5 Tube Preamp Pedals

The preamp section of your amp is where the magic happens: it shapes your tone and can add gain or overdrive before sending that polished, finished sound off to the

Who’s the BOSS? 5 Iconic Stompboxes from an Effects Giant

If the ever-growing number of small boutique pedal makers these days are microbreweries, BOSS is Coors. But no matter how much some tone snobs may love to talk down the

Best Amps in a Box

The iconic tube amps of yesteryear—Vox, Marshall, Fender—each had their own unique tonal fingerprints that shaped the sounds of their players. The Beatles wouldn’t be the same without their Vox

5 Great Metal Pedals For High-Gain Mayhem

Perhaps nothing fundamentally alters your sound as dramatically as the tight crunch of a hard-clipped heavy metal sound. The sound of heavy metal music has changed a lot since Steppenwolf

Screamin’ Deals: Eight Clones Of A Classic Overdrive

Perhaps no other effects pedal is as widespread, reissued, cloned, and copied as the Ibanez TS-series Tube Screamer. If you’ve owned more than a handful of pedals in your life,

Darkglass Electronics has unveiled a limited-edition custom art version of its Microtubes B7K Ultra V2 called “The Squid,” sporting exclusive artwork by Ignacio Bazan Lazcano. The custom art is evocative

Fender has announced four new effects stompboxes—the Tread Light Wah, the Tread Light Volume/Expression, the Acoustic Preverb, and the Trapper Bass Distortion—as part of its new product lineup for 2020. 

Knuckle Puck has introduced the 20/20 Overdrive, designed alongside Compendium Engineering’s Mike Pappalardo. Named after their upcoming album, the 20/20 Overdrive is touted as “a transparent overdrive and gain staging

Sitek Guitar Electronics has teamed up with guitarist Joss Allen to launch its first dual pedal, the Freya Overdrive/Boost. Designed around Joss’s style and technique, the Freya Overdrive/Boost is a

Way Huge has crammed the Green Rhino Overdrive’s well-loved arsenal of gritty, gnarly overdrive tones into the super pedalboard-friendly Green Rhino MkV. While it is called the “smallest of the

Famous for his incredibly rhythmic playing style, Cory Wong has become the latest guitarist to get a signature Neural DSP Archetype plugin.  “Cory’s uncompromising standards and borderline unrealistic expectations for

After 13 marvelous years of device-building, Dwarfcraft Devices has announced that it is ceasing operations with a special final run of Eau Claire Thunder fuzz pedals, crafted alongside Japanese experimental

Old Blood Noise Endeavors has unleashed the Fault V2 overdrive/distortion stompbox, which boasts more extensive EQ controls, gain range and clipping options. “Tweaking the platform of our Fault overdrive/distortion, we’ve

Korora Audio has unveiled the Merlo—a unique harmonic tremolo boasting an extensive palette of tone-shaping options, tap-tempo rate control, and LFO shapes. Similar to traditional harmonic tremolos, the Merlo changes

Wren and Cuff has partnered with bonafide guitar legend J Mascis for the creation of the Garbage Face fuzz stompbox.  The Garbage Face recreates the Dinosaur Jr frontman’s main 1970s

Shortly after unveiling six new pedals at last January’s Winter NAMM show, leading guitar manufacturer Fender has again added six more entries in its ever-expanding line of effects pedals during

Award-winning pedal manufacturer Mad Professor Amplification is taking advantage of the coronavirus downtime to launch a limited-edition modded variant of its Ruby Red Booster. Since its manufacturing facility has not

Wampler has loaded 11 custom-built and -designed modulations into the new Terraform stompbox, which “reshapes the landscape of traditional modulation.” The mods on tap—Dimension, Chorus, Auto-Wah, Tremolo, Harmonic Tremolo, Envelope

UK pedal maker ThorpyFX has introduced a new stompbox called the Heavy Water, which houses both clean and dirty boosts. ThorpyFX has devised the Heavy Water Dual High Headroom boost

Having been launched in gold, then in silver, and selling like hotcakes, EarthQuaker Devices’ cult Life Pedal is getting a broader release in a smaller chassis. It is one of