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Pine Box Customs Motel Distortion

The Pine Box Customs Motel is a RAT-inspired circuit that aims at widening the palette of tones produced by that popular distortion pedal. It's also the first distortion pedal released by this Memphis-based company that mostly focuses on dirt boxes. The Motel's circuit features an internal voltage doubling circuit that…Click on the title for more

Pine Box Customs Motel Distortion

New Pedal: Catalinbread CB30 Vox-Style Overdrive

The latest pedal by Portland, Oregon's Catalinbread is the CB30, a simple Vox-AC30-style overdrive with Treble and Bass knobs. With this baby, it's all in that elusive "chimey" tones you get from saturating the circuit, so we'll let you hear it, without further ado, in the videos below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-YkbE-LbBc&t=46s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmOFX_dlnY…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Catalinbread CB30 Vox-Style Overdrive

New Pedal: Lefty Guitars Daily The Cannon

Designed by pedal videographer Eric Merrow as an all-in-one gain solution for any pedalboard, the Lefty Guitars Daily The Cannon is multi-gain stage overdrive featuring an extra boost with separate footswitch and controls. The amount of boost can be controlled through the orange knob and it's placed before the drive,…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Lefty Guitars Daily The Cannon

Win a Red Panda Context V2 Reverb through Effectopia 2020 (Ended)

Our Stompbox Exhibit is back in virtual format on November 1st under the Effectopia 2020 moniker (it's a free event, RSVP here!), and, with it, are a bunch of wonderful pedal giveaways! This week we give our readers the chance to take home a Red Panda Context V2, a Stereo…Click on the title for more

Win a Red Panda Context V2 Reverb through Effectopia 2020 (Ended)

Pyu Pyu Electronics Kongsberg Reverb + Fuzz

Pyu Pyu Electronics is an emerging pedal builder based in Oslo, Norway, mostly focused on designing creative pedals and mods. Their Kongsberg is a hybrid circuit featuring an ambient Reverb and a Fuzz, with a separate footswitch for each effect (the DRONN one is for the fuzz). Check out the…Click on the title for more

Pyu Pyu Electronics Kongsberg Reverb + Fuzz

New Pedals: NUX Steel Singer Drive

The most affordable Dumble-style pedal out there (street price is just under $50!), the NUX Steel Singer is an analog overdrive that recreates the tone of less popular of the two Dumble amps (the Steel String Singer) at a tiny fraction of the cost. Expect smooth high end and the…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: NUX Steel Singer Drive

Danelectro 3699 Fuzz

The 3699 Fuzz is a faithful recreation, and a tribute of the vintage FOXX Tone Machine of the 1970s ("3699" spells out "FOXX" on the telephone keypad, and that was the last 4 digits of the company phone number back in the day). The originals today sell for over $600,…Click on the title for more

Danelectro 3699 Fuzz

Win an Eventide Blackhole Reverb through Effectopia 2020! [ENDED]

Our Stompbox Exhibit is back in virtual format on November 1st under the Effectopia 2020 moniker (it's a free event, RSVP here!), and, with it, are a bunch of wonderful pedal giveaways! This week we give our readers the chance to take home an Eventide Blackhole, the new ambient reverb…Click on the title for more

Win an Eventide Blackhole Reverb through Effectopia 2020! [ENDED]

Loe Sounds SuperFuzz

Loe Sounds is a boutique pedal company run by two queer female artists based in upstate New York. The in-house designer is Aisha Loe, mostly known for the quirky, but beloved by many, Atari Fuzz and her knack for using recycled circuits and materials to build her company's one-of-a-kind stompboxes.…Click on the title for more

Loe Sounds SuperFuzz

New Pedals: Seamoon Funk Filter

Filters change your instrument's tone quite radically, and because of this, musicians who use them get very picky about them - just ask any synth enthusiast. When it comes to pedals, the filter niche is rather small and mostly confined to funk, a genre whose sound was forged in the…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Seamoon Funk Filter

Prodigal Sound Atropos Modulated Delay

Coming out of a boutique shop in Portland, Oregon, the Prodigal Sound Atropos is a modulated delay offering up to a second of delay time with Trails and Feedback knob. The modulation section gives the player a choice of three LFO waves (Square, Triangle and Random), with controls for Speed…Click on the title for more

Prodigal Sound Atropos Modulated Delay

Bardic Audio Oathbreaker

Bardic Audio Devices is an emerging pedal builder run by a young, Michigan-based developer called Tim Novak. The man is really into D&D, so we shouldn't be surprised to find references to the role game both in the name of his company and products ("Bardics" were Celtic minstrels). The Oathbreaker…Click on the title for more

Bardic Audio Oathbreaker