Updated Oct. 6, 2022 | by Paolo De Gregorio

Pedal Builders at the 2022 Brooklyn Stompbox Exhibit

In this blog, the lion’s share of attention goes to major pedal builders that are able to release (and promote) several new pedals every year.

However, we always do our best to highlight cool pedals by smaller boutique builders, and this weekend’s free Brooklyn Synth & Pedal Expo (aka Stompbox Exhibit with synths)  is a great opportunity to bring to our readers’ attention some companies that will be participating in that event.

If you live in or around NYC, you’ll be able to try these and more pedals at the Brooklyn show. If you are based somewhere else, you can still check out the videos by clicking (or tapping twice) on the images below.

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Analog Alien Rumble Seat
A three-in-one pedal with the Bucket Seat overdrive at the beginning of the chain (which nails the squishy compressed sound of a great late '60s Plexi) followed by a delay with controls for Time, Repeats and Mix and a spring-style reverb, each with its dedicated footswitch.
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Aviate Multiverse
$TBA | a multi-fx pedal, tha allows developers to create their own effects through a proprietary software and add them to a growing library. Any parameter can be assigned to any knob through the Audio Designer software.
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Emma Navigator Delay
$259 - A lush sounding tap-tempo delay with modulation. The unique Second knob acts as a mix control between the main repeats and the “beat-split delay repeats,” i.e. the repeats that fall in between the main delay’s ones and whose timing is controlled by the Subdivision toggle switch.
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Fish Circuits Model One
$186 | A versatile overdrive that. at lower gain settings, will give you dynamic and touch-sensitive amp-like breakup tones, while when cranked will deliver anything up to fuzzstorted sounds, with loads of sustain and depth.
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Heather Brown The Fuzz Assumption
a limited edition of a fuzzed-up version of the New Jersey builder’s Blessed Mother overdrive. It's a super versatile overdrive/boost pedal, made with a unique blend of both silicon and germanium diodes with a "Hyperduliator” control, which functions as a fuzz/drive blend control..
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Gear Ant YellowJacket
$225 | it stacks two distortion circuits loosely based on the 1978 MXR Distortion plus (right) and the 1977 DOD 250 grey box (left), one with a warmer tone thanks to its Germanium diodes, the other one with more crunch through its Silicon diodes. When both sides are on, the DOD side’s volume acts as a master volume. Two inside trim pots allow an extra 20db of clean boost for each side.
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Nightowl Parabellum Drive
$295 | A tube preamp with with two parallel germanium distortion circuits designed by Dunwich Amps. One amplifies the high mids and highs with hard clipping characteristics, the other is focused on low mids and lows with soft clipping. The combined output is then sent to a three band EQ. It delivers huge low end, musical mids, and cutting treble.
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Poison Noises The Crook Poison Noises The Crook V3
$99 | Highlighted by the JHS show as one of the best new guitar pedals of 2021, this is a $99 dollar Mosfet overdrive with dual diode mode accessible via the Goods toggle switch: stock Mosfet and LED-based, which opens up the sound quite a bit.
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Sound Project siva i'm sorry if I've burned you down
~$200 | A Japanese distortion pedal with 3 band EQ and wide-range gain and Volume control by Chinese guitarist Misaki Ohmura of death metal band "Guardian of the Night." It provides from heavy to insane saturated sound but also a mild crunch if necessary.
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Steel Panther The Butthole Burner
$199 | Released under a by the LA-based comedic glam metal band Steel Panther, this is a Marshall-style distortion pedal with bass and treble control plus a toggle that delivers high and low gain setting voices.
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Summer School Electronics Gus Drive
$149 | A modded version of the classic DOD 250 hard clipping overdrive that rolls off the frequencies as the gain is increased. The Bark knob sets the volume while Howl is the gain control.
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Screwed Circuitz Irvine's Fuzz
$289 | an aggressive, creative lo-fi fuzz with a wide tone range and endless sustain. A second footswitch (Wobble) adds, before the fuzz circuit, a square tremolo/stutter modulation whose speed can be controlled through the Wobble knob. The fuzz sound is controlled by the classic Volume, Disto and Tone knobs, providing a wide palette of fuzz possibilities.
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TWA Triskelion 3
$229 | a midrange booster with adjustable gain and low cut switch based on the vintage Systech Harmonic Energizer used by the likes of Frank Zappa, Greg Lake, Joe Walsh and other 70’s icons. Acting as a cocked wah pedal with an adjustable peak and a ton of gain, it can push different frequencies with a variable bell curve, just like a parametric mic EQ with adjustable Q.
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Hope to see you this weekend at the show!

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