unit's two germanium transistors were replaced by…Click on the title for more

Tone Cloud Tone Snifter Fuzz

Glowfly Retroflect LoFi Tape Sim

The Glowfly Retroflect LoFi Tape Sim is a fun looking pedal that recreates analog cassette tape sounds, lofi textures and analog artifacts, with a Saturation knob delivering tape-style soft clipping on the high-frequencies, and a pitch modulation that's controlled directly by the input volume. The Wow knob adjusts modulation sensitivity,…Click on the title for more

Glowfly Retroflect LoFi Tape Sim

New Pedal: Pigtronix Emanator Analog Delay

Sometimes the resurfacing of a specific chip previously unavailable inspires pedal builders to release new stompboxes. In the case of the Pigtronix Emanator, it's an analog delay based on legendary high-voltage MN3005 BBD chips that were out of production since the mid-'80s. The high voltage allows this mini, limited edition analog…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Pigtronix Emanator Analog Delay

Flattley Nirvana Analog Delay

The Flattley Nirvana Analog Delay is a pedal built by hand by a family-run business based in Gloucestershire, England, with all processes and manufacturing assembly done within a 30-mile radius in Gloucestershire, with the aim to keep our carbon footprint as small as possible. Featuring top-notch components and, needless to…Click on the title for more

Flattley Nirvana Analog Delay