WHAT IS UNITY GAIN ??? I have 63 pedals on my board. When I go from one to another it would be insane if they were all different volume levels. A classic Boss CE2 Chorus does not have a volume control. It is designed so it will be not any louder or quieter when it is off. It short it is set to unity gain. I set ALL my pedals to never be louder than my bypass clean sound. on some tunes I do turn a pedal a bit down when it is only played while I am singing. When I cease singing for bridge, solo etc. I turn on a different pedal set unity gain with my amp when it has no p ..read more

DEATH BY AUDIO   OCTAVE CLANG V.2 $314.00 USD Not an all new pedal for the Death boys but more of a tweak. The company has been around forever making things I would call Shoegaze. In short not the best pedals for those chords you play to accompany a vocalist so the folks can make out the words, lol. If anything they tamed the beast enough that a few players with some serious chops might be able to use one. The layout is Volume, Gain/Octave and Boost.    CONCLUSION ___  It certainly has a nasty charm. I quite like it. &nbs ..read more

$17.00 USD Free shipping AliExpress Rowin  LEF-314    DELAY   It is literally a Mooer Ana Echo with a different paint color and graphics that they have made for 11 years or more and still sell it as it has nailed the the classic sound from a vintage 20-to 300ms delay of the originals. The Mooer sells for $108.00 USD.  The layout is Echo, which turns it it up from low to high against the dry signal, F.back is the number or repeats from one to infinity and time which hoe far apart eac echo is from the following one.  CONCLU ..read more

JPTR FX| BLEACH   Seattle Guitar Destroyer $230.00 USD Well, why not. If they can give us EVH-in-a Box why not something less specific but a genre. The bottom line is always if it sounds good it is good and we will decide what fits our music. It started life as an OpAmp Big Muff and then got modded to someones take on a Grunge sound. The layout is Chorus speed with toggle for 3 levels of depth. The dirt side has, Gain, Volume and Tone. A second footswitch lets you choose either side or both.    CONCLUSION ___  It is voiced using diodes that ..read more

ZEVEX EFFECTS  FUZZ  probe VEXTER In 1994 Zachary Vex started one of the first gourmet pedal company in Minneapolis Minnesota.  The Vexter is their budget brand MIC but tested and tweaked Stateside before shipping. They don't say but it has a basic tone bender meets octave Fuzz thing going on. where the switch should be is a metal plate that acts like a theremin to control making screwing up the BIAS creates endless honks, raspy velcro break up noise that ate controlled by the movement of your foot. There is not any info or demo of what each knob doe ..read more

$260.00 USD ANASOUNDS  SAVAGE OVERDRIVE This French company has been around for years making kits and their quirky but clever takes on other classic pedals. Yes guys the top of the pedals is a real wood veneer:-)  Many companies boast they are making a better and therefore different Klon, but in this case the different options are laid on with a trowel, lol To start it  goes into a much higher gain yet keeps much of the transparent thing.  The layout is Volume, Tone and Gain but with internal switches to choose germanium or silicon diodes ..read more

 FISH CIRCUITS  $250.00 USD LUNATIQUE A bit of the old and the new. The killer casing is early  60's but the clever and fixed voicings are totally today. The layout is Chaos, a BIAS control, Level, a toggle  gives you Body a mid boost, another switch selects  the gain.  CONCLUSION ___  It certainly looks as cool as it gets. It borrows from  the Tone Bender and an octave Fuzz. The BIAS control works beautifully for all but the aficionado. It allows  a total out of control thing to indeed stay in control ..read more

 P I G T R O N I X  GAMMA DRIVE  |||  $100.00 USD The company has been around for decades making their own quirky but occasionally very cool pedals. This pedal is a straightforward classic hard-clipper using silicon and LED diodes but not surprising to me are the 'Pig's' secret ingredient ...the germanium diodes. The layout is Volume, Gain, Treble and Bass.    CONCLUSION ___  The pedal has a very fat full sound. A germanium  circuit  has always been in many of their pedals  fo ..read more

(RECOVERY)    Effects and Device's  $320.00 USD GALLOWS    IN THE MORNING   Not a lot of info except this is made by Greg and Zera a husband a wife team in Seattle Washington They make 15 pedals among other things like phones? & Synth like things. They could well know what they are doing but how do you judge what appears to be all Shoegaze Thing-a ma-crotchets. I was tipped off that this this is the pedal with the most gravity. It keeps one diode firmly on the floor.The layout is Clean, the amount of drt signal, Dirty, the amount of ..read more

GAMMA   || BACCHUS  Dynamic Driver $80.00 USD Guitar Center exclusive A new company under the acoustic control corp. umbrella. they specialize in portable amps for acoustic guitars. This not an amp in a box. It is all about a lower to medium gain distortion with great dynamics. it acts like a tube amp cleaning up if you pull back on your guitar volume control. it also responds to your attack. Hit your strings hard or softer and it responds to your touch.  The layout is Volume, Gain & Tone with a toggle that boosts the mids. CON ..read more