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The Best Guitar Pedals of 2023 | New Releases Only!

Welcome to our guide to the best guitar pedals of 2023, an article that only covers stompboxes released in that calendar year based on the "best of" list of the most established YouTube channels covering guitar pedals. This is a yearly article you can find ones from previous years here.…Click on the title for more

The Best Guitar Pedals of 2023 | New Releases Only!

NAMM 2024 PEDAL MARATHON! All the Videos of the New Pedal Releases

The Delicious Audio's NAMM Pedal Marathon returns! What is it? It's a Herculean attempt to shoot a video for each the new stompbox released during the Winter NAMM Show! Let's cut to the chase, here's the playlist of videos, updated live - you can browse the videos by clicking on the…Click on the title for more

NAMM 2024 PEDAL MARATHON! All the Videos of the New Pedal Releases

Thorpy FX The Dane MkII Overdrive

Originally built to meet the tone requests of Danish Pete of The Andertones, the Thorpy FX The Dane evolved into a flexible low gain overdrive + boost pedal that can meet the needs of a wide range of guitarists. The new MkII condensates the same circuit into a compact, black…Click on the title for more

Thorpy FX The Dane MkII Overdrive

Origin Effects Halcyon Gold Drive

The Origin Effects Halcyon Gold is the British company's take on the Klon Centaur circuit, the most influential, modded, and cloned overdrive circuit ever. As expected from a company that got us used to an intelligent approach to reinventing classic effect designs, this is not a simple clone (or klone,…Click on the title for more

Origin Effects Halcyon Gold Drive

Spaceman Charon Ge/Si Hybrid Fuzz

Fuzz lovers who can't make up their minds on whether to buy a silicon or a germanium fuzz should take a look at the Spaceman Charon, a fuzz with a hybrid circuit that includes diodes with both elements, including a NOS germanium transistor. The careful balancing of these components allows…Click on the title for more

Spaceman Charon Ge/Si Hybrid Fuzz

API TranZformer GTR EQ+Overdrive

A name nothing short of legendary in the pro audio realm, API entered the stompbox niche in 2017 with the TranZformer GT, an EQ + compressor inheriting the company's technology used in their mixing consoles' channel strips. As good as it sounded, that pedal had an obvious downside: it was…Click on the title for more

API TranZformer GTR EQ+Overdrive

Electronic Audio Epxeriments The Bard Preamp

The Electronic Audio Epxeriments The Bard Preamp pays homage to the Music Man HD130, a classic guitar amp known for its unique blend of a solid-state preamp and a tube power amp, delivering a rather unique tone. Capturing the soul of these iconic amps, The Bard takes you on a…Click on the title for more

Electronic Audio Epxeriments The Bard Preamp

Westminster Armistice Overdrive

A collaboration with AZ guitar store Pedal.ly aimed at supporting veterans, and only available to purchase there, the Westminster Armistice is a versatile overdrive that can deliver tones useful for genres as disparate as blues and metal. Controls for Timbre, affecting the high-mids, and Texture, adding compression and saturation, are…Click on the title for more

Westminster Armistice Overdrive

GFI Skylar Stereo Reverb

GFI System is an Indonesian manufacturer that has been gaining traction in the pedalsphere thanks to forward-thinking hybrid digital effects like the Synesthesia and the Specular Tempus. The Skylar is a studio-quality, streamlined, multi-mode, stereo digital reverb that replaces the Specular Reverb in their line. It features four of its…Click on the title for more

GFI Skylar Stereo Reverb

Joyo Vintage Overdrive

At $35, the Joyo Vintage Drive is an incredibly affordable Tube Screamer clone delivering more defined mids and a wider gain range. We added it to our article about the best Tube Screamer original pedals, clones and variants. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSVHnlY7NJAClick on the title for more

Joyo Vintage Overdrive

New Pedal: Fowl Sound Box Cutter Octave Down Fuzz

The Fowl Sound Box Cutteris a not-for-the-faint-of-heart collaboration between a company that has built a reputation for pedal geared to extreme metal genres and Youtuber Zach of Fuzz Drones. It's a very interesting Octave fuzz with a 3-band EQ, and it's got faders! The fuzz sounds massive and with incredibly…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Fowl Sound Box Cutter Octave Down Fuzz

Delicious Audio’s Stompbox Booth at NAMM 2024 (#5044)

Once again, we will be at the NAMM Show in Anaheim with a strictly in-the-headphones shared pedal booth involving an awesome lot of boutique (and also non-boutique!) builders. Find us at booth #5044! Check out the Here's a (silent) video of last year's show! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cffh7ygAOeY Every year we shoot videos…Click on the title for more

Delicious Audio’s Stompbox Booth at NAMM 2024 (#5044)