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Tone Cloud Jaffa Fuzz

Tone Cloud Effects is an up-and-coming builder from Australia exclusively dedicated to fuzz pedals, and the Jaffa Fuzz is the company's take on the Fuzz Face circuit. This touch-responsive pedal utilizes four silicon transistors to ensure tonal stability and adds one gain stage to the traditional fuzz face circuit for…Click on the title for more

Tone Cloud Jaffa Fuzz

Win a Red Panda Context, a SurfyTrem and Hosa Cables [ENDED]

The giveaways linked to our Los Angeles Outdoor Pedal & Synth Expo aren't over quite yet! This week the potentially free awesomeness involves a Red Panda Context 2 Multi-Mode Reverb and a Surfy Industries SurfyTrem Tremolo, plus a bunch of cables from Hosa to connect your new pedals! Get to…Click on the title for more

Win a Red Panda Context, a SurfyTrem and Hosa Cables [ENDED]

Now Shipping: VS Audio Blackbird Overdrive

Notwithstanding its recent financial troubles and a past not exactly imbibed with rock'n'roll, Greece is emerging as one of the most prolific countries in the guitar pedal realm. VS Audio is one of the newest builders, joining the likes of Jam Pedals, Crazy Tube Circuits and Tsakalis Audio Works, all…Click on the title for more

Now Shipping: VS Audio Blackbird Overdrive

BSRI Audio TFZ Fuzz

The TFZ is a vintage transistor-based fuzz by Baltimore Sonic Research Institute (aka BSRI), a company whose name sounds like some kind of government-supported facility, but that's actually just one dude called David Gill who is into Doom Metal. Rather, it's more than a fuzz, since David wanted to create…Click on the title for more

BSRI Audio TFZ Fuzz

Best Bass Pedals in 2023: Compressor, EQ, Fuzz, Chorus + more

[lwptoc depth="4" hierarchical="0" numeration="decimalnested" title="TABLE OF CONTENTS (click to jump)" titleFontSize="125%" titleFontWeight="semibold" itemsFontSize="110%" skipHeadingLevel="h2,h4" skipHeadingText="A Buyer\'s Guide to the Best Bass Pedals|Related Delicious Audio Posts:"] Updated on 11.05.2021 While it's true that most of the stompbox-related fun is enjoyed by electric guitarists, there's still plenty of room for pedals specifically…Click on the title for more

Best Bass Pedals in 2023: Compressor, EQ, Fuzz, Chorus + more

Carl Martin Ottawa Optical Envelope Filter

Denmark's veteran boutique pedal builder Carl Martin released Ottawa, a 3-mode envelop filter powered by an optical circuit. A redesign of the company's previous auto-wah, the Ottawa offers deep control over the filters affected frequencies not only through the three-way filter toggle (High-Pass, By-Pass and Low Pass), but also through…Click on the title for more

Carl Martin Ottawa Optical Envelope Filter

Flattley Solaris Pro Fuzz

This rather gorgeous-looking high-end Big Muff-style fuzz with extra boost footswitch comes from Gloucester, UK's Flatley Pedals, and it's called Solaris Pro. The pedal shares the controls of its muse, but with a lot more gain added to the Sustain knob, so that the amount of distortion can be easily…Click on the title for more

Flattley Solaris Pro Fuzz

Win Hologram Microcosm, Modal Disruption + Hosa Cables! [ENDED]

Every now and then a pedal comes along that disrupts guitarists' minds (and finances). Well, to celebrate the return of our Los Angeles Synth & Pedal Expo (hosted this year in an outdoor environment), we are giving away TWO of them, the Hologram Microcosm (probably the most hyped new pedal right…Click on the title for more

Win Hologram Microcosm, Modal Disruption + Hosa Cables! [ENDED]

Jackson Audio Bloom V2 Compressor/EQ

In the last couple of years, innovation in the pedal realm has been mostly about fitting in a compact enclosure what in previous years would fit in larger cases. However, a handful of companies went beyond that goal, and Houston's Jackson Audio belongs to that shortlist. Their Bloom v2 can…Click on the title for more

Jackson Audio Bloom V2 Compressor/EQ

Win a Novation Circuit Tracks (LA Synth & Pedal Expo Promo) [ENDED]

Hello, knob-heads! To celebrate the upcoming, free, outdoors (!!!) Los Angeles Synth & Pedal Expo we are giving away this outstanding standalone groovebox from Novation, the Circuit Tracks, to the luckiest of our readers! With two refined polyphonic digital synth tracks, four drum tracks, creative FX and on-the-go capabilities, Circuit…Click on the title for more

Win a Novation Circuit Tracks (LA Synth & Pedal Expo Promo) [ENDED]

Kasleder FX Toxic Twins Dual Tweakable Overdrive

Those among our readers who enjoy highly configurable gain pedals should take a look at the Kasleder FX Toxic Twins, a dual overdrive from Hungary with two sets of internal DIP switches to fine-tune clipping and bass response. The Kasleder is based on an original circuit utilizing a combination of…Click on the title for more

Kasleder FX Toxic Twins Dual Tweakable Overdrive

Expandora Squared Overdrive/Distortion/Fuzz

The original Expandora pedal was a round, sonically multifaceted dirt box released in the mid-'90s by Japanese builder Bixonic. It's now being reissued and relaunched by a New Jersey-based company that's also offering a "squared" version of it, hosted in a compact orange enclosure. Although the original wasn't particularly successful,…Click on the title for more

Expandora Squared Overdrive/Distortion/Fuzz