gear giveaway

Bogner Harlow V2 Boost/Compressor

California's Bogner has a top-notch reputation for their amplifiers, but their pedal offerings, although less popular, are noteworthy. The Harlow V2, for example, is a compressor/boost featuring a custom audio transformer created by legendary audio pioneer Mr. Rupert Neve. The controls are pretty straightforward, apart from "Bloom," which sets the…Click on the title for more

Bogner Harlow V2 Boost/Compressor

Dirty Haggard 386 Distortion

Based in Portland, Oregon, Dirty Haggard offers is a boutique builder offering an array of guitar pedals from the affordable to the mid-priced. The 386 is the company's most affordable product, a 3-knob distortion selling at $75. Based on a circuit using two LM386 power amp chips, the 386 is…Click on the title for more

Dirty Haggard 386 Distortion

OD808 MKIII Dual Drive

Russian pedal builder Analogworm just released Mk III of their OD808, a dual overdrive featuring a Tube Screamer-style OR transparent drive on the left side and - for the joy of Mr. Michael Fuller, who clones others but hates to have his pedals cloned - an OCD-type circuit on the…Click on the title for more

OD808 MKIII Dual Drive

Win a Carl Martin PlexiRanger Overdrive [ENDED]

Winter is coming, folks, ready to cope with it? For those among you who are plexible enough, we may have a momentary ray of hope that may help you transform your winter blues into... awesome, actual blues!?! (Or any other genre, for that matter). Here's a chance to win a Carl…Click on the title for more

Win a Carl Martin PlexiRanger Overdrive [ENDED]

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

Harley Benton Custom Line Thunder 99 50W Stereo Amp

Those of you looking for a compact, stereo (!!) pedal that can replace your amp head (!!!) should take a look at the Harley Benton Custom Line Thunder 99. This tiny thing delivers not one but two channels of 50 Watts of power at 4 Ohms via two 1/4” jack…Click on the title for more

Harley Benton Custom Line Thunder 99 50W Stereo Amp

Cooper FX Signal Path Selector & Exp Gen

If the word "utility" used next to the word "pedal" doesn't exactly fire your imagination, we'd argue that you need to broaden your sonic horizons. In recent years, the utility pedal niche has expanded to include some truly interesting devices, and no one can expect an imaginative builder like Cooper…Click on the title for more

Cooper FX Signal Path Selector & Exp Gen

API Audio TranZformer CMP Compressor

It's not unusual to find the words "studio-quality" associated with guitar pedals like reverbs or compressors. However, very few pedal builders have much experience building gear that's actually made for the studio. That's not the case for API Audio, a pro audio company that specializes in mixing consoles and channel…Click on the title for more

API Audio TranZformer CMP Compressor

New Pedal: Acorn Amplifiers TMA-1 Fuzz

Operating out of Atlanta, Georgia, Acorn Amplifiers crafts hand-made amps and pedals. The TMA-1 is, to date, their most involved foray into the world of fuzz, a four-stage transistor circuit that, quite uniquely, lets you select the clipping options for two of those stages (precisely, the second and third). The…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Acorn Amplifiers TMA-1 Fuzz

Win a Launchkey MK3 from Novation!! [ENDED}

Win a Launchkey MK3 from Novation!! The Launchkey MK3 is Novation‘s intuitive and fully integrated MIDI keyboard controller for making tracks in Ableton Live and with your hardware, giving you everything you need to create and play your music. To sign up for this giveaway, go HERE. --- And the Winner Is... SonicScoop…Click on the title for more

Win a Launchkey MK3 from Novation!! [ENDED}

Win an Eventide Tricerachorus and a Rude Tech 3MuF-14! [ENDED]

At a first glance, this may seem like a regular two-pedal giveaway, right? Technically, maybe, but tone-wise... ...if you consider that the Eventide Tricerachorus is a triple (stereo) chorus and the Rude Tech 3MuF-14 gives you access to three Russian Big Muff-style tones, then the numbers start adding up to…Click on the title for more

Win an Eventide Tricerachorus and a Rude Tech 3MuF-14! [ENDED]

New Pedal: REVV G8 Noise Gate Pedal

Canadian amp and pedal builder REVV just released their first non-gain pedal, although it definitely works to solve problems created by a high gain: the G8 noise gate. This is an extremely straightforward yet versatile three-knob circuit with Threshold, Hold and Release, where the Hold control fine-tunes the feel, ensuring…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: REVV G8 Noise Gate Pedal