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New Pedal: Monger Pedals The Little Guy Fuzz/Phaser

May 11, 2026

Monger Pedals The Little Guy

Monger Pedals named it the Little Guy. Probably to lower your expectations before it melts your face off.

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Updated Pedal: IK Multimedia TONEX ONE+

The original TONEX ONE (blurb below) was already a marvel: AI Machine Modeling, hyper-realistic amp captures, and a full rig's worth of tones in a box barely larger than a matchbook. But it had one glaring limitation. To edit presets, load new Tone Models, or organize your sounds, you needed…Click on the title for more

Updated Pedal: IK Multimedia TONEX ONE+

Win a Ton of Gear via our Best Pedals for Synth Video Series!

This isn't just a giveaway. It's the spoils of our deep dive into the best pedals for synths.Click on the title for more

Win a Ton of Gear via our Best Pedals for Synth Video Series!

New Pedals: JHS Bit Cusher, Glitch Delay and Ring Modulator

JHS has expanded its 3 Series line with three new pedals: the Bit Crusher, the Glitch Delay, and the Ring Modulator. Each follows the 3 Series formula of three knobs, one toggle, and a $99 price tag, but the sounds inside are anything but basic. Bit Crusher The Bit Crusher…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: JHS Bit Cusher, Glitch Delay and Ring Modulator

New Pedal: ThorpyFX Kudu Overdrive

How many different types of overdrives can one Englishman churn out? Adrian Thorpy seems determined to find out. The ThorpyFX Kudu started as a modified circuit gifted to Thorpy by Dan Coggins—the legendary Lovetone wizard who's been making guitarists poor since the 90s. Coggins handed over a tweaked classic at…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: ThorpyFX Kudu Overdrive

New Pedal: Empress Effects Drive

Empress Effects, a Canadian builder known for making pedals for people who read manuals for fun, hasn't entirely shied away from dirt boxes: their Heavy Menace is a precision kill box. But a loose, interactive overdrive? That seemed beneath them. Until they patched a discontinued Germ Drive circuit into the…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Empress Effects Drive

The 13 Best Pedals for Synths (One for Each Type of Effect) in 2026

Three years ago, we made a plan. Ten videos with synth influencer Liam Killen, breaking down the best synth pedals by effect type. Nice and tidy. What could go wrong?. Everything. In the best way possible. That tidy little series spiraled into a two-and-a-half-year obsession. We dove into multi-modulation, got…Click on the title for more

The 13 Best Pedals for Synths (One for Each Type of Effect) in 2026

New Pedal: Catalinbread Clean Little Secret

Portland's Catalinbread built its reputation on the Dirty Little Secret, a Marshall-in-a-box that conquered high-gain British roar. But every coin has a flip side. the Clean Little Secret is that flip, a low-gain foundation overdrive inspired by the Bluesbreaker, the combo amp that basically invented the "edge of breakup" before…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Catalinbread Clean Little Secret

New Pedal: Chase Bliss Big Time Stereo Delay

A thousand dollars. For a delay pedal. Let that sink in. Here's the thing, though. Joel Korte and his team and John Snyder (Electronic Audio Experiments) have built something that actually justifies the price tag. The Chase Bliss Big Time isn't another digital delay with fancy marketing. It's a painstaking…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Chase Bliss Big Time Stereo Delay

New Pedal: Tsakalis AC Master Boost + Overdrive

Athens isn't the first place you think of when someone says "cranked British amp." But Tsakalis AudioWorks is making a strong case for reconsidering that assumption. The AC Master is two classic circuits sharing a single enclosure: a VOX AC30 Top Boost overdrive and a Rangemaster-style treble booster. Not a…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Tsakalis AC Master Boost + Overdrive

New Pedal: Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi 2 with Tone Wicker

The Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi 2 with Tone Wicker is not a polite fuzz. The "Tone Wicker" isn't a gentle EQ boost; it is a set of sonic bolt cutters designed to rip the blankets off your amplifier. The NYC builder pioneered this feature to solve the Big Muff’s most…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi 2 with Tone Wicker

New Pedal: Strymon Canoga Silicon Fuzz

Strymon built a reputation on digital wizardry—big boxes, deep menus, endless presets. But behind all that DSP lives an analog team that's been quietly designing circuits nobody gets to see. Times are a-changing. The Series A line is the company's outlet for analog dirt boxes. No MIDI. No USB. No…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Strymon Canoga Silicon Fuzz

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The Best Guitar Pedals (Organized by Effect Type)