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The iconic EHX Holy Grail has been championed by Jim Root – and now the first prototype has been found
The classic reverb pedal can be found on pedalboards the world over, but JHS Pedals' Josh Scott has tracked down the first one
JHS Pedals says it has just made the ultimate first-stage overdrive pedal
Josh Scott says witnessing a soundcheck gave him the idea of the Morning Glory Clean – which reimagines the world-beating transparent overdrive
How Boss reimagined the wildest effect on your pedalboard
Boss's Matt Knight gives us the lowdown on the XS-1 and XS-100 Poly Shifter series, the pitch-shifting pedals that put the DigiTech Whammy on notice
“Those cleaner tones are very characterful and usable, evoking classic tube-driven bass amps”: Ashdown Geezer Butler Pedal of Doom review
Geezer Butler helped invent heavy metal. Here’s a slab of heavy metal bearing his name.
“A radical approach to fuzz – whether you’re a Muse fan or not”: Manson Guitar Works Supermassive Black Fuzz review
Manson Guitar Works’ first stompbox delivers a high degree of variation in your fuzz tone
Gator teams up with Vertex Effects for a one-stop “unified pedalboard system”
Made with durable material, in three different sizes with and without risers, direct collaboration leaves no stone unturned in the quest for the ultimate pedalboard
Laney puts the philosophy of Nathan East’s signature head into an all-powerful, dual-input preamp pedal
Packing all the features of the bass guru’s signature head into a portable unit, he says it’s a “game-changer” all over again
Polyend releases Endless, an open-source pedal that lets guitarists create effects from prompts
It's ChatGPT in an aluminium stompbox format, with a growing pool of user-made effects, and coding and coding-free creating on offer
Blackstar unveils a high-powered floor modeler series with “insane versatility”
Packed with tone-sculpting features and a focused amp collection for electrics, acoustic, and bass, the British amp firm is bringing its firepower to the modeler market via the new ID:X Digital Floorboard series
