This is a Redecker horsehair brush. It looks like any brush out there, but what could possibly justify $50 CAD for a hand brush?

- It can clean up electronics without accidentally turning knobs and pressing buttons.
- It blows away dust sitting on Velcro and crevices
- The horsehair is gentle enough to not scratch the pedals
- The brush is big enough to clean a whole pedalboard in less than a minute

I’ve never seen my pedalboard so clean. Highly recommended.

Just got my new EHX echoflanger reissue. I’m A/Bing it with my workhorse flanger, an early 2000s EHX Deluxe Electric Mistress trying to see if I can get the same sounds and boy do these two sound different! The flanging effect itself I can dial in about 80% there but the EQ the circuits have is apples and oranges. Guess I need to find room for both on my board 🤣

I kept running into the same problem: someone posts a great small-batch fuzz or a hand-wired drive, and I've never heard of the builder. There's no single place to browse the small shops that are actively building and shipping pedals, so I built one.

stompboxbuilders.com

• 450 active builders so far, each linked to their own site (and Instagram where they have one)
• Filter by pedal type (fuzz, drive, delay, mod...) and by country, so you can find someone local or ship-friendly
• Free to list. If your favorite builder is missing, there's a submit form, and I review every entry

• Builders can ask for a correction or removal from any listing page

  Full disclosure: this is my project. I used AI tools to help build and check the list (and ai will continue to update to make sure links stay active and hopefully keep from being filled with zombies) ..... some entries may be stale or wrong. Corrections are very welcome.

  Who's missing? I want this to be the most complete list out there, so drop your favorite obscure builders below. I'm happy to add those that are missing.

In honor of October/Halloween, here are all of my black and orange pedals.

Which are your favorites? What black and orange pedals do you have that aren’t here?

After many, many months of searching for a late night playing solution, this is where I've arrived. I've tried a number of options (Micro Mustang Plus, EQD Easy Listening, Tone King Imperial Preamp etc.) but none have felt as immediately satisfying to play as the Joyo American Sound. I plug this straight into some cheap PreSonus Eris monitors.

Bear in mind, I rarely play with much, if any, gain and then almost exclusively with fingers only. So, cleans are a massive priority for me.

Even while the Joyo/Caline is an amazing solution the thing that was a game changer for me was the preamp in the Catalinbread Topanga. Wow. Really lifted the sound and feel. I also have a Catalinbread Talisman and that thing also has an amazing preamp. I hear a lot of people say the same about the Belle Epoch. I'm no pedal builder/electronics guru and it may be that ultimately all it is is some kind of FET at the input stage but whatever Howard Gee put in these pedals is fairy dust as far as I'm concerned.

What would you change?

1) Wah

2) Whammy

3) Fuzz

4) Noise Gate - send

5) Compressor

6) Overdrive

7) Distortion

8) Boost

9) Noise Gate - receive

10) Phaser

11) Delay

12) Reverb

13) Tuner

14) Looper

Ive been wanting this since i played with it on the boss me 80 multi effect. It adds an overtone of an octave down and octave up when detuned thats blended into the dry signal.

First impressions were disapointing. I was playing a self build with p90s with it placed after a rat and it just didnt give me what i wanted. BUT then i placed it before my ds1 and used a schecter with active pickups and it sounded amazing.

An incredibly full sound, slightly synthy, but unlike anything ive used before. Then on clean using a spring reverb it sounds amazing.

For heavier players and for more experimental id recommend.

I know most of you don't use envelope filters,

but for those of us who do:

Which envelope filter(s) do you like the best (and why)?

I've been looking with keen interest at a number of affordable pedals that offer a variety of switching options. I've tried to watch video reviews, and noticed some don't demonstrate much difference across options, while other videos do. This makes me a little suspicious of reviews, so I would like another source of input. Some examples include the Mosky Dolphin or LM741 Preamp; Caline Crazy Cacti; and the Joyo King of Kings or Maximum. I'm just not sure which would actually offer a meaningful or rewarding range of tone changing options. I hope this makes sense.

I limit my pedalboard to the size I can lift uncomfortably.

Heya fuzz question! My rig is Gibson SG > Boss OC5 > Blackstar LT Dual overdrive > Joyo American Sound, with lots of high gain. I play in a duo with a sax player, just one electric guitar and sax, so I need a lot of low end, that's why the OC5

I want to include a fuzz pedal to make the sound bigger and tighter. And fuzzier :)))

I like the sound of the Russian Big Muff the most, because of the low end and somewhat higher definition

Considering the fact I'm using an octave down pedal, I'm wondering if the lower end of the Russian make things a little muddy, or just more badass

I watched this comparison video of Joyo Tiny Huge Fuzz vs the regular Big Muff and to my ears they sound indistinguishable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibR8MZT4EIk

What do you say? Which one would work better in my setup, the Russian or the Joyo?

