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CARL MARTIN PURPLE MOON VINTAGE FUZZ N’ VIBE PEDAL (2019 VERSION)

IN A DOSE OF IRONY WORTHY OF ALANIS MORRISSETTE, CARL MARTIN HAS UPGRADED ONE OF THEIR VINTAGE-INSPIRED CLASSICS WITH A 2019 EDITION.

When you peer back into guitar history, fuzz and vibrato are among the first true effects to really capture the imagination and herald a shift in communal psyche. Would the ‘60s have been so revolutionary if youth culture’s collective ears weren’t swimming in swooshy, fuzzy goodness? Would Jimi’s “Star Spangled

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