Popularized by Hendrix and Clapton, resplendent on some of guitar's greatest tracks, the wah pedal might divide opinion, but ...

Read the first article in this series: Pedal effect circuit design: Getting started. Low-power, tube-like pedal effects can now be yours with a simple JFET circuit. The LSK489, in a common-source ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? It’s a good time to be alive for audiophiles and effects pedal nerds. One operation ...

In the first part of this series we discussed pedal effect circuit design and in the second part we looked at a distortion pedal circuit with low power and soft clipping. Now we will discuss a rather ...

Crazy Tube Circuits has unveiled the Motherload, a pedal that proves the Greek guitar effects company knows the way to a guitar player’s hearts – or at least to their pedalboards. With a classic ...

Crazy Tube Circuits has just dropped one of the hottest overdrive pedals of the year. It’s called Venus. It made its public debut at NAMM 2025. It was inspired by the iconic BK Butler Tube Driver, and ...

ANAHEIM, California -- The Willy Wonka of guitar pedal builders is giving away the keys to his kingdom. Zachary Vex, the mastermind behind the handcrafted and hand-painted Z.Vex line of boutique ...

Brian Wampler never set out to put his name to a guitar effects pedal company and make a living out of stompbox design. It just happened that way. Like every other tone hound out there he was ...

When you think of AnalogMan and Chase Bliss, two of the finest independent pedal makers in the game today, the first thing that springs to mind probably isn’t journeys to Asia to source New Old Stock.