Kurt Cobain’s battered Boss DS-1 distortion pedal sells for $9,000 By Richard Bienstock The announcement comes just days after the Nirvana leader’s MTV Unplugged Martin D-18E is auctioned for more than $6m
Green Carrot Pedals Comfortably Plum review By Trevor Curwen Two circuits combine to give you Gilmour-inspired drive tone in a box
Bogner updates its Burnley, Wessex and Harlow custom audio transformer drive pedals By Richard Bienstock Smaller enclosures, new rounded housings, same awesome dirt tones
Spice up your tone, and your pedalboard's looks, with this amazing deal on the Snake Oil Marvelous Engine distortion pedal By Jackson Maxwell This beautifully-designed pedal will do wonders for your tone - get it now for just $99
Sinvertek Drive N5 review By Michael Astley-Brown Need a dirty channel for your clean amp? Take 5 with this superlative distortion pedal
Melvins’ King Buzzo and Hilbish Design bring the noise with new Pessimiser distortion pedal By Richard Bienstock You'll never guess what the 'Blast' knob does...
5 types of overdrive pedal every guitarist needs to try By Brandon Stoner Give your music more crunch with our guide to every strain of overdrive, distortion and fuzz
Maxon’s Scott Henderson SD-9SH Sonic Distortion updates the “best distortion pedal in the world” By Richard Bienstock New stompbox boasts Henderson-suggested tweaks and an additional output level
NAMM 2020: The Sunn O))) dirt box rises again as EarthQuaker Devices unveils the Life Pedal V2 By Jonathan Horsley Smaller enclosure, same great mountain-chopping octave/distortion/boost taste... The cult drive pedal of 2019 gets a wider release for 2020
NAMM 2020: Danelectro unveils boutique-styled 3699 Fuzz, Back Talk Reverse Delay and Roebuck Distortion By Michael Astley-Brown The Foxx Tone Machine and Ibanez MT10 MOSFET Distortion return
Seymour Duncan shoots for hot-rodded hard-rock and metal tones with the Diamondhead Multistage Distortion + Boost pedal By Richard Bienstock Dual-use stompbox includes 805-derived boost and three-band EQ
Hear the tastiest tones out there on the premiere of Guitar World's Cooking with Sound By Jackson Maxwell Two of GW's editors get cooking with great gear from Line 6, MOD Kits DIY and Dean in the premiere of our new show
JHS just recreated the legendary Lovetone Big Cheese - meet the Cheese Ball By Michael Astley-Brown New pedal captures the sound of the elusive fuzz
Add tremolo and dirt to your sound with Mattoverse’s new TremStortion By Richard Bienstock Dual-function pedal boasts eight waveforms, gain control
