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Best Tape Delay Pedals 2025 | A Buyer’s Guide

Welcome to our comprehensive buyer's guide to the best tape delay pedals organized by features. For a more comprehensive article about delays organized by type, see our Best Delay Pedals article. While many multi-mode delay pedals also offer a "tape echo mode," this article focuses exclusively on stompboxes that were designed…Click on the title for more

Best Tape Delay Pedals 2025 | A Buyer’s Guide

Electronic Audio Experiments Prismatic Wall

These days we rarely see effects pedals that do something that hasn't been tried before, and the Electronic Audio Experiments Prismatic Wall seems to be exactly that kind of rare device. It's an effect that emulates the natural effect of sympathetic resonance that all musicians experience when they play loudly…Click on the title for more

Electronic Audio Experiments Prismatic Wall

New Pedal: Marshall JCM800 Overdrive

Inspired by the ubiquitous namesake Marshall amplifier, the JCM800 pedal brings the iconic roar and raw energy of the '80s to your pedalboard, delivering the amp's beloved dynamic, responsive tones that defined so many rock and metal records. The JCM800 amp is revered for its clarity, power, and sustain, qualities…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Marshall JCM800 Overdrive

Dawner Prince Boonar Tube Deluxe Echo

Handmade in Croatia by a boutique brand enjoying some sort of cult status in the pedalsphere, the Dawner Prince Boonar Tube Deluxe is an enhanced version of the company's most successful design, a pedal rendition of the 1960s Binson Echorec 2, an Italian device utilizing four multi-head drums to create…Click on the title for more

Dawner Prince Boonar Tube Deluxe Echo

Alabs Novadrift Stereo Multi-Modulation Pedal

Built by a pro audio Singapore-based company, the Alabs Novadrift is a $99, compact, stereo, DSP-powered multi-modulation pedal from the company's new line of stompboxes, currently comprising four models sold mostly through Amazon. There are 9 modulation modes (Vibe, Chorus, Multi-Chorus, Phaser, Filter, Rotary, Flanger, Tremolo, and Ring Mod) and,…Click on the title for more

Alabs Novadrift Stereo Multi-Modulation Pedal

Jam Pedals Wahcko Multi-Voiced Wah

The Jam Pedals Wahcko is a high-end, tension adjustable, Fasel-based wah offering a 6-position rotary switch for 6 different frequency sweep ranges and an internal trimmer for adjusting the input gain. There's also an optional Seagull effect that can be requested when ordered. We added it to our article about…Click on the title for more

Jam Pedals Wahcko Multi-Voiced Wah

Using Distortion Pedals with Drum Machines and Synths

Synth enthusiasts often overlook the effects falling under the "Distortion" or "Saturation" umbrella. Truth is, these are effects that can do a variety of things to any sound they are fed, and have a powerful and almost unique secret weapon: they create harmonics of the upper kind, as exemplified in…Click on the title for more

Using Distortion Pedals with Drum Machines and Synths

Win an Arturia MicroFreak via the London Synth & Pedal Expo!

Oy, UK-based synth wizards and knob-twiddling witches, This week, through the looming London Synth & Pedal Expo, we’re throwing a giveaway that’s so freaky, it might just make your neighbors question your life choices. Introducing the Arturia MicroFreak—a synth so weird, it’s basically the lovechild of a mad scientist and…Click on the title for more

Win an Arturia MicroFreak via the London Synth & Pedal Expo!

J. Rockett Audio Designs HRM V2 D-Style Overdrive

In this uber-thorough article, we've covered in-depth the increasingly popular niche of overdrive pedals emulating the legendary Dumble amps. Nashville builder J. Rockett Audio, a company fascinated by everything overdrive, is featured in that list with three stompboxes: the Dude, the Lenny, and the more recent HRM, now upgraded to…Click on the title for more

J. Rockett Audio Designs HRM V2 D-Style Overdrive

Caroline Météore Lo-Fi Reverb

"Lo-Fi" is a term loved by many guitarists who grew up in the '90s to the sound of early Ween, Sebadoh, Guided by Voices, and - of course - Pavement and even early Beck. It's a word that's only superficially pejorative: the "low fidelity" of the recordings and slight sloppiness of…Click on the title for more

Caroline Météore Lo-Fi Reverb

New Pedal: Land Devices Moonbow Filter + Overdrive

Filter pedals, when followed by saturation or distortion, can become extremely effective "tone sculptors." That's precisely what the Land Devices Moonbow does, opening up a lot of sonic possibilities by elegantly placing an overdrive after a classic voltage-controlled dual-mode filter. The filter is a classic synth-style one, offering both High…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Land Devices Moonbow Filter + Overdrive

New Pedal: Great Eastern FX OC201 Preamp Fuzz

Centered around a pair of rare new-old stock Mullard OC201 transistors, the Great Eastern FX OC201 Preamp is a limited edition pedal (printed in only 50 units) that offers a fresh take on the classic two-transistor fuzz circuit (read: Fuzz Face-style). It's the first one in a series called "Obsolete…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Great Eastern FX OC201 Preamp Fuzz