When a Cornish pedal is only the fourth-coolest new release of the day, you know it’s going to be stacked! Two of these new projects, the DM-2 and Phase 90, have been under development for no fewer than …
Today four more of our top projects are getting the kit upgrade! Elysium Ambient Delay Based on the Ibanez® EM5 Echomachine, an analog-voiced digital delay that emulates vintage tape echo units, with heavy filtering and a soft-clipping overdrive …
In conjunction with our Black Friday sale this year, we’re releasing eight (!) all-new traces with full tracing journals. Each of these is a never-before-seen schematic, and we have new PCBs available for each of them. We’ve also …
The Keeley Compressor Plus was first released in 2017 as an update to their classic 4-knob compressor. Here’s a video demo from Andy Martin: Compared to the earlier version, the input gain (anti-clipping) control has been removed and …
The Catalinbread Octapussy was originally released in 2012. It was modeled after vintage transistor octave fuzzes like the Octavia. Here’s a demo: They compare it to the Octavia but claim it’s an original design. There are only a …
Today we’re releasing two new Xotic traces. The Xotic SL Drive is a miniature drive pedal that was released in the summer of 2013. It was designed to emulate the tone of an overdriven Marshall Super Lead (hence …
The second Xotic trace releasing today (alongside the SL Drive) is the EP Booster. It’s a fairly simple JFET booster modeled after the preamp of the Echoplex tape delay pedal. Here’s a demo video from Mike Hermans: The …
The Amptweaker Tight Fuzz was first released in 2012, a year after the Tight Metal and two years after the Tight Drive. It was James Brown’s take on a classic transistor fuzz, but incorporating his characteristic design style …
Next up we have the Amptweaker Tight Drive. This is the very first pedal from Amptweaker, the pedal company founded by amp guru James Brown, designer of the legendary Peavey 5150 amplifier among many others. Released in 2010, …
The Catalinbread Silver Kiss was first released in 2007. It’s a more traditional overdrive than their other offerings, but with the addition of an active 3-band EQ. Here’s a demo from Gearmanndude: The discussion at Freestompboxes first began …
Next on the bench is the Stamps Drive-O-Matic. Built by Robert Stamps of The Amp Shop in LA in the mid-1990s, it was a very early example of a boutique pedal, all hand-built in small quantities. Despite this, …
While revisiting the Honey Bee Overdrive circuit for the updated Procyon V2, we spent some time digging to see if we could determine why there are so many different versions of the circuit—not just component variants, but actual …
This is the third of three new Cornish traces we’re posting today alongside the NG-3 and P-2. The GC-1 was released in 2021 to celebrate Pete Cornish’s 45 years in the music gear industry. Here’s a demo of …
The second of three Cornish traces releasing today is the P-2. Here’s a demo of it in action: The P-2 was one of Pete Cornish’s earliest designs, dating back to 1981 when it was created as an updated …
Today we’re releasing new traces of three Cornish pedals. First up is the NG-3, a variable-bias silicon fuzz that can go from class A (typical smooth fuzz tone) through class B (gated fuzz) to class C (“velcro” sound …
It’s been a few years since we did the last NCD, so it’s hardly an annual tradition anymore… but today we’ve got three new ones to share: the NG-3, GC-1, and P-2. Full details in the news section. …
We’ve got six brand-new projects releasing today! Lumitron – Mu-tron® III The very first commercial envelope filter effect, first released in 1972. View Project → Arcturus – Nobels ODR-S A variation of the more famous ODR-1 with a …
Five exciting new projects are available today! We’re releasing a brand-new version of the Lab Series® L5 Preamp, as well as a bass version based on the Lab Series L4. The L5 is a full redesign of our …
Today we’re thrilled to release two long-awaited new projects: the Xenotron, based on the Lovetone “?” (Flange With No Name), and the Neurotron, based on the Lovetone Ring Stinger. We originally designed these around 18 months ago, but …
We’re trying out a new feature for our larger projects. The Xenotron and Neurotron are launching with Interactive BOMs to help make the build process easier. We also went back and did them for the other two Lovetone …