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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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Key 12A*7 Preamp Tube Types and Characteristics

It’s been a while since I did my Key Power Amp Tubes Overview - back in April of 2024. I always intended to do a follow-up feature for the most typical PreAmp Tubes. I just needed the right catalyst / ...
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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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A Brief Hobbyist Primer on Clipping Diodes

So this post came about due to my sometimes confusion between Soft and Hard Clipping, Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Clipping and the individual clipping characteristics of different Diodes. In my ...
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Source Audio releases killer Pathways Multi-Mode Full Stereo Tremo-Verb in same enclosure format as its Lo-Fi Artifakt

Source Audio takes on the Fender Tre-Verb, Keeley Hydra, and venerable Strymon Flint - with a few more modes and features onboard. Source Audio are brilliant at Reverbs - I still love my Ventris, and ...
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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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6 of the Best Butler Tube Driver Style Pedals

The 1983-designed B.K. Butler Tube Driver famously used by David Gilmour, Eric Johnson, Billy Gibbons and Joe Satriani to name a few. The core of the pedal is a hand-selected 12AX7 tube - which gives ...
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12 of the Best Uni-Vibe Style Pedals

I have to confess that I used to be a touch confused between Chorus/Vibrato and Vibe/Uni-Vibe effects. In certain pedals there is a degree of overlap, but generally a genuine Uni-Vibe pedal is ...
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JHS Pedals Collaborates with Coppersound DIY to realise its Boost-A-Drive-A-Fuzz EHX LPB-1 Evolution - Now available in Pedal CIR-KIT

So this project goes back to May of 2024 - where Josh Scott used Coppersound’s DIY Breadboardins platform to deconstruct and evolve Electro-Harmonix’s LPB-1 Linear Power Boost circuit. Josh continued ...
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PastFX spins a new lease of life for the Maxon PH-350 Stereo Rotary Phaser - enhanced with additional Waveform, Feedback and 8 Stage options

This is my second PastFX Phaser after the equally brilliant Foot Phaser Deluxe, while this Rotary Phaser delivers stereo output along with some different playback options. You also get 4 different ...