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Korora Audio Merlo Harmonic Tremolo Now Shipping

Korora Audio, a small pedal builder out of Seattle with edgy ideas, launched at the Summer show 2019 their second effect called Merlo, a harmonic tremolo with three waveforms and an interesting coloring circuit featuring four frequency bands (rather than the usual two) all interacting with the shape of the…Click on the title for more

Korora Audio Merlo Harmonic Tremolo Now Shipping

CKK Space Station TTM Stereo Delay + Reverb + Modulation

CKK Electronic is a subdivision of Sinvertek, a Chinese company that's getting a lot of buzz for their N5+ Drive. The Space Station is their Stereo Digital Reverb + Delay + Modulation, here's the picture describing the pedal's controls. The intriguing thing about this pedal is that it can run…Click on the title for more

CKK Space Station TTM Stereo Delay + Reverb + Modulation

New Pedal (with top mounted jacks!): Mono Division Fuzz Singer

Actually*** top-mounted jacks have been an almost entirely ignored request of many pedal lovers for quite some time, probably because they make the plugging/unplugging and rerouting experience a lot easier. Mono Division is a New York-based company that just launched its first two pedals (we'll tackle the Fuzz Singer here,…Click on the title for more

New Pedal (with top mounted jacks!): Mono Division Fuzz Singer

The Monthly StompBuzz: the Hottest Pedals in October 2020

Times are ripe for our appointment with The Monthly StompBuzz, which updates our readers on the most searched pedals on our site in the previous 30 days period. The release of new pedals has picked up tremendously in October 2020 with the unveiling of some really exciting units that have…Click on the title for more

The Monthly StompBuzz: the Hottest Pedals in October 2020

OPFXS Asteroide Sampler & Harmonizer

OPFX is a small Italian builder out or La Spezia specializing in synthy pedals, and the Asteroide is their take on the Sampler/Harmonizing stompbox, i.e. the "freezing with harmonizing effect that creates organ-like droney chords from a single note. The device samples and loops a section of your signal and…Click on the title for more

OPFXS Asteroide Sampler & Harmonizer

Preorder Now: Hamstead Zenith Boost/Compressor

Here's a studio-grade clean boost/EQ/Compressor kind of swiss army knife pedal by Hamstead we missed at NAMM but found out about it through The Living Room Gear Demos: the Zenith. Lots of tone sculpting options, including a very responsive VCA compressor, configurable routing from a switch in the back, blend…Click on the title for more

Preorder Now: Hamstead Zenith Boost/Compressor

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