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Win 4 Pedals, 1 Board and a Rechargeable PSU via the Brooklyn Pedal & Synth Expo

The Brooklyn Synth & Pedal Expo(coming up on October 5-6) is like a gift that keeps giving... this is the 7th gear giveaway linked to the event, and perhaps the juiciest one. (You can find the other ones here).Click on the title for more

Win 4 Pedals, 1 Board and a Rechargeable PSU via the Brooklyn Pedal & Synth Expo

Brooklyn Synth & Pedal Expo

See pictures from last year's event here and here. The Deli and Delicious Audio are excited to announce the 9th edition of the Brooklyn Synth Expo and the 12th edition of the Brooklyn StompBox Exhibit, now bundled under the new name Brooklyn Synth+Pedal Expo, a free-to-the-public pop-up event of guitar effect pedals…Click on the title for more

Brooklyn Synth & Pedal Expo

New Pedal: J. Rockett Blue Note Select Overdrive

JRAD reliably churns out quality pedals in the most compact and sturdy builds on the market. A low-gain overdrive, the J Rockett Blue Note is considered by many as the company's take on the Blues Breaker circuit, although the company has been challenging that assumption. This "Select" model is in…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: J. Rockett Blue Note Select Overdrive

New Pedal: Black Mass Ceremonial Show of Force Drive

The Black Mass Ceremonial Show of Force (CSOF) is an all-analog, discrete overdrive pedal, that forgoes opamps or diode clipping relying entirely on cascading transistor gain stages to deliver a versatile and uniquely textured overdrive. The most interesting control of this pedal is the bias switch, which delivers vintage pushed…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Black Mass Ceremonial Show of Force Drive

MTL KnobSession ’24: Jeu concours | Giveaway! (Canada Residents Only)

Pour célébrer le prochain Knob Session (c'est gratuit, RSVP ici !), le nouveau salon de pédales, synthés et instruments modulaires de Montréal, nous nous sommes associés au distributeur canadien SFM pour offrir aux amateurs de pédales d'effets des cadeaux d'une valeur de plus de 1 100 $ !Click on the title for more

MTL KnobSession ’24: Jeu concours | Giveaway! (Canada Residents Only)

New Pedal: Gokko Magrane’ Echo Machine

Gokko Audio is a brand that manufactures pedals in China under Italian supervision we weren't familiar with. Their price level is extremely affordable (as expected) and the model offering is vast. You can find them on sale on Amazon. The Gokko Magrane' is a rather simple echo effect that recreates…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Gokko Magrane’ Echo Machine

Keeley MkIII Driver

The Keeley MkIII Driver (briefly known as the "Muse Driver") is an overdrive pedal that furthers the builder's collaboration with guitarist Andy Timmons, already involved in the design of the Halo delay and the Super AT Mod overdrive. The MkIII merges a three-control blues driver circuit with two switches for…Click on the title for more

Keeley MkIII Driver

Crazy Tube Circuits Sidekick Jr.

A shrunken version of a 2019 pedal popular among shoegazers and any other guitarists inspired by the guitar tone of the '80s, the Crazy Tube Circuits Sidekick Jr. is a 3-in-one stompbox that (quite remarkably) combines delay, reverb and modulation into one compact enclosure. Loaded with 6 reverb modes, 3…Click on the title for more

Crazy Tube Circuits Sidekick Jr.

Emerald Ox FX Chimeric Percolator

The Emerald Ox FX Chimeric Percolator is a handmade pedal that addresses the quandary of "perfecting the Harmonic Percolator circuit" in a peculiar way. Rather than arbitrarily deciding what the best sound is for this famously sonically unreliable vintage circuit, the builder, after comparing the varying tone of several units,…Click on the title for more

Emerald Ox FX Chimeric Percolator

ThorpyFX The W.O.P.R. Muff + Treblebooster

Guru pedal designer Adrian Thorpy of ThorpyFx has a page on his company's website dedicated to his "Special Projects," gathering all the brand's one-offs, special runs, or Charity donation devices. The WOPR is a pedal created for a friend that wanted to have a (Triangle Muff-style) Thorpy Fallout Cloud and…Click on the title for more

ThorpyFX The W.O.P.R. Muff + Treblebooster

Empress Heavy Menace Distortion

At first glance, the Empress Heavy Menace seems like a pedal that might win the contest for "most tweakable distortion pedal in a compact case." Also, it looks very cool, notwithstanding its demonic references! An evolution in compact case of the company's popular Heavy pedal, the Heavy Menace could be…Click on the title for more

Empress Heavy Menace Distortion

New Pedal: Iceberg Effects Frits Stereo Time Modulator

For such a small country (although densely populated, with its 18 million souls), the Netherlands is extremely good at producing Olympic medal-winning athletes, but not so much at manufacturing guitar pedals - something its 6-million-shy neighbor Denmark excels at, for example. However, Eindhoven's Iceberg Effects is here to change that…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Iceberg Effects Frits Stereo Time Modulator