- For one pedal purchased among eleven Dunlop, MXR and Way Huge models, a second effect pedal is offered to you.
- Each model in the selection has its own free pedal, announced on its page: an overdrive, a fuzz, a phaser or a tap tempo.
- The selection covers wah, fuzz, modulation and echo, so that the whole pedalboard can gain two new pieces.
- The offer runs while stocks last, and several pedals are limited editions like the Dookie Drive 30th Anniversary.
A pedalboard never fills up all at once. You add a wah, then a fuzz to go with it, then a delay the day a song calls for it. This fall, the shopping order changes a bit: buy one pedal, get one free on a selection of eleven Dunlop, MXR and Way Huge models.
The principle is simple. Each pedal in the selection is paired with another effect pedal, offered with it: an overdrive behind a wah, a phaser next to a double boost, a tap tempo with a sub-octave fuzz. You leave with two effects for the price of one, often with a family of sounds that wasnât yet on your board. Here are the eleven duos, sorted by family, so you can spot at a glance which free pedal goes with which model.
The Cry Baby wahs and their free pedal
Half of the selection fits under your foot. Five wahs, including two with built-in fuzz, and each time a free overdrive to go behind.
The Cry Baby Killers pays tribute to the Iron Maiden album: the GCB95 circuit in a collectorâs design. Vocal sweep, mids that cut through the mix, powered by battery or 9 V adapter. A heavy metal and hard rock wah that plugs in and plays.
Free pedal: the MXR TBM1 Tom Morello Power 50. An analog MOSFET overdrive aiming for the feel of a high-energy preamp, with EQ and Presence control. Tight palm-mutes and syncopated riffs, in the spirit of Tom Morelloâs sound.
The Wah Firefly by Jerry Cantrell has a dark and muscular setting. Deep and rough grain, pronounced mids, never harsh highs: it captures the spirit of Alice in Chains sounds, from grunge to metal, with true bypass when off.
Free pedal: the MXR Super Badass Dynamic Overdrive. Gain, Tone and Output, plus a Boost control adding volume and presence and a Mid Cut that softens the mids. You go from a clean boost to a nervous crunch with the same pedal.
The Cry Baby Daredevil Fuzz Wah combines the wah with a house fuzz, refined over years by Johnny Wator. An external switch engages the fuzz, two internal trimmers adjust its gain and level. From muscular blues rock to stoner, it shifts from a sharp riff to a screaming solo.
Free pedal: the Way Huge Super Terrific Overdrive. An overdrive inspired by Nashville sounds, in the compact Smalls format: a singing drive, rich in harmonics, that keeps chords clear in the mix.
The Cry Baby Akira Takasaki carries the signature of the Loudness guitarist. Its frequency sweep goes lower to thicken rhythms, and a switchable fuzz is added to the wah. In auto-return mode, the wah activates as soon as you press and cuts off when you release.
Free pedal: the MXR Gran Torino Boost Overdrive, limited edition. A Boost mode to push an amp already on the edge of saturation, an Overdrive mode for a present but articulated drive, and a 3-band EQ to place the guitar in the mix.
The Cry Baby Eric Clapton celebrates the guitaristâs 60-year career in a gold-plated chassis. Underneath, the GCB95 sound DNA, true bypass, battery or 9 V power supply. A vocal wah with expressive mids, made for blues-rock and singing solos.
Free pedal: the MXR EG74 Raw Dawg, Eric Galesâ signature. Three knobs (Output, Tone, Drive), mini format and true hardwire bypass: it works both as an always-on pedal and a push-amp.
Wah then overdrive, or the other way around? Placed before distortion, the wah sweeps a clean sound that the overdrive then thickens. Placed after, it sounds wider and more marked. Try both orders before fixing your pedalboard.
Boost, overdrive and fuzz: three duos to toughen the sound
Change of family. Here, the purchased pedal saturates or pushes the signal, and the free pedal opens another door: a phaser, a vintage fuzz, a routing tool.
The Double Down, a collaboration between MXR and Third Man Hardware, combines two independent Micro Amp boosts in a single box. One level for rhythms, another for solos, or one setting per instrument: the boost stays clean and pushes the amp without altering the sound.
Free pedal: the MXR Wylde Audio Phase, a tribute to MXR phasers signed by Zakk Wylde. A single Speed knob controls the rate, from slow sweep to tight pulse. Before the overdrive the movement stays organic, after it becomes more pronounced.
The Dookie Drive 30th Anniversary celebrates the thirty years of Green Dayâs album. Two gain circuits you can blend on the fly, like two amps mixed: the recipe for Billie Joe Armstrongâs sound in 1994, for pop-punk, punk rock and 90s alternative.
Free pedal: the Dunlop Jimi Hendrix Shrine Band Of Gypsys Fuzz. It recreates Hendrixâs fuzz on stage in 1969 and 1970, in a mini format, with two controls: Volume and Fuzz. The guitarâs volume knob is enough to go from smooth crunch to roaring fuzz.
The Stone Burner adds a controllable sub-octave layer to a massive fuzz. The Sub1/Sub2 switch drops one or two octaves, for stoner, doom or sludge riffs, and even synth-like textures on a bass.
Free pedal: the MXR M231 TRS Split + Tap Tempo. A passive TRS splitter to manage a stereo chain or feed two amps, and a tap tempo to foot-sync delays and tremolos.
Modulation and echo: effect pedals that make the sound move
Three pedals to finish, and three ways to add movement to the signal: rotation, phaser and echo. The free pedals, however, go back to saturation.
The Attack Vector from Way Huge combines a phaser and an envelope filter (an auto-wah that reacts to attack). Four controls, Speed, Fdbk, Sens and Range, and a selector to play one, the other or both stacked. Funk, disco, neo-soul: it works equally well on guitar and bass.
Free pedal: the Way Huge WM31 Supa Lead. An overdrive with a stack temperament, focused on mids, with a good volume reserve. On a clean amp setting, it recovers the grain and compression of a pushed tube amp.
The Rotovibe JD-4S houses the spirit of rotary speakers and the Uni-Vibe in a wah chassis. The foot controls rotation speed, a Depth knob controls amplitude, and a selector switches between Vibrato and Chorus. The movement from Hendrixâs recordings, under your foot.
Free pedal: the Way Huge KRHCN1065 Overdrive, heir to the Saucy Box. It blends a clean path and a saturated path, from boost to smooth crunch, with a passive Tone that rounds the highs.
The Joshua Ambient Echo condenses the echoes of the 60s to 80s into one pedal, which used to be found in racks. Multi-echo, Voice section adding airy pads, tap tempo and subdivisions: from dotted eighth delays to ambient and post-rock textures.
Free pedal: the MXR Hybrid Fuzz. Its circuit combines a silicon transistor and a germanium transistor, in the tradition of Fuzz Face. Two knobs for level and fuzz amount, and the rest is controlled by touch and guitar volume.
Several pedals in the selection are limited editions or signature series: the Dookie Drive 30th Anniversary, the gold-plated Eric Clapton Cry Baby, or the Gran Torino among the free pedals. The offer lasts while stocks last, so better not wait too long if a pair catches your eye.
Eleven pedals, eleven gifts, and a total of twenty-two effects covering wah, saturation, modulation and echo. If a wah has been on your mind for a while, nowâs the time to find an overdrive to go with it. And if your board seems complete, the Stone Burner and its free tap tempo give a good reason to reorganize it!
