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New Pedal: Anasounds Dystopia Modulated Delay

The Anasounds Dystopia is a delay pedal for adventurous musicians who enjoy pushing their gear beyond its conventional use: as suggested by its name, it can transform your guitar into a noisy, unconventional tool, while pushing sonic boundaries and venturing into noise territory when pushed to the extreme. A limited…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Anasounds Dystopia Modulated Delay

TC Electronic 2290 P Digital Delay

The TC Electronic 2290 P is a modernized reissue of the the rackmount TC 2290 dynamic digital delay, which in the '80s and '90s left its pristine sonic mark in recording studios, live performances, and guitar rigs worldwide. This authentic recreation features a captivating vintage design, complete with iconic digital…Click on the title for more

TC Electronic 2290 P Digital Delay

Thermion Freeway Interface Amp

Amp and cab simulators in the shape of a pedal have been gaining momentum in the last decade, but we have never seen something quite like the Thermion Freeway, a tweaker's dream stereo preamp/USB interface/headphones amp with FX Loop and a 6-mode reverb! Looking like a Tech 21 SansAmp on…Click on the title for more

Thermion Freeway Interface Amp

New Pedal: BOSS IR-2 Amp & Cab Simulator

Although the first plugin emulating a guitar amp dates back to 1998 (Line 6's Amp Farm, whose algorithms ended up in the Pod) amp and cab simulation is a category of effect pedals that has exploded in recent years, and Japanese giant BOSS hasn't exactly been on the forefront of…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: BOSS IR-2 Amp & Cab Simulator

2023 UPDATE: Best Ring Modulator Pedals – Compare Prices + Features

Last Updated: June 14, 2022 Of all the effects for guitar out there, the ring modulator might as well rank among the least popular. Why on earth would you want your guitar to sound like this? The answer, in most cases, is: "because I'm an experimental kind of guy." A…Click on the title for more

2023 UPDATE: Best Ring Modulator Pedals – Compare Prices + Features

Keeley Noble Screamer Overdrive

The Tube Screamer and the Nobels ODR-1 have less in common than most people may expect: they are both green and they are both overdrives. But the color of the latter has often led to the misguided assumption that it was a clone of the former, while it's not. The…Click on the title for more

Keeley Noble Screamer Overdrive

Benson Delay

Portland, OR's Benson Amplification is known for their boutique amps and ingenious and innovative Germanium pedals. The Benson Delay is the company's first foray into designing a device outside the dirtbox realm. Company owner and designer Chris Benson has been working on refining this design since 2019, when he got…Click on the title for more

Benson Delay

New Pedal: BOSS RV-200 Reverb

BOSS's 200 series pedals are smaller but not necessarily less powerful versions of the Japanese company's flagship, multi-algorithm, stereo 500 series. The BOSS RV-200 (also a stereo device) is the much-anticipated shrunken version of the RV-500. Considering that its delay sibling, the DD-200, was released four years earlier, one may…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: BOSS RV-200 Reverb

Soma Cosmos Drifting Memory Station

The Soma Cosmos is a stereo pedal offering dynamic looping that evolves as you play and layer sounds. Four creative algorithms affect your sounds differently, featuring a mix of delays, reverb, and a granular mode. Five footswitches control vital parameters crossfading between on and off states. Several knobs (Blur, Drift,…Click on the title for more

Soma Cosmos Drifting Memory Station

Electronic Audio Experiments Citadel Overdrive

Based on the same topology as the company's popular Model feT (voiced after the Sunn Model T amp), the Electronic Audio Experiments Citadel is a preamp-style overdrive inspired by another amp (or rather, amp series) beloved by most electric guitarists: the Marshall Plexi. It doesn't focus its attention on a…Click on the title for more

Electronic Audio Experiments Citadel Overdrive

Chase Bliss Lossy

The Chase Bliss Lossy is a collaboration with audio plugin builder Goodhertz, and could be described as a digital version of the company's Generation Loss, informed by Goodhertz's plugin of the same name. Where Generation Loss originated as an effect intent to recreate the sonic artifact of the analog VHS…Click on the title for more

Chase Bliss Lossy

New Pedal: Intensive Care Audio Life Support

Hailing from London, UK, the Intensive Care Audio Life Support is - to quote the manufacturer's playful description mocking medical language - an "all analogue overdrive and distortion pedal for the treatment of Bland Guitar Syndrome and Excessive Aural Dryness." Or, to put things into perspective, an overdrive + boost.…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Intensive Care Audio Life Support