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Walrus Audio Meraki Stereo Analog Delay

  The race to build the best stereo analog delay is on, ladies and gentlemen! The Walrus Audio Meraki joins the BOSS DM-101 in an effect category that's universally considered hard to crack for its engineering challenges, including the fact that this kind of circuit requires a lot of BBD chips - 8 in this case.... Click on the title for more

Walrus Audio Meraki Stereo Analog Delay

Bennett Custom Audio Lighthouse Tremolo

Death By Audio + Levitation Psychedelic Lightmare

Developed through a collaboration between Levitation Festival and Death By Audio, the Psychedelic Lightmare combines stereo reverbtremolo, and light-sensitive pitch modulation in a single effects unit. The pedal's defining feature is its optical sensor, which dynamically alters effect parameters based on ambient light levels.... Click on the title for more

Death By Audio + Levitation Psychedelic Lightmare

EarthQuaker Devices Silos Delay

Earthquaker Devices Silos Presented as a " multi-generational time reflection pedal," the Earthquaker Devices Silos is a 3-mode delay pedal with tap tempo and (6) presets offering simple controls and classic emulations of vintage and modern echo effects.... Click on the title for more

EarthQuaker Devices Silos Delay

Meris MercuryX Modular Stereo Reverb

MercuryX Modular Stereo Reverb The Meris MercuryX is the Californian company's modular take on reverb evolved out of two other popular pedals in their roster: the Blade Runner soundtrack-inspired Mercury7, and their first forey into the digital/modular format, the LVX delay.... Click on the title for more

Meris MercuryX Modular Stereo Reverb

New Pedal: Spaceman Apollo VIIB Overdrive

The Spaceman Apollo VIIb is a compact overdrive and preamp pedal, derived from the Voyager tremolo series. It delivers medium-gain overdrive with natural tone, sparkling highs, and rich harmonic textures.... Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Spaceman Apollo VIIB Overdrive

Strymon BigSky MX Reverb Workstation

Strymon just announced the successor of their super popular reverb workstation BigSky: it's the Strymon BigSky MX. Among the new features, there's Impulse Response technology and dual reverb patches, allowing the layering of two different effects on top of each other.... Click on the title for more

Strymon BigSky MX Reverb Workstation

Champion Leccy The Kilter V2 LFO Texture Machine

The project of an Englishman from Newcastle, now based in Philadelphia, named Woolly, Champion Leccy has been churning out limited quantities of handmade, fun-sounding (and looking!) pedals since 2017, which have earned the company a reputation as one of the most interesting DIY boutique pedal builders in the US.... Click on the title for more

Champion Leccy The Kilter V2 LFO Texture Machine

Win a Killer Catalinbread Dual Pedal Combo!

Browne Amplification Protein V3 Dual Overdrive

Browne Amplification ProteinKansas City's Browne Amplification has been very busy hand-building pedals since the introduction of their Protein Dual Overdrive.... Click on the title for more

Browne Amplification Protein V3 Dual Overdrive

New Pedal: Fredric Effects Silicon Harmonic Percolator

Fredric Effects Silicon Harmonic Percolator Building on their decade of experience recreating the iconic Interfax Harmonic Percolator, Fredric Effects presents the Silicon Harmonic Percolator - a modified version that replaces the original's germanium components with carefully selected vintage silicon transistors from 1980s East Germany. This revision maintains the circuit's characteristic aggressive voicing while improving reliability and consistency.... Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Fredric Effects Silicon Harmonic Percolator

Red Panda Bitmap 2.1 Stereo Bitcrusher

Among the (not easy to navigate) content of Believe in Music 2021, we somehow missed that Detroit's experimental pedal maker Red Panda had released a version 2 of their Bitmap, a Stereo bit crusher with fractional bit reduction and sample rate modulation.... Click on the title for more

Red Panda Bitmap 2.1 Stereo Bitcrusher