About twelve years after the last A/DA Flangers where produced, the first 100 new flangers built have shipped, according to a blog entry at the Analog Digital Associates website. It took over two years for David Tarnowski, the original founder of A/DA (and aka Mr. Modulation) to get the pieces in place to bring A/DA back! With the A/DA, guitarists can get effects ranging from rotating speakers, chilling vibrato, ‘jet’ sounds and resonance modification to intensified studio flanging and incredible filter matrices. The first boxes should hit retailers as soon as next week! The new A/DA Flanger is priced at around $260.

Dallas-based boutique amp builder Buffalo Amps will be exiting the business – no longer making or repairing amplifiers going forward. Rob told his friends on Facebook this week that the pressures of running the business are taking their toll and he wants to step back and concentrate on family. Rob adds that any current open orders/repairs/parts with Buffalo will be taken care of as soon as possible. Buffalo was known for its vintage Gibson-style amps… including the Country Bison pictured left… and repair work to Gibson-brand amplifiers. Good luck Rob!

The fine folks at Kingsley are hitting the market with a new pre-amp pedal next month that boasts both a clean channel and an overdrive channel. The Kingsley Juggler shares the same size enclosure as its siblings Jester and Jouster, but has full featured clean channel and a footswitchable overdrive sound. The clean channel features Volume, Treble, Middle, Bass and Clean Master controls. When in OD mode all the same controls are still active, except for the clean master which is replaced with an OD Master. Like the Jester and Jouster, the Juggler uses two 12ax7s running at high voltage. The introductory price for the Kingsley Juggler is $375.

After 15-plus years of production, the ‘70 pedal has been discontinued. That’s the message from Mike Fuller over at Fulltone. If you want the special-era Fuzzface-style tone that the ‘70 offers, you can check with your friendly Fulltone dealer who may still have a few in stock. Otherwise, it’s ebay or the buy/sell/trade forums for you! The Fulltone ‘70 came equipped with two intentionally mismatched Silicon transistors that snarl and spit. Diming the Fuzz knob, you could get all sorts of oscillation and weirdness. The ‘70 had much more fuzz than the Fulltone ‘69 Pedal and included a mid control for extra clarity and cut.

One of the stand-outs at this year’s Summer NAMM show in Nashville, Tennessee was the toneful simplicity of the quintet of effects shown off by relative newcomer AbovegroundFX. The brain-child of Francisco Pena, Aboveground offers up a handful of understated tone tools that are not as interested in making sounds you’ve never heard as they are helping craft the tone you already have. We managed to talk Francisco into sending us a pair of his new boxes – The Venue reverb and the Tone Control. Each box is straight-forward enough… but are they the right tools for the job?

Here’s a happy discovery… and I should have been tipped off by the name! Turns out one of the new Visual Sound GarageTone pedals – to officially debut at NAMM next month – is actually an updated Reverend Drivetrain II. Originally designed by Visual Sound chief Bob Weil in cooperation with Joe Naylor for Reverend back in 2000, the Reverend Drivetrain is a bit of a legend. Now, Visual Sound has repackaged and updated the Drivetrain II as part of the GarageTone line. At $50, the GarageTone Drivetrain is a no-brainer. I’m looking forward to getting my hands on one to do a comparison with the old Reverend stomp!

James over at Amptweaker has posted a few teaser images of the outfit’s first pedal offering – the TightDrive. The four-knob, uniquely-shaped stomp includes controls like Volume, Tone and Gain, but it also boasts a Tight control to adjust the attack. The stomp also sports an Effects Loop that is switchable Pre/Post and tracks along with this pedal, a Battery Switch so you don’t have to unplug the input cable, and a slide-out, side-mounted battery access tray. Audio/video sound samples of the new stomp are coming soon! Info on pricing and availability when we have it. Stay tuned!

Twister Amps is discontinuing its original F-series of amps in the early part of 2010. To exhaust its inventory of the models, the company is offering a special deal for The Gear Page members only. All F-series amps ordered between now and January 15 will be 15% off. The company’s remaining offerings – the Dust Devil, Devil’s Deluxe, and the Mean 100 will remain in the company’s active line-up. Even though these amps will still be made, Twister is offering The Gear Page members 10% off these units until January 15 as well. Check them out!

