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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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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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Summer School Electronics' lates is the fine gold hued Double Major Dual Channel Klone Overdrive - with both Hard and Soft Clipping

A simple idea - beautifully elegantly executed! This is one of the most attractive Summer School pedals to date. Some of that brand’s pedal aesthetics are a little ’scrap book’ in nature. While the ...
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Wyatt Audio's mid-size Kozel Fuzz is a killer sounding really special weapon's grade Muff take with a slew of smart features onboard

I was super impressed with Wyatt’s Heiress Fuzz that I reviewed last week - a fantastic sounding Fuzz Face take with Transistor switching on the Q2 Stage - with a really potent output. The Kozel ...
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King Gizzard's Stu Mackenzie collaborates with JAM Pedals to recreate his signature Tiny Amp sound - courtesy of the Tiny Amp Destroyer Triple-Gain-Stacking Pedal

A few years back Stu picked up a few cheap tiny solid state practice amps from his local Cash Converters pawnshop ($20-$30 each!). This included the Max Music Guitar Amp model featured in the below ...
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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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Pedal Pawn builds an even better Tube Screamer - the Black Glass Mod Overdrive Pro TS-808

Pedal Pawn has some serious pedigree with Tube Screamers - you might say they’re something of a Tube Screamer expert! And this is essentially their 3rd variant, following the Texan Twang, and the ...
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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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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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JHS's NOTADÜMBLË V2 Dumble Drive + Box Later Boost is twice the fun!

I thought I should do a quick update on the recent V2 NOTADÜMBLË which landed a little over a week or two ago - I had other priority reviews to post first - but I though just a few notes on this one ...
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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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Empty Head Effects unleashes killer Seafarer Suboceanic Ambient Atmospheric Modulated Reverb - which swells with lapping, swirling and crashing watery waves

Empty Head Effect’s Nic is a fantastic sound designer - and his latest Seafarer Reverb is surely his most ambitious pedal to date. A proper elemental Oceanic Reverb which goes from gently lapping ...