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New Pedal: Tampco All-Bender Fuzz

Hailing out of Palaiseau, France, the Tampco All-Bender is a multi-voiced Tone Bender-style fuzz made by a company set to reinstate the reputation of solid-state circuitry. The circuit of this effect is organized in a rather peculiar way, with a rotary knob on the bottom right selecting between four voicings…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Tampco All-Bender Fuzz

AC Noises Ama V2 Reverb + Bit Crusher

The AC Noises Ama V2 is an ambient reverb followed by a switchable Bitcrusher (Crush toggle) and a modulation section (OSC knob). The Reverb knob balances both the amount of reverb and the length of the decay. The bit crusher gets things grainy and noisy and features knobs for Resolution…Click on the title for more

AC Noises Ama V2 Reverb + Bit Crusher

Dogman Devices Go Fly A Kite Delay

Dogman Devices is the pedal project of Ohio's post-rock guitarist Lance Giles, and the Go Fly A Kite is his company's take on the 3-knob "analog-voiced" delay - which means that it's actually digital, but made to sound analog. The circuit of this pedal is taken from the delay section…Click on the title for more

Dogman Devices Go Fly A Kite Delay

Vntage Tone Bifurcator Dual Overdrive

Vntage Tone (yes, Vntage doesn't have an "i") is a boutique pedal builder out of Mexico, and the Bifurcator Dual Overdrive is their dual overdrive comprising two of their drive circuits in parallel: the Klon-style Prometheus and the VT 4558 Screamer. The Klon-style side (right channel) adds a Body control…Click on the title for more

Vntage Tone Bifurcator Dual Overdrive

Reeves Electro Leo Overdrive

Owned and operated by Marcus Reeves, UK's Reeves Electro builds point-to-point pedals like no other builder does. Because of the limited supply of pedals that can be built this way, Marcus opens his shop for orders only once in a while, announcing the date in advance, and placing orders in…Click on the title for more

Reeves Electro Leo Overdrive

Professor Pedalz Schock Rock Ocean Man Chorus

The Professor Pedalz Schock Rock Ocean Man is a limited edition, creative chorus with a couple of tricks up its sleeve. One of its three modes blends in a polyphonic octave-down to the chorus, while the other two modes (Tide and Wash) open up a world of modulation effects between…Click on the title for more

Professor Pedalz Schock Rock Ocean Man Chorus

The Best Guitar Pedals of 2021 | Aggregate List, New Releases Only

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRTxT-lZe6w #1 Old Blood Noise Sunlight #2 JHS Packrat #3 Strymon Zelzah #4 Benson Germanium Fuzz #5 Alexander Pedals Syntax Error 2 #6 Walrus Audio Polychrome #7 EarthQuaker Devices Astral Destiny --- You may think that all “best of” lists are a matter of taste… Well, if you do, we…Click on the title for more

The Best Guitar Pedals of 2021 | Aggregate List, New Releases Only

Vanilla Sundae English Toffee Iscream

Based out of Boise, Idaho, Vanilla Sundae Pedals focuses on hand-made compact dirt boxes with names (and colors) borrowed by ice cream classics. The English Toffee Iscream is their take on the classic dual op-amp circuits of the late '70s - early '80s, read Tube Screamer 808. While this pedal…Click on the title for more

Vanilla Sundae English Toffee Iscream

Demiurge Instruments Blackstone Phaser

There's very little information about this intense phaser pedal by Demiurge Instruments called Blackstone Phaser. Apparently, it's an evolution of an obscure Blackout Effectors dual phaser that adds an extra rate setting - the two speeds can be switched through the Rate knob. Each Rate knob has its own "Range"…Click on the title for more

Demiurge Instruments Blackstone Phaser

New Pedal: Anasounds Feed Me Mk3 Fuzz

French builder Anasounds unveiled a new version of their Fuzz Face evolution, the Feed Me Fuzz Mk3. Embedded in the company's new FX Teacher Project, this effect is built in a way that allows the user to easily apply mods to the circuit through the addition of terminal blocks and/or…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Anasounds Feed Me Mk3 Fuzz

BSRI Audio Hydrazine Fuzz

The BSRI Audio Hydrazine is a modern take on the Harmonic Percolator fuzz circuit by an emerging Baltimore-based builder (BSRI stands for Baltimore Sonic Research Institute, but it's actually a one-person company). The Hydrazine employs NOS germanium and silicon transistors and germanium diodes found in the vintage unit, but through…Click on the title for more

BSRI Audio Hydrazine Fuzz

Best New Pedals of 2022 | January Edition

Hey, you didn't miss our Year-End Best Pedals of 2021 Aggregate List, did you? This article you are reading is about the best pedals released in January 2022. The first month of the year was unusually busy: three new lines were announced by two established brands and one Danish newcomer,…Click on the title for more

Best New Pedals of 2022 | January Edition