California-based Grid1 will debut the market’s first professional 60-watt tube amplifier to be powered by rechargeable lithium batteries at NAMM next month. The G1 BTD212, expected to go on sale during the first quarter, is expected to run up to six hours on its built-in batteries. The amp can also run on standard AC power. The G1 offers clean and distortion tube channels, tone controls for each channel (treble/mid/bass), a proprietary reverb circuit on both channels, and an effects send/return. The G1 measures 27” x 10” x 19”, and at 40 pounds, it weighs less than most comparable tube guitar amplifiers. Suggested retail price of the unit is $3,995.

Sean over at Lovepedal chimed in over the Christmas holiday to let the masses know that he is reissuing the ProValve stomp in 2010 in the form of the ProValve 2. The ProValve 2 is a a two channel, high gain dirt box that eliminates the need for another dedicated transparent boost unit. Vintage sounds can be had with a twist of the volume knob at the guitar or independent settings at the unit. Channel switching is silent and true, channel to channel or bypassed. About 100 of the original Provalve units were made, then Guitar Player magazine awarded it an Editor’s Pick and demand shot up. The pedal is back in the line-up with a tweaked tone control in tow!

Oregon-based Jack Deville Electronics has a three germanium transistor fuzz on the way in the form of the Buzzmaster. According to the builder, the discrete germanium design produces tones ranging from raunchy vintage overdrive to contemporary chewy-fur, even venturing into tight metal and doom territory, all while maintaining touch sensitivity, note attack and natural decay. Inspired by a classic esoteric fuzz, the pedal is hyped as sounding great on any type of guitar- especially Telecasters. You can check out the Buzzmaster in action after the jump and judge for yourself! The new Buzzmaster is available now and priced at $225.

Discontinued by Devi Ever earlier this year, FuzzHugger(fx) has licensed the White Spider dual fuzz circuit, added all new controls and now is bringing it back on the market. The White Spider features two radically different fuzz modes, and despite being high gain, the pedal is surprisingly low noise. With a main Fuzz control, an additional foot-switchable Gain control, and a clean Boost control, you can dial in the exact type of fuzz, texture, and response you want. The pedal features dual footswitch/mode, Gain, Boost, Fuzz and Level knob controls as well as true bypass switching. The White Spider is available now for $145.

Classic effects shop Pro Co will make official the reissue of their 1985 Whiteface RAT distortion pedal at the NAMM show in Anaheim next month. According to the company, they followed exact specifications, researched and found the same components, utilized the original circuit board layout, and added the essential LM308 Chip to this new version of the classic RAT. The ‘85 Whiteface RAT will be a limited issue pedal, but it is not known just how limited yet. This isn’t just a reissue of an old RAT, the company promises… this IS an old RAT. Price for the reissue is expected to be around $200. More info when we have it!

A little late with this one, but I wanted to get this out to the masses – a video demo of the new Jacques Kashmir leslie/tremolo prototype pedal. One side of the pedal is a tremolo that comes with Level and Rate 1 controls as well as a toggle control that allows you to switch between sine and square wave signals. The ‘Leslie’ side features Rate 2 and Deep controls and the square/sine toggle. This nifty box allows the user to overdrive the amp using the Level control on the pedal’s pre-amp and also de-synchronize the bass and treble signals, just like in a real Leslie rotating speaker cabinet. Check out the demo, featuring Jacques himself, after the jump!

Bill Finnegan, who since 1994 has been making the uber-popular Klon Centaur overdrive, has confirmed that the Klon Centaur is now out of production, however a successor to the unit, with the same circuit in a smaller enclosure, will make its debut sometime in 2010. What does it mean for would-be big-box horsey desirers? It means that the high-priced secondary market will be the only way to grab one of these in the future. Until the new unit hits, sit back with a cup of hot chocolate and watch the Centaur prices on ebay skyrocket!