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Fender Hammertone Reverb

The Fender Hammertone Reverb is a part of the new affordable line of pedals released by the electric guitar company in early 2022. The US company put out some interesting, more involved reverb pedals in the last few years but we don’t know if this $99 pedal inherits anything from those…Click on the title for more

Fender Hammertone Reverb

Electro-Harmonix Mel9 Tape Replay Machine

Upon hearing the capabilities of the new Electro-Harmonix Mel9 Tape Replay Machine Mellotron simulator pedal, the thought that immediately came to mind was that guitar players might finally have a fair shot at landing some film, TV, and video game scoring work. Historically, MIDI has always given an unfair advantage…Click on the title for more

Electro-Harmonix Mel9 Tape Replay Machine

One Control Silver Bee 4K Mini Overdrive

The One Control Silver Bee 4K Mini is a shrunken version of the "regular" Silver Bee, a version of the Honey Beevoiced after classic American "silvery" combo amps, the kind of gear that had a helping hand in crafting some of the world's finest rock records. It has the same…Click on the title for more

One Control Silver Bee 4K Mini Overdrive

Best New Pedals 2023 | March Edition

We had a pretty exciting month last month in the pedal release realm, with a mix of releases from the inspiring but pricey to the super affordable but intriguing. Chase Bliss and Beetronics stole the scene with, respectively, a significant update to their ambient looper + reverb pedal, and a…Click on the title for more

Best New Pedals 2023 | March Edition

BSRI Floriography/EVT Dynamic Tremolo

The BSRI Floriography, which was named EVT before 2023, is a boutique tremolo handbuilt in Baltimore with an amplitude and a dynamic mode. The dynamic mode is based on a mysterious Japanese pedal purchased (and then sold) in the early aughts by company owner David Gill, that increased the speed of…Click on the title for more

BSRI Floriography/EVT Dynamic Tremolo

Defects FX Dirty Filter

The Defects FX Dirty Filter is a very tweakable, limited edition resonant fuzz + filter (in that order) hailing from Prague, where it's lovingly hand-built. Each effect has its separate footswitch, but the filter gets the lion's share of the controls, with knobs for Frequency, Filter Type (bypass, low-pass and…Click on the title for more

Defects FX Dirty Filter

Way Huge Supa-Puss Analog Delay

The Way Huge Supa-Puss is a fully featured modulated analog delay with Tap Tempo, subdivisions, and several fine-tuning options, including Tone and Mix knobs and EXP In. The “out there” Chase mode gets your repeats to cycle through each of the subdivision values. Holding the Tap Tempo button enables…Click on the title for more

Way Huge Supa-Puss Analog Delay

LPD Pedals Dutch² Dual Overdrive

The LPD Pedals Dutch² is the latest dual overdrive circuit by what's probably one of the most prolific boutique pedal companies of the decade. It's a dual version of a one-channel limited version pedal that you won't easily find in the second-hand market, whose tone is described by some as…Click on the title for more

LPD Pedals Dutch² Dual Overdrive

Keeley + Pedal Partners Realizer Reverb

For those into the musical genre known as Shoegazer, "heavenly" pink is not a color like any other. It's the color of My Bloody Valentine's masterpiece shoegazer record, Loveless, a gritty yet mind-altering. avant-dream-pop experiment that took years in the making and pretty much invented a new genre - incidentally,…Click on the title for more

Keeley + Pedal Partners Realizer Reverb

Fjord Fuzz Hedda

The Fjord Fuzz Hedda is a two-knob Fuzz Face-inspired circuit designed to sound as dynamic as possible - which is not exactly a common thing for fuzz pedals, since they tend to sound extremely compressed. Company owner and engineer Daniel Thornhill, who's been focused for ten years to this date…Click on the title for more

Fjord Fuzz Hedda

New Pedal: October Audio MNTNS Phaser

Hand-built in Richmond VA, the October Audio MNTNS is an analog, OTA-based, variable stage phaser with vibrato and gain modes inspired by the classic effects heard in the best records of the '70s. While the two large black knobs allow controlling the circuit's Rate and Gain (i.e. a JFET op-amp…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: October Audio MNTNS Phaser

Catalinbread STS-88 Flanger + Reverb

The Catalinbread STS-88 is a flange + reverb compact pedal by the Portland builder, whose engineering team, apparently, has a true passion for flangers. The STS-88's circuit was created after countless hours spent researching and playing with the most established flanger pedals, with the intent of designing a pedal with…Click on the title for more

Catalinbread STS-88 Flanger + Reverb