While craft pedal makers existed before the turn of the millennium – soldering circuit boards in their basement workshops, putting together one-of-one pieces for their friends – we’ve experienced a hell of a boutique pedal boom this past quarter century.
It’s been a golden era of tone-chasers discovering small-batch stompboxes outside the norm, with humble-sized companies busting out massive sounds – whether remixing classic fuzzes or ringing up freaked-out modulations major manufacturers wouldn’t dare deliver off the assembly line, en masse.
