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Audio Kitchen finally releases its Moof Filter - a killer take on the Mutronics Mutator, featuring equally rarefied parts

All of us who attended Doug Tolley’s 4th Witney Pedal Party event last November witnessed the final prototype of the then code-named ’Mu-Filter’ - which has mow picked up the ’Moof’ moniker! That ...
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Hagerman's Mini Pentode Tube-Powered Tubifier Buffer Pedal is an essential Tone Enhancer for all Digital and Solid-State Rigs

Boss and Strymon have for a long time included a JFET Input Stage to enhance the output of their digital pedals. The JFET warms up the signal and opens it up a little more - adding a touch more colour ...
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9 of the Best TC Electronic Pedals

This article was of course inspired by Josh ’JHS’ Scott’s recent YouTube video on his own favourite TC Electronic pedals (see Honorable Mentions below). We are funnily enough largely in agreement on ...
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In honour of Howard Alexander Dumble's Legacy - 18 of the best Dumble ODS Style Compact Overdrive Pedals

I had been meaning to do this exercise for quite some time - and have had a number of readers chasing me up about it - since my last Dumble Style Pedal overview was way back in February of 2019, and ...
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A Brief Hobbyist Primer on BBD's - Bucket Brigade Devices

A Bucket Brigade Device (BBD) is an analog electronic circuit (Integrated Circuit Chip) that delays an audio signal by using a series of capacitors to ’hold’ and ’pass’ tiny samples of the signal, ...
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EarthQuaker Devices' Sunn O))) HalfLife Fer KGR Harmony Collaboration sells out in under 100 minutes

This is the second time EQD has collaborated with KGR Harmony’s Japanese Iron Foundry - famous for its relief-design wrought-iron / cast-iron enclosures. And here we get the most compact variant of ...
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Old Blood Noise Endeavors further enhances its Beam Splitter Triple Tracker Overdrive / Distortion, now in improved V2 Editions - Shadow, Cool and Warm

OBNE bills this as ’Further Adventures in Trereo’ - meaning Triphonic essentially - or having 3 outputs (one per Gain Section essentially). This is a really cool parallel multi-stacking gain machine - ...
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Nobels continues its winning streak with Stereo Mini Pedals - with its new classic 3-Mode Reverb - with Spring, Plate and Hall voicings

I first spotted this on Gear News - where it turns out just to be an announcement, as these don’t start shipping until the middle of October. They are however already up for pre-orders on Thomann! And ...
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Mad Professor shrinks down its Super Black Classic Fender Amp style Preamp / Overdrive to Compact Enclosure

Mad Professor strips out the Sweet Honey Overdrive portion from its original mid-size Super Black Fender Blackface style Preamp - for a more streamlined and pedalboard-friendly experience. The Super ...
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2 quirky and unique green circular enclosure superb sounding Mode-Switching Fuzzes - the Blue FX Devices Piluxx, and Talisman Audio GP7 Soviet Gas Mask Canister Fuzz

So I’ve reviewed both of these within the last fortnight - they were both picked up at the relatively recent Brighton Guitar Show, while I had ordered the Piluxx just a day or two after the Leeds ...
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Nobels' 4th Mini Pedal - the MOD-mini delivers 3 flavours of Stereo Modulation - Tremolo, Phaser, and Uni-Vibe

I feel that Nobels has done an exceptional job with its Mini Range - those pedals are very handsome, and super practical - now consisting of the original Nashville Overdrive (ODR-mini), DEL-mini ...