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Bardic Audio Bootgazer Fuzz/Modulated Delay

If adding a longish delay to your fuzzed-out guitar tone triggers incommensurable pleasure, you owe it to yourself to check out this new pedal by Bardic Audio and Galvanize Designs: the Bootgazer. It offers the two effects in one box, with a routing order option one stomp away (center footswitch…Click on the title for more

Bardic Audio Bootgazer Fuzz/Modulated Delay

Shift Line Prism II Stereo Filter Pad

First of all, let us say that this new stereo version of the Prism by Russian builder Shift Line looks rad, and gorgeous-looking devices brighten our day. But that brightness fades in comparison to the blinding beam of creativity it might inspire in the adventurous/unconventional guitarist. The Prism is a…Click on the title for more

Shift Line Prism II Stereo Filter Pad

Wampler Gearbox Andy Wood Signature Overdrive/Distortion

The Wampler Gearbox Andy Wood Signature Overdrive is the result of the marriage of two existing and very popular gain pedals - the Tumnus overdrive and the Pinnacle distortion - and the tweaking Brian Wampler made to the resulting circuit to suit it to the ear of the multifaceted Knoxville-based…Click on the title for more

Wampler Gearbox Andy Wood Signature Overdrive/Distortion

Producing with Pedals: Sehat Effectors Moisture Fuzz and Masjidil Echo

Producing with Pedals is a series about using guitar pedals in creative applications when recording and mixing. Usually, I take a pedal and write a song with it, using the pedal on every instrument. In my most recent episode, I feature a builder from Indonesia who is making some of…Click on the title for more

Producing with Pedals: Sehat Effectors Moisture Fuzz and Masjidil Echo

Heather Brown Blessed Mother: The Fuzz Assumption

Just in time for Mother's Day, Reverb.com and Heather Brown Electronicals are giving YOU an excuse to buy YOURSELF a new pedal! We are sure your mother will be stoked about this!!! Silly jokes aside, the Blessed Mother: The Fuzz Assumption is a joint limited edition of a fuzzed-up version…Click on the title for more

Heather Brown Blessed Mother: The Fuzz Assumption

Colombo Audio Eruption Plexi Overdrive/Distortion

The death of Eddie Van Halen in October of 2020 has spurred a series of guitar gear releases dedicated to the influential musician. Italian Colombo Audio Electronics' way to pay tribute to the legend was to design a Plexi-style pedal inspired by the guitar tone in the first six Van…Click on the title for more

Colombo Audio Eruption Plexi Overdrive/Distortion

The Pedal Movie Exclusive: JHS Morning Glory Throwback (LTD Edition)

Reverb.com and JHS Pedals just announced a limited edition version of the Bluesbreaker-inspired JHS Morning Glory Overdrive (you can buy it here), a pedal so dear to Josh H. Scott that he dedicated an entire episode of the company's YouTube show to it (streaming below). The release is linked to…Click on the title for more

The Pedal Movie Exclusive: JHS Morning Glory Throwback (LTD Edition)

CeriaTone Horse Breaker Dual Overdrive

Ceriatone makes one of the best-regarded Klon Centaur clones (the Centura), and the Horse Breaker marries that same circuit with a Marshall Blues Breaker clone, for a dual overdrive match made in heaven. The two circuits have their own footswitches and can be played separately or together (a toggle switch…Click on the title for more

CeriaTone Horse Breaker Dual Overdrive

Best New Pedals | April 2021 Edition

At the beginning of each month we look back at the best releases of the previous 30-day period with the publication of a "Best New Pedals" article - welcome to the April edition! You can see the March 2021 piece here. The fourth month of 2021 wasn't particularly prolific as…Click on the title for more

Best New Pedals | April 2021 Edition

Reverb.com’s The Pedal Movie is Out!

Guitar pedals were kind to Reverb.com, and vice-versa. Founded in 2013, the online marketplace became almost overnight the place where stompbox lovers could research and trade new and used effects pedals. The sleek online portal looked like it was built for that very specific niche of the market featuring high-quality videos…Click on the title for more

Reverb.com’s The Pedal Movie is Out!

Electronic Audio Experiments 0xEAE Boost

Boston's Electronic Audio Experiments just came out with a striking-looking new pedal called 0xEAE Boost designed in collaboration with design collective Obstructures. Although it's presented as a booster, this device is more than just that, and definitely not a clean one: with its discrete op-amp gain stage pushed by a…Click on the title for more

Electronic Audio Experiments 0xEAE Boost

Foxpedal Vixen Overdrive

The evolution of Foxpedal's Foxtail overdrive, the Vixen is a very versatile pedal based around a 4148 diode for your traditional yet articulate overdrive sounds, and a Nanolog N3 (which utilizes “Quantum Tunneling Technology”) for some more innovative, smooth tones full of clarity. The two voicings can be selected through…Click on the title for more

Foxpedal Vixen Overdrive