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New Pedal: Spruce Effects Badlands

California's Spruce Effects has just released a new addition to their Junior Ranger series of pedals: the Badlands Chorus. Inspired in the name and graphics by the Badlands National Park, this pedal employs an Optical LED to deliver organic-sounding modulation. The controls are unlabeled but straightforward once you memorize them,…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Spruce Effects Badlands

New Pedal: Fish Circuits Exploration #1

Hand-made in Montreal, Canada, the Fish Circuits Exploration #1 is the first pedal in a new series by the Quebecois brand dedicated to dirt tone exploration. Designed around BC549 silicon transistors, the pedal offers a wide range of classic overdrive and fuzz tones through the 3 position Texture rotary switch,…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Fish Circuits Exploration #1

Collision Devices Crushturnal

The Collision Devices Crushturnal is the latest inspiring device by a French pedal brand that has gotten us accustomed to delivering complex yet intuitive creative effects. Available for preorder, it will ship in the 2nd half of June 2024. Inspired by the glitch created by clock change on digital processors…Click on the title for more

Collision Devices Crushturnal

New Pedal: Nobels Del-Mini Delay

Although German pedal brand Nobels is well-known for its signature overdrive ODR-1, hardly anyone is aware that - at some point in the '90s - the company released a line of pedals including several modulation effects and even a delay. The new Nobels DEL-mini represents a welcome return of this…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Nobels Del-Mini Delay

EarthQuaker Devices Sunn O))) Life Pedal V3

It should come as no surprise that EarthQuaker Devices’s aesthetic dabbles into the occult from time to time, and the brand’s collaboration with Sunn O))) cemented that fact. The pedal, dubbed “Life Pedal” in conjunction with the release of Sunn O)))’s Life Metal features a presentation like not much else,…Click on the title for more

EarthQuaker Devices Sunn O))) Life Pedal V3

JHS Colour Box V2

The JHS Colour Box was born in 2014 as a pedal that allows guitarists to recreate through a simple stompbox the classic sound and tonal palette of a guitar plugged directly into the preamp of a high-end studio console (a sound made famous by the Beatles on "Revolution"). Today the…Click on the title for more

JHS Colour Box V2

New Pedal: Decibelics Rivus Overdrive

Barcelona-based pedal brand Decibelics has built a name for itself initially through one of the best-regarded Klon clones on the market (and a mini one at that!), and more recently with a recreation of the Bixonic Expandora - both pedals also exist in dual-channel format. This new mini pedal is…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Decibelics Rivus Overdrive

New Pedal: Analog Music Company SHSL Mk3 (So High So Low) Preamp + Filter

The Analog Music Company SHSL Mk3 (an acronym for "So High So Low") is a preamp pedal inspired by two other devices: the pleasantly colored preamp section of the Moogerfooger pedals by Moog, and the high-pass/low-pass filters found on the vintage KORG MS-20. As an extra nod to synth players,…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Analog Music Company SHSL Mk3 (So High So Low) Preamp + Filter

Champion Leccy Skitzy Dual Modulated Reverb

Wolly of Pensyllvenya-based Champions Leccy has slowly morphed a very peculiar and creative identity for his company: creative and quirky, his devices feature quirky illustrations reminiscent of indie comic books, and the brand new Skitzy, a Dual Modulated Reverb, is no exception. Blending the circuits (and the names) of two…Click on the title for more

Champion Leccy Skitzy Dual Modulated Reverb

REVV G4 Distortion

Manitoba's REVV Amplification has built a solid reputation designing and building high-quality boutique guitar amps, and have expanded to the pedal market in the spring of 2018 with the (purple) REVV G3 Distortion, which instantly found lots of love among many pedal videographers. The Canadian builder surprised everybody by releasing…Click on the title for more

REVV G4 Distortion

Updated Pedal: Beautiful Noise Endless Sleeper II Delay

Ambient delay and shoegazer fanatics should take a hard look at this pedal by Australian manufacturer Beautiful Noise: the recently updated Endless Sleeper MkII. It's an analog-voiced dual delay effect with modulation and sample reduction. The two delay lines cascade into each other, each contributing between 30ms and 1500ms, allowing…Click on the title for more

Updated Pedal: Beautiful Noise Endless Sleeper II Delay

Walrus Audio Mako M1 MkII

The Mako M1 MkII is the updated version of the company's "High-Fidelity Modulation Machine," part of the impressive Mako line of stereo, multi-algorithm pedals. In line with previous Mako releases, the M1 is a highly tweakable effect with presets and MIDI compatibility that delivers several types of modulation effects: Phaser,…Click on the title for more

Walrus Audio Mako M1 MkII