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Maxon 40th Anniversary Keeley Modded OD808-40K
Venerable Japanese pedal builder Maxon, responsible for the very first Tube Screamers (company owner Nisshin Onpa designed and manufactured the TS-808/TS808 and TS9 for Ibanez from 1974 until 2002) is...
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New Pedals: Seymour Duncan Diamondhead Distortion and Boost
Seymour Duncan may be famous for its guitar pickups, but it has always been manufacturing also guitar pedals, and in the last few years the builder has put a lot of resources in this niche, coming up...
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Fender Lost Highway Phaser
For Fender, NAMM 2019 was the year of modulation pedals: they unveiled three of them, all sharing a few features with each other. Like a Rotary pedal, the Highway has two footswitchable speeds, each...
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Now Shipping: Keeley Electronics Eccos Stereo Delay/Looper
We first saw a prototype of the Eccos Delay by Keeley Electronics at Winter NAMM 2019. The pedal took a while to be finalized for shipping, probably because of the complex digital algorythms that...
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New Pedals: JHS Colour Box V2
The JHS Colour Box was born in 2014 as a pedal that allows guitarists to recreate through a simple stompbox the classic sound and tonal palette of a guitar plugged directly into the preamp of a...
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Rainger FX Drone Rainger Delay
Featuring one full second of delay time, Rainger FX’s Drone Ranger Digital Delay gives you a boatload of options from one of the craziest minds in the game: the UK’s David Rainger. Two individual...
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Now Shipping: Wampler Terraform Multi-Modulation Pedal
Wampler shared the first new of the Terraform at NAMM 2019 (and came to our booth to shoot a video as well, see below). It took almost a whole year to see this multi-mode, stereo, digital modulation...
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New Pedal: Strymon Iridium Amp & IR Cab
One may say that black is the color favored by rockers. Although the Flint gets close to it with a very dark gray, a truly black pedal was missing from the collection of Strymon devices until today,...
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Gamechanger Audio/Third Man Records Plasma Coil Distortion/Octaver
Everyone closely following the stompbox “scene” should be aware of Latvian builder Gamechanger Audio’s intriguing devices. The Plasma Distortion is an original design that employs “a series of...
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Maxon 40th Anniversary Catalinbread Modded OD808-40C
2019 marks the 40th anniversary of the granddaddy of all overdrive pedals, the OD808. Maxon (via their US distributor Godlyke) reached out to four industry stalwarts and newcomers alike to develop...
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TC Electronic June-60 Chorus
The June-60 by TC Electronic is based off of the chorus found in Roland’s revered Juno synthesizers. Perfect for classic ’80s chorus sounds, this effect has a set of controls that could not be...
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Source Audio Collider Delay + Reverb
The Ventris Reverb and Nemesis Delay are two of the most popular pedals built by Boston’s Source Audio, so the idea to mix and match algorhythms of both devices in a single Delay+Reverb stompbox seems...
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First Mini Synth Pedal: Mooer E7 Polyphonic Synth Micro Pedal
Since we posted this article about the best synth pedals a few weeks ago, we’ve had a series of releases of new products belonging to that category, and today’s announcement by Chinese manufacturer...
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Best Dumble-Style (or D-Style) Pedals of 2019 – Compare Tone and Prices!
This article was updated on November, 20, 2020. — Most of us will never get to play through an original Dumble amp, and in all likelihood, nobody reading this article will ever own one. Dumble tone...
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New Pedals: J. Rockett Audio Designs HRM (Hot Rubber Monkey) D-Style Overdrive
A few months ago, in this uber-thorough article, we’ve covered in-depth the increasingly popular niche of overdrive pedal emulating the legendary Dumble amps. Nashville builder J. Rockett Audio, a...
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BOSS MD-200 Modulation Multi-Mode Pedal
It’s pretty amazing how, while most pedal manufacturers work on one stompbox at a time and rarely release more than one product every few months, BOSS is so ahead of the game that they can afford the...
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Seymour Duncan Diamondhead Distortion and Boost
Seymour Duncan may be famous for its guitar pickups, but it has always been manufacturing also guitar pedals, and in the last few years the builder has put a lot of resources in this niche, coming up...
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JAM Pedals Ripply Fall Chorus/Phaser/Vibrato
The Jam Pedals Ripply Fall is a Chorus/Phaser/Vibrato that combines the company’s WaterFall and Ripple circuits and that gained a Editor’s Choice recognition from Premier Guitar. The circuits are...
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TWA Side Step LFO Expression Pedal
While almost every guitar player owns an Expression pedal, Expression controllers are a rather overlooked format in the stompbox world, and they shouldn’t be, because they have the magic power of...
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Dropping Acid Pedal Etching #rip boost
Dropping Acid Pedal Etching is a small builder that, up until now, was mostly busy modding and recreating effect circuits made popular by other manufacturers. The #rip, an LM386 based Op-Amp...
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