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Lovepedal Purple Plexi

The Marshall Plexi is one of the most beloved and iconic amplifiers of all times, and while many manufacturers have tried to harness this Marshall monster in a compact stompbox format, few have been able to successfully pull off the character that give it that magical quality. Lovepedal’s Purple Plexi…Click on the title for more

Lovepedal Purple Plexi

Pine-Box Custom The Skin-Walker

Pine-Box Custom is a Memphis based pedal builder that specializes in gain pedals and fuzzes featuring illustrations of screaming old white men at times featuring sea creatures in their mouths (it's true!). The Skin-Walker is their new release for 2019 and it's a take on the Tone Bender circuit with added…Click on the title for more

Pine-Box Custom The Skin-Walker

Swindler Effects Iron Drive

The Swindler Effects Iron Drive belongs to a series of devices the Alabama based manufacturers built in collaboration with NYC's Matt Kraus. The series is named Functionalist Design as an homage to the design principles of German industrial designer Dieter Rams, who advocated for better, more functional and less obtrusive consumer…Click on the title for more

Swindler Effects Iron Drive

Morley Mini Volume Plus

Morley Pedals has been building quality effects for over half a century, becoming an industry standard in the niche of treadle-style stompboxes like wah-wahs and volume pedals. The board-friendly Mini Volume Plus is a shrunken version of the regular Volume Plus, and features the same active, Electro-Optical circuitry and audio taper, generating…Click on the title for more

Morley Mini Volume Plus

Stone Deaf FX Syncopy Analog Delay

UK’s Stone Deaf Effects & Amplification have unveiled the new Syncopy Analog Delay, which is now shipping. Designed for analog purists, the Syncopy is an analog delay with 500mS of pristine and four presets that can be expanded via MIDI. What the pedal lacks in delay length it more than makes…Click on the title for more

Stone Deaf FX Syncopy Analog Delay

JHS’s Top 10 Pedals of 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH5NHMPAvZg&t=9s Did you have time to digest our latest Best of 2018 Pedal list? We hope so, because we've got another one for you, and this time from none other than Mr. JHS! It's truly awesome to see so much passion for "stompbable circuitry" and admiration for fellow manufacturers from…Click on the title for more

JHS’s Top 10 Pedals of 2018

Stone Deaf Tremotron Analog Tremolo

Here's a new video of the Stone Deaf FX Tremotron, a dual analog tremolo with tap tempo and MIDI connectivity. "With individual controls of Depth, Rate and Wave Shape, Tremotron gives you the ability to set each tremolo at different speeds or automatically sync in time with each other using the…Click on the title for more

Stone Deaf Tremotron Analog Tremolo

Best Stompboxes of 2018 according to Dennis Kayzer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTe84hYtano Dennis Kayzer's year-end pedal lists are always very interesting because the guy's into unusual sounding devices - you won't find much in term of dirt boxes or subtle tone enhancers in them. He's been that way for his whole "YouTube life," anticipating a taste for creative stompboxes that…Click on the title for more

Best Stompboxes of 2018 according to Dennis Kayzer

Delicious Audio’s Stompbox Booth (#3231 and #3424) hosts 24 pedal builders

Sponsored by: After a rather mind-blowing NAMM 2018, the Delicious Audio's Stompbox Booth will return at NAMM 2019, bigger and better in Hall D at booth #3231 - the same spot you found us in the 2018 edition - with an extension on booth #3424! This year we'll have our biggest space to…Click on the title for more

Delicious Audio’s Stompbox Booth (#3231 and #3424) hosts 24 pedal builders

Keeley unveils 10 new limited edition X-Pedals

Robert Keeley just announced in this Facebook post the release of 10 new limited edition pedals under the series "X-Pedals." The stompboxes share simple graphics, red power leds (instead of the traditional blue ones) - only 30 copies of each will see the day of light. Currently there isn't any…Click on the title for more

Keeley unveils 10 new limited edition X-Pedals

Electro-Harmonix Sovtek Deluxe Big Muff Pi

Another device belonging to the never-ending Muff saga, the Sovtek Deluxe Big Muff Pi is presented by Mike Matthews as a pedal that “delivers the devastating low end, crisp highs and non-scooped mids players love in the Civil War and Tall Font Green Russian with the powerful sound shaping control of…Click on the title for more

Electro-Harmonix Sovtek Deluxe Big Muff Pi

Blac Rabbit’s Pedals and Creative Process

Psych rock is a genre that can encompass a spectrum of sounds ranging from pop-oriented songs to less-defined and at times downright chaotic jams. Risen to semi-celebrity status in NYC through busking in the subway to the tune of songs by the Beatles, Rockaway Beach, New York's Blac Rabbit create music that…Click on the title for more

Blac Rabbit’s Pedals and Creative Process