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Keeley DCR Drive + Chorus + Rotary

The Keeley DCR is a two-channel pedal with a drive on the left side and a Chorus/Flanger or Rotary/Vibrato effect on the other. The drive has a tube-style character and offers two voicing: one is full range and highly saturated and the other one providing tube-amp Crunch or lead-channel sustain…Click on the title for more

Keeley DCR Drive + Chorus + Rotary

Carl Martin EchoTone delay

Dennis Kayzer revisits a "non-portable" classic echo from Carl Martin, the Echotone. The Carl Martin Echotone! 1200 milliseconds of vintage echo, foot-switchable Tap or Manual time settings, insert loop and switchable trail function at bypass. Imagine switching from a Manual time setting to a Tap time setting right at your…Click on the title for more

Carl Martin EchoTone delay

A Q&A with Chase Bliss Audio and Meris about the CMX 1978 Automatone

Here's a vivid memory (with supporting footage) from the pre-pandemic days when people could happily congregate in crowds. At our NAMM 2019 Stompbox Booth we launched what was going to be the last ever print issue of The Deli (the precursor of the Delicious Audio magazine). It featured the results…Click on the title for more

A Q&A with Chase Bliss Audio and Meris about the CMX 1978 Automatone

Kyro Audio Dulo 830

Hailing from Bulgaria, Kyro Audio is a guitar amp manufacturer that just released a 30w pedal amp called Dulo 830 - Henning Pauly seems very excited about it (see video below). Featuring both a line out and a D.I/speaker out (XLR) with ground lift and optional cab simulation, the Dulo…Click on the title for more

Kyro Audio Dulo 830

Red Noise Butterfly Tremolo & Tonal Amusement Park

Red Noise Pedals is the project of Atlanta-based guitarist Ariel Scherbacovsky, who turned into a pedal designer after the birth of his first daughter put an end to a 10-year touring career (probably, in hindsight, a good thing, since COVID has put an end to touring, at least for a…Click on the title for more

Red Noise Butterfly Tremolo & Tonal Amusement Park

Poly Effect Beebo Multi-FX Pedal

Australian pedal maker Poly Effects has been following a unique path in its full embrace of touchscreens, which have the considerable advantage of easily allowing way more control options than knobs and switches while delivering a more visual and "organized" tweaking experience. The format of their pedals also allows you…Click on the title for more

Poly Effect Beebo Multi-FX Pedal

Electro-Harmonix 1440 Stereo Looper

Picking up where its predecessor, the 720, left off, the Electro-Harmonix 1440 Stereo Looper is a rather affordable Midi enhanced looper that offers 1440 seconds of high-quality, uncompressed, stereo recording time (twice as much as the 720) plus the ability to store 20 different loops. Hosted in a case slightly…Click on the title for more

Electro-Harmonix 1440 Stereo Looper

Crazy Tube Circuits Falcon Overdrive

The Crazy Tube Circuits Falcon Overdrive is the pedal recreation of a custom amp the Greek company built in 2016 in the attempt to "morph between the sounds of a 5E3 Tweed Deluxe and a 6G2 Brownface Princeton." Check out the video demos of this pedal, below, and a note by…Click on the title for more

Crazy Tube Circuits Falcon Overdrive

Hamstead Odyssey Intergalactic Driver

Based in Cambridge, UK, Hamstead Soundworks has built a solid reputation with their line of amps. The Odyssey Overdrive represents their debut in the realm of gain pedals (they also put out a tremolo some time ago). It's a pedal that will satisfy the "more is more" stompbox lovers since it can deliver a…Click on the title for more

Hamstead Odyssey Intergalactic Driver

StompBOX book, two new volumes about pedals

The musicphiles among you may have stumbled upon a (very cool) hardcover book about vinyl collectors called Dust & Grooves, Adventures in Record Collecting. Beautifully curated by Israeli photographer, author and DIY publisher Eilon Paz, the book came out in 2015 and was a hit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjeL7Eq-qaM In the following years,…Click on the title for more

StompBOX book, two new volumes about pedals

Korora Audio Spira (Shepard Filter Modulation Effect)

A unique pedal inspired by a rather obscure sonic phenomenon investigated by Roger Shepard in 1964 (hence called the Shepard Tone), the Spira is the debut stompbox by Seattle-based builder Korora Audio. The effect is a filter modulation pedal that "uses a bank of resonant bandpass filters to create the illusion…Click on the title for more

Korora Audio Spira (Shepard Filter Modulation Effect)

Win Three Pedals by Floating Forest through Effectopia 2020! [ended]

Floating Forest is a small pedal builder based in Long Island, NY, who placed 2nd in our 2017 Stompbox Exhibit "Best Emerging Pedal Manufacturer” Contest. To celebrate Halloween-style our upcoming online pedal expo Effectopia 2020 we are giving our readers the chance to win not one but THREE of their…Click on the title for more

Win Three Pedals by Floating Forest through Effectopia 2020! [ended]