Guitar Effects news

Digitech are kicking off "15 Days of Distortion".

The ThunderDrive is described as an overdrive pedal kit designed to provide "a strong clean signal boost in the early gain settings and smooth distortion at maximum gain settings."

The Dream Crusher fuzz device is EarthQuaker's take on the classic germanium fuzz face circuit, the company says.

Koma Elektronik is working on an expression controller which is like a motion sensor stompbox filter for guitarists and producers, called the Koma BD101.

Danish effects pedal maker T-Rex have five new, retro-looking stompboxes to show-off at this year's Musikmesse.

HardWire is now shipping its SP-7 Stereo Phaser effects pedal.

M5 Stompbox Modeler provides one effect at a time and takes up a single space on a pedal board.

Heptode has announced the release of Heavy Tone and Deep Crunch, two virtual effect plug-ins emulating Heptode’s guitar pedal effects.

FEA Labs has announced the Photon Fuzz as the latest pedal to their product lineup.

Pigtronix Tremvelope is described as "a classic tremolo effect, with a spin."

At the NAMM Show 2011, TC Electronic had several stars sign a custom pedal effects board containing all the new TonePrint and drive pedals, which is now up for grab for a Facebook friend.

Freekish Blues pedals has announced the M22 Rock Crusher Overdrive.

Working with East coast singer-songwriter, guitarist and Berklee College of Music guitar professor Thaddeus Hogarth, Freekish Blues has developed an overdrive pedal.

DLS Effects has announced the Chorus Waves pedal, designed to produce "chorusing from thick to transparent and everything in between."

Godlyke announced the release of the Providence DLY-4 Chrono Delay.

Eventide has announced it is now shipping Space, a versatile reverb effect stompbox.

SubDecay offers a new version of its analog phase shift effect, Quasar DLX.

Maxon introduces its RTD800 tube overdrive - distortion pedal.

Carl Martin introduces two new vintage effects, the Blue Ranger overdrive and the Classic Optical Envelope.

Modtone introduces the Buzz Boy Power Fuzz effect for guitar players.

Guitar FX pedal manufacturer DVK Technologies is now shipping the first four models in its new series of dual-function stomp boxes.

Rocktron has introduced the Texas Recoiler, part of the Rocktron Series of stompboxes.

T-Rex has announced the availability of the Twister 2 chorus and flanger.

Empress has created a drive pedal designed to allow the guitarist to "marry the worlds of fuzz, overdrive and distortion."

The Perseus is an octave-down fuzz designed to allow you to select either one or two octaves down mixed with a fuzz sound that you can blend to a mix of the two you want, including just the fuzz or …