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Maestro pedals

Maestro is back. The brand that may just have kickstarted the stompbox revolution in the 1960s has been resurrected by parent company Gibson. We’re talking, of course, about Keef’s use of the FZ-1 fuzz on (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction that spawned a whole fuzz pedal industry – and Maestro also had other classics in its roster, such as the PS-1 phase shifter and the Echoplex tape echo boxes.

The brand is now back with five pedals: the Fuzz-Tone

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