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The Best Granular Pedals for Synths: Happy Accident Generators!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMrFE-fpZ2c An increasing number of creative musicians (including many synth and keyboard players) are adopting guitar pedals to expand their sonic palette with unusual effects. Stompboxes using an emerging type of synthesis called "granular" can be particularly inspiring for musicians interested in inserting elements of control randomness into their compositions.…Click on the title for more

The Best Granular Pedals for Synths: Happy Accident Generators!

Win FIVE pedals through the LA Synth & Pedal Expo! [ENDED]

As always, our Los Angeles Synth & Pedal Expo comes with a plethora of giveaways, and this is an especially rich one giving a lucky reader the change to take home FIVE pedals! Here's the list of the goods, in rigorous anti-alphabetical order, for a change: Tone City Angel Wing…Click on the title for more

Win FIVE pedals through the LA Synth & Pedal Expo! [ENDED]

Updated Pedal: October Audio Robotic Celebrity Head V3

An overdrive with fuzzy leanings inspired by an obscure single-transistor design of the '70s, the October Audio Robotic Celebrity Head bears a bizarre name referring to one of these creepy robotic busts of Elvis. Using Schottky type diodes in this 3rd version (instead of Germanium), this one-knob mini-pedal is very…Click on the title for more

Updated Pedal: October Audio Robotic Celebrity Head V3

Win an ASM Hydrasynth Explorer via LA Synth & Pedal Expo! [ENDED]

To properly celebrate the return of the Los Angeles Synth & Pedal Expo we are giving away an utterly cool device... Ashun Sound Machines, aka ASM, together with its Hydrasynth, is one of the best new things that happened to the synth world in the last few years - this…Click on the title for more

Win an ASM Hydrasynth Explorer via LA Synth & Pedal Expo! [ENDED]

New Pedals: Mask Audio Screws Octave Fuzz

The Mask Audio Screws is a two-knob octave fuzz that abuses an op-amp to deliver an ever-present octave, specializing in tones from the lo-fi to the gnarly. A three-way toggle switch allows for brighter and bassier voices. The builder claims that this pedal will deliver the octave in the fuzz…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Mask Audio Screws Octave Fuzz

New Pedal: Wampler Mofetta (Mostortion-Style)

The Wampler Mofetta is not the latest device inspired by the Ibanez MT10 Mostortion overdrive/distortion, (here's are other recent ones), a pedal known for producing a variety of tones (and love/hate feelings). Brian Wampler gave the circuit the treatment it got us accustomed to with all his dirt boxes, enhancing…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Wampler Mofetta (Mostortion-Style)

Henning Pauly went to the Berlin Stompbox Exhibit 2024

Do you know one of the reasons why Henning Pauly of YouTube channel EytschPi42 is one of the coolest guitar and pedal videographers out there? Because if he knows there's a guitar show (or a Stompbox Exhibit) near where he is, he'll visit it out of his own will and…Click on the title for more

Henning Pauly went to the Berlin Stompbox Exhibit 2024

Win Pedals by Chase Bliss, Pigtronix & AmpMojo via the LA Synth & Pedal Expo

Hasta a vista pedalovers! We have a first pedal giveaway linked to our upcoming Los Angeles Synth & Pedal Expo 2024, scheduled for June 8-9!Click on the title for more

Win Pedals by Chase Bliss, Pigtronix & AmpMojo via the LA Synth & Pedal Expo

Pedal Brainz Left Brain Expression Modulator

The Pedal Brainz Left Brain Expression Modulator belongs to the "controller" category of pedals, but also to the niche of devices to be filed under "if it was candy, we would eat it." The adorable-looking bright pink mini-pedal is a source of expression modulation patterns - up to 50 -…Click on the title for more

Pedal Brainz Left Brain Expression Modulator

Strymon Zelzah Stereo Dual Phaser

Strymon has become such a dominant force in the realm of guitar pedals that each of their new releases is met with instant hype. The California-based company just unveiled the (very purple) Zelzah, a multi-dimensional stereo phaser with 4 and 6 stage options that can be also played at once…Click on the title for more

Strymon Zelzah Stereo Dual Phaser

Upcoming Pedal: Diamond Vibrato (V2)

Canadian pedal brand Diamond, well known in the aughts for the Memory Lane series of delays, had another huge hit with its Vibrato pedal, which now sells used for close to $1,000. Purchased in the early '20s by fellow Montrealese pedal-makers SolidGoldFX, Diamond is back after a few years of…Click on the title for more

Upcoming Pedal: Diamond Vibrato (V2)

Keeley California Girls 12 String Simulator

Those among you owning a 6 string and interested in the sparlky sound of a 12-string guitar should lend an ear to the Keeley California Girls, a 12 String Simulator pedal. Released together with the "I Get Around" Rotary simulator and in synch with the Disney+ documentary on the Californian…Click on the title for more

Keeley California Girls 12 String Simulator