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Overdrive
BOB BURT OVERDRIVE What We Say: Bob Burt is a respected cabinet maker in America who has branched out into the effects pedal market. The Overdrive is said to be reminiscent of a Tubescreamer, Xotic RC Booster and even the famed Landgraff Overdrive! These seem to be VERY rare and not a...
Kamikaze
DEDALO KAMIKAZE What We Say: Dedalo are a small company making hand-built effects from Argentina. The Kamikaze is, simply put, a dirt box. It has a toggle switch for a smooth, creamy, FET-based overdrive and to that overdrive you can add some symmetrical clipping (courtesy of LEDs) to take you...
Brute Drive
E.W.S BRUTE DRIVE What We Say: The Brute Drive from the Engineering Work Store is not what it’s name suggests. It is NOT A brutal distortion, but more of a smooth ‘classic’ sounding boost that ranges somewhere between an overdrive and a distortion, but gets slightly fuzzy at higher gain...
Stomp Ware
BBE SOUNDWARE What We Say: The SoundWare software is a series of VST plugin effects recreating some of the classic BBE tones found in their analogue stompboxes. The pack contains the Free Fuzz and the Green Screamer alongside a host of other BBE stompboxes. The few BBE stompboxes I have tried I...
Germanium 4 Big Muff Pi
ELECTRO-HARMONIX GERMANIUM 4 BIG MUFF PI What We Say: The Germanium 4 Big Muff Pi is the latest edition to the Big Muff range from EHX. It is designed in a ‘two channel amp’ fashion with one circuit providing overdrive and another providing distortion, which can be used separately or cascaded for that...
Astro Tone Fuzz
ANALOGMAN ASTRO TONE FUZZ What We Say: The quality of AnalogMan is well known and the Astro Tone appears no different. A great fuzz box inspired by the Sam Ash Fuzzz Boxx and Astrotone Fuzz made in New York in the mid to late 1960′s. What They Say: ”…The Analog...
JD10 MKII
AWARD SESSION JD10 MKII What We Say: Award Session are renowned for their ‘Cleartone Cables’ pro quality guitar cable range but what I didn’t realise is they also make a couple of utilities for the guitarist. The JD10 seems to be some kind of preamp tone shaper / distortion box designed in coalition with,...
Solo Booster
AWARD SESSION SOLO BOOSTER What We Say: Award Session are renowned for their ‘Cleartone Cables’ pro quality guitar cable range but what I didn’t realise is they also make a couple of utilities for the guitarist. This is the Solo Booster and is designed to go in the FX Loop of almost any tube...