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"Like a good valve amp, it responds to your pick attack and guitar volume with proper character": Strymon Fairfax Class A Output Stage Drive pedal
By Daryl Robertson published
The Californian pedal experts ditch digital in favour of a distinctive voiced all-analogue drive

EHX’s new Effects Interface is a stompbox-shaped device that lets you integrate your pedalboard with your DAW
By Si Truss published
NAMM 2026: Electro-Harmonix’s pedal-focused audio interface “handles your signal and delivers it with care between your hardware and software”

EarthQuaker Devices and Dr Z team up for a tube-driven preamp that might just be the cure for whatever ails your tone
By Jonathan Horsley published
The ZEQD-Pre has an EF86 pentode just like Dr Z's sweet high-end amps, and it might just give your rig the analogue warmth, colour, and hifi sheen you've been waiting for

"Its simplicity is a selling point": Funny Little Boxes Caught By The Fuzz review
By Alex Lynham published
A UK-built, two-knob fuzz for under a hundred bucks? We're listening...

"Makes the case that you might never need anything else": Neural DSP Quad Cortex review
By MusicRadar last updated
Neural reaches the next frontier of amp modelling with a unit that might just change everything

The Boss PX-1 is a treasure trove of classic and contemporary Boss effects pedals. Here's everything you need to know about the compact chameleon stomp box
By Pete Emery published
Sponsor Content Created With Boss
Providing a host of official and authentic digital recreations of its legendary line of pedals, Boss offers the guitarist a new way to play iconic sounds from across its varied catalogue

“I turn this thing on, I don’t want to stop playing”: Keeley Electronics has made Andy Timmons fall in love with reverb with his new signature Nocturne pedal
By Jonathan Horsley published
Robert Keeley gives reverb the Halo treatment for an all-new signature reverb that has officially made a convert of Timmons

Electro-Harmonix and JHS Pedals team up for a Big Muff based on schematic that had been lying forgotten for 50 years
By Jonathan Horsley published
While researching a book on the history of EHX, Josh Scott found a 50-year-old schematic from Big Muff inventor Bob Myer. He took it to the breadboard and now it's here... The Big Muff 2

Crazy Tube Circuits squeezes out another sweet twofer with the Orama preamp/fuzz pedal
By Jonathan Horsley published
One classic British amp-in-a-box circuit, one '90s boutique fuzz, two footswitches and countless tones to explore, the Orama is CTC's "vision in gain" and it looks (and sounds) mighty fresh

Strymon debuts Series A analogue pedals range with the Fairfax – a “chameleon” drive that can “breathe fire”
By Jonathan Horsley published
The Fairfax Class A Output Stage Drive replicates the old-school mojo of the vintage Garnet Amplifiers' Herzog tube drive, and is the first release in Strymon's new Series A range of analogue pedals
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