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API Audio TranZformer CMP Compressor

It's not unusual to find the words "studio-quality" associated with guitar pedals like reverbs or compressors. However, very few pedal builders have much experience building gear that's actually made for the studio. That's not the case for API Audio, a pro audio company that specializes in mixing consoles and channel…Click on the title for more

API Audio TranZformer CMP Compressor

Victory The Kraken V4 Preamp Pedal

Those in need of a helluva portable, two-channel tube preamp for heavy tones might have found what they were looking for in the Victory Amplification The Kraken V4, a device developed in collaboration with UK's one and only Rabea Massaad and created with heavy, progressive and extended-range overdrive tones in…Click on the title for more

Victory The Kraken V4 Preamp Pedal

New Pedal: Acorn Amplifiers TMA-1 Fuzz

Operating out of Atlanta, Georgia, Acorn Amplifiers crafts hand-made amps and pedals. The TMA-1 is, to date, their most involved foray into the world of fuzz, a four-stage transistor circuit that, quite uniquely, lets you select the clipping options for two of those stages (precisely, the second and third). The…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Acorn Amplifiers TMA-1 Fuzz

Win a Launchkey MK3 from Novation!! [ENDED}

Win a Launchkey MK3 from Novation!! The Launchkey MK3 is Novation‘s intuitive and fully integrated MIDI keyboard controller for making tracks in Ableton Live and with your hardware, giving you everything you need to create and play your music. To sign up for this giveaway, go HERE. --- And the Winner Is... SonicScoop…Click on the title for more

Win a Launchkey MK3 from Novation!! [ENDED}

Win an Eventide Tricerachorus and a Rude Tech 3MuF-14! [ENDED]

At a first glance, this may seem like a regular two-pedal giveaway, right? Technically, maybe, but tone-wise... ...if you consider that the Eventide Tricerachorus is a triple (stereo) chorus and the Rude Tech 3MuF-14 gives you access to three Russian Big Muff-style tones, then the numbers start adding up to…Click on the title for more

Win an Eventide Tricerachorus and a Rude Tech 3MuF-14! [ENDED]

New Pedal: REVV G8 Noise Gate Pedal

Canadian amp and pedal builder REVV just released their first non-gain pedal, although it definitely works to solve problems created by a high gain: the G8 noise gate. This is an extremely straightforward yet versatile three-knob circuit with Threshold, Hold and Release, where the Hold control fine-tunes the feel, ensuring…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: REVV G8 Noise Gate Pedal

Free the Tone Ambi Space AS-1R Stereo Digital Reverb

The digital domain has in recent years conquered the reverb realm thanks to increasingly powerful/portable CPUs. The Free the Tone Ambi Space AS-1R Digital Reverb is a noteworthy contender in this niche. By using FTT’s original algorithm, the AMBI SPACE combines various elements to achieve a mechanism for producing complex reverberation, through…Click on the title for more

Free the Tone Ambi Space AS-1R Stereo Digital Reverb

SolidGoldFX Supa Funk Envelope Bi-Filter

Montreal is not known for producing great funk bands, but it may be known for producing great funk pedals, since its most prominent stompbox builder SolidGoldFx just unveiled a device that facilitates the creation of funk guitar tones, appropriately called Supa Funk. A fully analog, dual, automatic Envelope Filter (or…Click on the title for more

SolidGoldFX Supa Funk Envelope Bi-Filter

Dirty Haggard Beast Mountain Hi Gain Overdrive / Distortion

Beast Mountain by Portland-based Dirty Haggard is at once a band (in which the company's one-man-dude Nick plays bass) and a colorful, three-knob high-gain pedal. Built with hard rock and metal guitarists in mind, the Beast Mountain offers symmetrical and asymmetrical soft clipping with a tight low end that works…Click on the title for more

Dirty Haggard Beast Mountain Hi Gain Overdrive / Distortion

Best New Pedals | September 2021

PLEASE CHECK OUT OUR YEAR-END BEST PEDALS OF 2021 ARTICLE There goes September, and, with it, the summer of 2021! Luckily, we had some cool new pedal released last month to bring some consolation, here's our monthly recap of the best ones. As usual, we organized these "best new pedals"…Click on the title for more

Best New Pedals | September 2021

Video Coverage of the 2021 L.A. Stompbox Exhibit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owvq3r9h5jE A big THANK YOU to our friend Perfecto De Castro (who also is a pedal builder) for this amazing video covering our LA Stompbox Exhibit 2021! Here are shortcuts to the builder boards he demoed in this video: 3:24 Eventide Audio Tricerachorus, Ultratap, Blackhole 4:02 Delicious-Audio.com 4:20 Beetronics Vezzpa…Click on the title for more

Video Coverage of the 2021 L.A. Stompbox Exhibit

Blue Colander Tremond Distortion

Blue Colander is a one-dude Polish pedal maker that builds hand-made dirt boxes. The Tremond is the guy's take on the RAT-style distortion, expanded. The control that makes this pedal stand apart from your classic RAT clone is the Blend knob, which, doesn't do what you expect. In fact, instead of mixing…Click on the title for more

Blue Colander Tremond Distortion