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Delicious Giveaway: Win THREE Danelectro Pedals!

From a company with a history of unique and often playful designs come three new stompboxes that can add a creative palette of sonic colors to any pedalboard in need of a new spark. This week we give our readers the chance to win these three pedals from Danelectro: 3699…Click on the title for more

Delicious Giveaway: Win THREE Danelectro Pedals!

Fender Lost Highway Phaser

For Fender, NAMM 2019 was the year of modulation pedals: they unveiled three of them, all sharing a few features with each other. Like a Rotary pedal, the Highway has two footswitchable speeds, each separately adjustable through separate rate and depth knobs. There are also controls for Blend, Feedback and Sens…Click on the title for more

Fender Lost Highway Phaser

Toronto Pedal & Synth Expo draws 1,000 to Downtown Basement

On the weekend of November 9-10, the second edition of our Toronto Stompbox Exhibit and Synth Expo (aka the Pedal and Synth Expo) brought over 1,000 musicians to a downtown basement for an event filled with discovery and educational opportunities. We uploaded hundreds of pictures of the show here (pedals)…Click on the title for more

Toronto Pedal & Synth Expo draws 1,000 to Downtown Basement

Mr Black OD-503 Dynamic Amplifier Overdrive

Mini pedals aren't necessarily made in China with cheap components. As a matter of fact, several US-based boutique manufacturers have embraced the format and build them by hand with the best components without outsourcing; Portland's MR. Black is one of them. Their latest mini stompbox is the OD-503, a low…Click on the title for more

Mr Black OD-503 Dynamic Amplifier Overdrive

JHS Cheese Ball Fuzz

Some pedal circuits are able to capture the ear of guitarists (and in this case also bassists) in ways that others can't. The British Lovetone Big Cheese, one of the first hand-wired boutique fuzz of the '90s, had the ability to do just that for iconic personalities like The Edge…Click on the title for more

JHS Cheese Ball Fuzz

G-Lab Uproar Fuzz

G-Lab (aka "Guitar Laboratory") is a Polish company dedicated to pedalboards, Power Supplies, and also pedals, who just released a series of very streamlined line of effects called "Rebel" (divided in Analog Rebel and Digital Rebel). The Uproar Fuzz (also called UF-1) belongs to the analog side of things and,…Click on the title for more

G-Lab Uproar Fuzz

Magnetic Effects Electrochop Optical Tremolo

Here's a new version of the Electrochop by UK manufacturer Magnetic Effects. This is a tap tempo enabled optical tremolo with ten waveforms, including Ramp Up, Ramp Down, Square, Triangle and Sine. Pressing the WHITE button above the WAVE control allows you to select alternate versions of each waveform. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F_LLIDPwUk…Click on the title for more

Magnetic Effects Electrochop Optical Tremolo

UME OverUnity Dynamic Drive

From Australia comes the UME debut pedal: the OverUnity Dynamic Drive, a hand-built, analog, uber-flexible overdrive-with-boost "designed to enhance your natural playing style by allowing for both greater dynamic expression and improved tone." It features an original circuit (file under the rare #notaclone tag!) with a range of gain…Click on the title for more

UME OverUnity Dynamic Drive

Tech 21 Fly Rig 5 V2

NYC's Tech 21 was the first company to introduce the idea of a skinny, light, all in one, analog, portable pedal "bar" featuring all the essential effects for the average guitarist. Created with travel in mind, the Fly Rig 5 was the first product of a series that went on…Click on the title for more

Tech 21 Fly Rig 5 V2

Beetronics BUZZTER Dual Preamp Boost

People say that life stops in Brasil during the soccer world cup, but, evidently, that doesn't apply for Brazilian (via Los Angeles) pedal manufacturer Beetronics. The company unveiled this new double Boost pedal, called Buzzter, smack in the middle of the championship's intense tournament phase. The pedal was created with…Click on the title for more

Beetronics BUZZTER Dual Preamp Boost

Win a Bunch of Pedals through the Toronto Stompbox Exhibit! (Canada Only) [ended]

Canada, oh, Canada, we've got an awesome stompbox giveaway all for you! To celebrate the upcoming (and FREE with RSVP) Toronto Stompbox Exhibit we have put together a radical collection of effects and pedal-related gear that will be handed to one of our lucky readers! Here's the list of the…Click on the title for more

Win a Bunch of Pedals through the Toronto Stompbox Exhibit! (Canada Only) [ended]

Electrofoods Rad Sickness Boost + EQ

The Electrofoods Rad Sickness is presented by the manufacturer as a boost with flexible three band EQ utility pedal which can offer a variety of sonic services like: shape your EQ heading into a one-knob fuzz, perk up a dark overdrive, breathe new life into your favorite dirtbox, or add…Click on the title for more

Electrofoods Rad Sickness Boost + EQ