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Electro Harmonix Big Muff PI
Big Muff PI is a fuzz pedal manufactured by Electro Harmonix (aka EHX) in USA since 1970. It’s also very popular among bass players. Big Muff’s tone stage is a combination of high-pass and low-pass filters mixed by a single potentiometer giving it unique frequency response profile ranging from fat to squeaky. Big Muff has…
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ProCo RAT 2
RAT 2 is a classic distortion pedal being produced by American company ProCo since 1988. Rat 2 is a successor to the The Rat, The Rat v2 and Small Box RAT manufactured in periods between 1979 and 1988. Circuit and certain component parts changed in details but the tone remained the same. Later, RAT 2…
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Marshall Guv’nor
Guv’nor is a distortion pedal by Marshall first released in 1988 and re-issued again in 2023. It was created in the late 80s to replicate the drive tones of the Marshall Plexi and JCM800 amplifiers. Guv’nor features five knobs: Gain, three-stage EQ (Bass, Middle, Treble) and Level. Because it was developed as the “Amp in…
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Boss DS-1 Distortion
Boss DS-1 is a classic distortion pedal by Roland Corporation. It’s being manufactured since 1978, has publicly available and rather simple schematic and therefore multiple clones and mods. Boss DS-1 features three knobs: Dist (gain), Tone (low-pass filter) and Level (attenuation). Just as the majority of Boss pedals, has buffered bypass. Has been used by…
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Strymon El Capistan V2
El Capistan V2 is a tape delay effect pedal by Strymon Engineering released in 2022, direct successor to El Capistan that was in production since 2010. As its predecessor, El Capistan has three tape head modes (tape machines): “fixed”, “multi” and “single” and three modes for each of the machines. It features tap tempo, expression…
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Strymon El Capistan
El Capistan V1 is a tape delay pedal by Strymon Engineering. Released in 2010, it was superseded by El Capistan V2 in 2022. El Capistan has three tape head modes (tape machines): “fixed”, “multi” and “single” and three modes for each of the machines. It features tap tempo, expression pedal input, mono input and stereo…
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TC Electronic Hall of Fame 2
Hall of Fame 2 (sometimes abbreviated as HoF2 or HoFII) is a digital reverb pedal by TC Electronic. In addition to very classic reverberation sounds such as spring and plate reverb it has quirkier ones: Putting the mode switch to “Shim” creates instant background ambience, “Mod” adds modulation to the wet signal. Pre-delay toggle allows…
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TC Electronic Hall of Fame 2 Mini
Hall of Fame 2 Mini (sometimes abbreviated as HoF2 mini or HoFII mini) is a compact digital reverb pedal by TC Electronic. It’s a smaller version of Hall of Fame 2 supporting essentially all its features including MASH, TonePrint and a shimmer sound but not having the “Mode” encoder and second channel (Mini version is…
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