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Danny Gomez of Dirty Boy pedals hangs out with Linkin Park who have just revealed that the Ball Buster, Dirty Boy's OOP legacy boost pedal, was all over their comeback LP, From Zero. Here, Mike Shinoda wears an orange long-sleeve.

Linkin Park reveal secret weapon behind their From Zero guitar tone

By Jonathan Horsley published

Do you even have a nü-metal 2.0 pedalboard if it doesn’t have a Ball Buster?

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Jam Pedals Octaurus Standard and NOS: The Greek stompbox company brings back a modern classic of octave-fuzz, with the NOS black version on the left, the Standard green on the right.

“The soul – and snarl – of the original”: Jam Pedals resurrects the Octaurus octave-fuzz

By Jonathan Horsley published

Available in Standard and NOS editions, the Octaurus has switchable clipping and voicings, a super defined octave and wide-open dynamics

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Fortin Meshuggah Pedal: this preamp/distortion pedal puts the signature high-gain drive tones of Fredrik Thordendal and Mårten Hagström.

The Fortin Meshuggah head is the amp every metal player wants – now you can get its crushing tones in a pedal

By Jonathan Horsley published

Designed by Mike Fortin, US-made, featuring an active 3-band EQ and noise gate, the Meshuggah preamp/distortion pedal could be the gain monster you need to destroy, erase, improve your tone

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Gamechanger Audio Motor Pedal: this pedal has a racing car aesthetic and houses "a fully playable electro-mechanical synth voice that tracks the pitch of your playing in real time".

Gamechanger Audio unveils the Motor Pedal – a real synth pedal with a “multi-modal gas pedal”

By Jonathan Horsley published

Forget synth emulation pedals, Gamechanger describes this mechanically powered stompbox as “the sound of a spinning brushed DC motor, pushed to the edge and tamed with precision control”

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Chase Bliss Brothers AM

Chase Bliss teams up with Mike Piera for Analog Man collab based on the legendary King Of Tone

By Jonathan Horsley published

Years in the making, Brothers AM applies Chase Bliss’s expansive digital controls and a cornucopia of dip-switches to an overdrive classic – and it has a Beano Boost mode

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Tone King Imperial Preamp: this high-end all-tube preamp pedal offers two channels, includes reverb, tremolo and attenuation, and has onboard CabSims/IR tech.

Tone King offers up boutique tube amp tones for your pedalboard with the Imperial Preamp pedal

By Jonathan Horsley published

The tones of a Tone King Imperial MKII at your feet

Guitars
Pigtronix Gas Giant Analog Jumbo Fuzz

Pigtronix’s Gas Giant is a high-gain fuzz pedal with a FET-driven onboard noise gate

By Jonathan Horsley published

This Big Muff-style fuzz pedal comes with two switchable voicings, switchable internal noise gate, and a simple three-knob layout

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TC Electronic Ditto 2 Looper: the new super-compact looper from the Danish pedal specialist has the same grey colour-scheme, is reassuringly simple, but do the new features elevate its performance?

“The Ditto 2 is an evolution, not a revolution”: TC Electronic Ditto 2 Looper review

By Alex Lynham published

The original Ditto redefined both bang for buck and 'board space. So what's new with the Ditto 2?

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Mythos Pedals x That Pedal Show Argo Boost Deluxe

Mythos and That Pedal Show team up for the Argo Boost Deluxe – an octave fuzz with switchable boost

By Jonathan Horsley published

Who couldn't use a COB-style octave-fuzz and boost with a bright red dial for the boost?

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Great Eastern FX Focus Fuzz Deluxe: one of our favourite fuzz pedals gets a makeover but can we call it just a fuzzbox when it is also a drive, octaver and boost?

Great Eastern FX’s Focus Fuzz Deluxe has got boost, drive, octave, fuzz... everything

By Jonathan Horsley published

One of our favourite fuzz pedals just got expanded but can we call it a fuzz-box when it does so much more?

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