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Win 3 Boutique Synths + Ring Controller via the London Synth Expo

Mar 9, 2026

Oi, you lot! London Synth & Pedal Expo is stomping into town March 22-23, and we're celebrating like it's 1999. Got four pieces of gear burning a hole in our pocket that need a proper home - preferably on your desk, board, or wherever you make noise.

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New Pedal: MXR EVH Modern High Gain Distortion

Let's talk Van Halen tone, folks! The old MXR EVH 5150 Overdrive is the black-and-yellow classic. MOSFET clipping, three-band EQ, that legendary boost that doesn't just push your amp - it becomes your amp. It's the brown sound in a box. The history of Van Halen from "Eruption" to "Right…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: MXR EVH Modern High Gain Distortion

New Pedal: EarthQuaker Devices Towers Reverberant Filter

EarthQuaker Devices has spent twenty years convincing us that reverb doesn't have to sit politely in the background. Afterneath sent drips cavern-dwelling. Astral Destiny went cosmic. Transmisser just… floated off somewhere. Now comes the Towers, labeled as a Stereo Reverberant Filter. Jamie Stillman is very clear: this isn't an evolution of…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: EarthQuaker Devices Towers Reverberant Filter

Updated Pedal: Harby Pedals Centauri MkII

In 1994, Bill Finnegan built eight thousand magic boxes, coated them in epoxy so nobody could peek inside, and changed guitar tone forever. Thirty years later, original Klon Centaurs trade for seven grand, and the epoxy didn't stop anyone forever—just slowed them down until 2009, when Martin Chittum finally scraped…Click on the title for more

Updated Pedal: Harby Pedals Centauri MkII

Funny Little Boxes Dirt Distortion

The Funny Little Boxes Dirt brings the crushing intensity, squalling lead tones, and chugging riffs of 90's hard rock and metal to your pedalboard. From Alice In Chains to Slipknot via Silverchair, Tool, and Tom Morello, The Dirt has all your headbanging bases covered and then some. Plug in; Switch…Click on the title for more

Funny Little Boxes Dirt Distortion

New Pedal: Beetronics Pollinator Hazee Multi-Modulated Delay

Beetronics finally went digital. After years of building analog dirt boxes in those signature hand-painted enclosures, the California-via-Brazil hive unleashed the Pollinator Hazee Delay—their first fully digital pedal . And thank fuck. Because you can't do what this does with bucket brigades and capacitors. Here's the twist: most modulated delays…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Beetronics Pollinator Hazee Multi-Modulated Delay

New Pedal: Tone King Royalist Preamp

Following the success of last year's Imperial preamp, Tone King has unveiled the Royalist: a high-voltage tube preamp pedal that distills the sound of their Royalist MKIII amplifier into a compact, pedalboard-friendly format. Where the Imperial covered American cleans, the Royalist is a full-throated tribute to the golden age of…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Tone King Royalist Preamp

New Pedal: Alexander Pedals Error XP Multi-FX Pedal

Alexander Pedals took their glitch-centric Syntax Error, shrunk it down, and added more ways to break your signal. The Syntax Error XP is the Leap Series version - smaller enclosure, same digital chaos, now with stereo ins and outs because destroying one channel of audio apparently wasn't enough. Eight modes…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Alexander Pedals Error XP Multi-FX Pedal

New Pedal: JHS Double Dragon Lo-Fi Octave Pedal

After years of building all sorts of effects pedals (but mostly overdrives and fuzzes), JHS finally entered the octave game. The Double Dragon is their first dedicated octave pedal—and they built it on forty-year-old technology. MXR Blue Box. Boss OC-2. Electro-Harmonix Micro-Synth . Those circuits that predated digital precision, that…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: JHS Double Dragon Lo-Fi Octave Pedal

Win 3 Pedals + Audio Interface via the London Synth & Pedal Expo

Heads up, UK pedalheads! We're celebrating the upcoming London Synth & Pedal Expo (March 22-23) with a proper giveaway! Three seriously cool pedals need a new home - and that home could be your board. The contenders (in strict anti-alphabetical order, because we love inconsequential subversion): Walrus Audio Qi Etherealizer…Click on the title for more

Win 3 Pedals + Audio Interface via the London Synth & Pedal Expo

New Pedal: Umbrella Company Hume

The Japan-made Umbrella Company HUME is a spatial effects pedal designed to occupy the elusive territory between delay and reverb. It emerges from a simple concept: what happens when echoes stop being distinct repeats and start dissolving into atmosphere? The answer lives in the F&V sliders—the pedal's defining control. This…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Umbrella Company Hume

New Pedal: LPD Sixty8X Overdrive

The LPD Sixty8X is a limited-edition 10th-anniversary evolution of the 2016 Sixty8 Drive. This Marshall-style overdrive and preamp preserves the original’s tonal identity while refining its internal circuitry for a more authentic 1968-inspired amplifier response. Central to the redesign is an updated phase inverter clipping circuit that more closely replicates…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: LPD Sixty8X Overdrive

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