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Carl Martin Ottawa Optical Envelope Filter

Denmark's veteran boutique pedal builder Carl Martin released Ottawa, a 3-mode envelop filter powered by an optical circuit.... Click on the title for more

Carl Martin Ottawa Optical Envelope Filter

Flattley Solaris Pro Fuzz

This rather gorgeous-looking high-end Big Muff-style fuzz with extra boost footswitch comes from Gloucester, UK's Flatley Pedals, and it's called Solaris Pro.... Click on the title for more

Flattley Solaris Pro Fuzz

Win Hologram Microcosm, Modal Disruption + Hosa Cables! [ENDED]

Every now and then a pedal comes along that disrupts guitarists' minds (and finances).... Click on the title for more

Win Hologram Microcosm, Modal Disruption + Hosa Cables! [ENDED]

Vertex Steel String Supreme, D-Style Drive

D-Style overdrives - i.e. pedals recreating the tone of the legendary Dumble amps - are becoming so looked after that their buzz is currently getting very close to Klon Centaur levels.... Click on the title for more

Vertex Steel String Supreme, D-Style Drive

Crazy Tube Circuits Cyclone phaser

Greek pedal builder Crazy Tube Circuits just released the Cyclone, an analog, multi-mode, tap tempo-enabled phaser pedal that emulates four classic vintage phasers.... Click on the title for more

Crazy Tube Circuits Cyclone phaser

Jackson Audio Bloom V2 Compressor/EQ

In the last couple of years, innovation in the pedal realm has been mostly about fitting in a compact enclosure what in previous years would fit in larger cases. However, a handful of companies went beyond that goal, and Houston's Jackson Audio belongs to that shortlist. Their Bloom v2 can be easily categorized as a next-gen utility box.... Click on the title for more

Jackson Audio Bloom V2 Compressor/EQ

Vaderin Pedals HP-X Harmonic Percolator-style Fuzz

Estimators of the vintage Harmonic Percolator now have a new option to get that venerable fuzz sound in their sonic arsenal: the Vaderin Pedals HP-X.... Click on the title for more

Vaderin Pedals HP-X Harmonic Percolator-style Fuzz

Win a Novation Circuit Tracks (LA Synth & Pedal Expo Promo) [ENDED]

To celebrate the upcoming, free, outdoors (!!!) Los Angeles Synth & Pedal Expo we are giving away this outstanding standalone groovebox from Novation, the Circuit Tracks, to the luckiest of our readers!... Click on the title for more

Win a Novation Circuit Tracks (LA Synth & Pedal Expo Promo) [ENDED]

FC07 Flamma Drive Mini Overdrive

The Drive by Flamma is a simple, affordable, good-sounding mini-overdrive pedal with two voicings, accessible through a toggle switch.... Click on the title for more

FC07 Flamma Drive Mini Overdrive

TC Electronic ZEUS Drive

Music Tribes' TC Electronic just unveiled another pedal from their new series of affordable mini-stompboxes, the ZEUS Drive, which, from the sound of it, seems to be at least in part intended to deliver Klon-style gain goodness at a decimal fraction of the cost.... Click on the title for more

TC Electronic ZEUS Drive

Drolo Stamme[n] V4 Glitch Pedal

The Drolo Stamme[n] is a rather unique, Belgium-made granular looper/creative reverb with Tap Tempo that's now in its fourth version.... Click on the title for more

Drolo Stamme[n] V4 Glitch Pedal

Stone Deaf FX Warp Drive

Since its inception in 2010, Manchester, UK based Stone Deaf FX has been able to stand out from the pack of new stompbox manufacturers by offering effects at once quirky looking, edgy sounding and overall inspiring.... Click on the title for more

Stone Deaf FX Warp Drive