Guitar Pedals
This section of the website is dedicated to Guitar Pedals. I think for a guitar player, pedals, effects, and stomp boxes can be some of the most confusing things if you don’t have any experience (and sometimes even if you do). I will attempt answer some of the most common guitar pedal questions, as well as review as many of the available options as I can for you. If you dip your toe in (like most gear fetishes), I think you’ll find that guitar pedals can quickly become an addictive hobby!
Caline CP-14 English Man
Caline makes a guitar pedal called the CP-14 English Man. There is an earlier version that was a lime green, and there is a newer version that looks like the British flag. This is a clone of the drive channel of the Carl Martin dual channel PlexiTone guitar pedal. The...
Guitar Pedal Toppers – What Are They?
I had recently noticed an explosion of guitar pedal toppers on pedal boards recently. With the advent of social media and Facebook groups, many of us (53,000 as of last) subscribe to "Pedalboards of Doom. I suspect at first that group started out as a death metal...
Top 3 Problems with 1 Spot and Daisy Chain Power Supplies for Pedals
Here is the much used, much talked about 1 Spot for pedalboard power. Many use the Godlyke PA-9B (which is basically the same). This is a simple wall plug (wall wart as they call it) that supposedly can power up to 20 pedals with its 1700ma of power. It covers nearly...
How Much Are Guitar Pedals?
How much are guitar pedals? How much do they cost? The answer is pretty simple - somewhere between $25 and $500 (for the most part). That's a pretty wide range, so let me narrow it down. Most budget and clone pedals are under $100. Most mainstream pedals by the big...
Caline CP-13 Super Chorus
Let's get right to it. The Boss Super Chorus is $109 and the Caline Super Chorus is $22. About the only additional thing the Boss version has are EQ and EQ level controls (and a stereo jack). If you want a great chorus pedal and don't want to spend much (but still...
Caline CP-12 Pure Sky Overdrive
Behold - the Caline CP-12 Pure Sky Overdrive, which is a clone of the Paul Cochrane Timmy pedal. In the last 5 years it has become one of the most sought after boutique pedals on the market. They are made one at a time by Paul Cochrane himself, and this is the only...
Caline CP-11 Puffer Fuzz Pedal
The Caline Puffer Fuzz distortion pedal is a clone of the Dunlop Silicon fuzz face pedal. This is one of the first pedals they made about 8 years ago, model CP-11. The Dunlop version was a copy of the Jimi Hendrix Dallas Arbiter fuzz face (the round one). The main...
Real Tube Overdrive
About the BK Butler Real Tube Overdrive guitar pedal The "Real Tube Overdrive" is a BK Butler guitar pedal manufactured by "Tube Works" back in the 70's and 80's. The image above shows my recently purchased Real Tube pedal case (disassembled), because in the video...
How to Get or Build a Zendrive Clone pedal
How to Get or Build a Zendrive Clone pedal As long as I can remember I have wanted a Zendrive pedal. I don't know why I never purchased one, it seems like guitars, amps, and other things have always taken precedence. For those of you that don't know, the Zendrive is a...
Joyo Vintage Overdrive Pedal with JRC4588 Chip (like TS808)
I've been buying expensive guitar effects pedals for years. Fulltone, Visual Sound, TC Electronics, Voodoo, Boss, DOD - and I've always steered away from cheap pedals (like Axion, Yamaha, Danelectro, etc.). So I'm surfing ebay earlier this year for new pedals, and I...
Visual Sound Route 66 Pedal Review – It’s American Overdrive!
I used a DOD digital effects pedal for years on a solid state amp, and one day a friend came over to jam - and he had his pedal board with him. He plugged it into one of my amps and we were playing some classic rock, and he was using this overdrive pedal that looked...
Guitar Modeling Effects vs. Traditional Pedals
If you are a guitar player and you use effects there are traditional analog and digital pedals, and then there are digital modeling effects. This can be very confusing if you don't know much about either one. This article is an attempt to give you a brief...
