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Squier Hello Kitty Stratocaster in new limited-edition white, photographed against a pink background with the new guitar strap and – freshly refinished in black – Hello Kitty op-amp fuzz.

The Squier Hello Kitty Stratocaster returns in limited edition white as Fender announces expanded capsule collection

By Jonathan Horsley published

One of the world's most-loved single-pickup electrics is back in white, the fuzz is back in black, and there's loads of merch and accessories as Fender and the Japanese feline join forces once again

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Orange King Comp: the new compressor from the British amp legend has what looks like a gorilla illustrated on the enclosure and has a road-ready build with a kick bar to protect your settings.

Orange’s King Comp is a monster compressor with the feel of a real amp and super low-noise operation

By Jonathan Horsley published

This beastly Class A VCA sibling of the Kongpressor brings us super low-noise performance, abundant headroom running at 18V DC, and it has ample controls for shaping your guitar tone

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The Strymon Olivera is a five-knob stompbox in bronze-brown that offers an emulation of an oil-can delay

Strymon’s Olivera is a oil can delay without the oil, without the mechanics, and with a lot more control over your tone

By Jonathan Horsley published

Vintage sounds from 21st-century tech, the Olivera has a powerful ARM processor under the hood, giving us 300 presets, stereo, MIDI, while a discreet Class A JEFT input preamp keeps things real

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Warm Audio's Tube Squealer is a greatest-hits of Tube Screamer circuits, three-in one, while the Throne Of Tone, the new dual-overdrive twofer from the Texan pedal company channels not one but two classic pedals, which in a way were both inspired by the classic Marshall "Bluesbreaker" amps used by Clapton back in his John Mayall days.

Warm Audio channels the greatest hits of classic overdrive with the regal Throne Of Tone dual-drive and the 3-in-1 Tone Squealer

By Jonathan Horsley published

With its Mix knob, three modes and pickup voicing switch, the Tone Squealer could be the TS-style pedal for fans and non-fans alike, while the Throne Of Tone has everything you'd need from a mid-gain drive

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An original silver Klon Centaur overdrive pedal, with its trio of oxblood coloured knobs and a single footswitch

Klon Centaur inventor Bill Finnegan’s lawsuit against Behringer over $69 clone has been dismissed

By Jonathan Horsley published

With Behringer's $69 K-style drive renamed as the Zentara, the battle is over. Did Finnegan win in the end?

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Kernom Ridge Overdrive shot on metal grate in photo studio

"The Ridge does something different, which makes it genuinely worthy of praise": Kernom Ridge Overdrive review

By Matt McCracken published

A pedal that gives you all your favourite drives in one box, and then some

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A still from KHDK's Instagram reel with the logo emblazoned over one of the stompbox company's new and as-yet-unannounced and unreleased electric guitar designs.

KHDK Electronics makes pedals for metal's biggest stars; now it's going to make electric guitars too

By Jonathan Horsley published

KHDK Electronics supremo David Karon debuted his new designs at Guitar Summit, in Mannheim, and while they are not all über-metal, the "all pointy" Model 101 certainly is... metal

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Fender Hammertone Boost and Breakup Drive pictured in close-up, with the background out of focus.

Fender adds analogue heat to the Hammertone lineup with the budget-friendly $99 Breakup Drive and Boost pedals

By Jonathan Horsley published

The Hammertone Breakup Drive and Hammertone Boost have abundant tone-sweetening powers with lots of bang for your buck

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Boss X-100 and XS-1 Poly Shifter: the treadle-equipped XS-100 and Compact Series XS-1 pedal are photographed against an industrial-looking floor.

With an eight-octave range, has Boss raised the standard for pitch-shifting pedals with the XS Poly Shifter range?

By Jonathan Horsley published

The XS-100 is a pitch-shifting workstation with integrated expression pedal, 30 memory slots, MIDI, and lots of range while the XS-1 presents a 6-octave range in compact format

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Way Huge Smalls Doom Hammer Fuzz

Players who deal in big gnarly riffs might need to add the Way Huge Smalls Doom Hammer to their ‘board ASAP

By Jonathan Horsley published

Inspired by a modded '78 op-amp fuzz, with tighter low-end, the awesomely named Doom Hammer Fuzz is a simple but versatile three-knob stompbox with a wide range of gain

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