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BOSS DD-3T Digital Delay

BOSS has been at the forefront of digital delays since the early days, and even now that the field is crowded with many excellent competitors, the Japanese company doesn't miss a beat with updates and new, powerful designs (see the recent DD-200). If the DD-200 was a brand new, fully-featured…Click on the title for more

BOSS DD-3T Digital Delay

Dwarfcraft Devices Hax 2 Ring Modulator

During NAMM 2018 Ben from Dwarfcraft Devices came to see us at our Stompbox Booth to shoot the video of the Hax 2 you can see at the bottom of this post (we kept the blurb we wrote at the time, under this one). The pedal is finally officially out and…Click on the title for more

Dwarfcraft Devices Hax 2 Ring Modulator

Hungry Robot Pedals: The Lumen

It's somewhat unexpected to see a new dirt box from Hungry Robot Pedals, a boutique manufacturer that has built its reputation through creative effects ranging from the spacey to the synthy. But The Lumen, a FET-based overdrive, is a device that still bears Hungry Robot's trademark quirkiness, in particular thanks…Click on the title for more

Hungry Robot Pedals: The Lumen

Dunable Eidolon Boost + Delay + Reverb

The many guitarists who play genres too fast to allow them to stomp on more than one pedal before their solos should take a look at the Dunable Eidolon, a compact-ish multi-effect device that allows you to get your rhythm and lead tone in one stomp, with an added wetness…Click on the title for more

Dunable Eidolon Boost + Delay + Reverb

Ground FX Keto Double Chorus

The new course of modulation pedals seems to be consisting of "doubling" the effect, and the Keto Double Chorus, by German builder Ground FX, goes exactly in this direction. The two choruses share Room, Delay and Volume knobs but have separate controls for Rate and Depth, and feature separate footswitches.…Click on the title for more

Ground FX Keto Double Chorus

Friedman BE-OD

The Friedman BE-OD is a popular and highly regarded emulation of a high-gain JCM amp, from a builder that's grown a stellar reputation for manufacturing great-sounding Marshall-style amps (the pedal is said to be a compact version of the Friedman BE100 amp). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtks9lbq5FM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVotKbmlDic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yx3KkT63uI The BE-OD overdrive pedal captures…Click on the title for more

Friedman BE-OD

Catalinbread Blood Donor Fuzz

An updated mod of the company's Katzenkonig, the Catalinbread Blood Donor is the fuzzy circuit marriage of a Tone Bender MKII and a Pro Co Rat, reimagined. Besides improving the pedal's noise floor compared to the original, the company mostly focused on making it more extreme and flexible at once:…Click on the title for more

Catalinbread Blood Donor Fuzz

Electrofoods ULTD Germ Warfare Germanium Boost

We'll let the expert YouTube demo-man Ryan describe what this new germanium boost from Electrofoods does and how it sounds: The Germ Warfare is a germanium boost that does a lot more than just slam your signal and add distortion. You can use the intuitive EQ to brighten a muddy…Click on the title for more

Electrofoods ULTD Germ Warfare Germanium Boost

Alexander Pedals Syntax Error

This is a quirky, creative sampling audio mangling stompbox by Alexander Pedals that got a lot of attention at Summer NAMM. An enhanced "Arcade Game" style effect inspired by the 8-bit sounds of the early videogames, the Syntax Error delivers grainy, lo-bit tones reminiscent of vintage videogames, and includes many…Click on the title for more

Alexander Pedals Syntax Error

Torino Audio Crumble Germanium Fuzz

Torino Audio is a new pedal builder based in Italy that's getting a fair amount of attention from pedal YouTubers. The company's debut line of pedals is described as "Organic" because they have no integrated circuits, no buffers nor digital processing. The Crumble is presented as a pedal that stands…Click on the title for more

Torino Audio Crumble Germanium Fuzz

Big Ear Pedals Loaf Fuzz

The Loaf by BIG EAR Pedals, (a builder previously known as Big Ear NYC, but now based in Nashville) is a fuzz loved by many. Unlike most pedals in the fuzz niche, it reigns in the gain and provides a less brittle, more low-end-rich sound, tweakable through a Tone knob.…Click on the title for more

Big Ear Pedals Loaf Fuzz

Bondi Effects Breakers Overdrive

Pedal geeks might be familiar with Australian stompbox manufacturer Bondi Effects for their popular Sick As Klon "evolution." Breakers is an overdrive released in 2017 that "started as a revision to our Del Mar Overdrive, and quickly took on a whole new character." Besides your usual controls for Level, Gain, Bass…Click on the title for more

Bondi Effects Breakers Overdrive