Caroline Guitar Company is a small-batch pedal builder based in Columbia, South Carolina. Its effects take familiar starting points—fuzz, overdrive, chorus, delay and reverb—and bend them towards less predictable response, often with controls that reward playing into the circuit. The JustPedals range includes Arigato, Shigeharu, Somersault, Kilobyte and Meteore, covering saturated gain, modulation and lo-fi ambience. Caroline’s strength is character rather than generic neutrality: compare the pedal’s EQ, compression and noise floor with the rest of the rig before assuming a conventional effect label tells the whole story.