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“It can transform your amp, but it’s equally adept as a boost and drive”: Dirty Boy Preamp review
This all-analog preamp pedal based on Blues Saraceno’s amp is a flexible powerhouse with a variety of roles
Line 6 gives its bargain POD Express a metal makeover with new Black edition – designed specifically for heavier players
A handful of amp models and effects tailored to metal guitar tones have been lifted from Line 6's Helix collection to produce the new-look POD Express
Universal Audio packs classic Mesa/Boogie Rectifier sounds into stompbox form with its Knuckles '92 Dual Rec Amplifier pedal
With six classic microphone and cabinet configurations, and the original amp's green, orange, and red channel voicings, the new UAFX pedal aims to supply the authentic high-gain tones of punk, rock, and metal
How Truetone’s game-changing 1 Spot Pro series is continuing to provide pro pedalboard power to the masses with the new CS11 and XP5
Sponsored by Truetone
First launched in 2015, the firm’s 1 Spot Pro lineup has now been bolstered by some new units, which build on the range’s hugely convenient pedalboard power supply design
Silktone has overhauled its germanium transistor fuzz pedal – and it’s got a ‘pickup simulator’
The popular Fuzz returns with increased tone tweaking choices and better pedalboard integration
Friedman and Jake E. Lee’s signature IR-J looks to deliver the guitar tones of “two great eras” in a single pedal amp
Lee's newest signature Friedman unit offers decades-spanning guitar tones from the comfort of a tube-loaded preamp pedal
Featuring a Joe Bonamassa wah and an overdrive gifted by Jeff Beck, Carmen Vandenberg’s pedalboard is a tour de force of tone
The Bones UK and Morrissey guitarist is one of the most exacting tone connoisseurs in the game, with some quietly radical picks and some familiar favorites
“Delightfully gnarly tones”: Electro-Harmonix Lizard King Octave Distortion review
Voiced for bass but awesome on guitar, this pedalboard Godzilla might just take the crown as this year's must-have octave fuzz
