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Strymon debuts Sunset Dual Overdrive at Austin Stompbox Exhibit

Strymon, at last, seems to have gotten the distortion bug - and overcome their aversion for the color red! The Californian stompbox manufacturer just unveiled their second distortion pedal ever, after 2016's Riverside Overdrive (since their birth in 2008, they had only released non-distortion pedals, developing a reputation for luscious clean sounds, although…Click on the title for more

Strymon debuts Sunset Dual Overdrive at Austin Stompbox Exhibit

ATX Stompbox Exhibit giveaway: Win a PRS SE Standard 24 Guitar! [ended]

Founded in 1985, guitar (and since 2009 also amp) manufacturer Paul Reed Smith has since then cemented its reputation for high-quality guitars with an unmistakable look. For the third year in a row, PRS will be sponsoring our Austin Stompbox Exhibit, providing nine demo guitars and one bass (yes, they make…Click on the title for more

ATX Stompbox Exhibit giveaway: Win a PRS SE Standard 24 Guitar! [ended]

Austin 2017 Issue of The Deli is out, with Stompbox Exhibit and Synth Expo Specials!

Hey gear lovers! As you should know by now, on March 17-18 we will be organizing our yearly double event in Austin with a smorgasbord of synths and pedals in one (beautiful) room! We printed an issue to help promote it, you can now check it out online, here!Click on the title for more

Austin 2017 Issue of The Deli is out, with Stompbox Exhibit and Synth Expo Specials!

Klon + Tube Screamer in one pedal: Greenchild K818 Dual Overdrive

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Klon + Tube Screamer in one pedal: Greenchild K818 Dual Overdrive

Win two Strymon Riverside Multistage Drive

Distorted souls with fuzzy thoughts, To celebrate the upcoming Austin Stompbox Exhibit (scheduled for March 17-18, during $X$W's Music Week) we are giving away two sweet, sweet pedal effects! Strymon needs no introduction, they are the leading manufacturer of digital, studio quality pedal effects. Their latest pedal, the Riverside Multistage Drive, is…Click on the title for more

Win two Strymon Riverside Multistage Drive

Bondi Effects 2026 Compressor Limiter

You may think that Bondi Effects is another Italian manufacturer (we covered a bunch of them as of late), but the name actually originates from an Australian aboriginal word meaning "the sound of waves crashing over rocks." Is that natural sound the precursor of fuzz? Founded in 2013 and run by husband…Click on the title for more

Bondi Effects 2026 Compressor Limiter

New Pedal Manufacturers: Deep Trip

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New Pedal Manufacturers: Deep Trip

TC Electronics Mimiq and Keeley 30ms

Double tracking guitar parts has been a technique used in recording for decades (and also live actually, if there is more than one guitarist) to thicken things up. It can make guitars sound bigger, fuller, wider, and more textured. In the '60s Abbey Road Studio's engineer Ken Thousand came up…Click on the title for more

TC Electronics Mimiq and Keeley 30ms

Seen at NAMM: Baroni Lab Pedals

Italian based pedal manufacturer Baroni Lab offers an array of quality, hand-built stompboxes (they also manufacture amps). Their pedal range covers all kinds of ground, including distortions, modulation, time-based effects, and tube preamps. What sets the company’s pedal line apart from the rest is that all their stompboxes run on 12v DC…Click on the title for more

Seen at NAMM: Baroni Lab Pedals

Catalinbread Formula No. 55 Overdrive – Demo from Tone Report

Fresh video of the Catalinbread Formula 55 from Pro Guitar Shop, certainly one of the distortion pedals that made ear turns at the latest NAMM show. It's part of the Portland based manufacturer's Foundation Overdrive series emulating classic tube amp circuits. The 55 is presented as a "next-generation 5E3 Tweed Deluxe…Click on the title for more

Catalinbread Formula No. 55 Overdrive – Demo from Tone Report

Welcome to the pedal blog/aggregator Delicious Audio!

Welcome to Delicious Audio, the official blog of the Stompbox Exhibit! This is what we do: 1. We aggregate the best YouTube videos of pedals in interactive galleries like this one, from the Eric Merrow's video you just saw: 10 "Must See" pedals from Winter NAMM 2018 2. We provide daily news about new…Click on the title for more

Welcome to the pedal blog/aggregator Delicious Audio!

The EHX Blurst is the Best Looking Pedal of NAMM 2017

I had a friend in high school who would just buy some records (from the equivalent of the $1 bin) for their covers. Even though I've never done anything like that, this idea has been slowly growing on me: beautiful art makes things more desirable and therefore more valuable. In this regard,…Click on the title for more

The EHX Blurst is the Best Looking Pedal of NAMM 2017