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"Discover your own grey area with the Orion Effects Black and White"! The German boutique pedal maker mashes up an overdrive with a booster circuit into a nice-sounding if pricey new pedal.
The Chalky Box is a special limited edition Way Huge overdrive pedal that you can customise to look however you want - as long as you can wield a stick of chalk, that is.
This week's collection of free plug-ins includes two new releases by Analog Obsession and an experimental wavetable synthesizer. That's three new freeware plug-ins to keep you busy this Sunday!
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New in the Revolution series: The Joyo Baatsin R-11. Looking inconspicuous, the R-11 packs in 8 overdrives and distortions in one pedal - and all are generated using analog components.
If you're after a bargain on a quality overdrive pedal, you will not find a better deal than this: Lunastone's True Overdrive 2 is on sale at Thomann for only 39 Euros instead of 149!
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The Dual Drive pedal has two drive tones inspired by legendary RAT and Tubescreamer circuits. Magnetic Effects says asymmetrical clipping adds more even order harmonics while reducing compression.
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This year Thorpy FX recreates two highly sought after '90s Lovetone boutique pedals, with his new Field Marshal and Bunker effects. Hand built in the UK this brand just keeps getting better
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An independent JFET drive from the collaboration with the legendary Howard Davis (Deluxe Memory Man): the Beetronics Fatbee Overdrive. Sweet and thick like honey.
Possibly the weirdest pedal at Winter NAMM is the Rainger FX Mini Bar. A pedal that requires the user to add liquid into a plastic container to get your liquid analysed drive tone!
The new Maxon Apex808 overdrive took three years to develop and was created by Tube Screamer creator Susumu Tamura. Could this then be the Ultimate Tube Screamer pedal?
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A new Electro Harmonix Big Muff Pi Hardware Plugin has been spotted online, if true it offers analogue processing for your DAW of choice, it will also act as a standalone pedal and more.
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The new JHS signature Paul Gilbert PG-14 is a FET based overdrive pedal with a very unique set of control over the mod frequencies and can also stack perfectly with a well known budget overdrive pedal for ...
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MXR to reissue Paul Cochrane's Timmy as a mini pedal in 2020! While it'll probably have the cork sniffers of the pedal world up in arms, it could be one of the best budget drives of the year.
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The new Korg Nu:Tekt OD-S is a kit form overdrive pedal that requires no soldering. If you have ever wanted to make your own effects but haven't, now there are no excuses!
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EQD launches... yet another Sunn O))) Life Pedal limited edition! We have nearly lost count - is this number four? We are officially reaching the Life Pedal Marketing Saturation Limit.
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What a year it's been for amazing effect pedals! We sifted through all the releases in 2019 to come up with the best 5 (ok, 6) best guitar effect pedals we think you need to have on your pedalboard.
