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New Pedals: TC Electronic Hall of Fame 2X4 Reverb
With the TC Electronic Hall of Fame 2×4 , Behringer is once again challenging competitors by offering a device with features similar to other products that sell for almost twice as much. The game has...
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SolidGoldFX introduces two new Fuzz prototypes: Communication Breakdown and...
This past weekend, Montreal’s SolidGoldFX unveiled two new prototypes at our Sonic Circuits’ Stompbox Exhibit – they are both fuzz pedals. The Yellow 76 Plus seems to be an evolution of their 76...
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Now Shipping: JAM Lucydreamer Overdrive
We had the chance to check out Jam Pedal’s new overdrive called Lucydreamer at our NAMM 2019 Stompbox Booth (see 60 Cycle Hum video at the bottom of this post). The pedal, which is now shipping,...
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1981 Inventions DRV Drive/Distortion
Born as a mod of the RAT distortion circuit, the DRV by Nashville based 1981 Inventions slowly “found” its own sound during the three years it took to finalize it. The first batch of the pedal sold...
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Maxon 40th Anniversary Keeley Modded OD808-40K
Venerable Japanese pedal builder Maxon, responsible for the very first Tube Screamers (company owner Nisshin Onpa designed and manufactured the TS-808/TS808 and TS9 for Ibanez from 1974 until 2002) is...
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New Pedal: Origin Effects RevivalDRIVE Compact
California’s Origin Effects, makers of the most beastly overdrive to ever walk the face of the earth (the RevivalDrive) had the sensible idea of creating a more contained version of that 12-knob...
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Seen at the BK SBE ’19: Birmingham Sounds FX twentyseventeen overdrive
Birmingham Sounds FX launched its first pedal at the Brooklyn Stompbox Exhibit 2019, the twentyseventeen overdrive. Designed to be a “wide range” overdrive and distortion, this is a “Swiss Army Knife”...
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Seen at the Montreal SBE: Dophix – Michelangelo Overdrive Plus
One of the best aspects of our Stompbox Exhibits is that they allow us to get acquainted with new and often “emerging” boutique pedal brands. At our recent Montreal event Sonic Circuit (co-organized...
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Strymon Volante Magnetic Echo Machine
Strymon, an effect builder that will be remembered for breaking the guitarists’ skepticism about digital technology applied to guitar pedals, just unveiled a new delay/looper pedal called Volante –...
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Episode #6 of the Knobs Documentary on the Chase Bliss Audio Blooper:...
Episode #6 of the Chase Bliss Audio Blooper video series opens with the announcement of a Kickstarter campaign to crowd-fund the final development of the pedal! More in the video below. Episode #5 of...
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New Pedals: KMA Audio Machines Logan Trascend Drive
German boutique pedal builder KMA Audio Machines has been making waves in the last couple of years with finely engineered stompboxes as complex and creative as the Horizont Phaser and as simple and...
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Yellowcake Psychotropia – sample/hold filter + glide
We first noticed the Yellowcake Psychotropia this past July at Summer NAMM 2019, and we are glad to see the first official videos of it. The device is presented as a “sample/hold filter,” but that...
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BOSS DD-200 Digital Delay
The first videos of the BOSS D-200 Digital Delay are surfacing and the feedback is very positive. Operating at 32-bit and 96 kHz sampling rate, this is effect belongs squarely to the next generation...
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Pettyjohn Electronics Gold MKII Overdrive
Pettyjohn Electronics has recently unveiled an updated version of their popular Plexy-style preamp/overdrive, the Gold MKII, currently on preorder. What’s really exciting about this new version, is...
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One Control Silver Bee Overdrive
Straight from the mind of the pedal whisperer Bjorn Juhl, comes the Silver Bee OD from Japan’s One Control. Bjorn has taken the reins of the popular Honey Bee OD and sculpted it into a...
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Gamechanger Audio Plasma Distortion
Gamechanger Audio‘s Plasma distortion turned a lot of heads and ears at NAMM 2018, and finally the first official video demos are arriving. The pedal uses a new method of achieving signal clipping:...
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Manufacturer Profile – Airis Effects
Handbuilt in Ontario, Canada, the pedals of Airis Effects have earned a reputation for their aggressive tone that offers as much versatility as volume. While the company’s effects are flexible enough...
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Neunaber Neuron Gain Intelligence
We covered the prototype of the Neunaber Neuron extensively in this post. The Neuron is the result of painstaking study of what makes real amplifiers and gain pedals sound good. It can dial in a...
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New Pedals: Spaceman Saturn VI Harmonic Boost
The stompboxes by Portland’s Spaceman Effects always have something special about them, and we are not surprised that their version of what’s argualby the least “special” of effects (a booster)...
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MXR Dookie Drive
The MXR Dookie Drive is an overdrive pedal celebrating the 25th anniversary of Green Day’s legendary album Dookie, and the band’s “dirty and punchy [guitar sound] with the perfect amount of...
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