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PEDALS

1 BEETRONICS FATBEE OVERDRIVE $189

Beetronics’ boutique prices may have been a little too high for some, but anyone wanting to buy into the quirky apian-themed brand should have more chance with its new smaller Babee series of pedals. Kicking off procedures is the Fatbee Overdrive with input from designer Howard Davis, the brains behind the EHX Deluxe Memory Man among others. It’s a JFET-based drive pedal that Beetronics says is designed for sweet and smooth valve amp-style distortion with Weight, Flavor and Honey knobs to set your sound. www.beetronicsfx.com

2 BLACK COUNTRY CUSTOMS SPIRAL ARRAY £TBA

The trend for today’s chorus pedals is to provide more than one flavour of chorus – and that’s exactly what the Spiral Array does with perhaps the three most well-known and distinctive vintage choruses represented. A toggle switch selects between recreations of the

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