Electro-Harmonix Small Clone Analog Chorus Pedal
Electro Harmonix has been around a loooong time. The first guitar pedal I ever owned was an Electro Harmonix fuzz. That thing was indestructible! You're lucky to find some of the original vintage effects on eBay from time to time, but many companies are now reissuing...
Carl Martin DeLayla XL Delay Pedal
If you're using digital effects - you haven't seen squat until you've checked out this delay pedal! The Carl Martin DeLayla XL Delay Pedal was designed and developed to have the same sonic quality as the original DeLayla and adds a second delay head for the ultimate...
Carl Martin Pre-amp
A preamp is something you might want to use to plugin directly into your PA or sound system. The Carl Martin 3-Band Parametric EQ/Pre-amp is designed specifically for use with such acoustic instruments as guitar, violin, and harmonica. We plug things into our PA all...
Uni-Vibe Pedal Review
The Uni-Vibe guitar effect pedal was used on some of the most classic guitar recordings of all time by guitar players. It was made by the "Univox" company (hence the name Uni-vibe). They created the Uni-vibe pedal to emulate the sound of rotating speaker Leslie...
Sanyo Pedal Juice Review
I wanted to write a review for this "Sanyo Pedal Juice" unit I got at the end of December. Sanyo was nice enough to send me one to review, and it's pretty cool. It's a rechargeable lithion ion battery to power your guitar pedals. The unit I tested can power up to 2...
PolyTune Guitar Pedal Review
The Polytune guitar pedal is getting rave reviews by all the musicians that I know (that have used it). It's made by TC Electronics, and I first saw it when my friend picked one up at the local Guitar Center. My lead singer was just saying the other day "I remember...
Digitech RP80 RP90 Modeling Pedal Review
The Digitech RP80 is a very versatile guitar modeling pedal that you can get for a fraction of it's original cost. This is one of the first multi effect pedals to become popular, and it's been out now for about 10 years. I've owned this pedal for at least 8 years...
TC Electronic Vintage Octa Screamer Octave Guitar Effects Pedal
The Vintage Octa Screamer pedal is not for the faint at heart! It recreates the famous and instantly recognizable octave doubling effect immortalized by Jimi Hendrix. The Vintage Octa Screamer is based on a unique new circuit design that greatly improves the octave up...
T-Rex CompNova Compressor Pedal
Hand built in Denmark, the Comp Nova guitar effects pedal is easy to use and delivers uncolored sound with awesome clarity, detail, and dynamics, even at extreme compression levels. It's designed for guitarists who want to thicken up and smooth their tone and who...
Dan Armstrong Original Blue Clipper Fuzz Pedal
With the Dan Armstrong Original Blue Clipper, unpleasant high-order harmonics are eliminated by a low-pass filter, which leaves a full, rich, distorted sound. When the Original Blue Clipper is switched on, the instrument's volume control adjusts the amount of...
Guyatone WR3 Wah Rocker Effects Pedal
Based on the original Wah Rocker circuit used by countless pros, the WR3 features several updates that greatly improve its functionality and performance. The WR3's filter sensitivity has been increased, allowing for better note tracking and dynamic response. This...
MXR M-117R Flanger Effects Pedal Metallic Grey
Back by popular demand, the MXR M-117R Flanger creates a variety of wild sounds from dynamic jet plane or cool space effects to short delay, chorus, and vibrato. You have complete control of the filter so you can sculpt the sound you want. Back off the Width setting...
Guyatone Micro Series OD-2+ Overdrive Pedal
The Guyatone Micro Series OD-2+ is an upgrade to the award-winning OD-2 Overdrive. The OD-2+ stompbox takes the rich tube-like sound of that classic pedal and adds additional tone shaping options by way of a Hi Cut/Hi Boost Tone control and 3-way Overdrive Mode...