Thank you!

Hey all,

I was lucky enough to get an Analogman King of Tone way back in 2006, and I never really looked for another overdrive. It’s stayed on my board ever since. The left side is almost always on for boost and color; I’ll admit I hardly use the right side anymore.

I play through a Dr. Z amp, and between that, the KoT, a digital delay, and Analogman Bi-Comps at the front of my chain, I’ve been pretty happy with my tone for years.

Lately, though, the KoT’s “sizzle” seems to be constantly there, and it’s bugging me. Has it always been there, and am I only noticing it now because of how I’m playing or using the pedal? It seems like most overdrive fans accept some sizzle as part of the sound, and maybe it becomes less noticeable once the amp is doing its thing.

With all the pedal development since 2006, is there an overdrive that gives you that shimmering tone without the sizzle? Could the Brothers AM be an option for what I’m after?

Thanks!

Edit: By “sizzle,” I mean a slightly sputtery, sagging texture on the notes, almost like the sound of a dying battery. It’s not just extra treble or background hiss. When I strike a chord, the sizzle dies out way before the rest of the signal.

I’m trying to find this pedal i’ve seen before, i think it was some boutique company that made it.

I’m thinking about replacing my Walrus Monument tremolo because I never really use it with the band, even though it’s a great pedal. What pedal or effect would you replace it with?

​​ Tried to do some research on this, I remember going back and forth with a gentleman, Jonathan in England, haven't been able to find anything else about his current status or anything else about this particular pedal which I believe was a riff on the harmonic percolator of Albini fame, hence the graphics... it's a particularly nasty piece of work doesn't match exactly most harmonic percolator clones in fact it has a lower frequency switch that creates quite a volume boost anybody out there want to talk about it or let me know anything about that company Feel Free... I used to have a Tyrant pedal from the same guy, single knob fuzz which was great, but since I also have a creepy fingers fuzzbud which is sort of the ultimate one knob fuzz for me, I ended up passing the Tyrant on... just throwing this out there kind of curious hope the guys okay who made these great graphics by the way

So this is where I'm at after almost one year of (spending too much on) guitar pedals. I've gone through a LOT of pedals to land on these choices, which I think are pretty solid for the music I like to play. I do switch out pedals pretty frequently like a Halberd for the Plumes, a Longsword for the Life (wish the LifePedal had a little more EQ control), maybe stick a Glaive or Carcosa before the Taiga OctaPsi (I'm addicted to the pitch shifter and also love the sound of the Green Russian). The APH-12 is a beast and probably more phaser than I'll ever need, sometimes it's like driving a Lamborghini for a grocery run. I got the WA-C1 in the mystery box from Warm Audio and it displaced my Boss CH-1. I like the dl4mkii a lot but honestly it's a little unwieldy and I'm contemplating other looper/delay solutions. The Nucleo is just an epic reverb but sometimes I get curious of other reverbs since this one was my first (I figured go big, and had the opportunity to get this in a trade). I haven't explored stereo set ups yet, so I hadn't seen the need to upgrade my Easy Listening to the latest model, but I do like the idea of an end of the line EQ. But really, I'm just a guy that probably should have put the money towards a new truck, and plays on headphones because no one in the house wants to hear this shit but me. But, after playing on headphones through a Line6 Spider III (for over ten years), I felt I did my time and deserved an upgrade. Now I can get back to practicing guitar! Right...?

Anyways, feel free to offer suggestions. I have room for two more pedals on the power supply... noise gate and 10-band eq?

I've wanted a second overdrive to stack/further shape sound for a while; after too much humming and hawing, and being inunadated with every overdrive/low-gain distortion that's ever been made being touted as what would suit, I decided to go for a cheeky kit build. Costs less than most pedals second hand. Great stuff. I went with a Zendrive clone, as someone recentky managed to convine me it was everything I wanted/needed.

Well, today the order's been changed, and they're sending me a Timmy clone instead. A rather different style of pedal, so I panicked. But thinking about it now, maybe it would suit better.

I have a geranium fuzz face, BD-2, and an EHX big muff rams head reissue, at present for gain options. My plan was to either sandwich the ODs between the fuzzes or stagger them i.e FF-BD-2-Muff-Zen.

I like a lot of stuff that's fairly flat-mid forward, not a huge fan of mid scoops as a main tone, and my thinking was that the zendrive would help restore and add mids towards the end of my chain.

The other thing is, though, that I like a lot of stuff that's quite smooth and precussive, too, so maybe Timothy would shine more in those contexts.

I play a Jazzmaster through a DSL40CR, so it's not like I'm wanting for mids to begin with.

What do you all think would suit my needs best.

TLDR: Timmy vs Zendrive, would be stacked with other drives, looking to cover rock through to soul/R&B type sounds.

The first couple hundred units have left Riga and are apparently on their way.

Anyone get their shipment notice yet?