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Great Eastern FX Focus Fuzz (Germanium/Silicon)

The Great Eastern Focus Fuzz is a Germanium, and now also Silicon-based pedal by the UK company whose two first releases (the Design-a-Drive and the Smal Speaker Overdrive) were very well received by the community of stompbox lovers. It's also their first foray into fuzz territory. Company owner and engineer…Click on the title for more

Great Eastern FX Focus Fuzz (Germanium/Silicon)

The Best Filter and EQ Pedals for Synths

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdjFXND-yb0 Equalizers are a type of effect often overlooked by musicians. They are comprised of normally between 2 and 6 frequency filters configured in one way or another - you can read our guide to the different types of filters here. Since frequencies are the foundation of any tone, EQ…Click on the title for more

The Best Filter and EQ Pedals for Synths

Hungry Robot Aether Modulating Delay

Pedal lovers with experimental leanings and tweaking urges will be happy to know about the Hungry Robot Aether, a new, PT2399-based modulated delay coming from a boutique builder with a great record of creative stompboxes full of knobs and switches. And as a matter of fact, the Aether is one…Click on the title for more

Hungry Robot Aether Modulating Delay

New Pedal: Vaderin Super Ram Fuzz

The Vaderin Super Ram Fuzz is a heavily modified take on the Ram's Head Fuzz, borrowing some of the Super Fuzz characteristic, while adding also an octave up blend and an adjustable gate. The idea at the core of this pedal's circuit is to have a Muff-style fuzz that holds…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Vaderin Super Ram Fuzz

TC Electronic SCF Gold Stereo Chorus+

The TC Electronic SCF Gold Stereo Chorus+ is a reissue with updates of TC's first pedal ever. This analog stereo circuit offers three modulation modes: chorus, pitch modulation, and flanger, with controls for Speed, Width and Intensity. The chorus mode sounds thick, lush, and gooey. A built-in preamp with high headroom…Click on the title for more

TC Electronic SCF Gold Stereo Chorus+

Interstellar Audio Machines Octonaut Hyperdrive (Klon Clone)

The Interstellar Audio Machines Octonaut Hyperdrive is a Klon clone that's gaining quite a bit of attention for its authentic tone that replicates the original's expressive and transparent tone. The circuit features hand-picked rare germanium diodes, true buffered bypass and a double ganged gain pot. In true Klone fashion, it…Click on the title for more

Interstellar Audio Machines Octonaut Hyperdrive (Klon Clone)

All-Pedal Alcmene Overdrive

The super-large family of Klon clones has gained another small member wiht the All-Pedal Alcmene, a mini stompbox that perfectly captures the core characteristics of the expensive original unit. Featuring the classic Klon 3-knob layout and Germanium clipping diodes, the Alcmene's circuit offers higher headroom and dynamic response than your…Click on the title for more

All-Pedal Alcmene Overdrive

Shift-Line Everest II Reverb + Delay

Shift-Line is a well-respected pedal manufacturer out of Russia which just released a fully analog Stereo take on their multi-mode delay+reverb combo, the mono Everest M. This new design inherits the name of the original, but earns a "2" as in the two channels of Stereo: enter the Shift-Line Everest…Click on the title for more

Shift-Line Everest II Reverb + Delay

Source Audio Vertigo Tremolo Mission of Burma LTD Edition

Source Audio released a limited edition of their Vertigo Tremolo in collaboration with Mission of Burma's Roger Miller as a Music Emporium exclusive. The guitarist of the legendary post-punk band worked closely with the manufacturer's engineers to recreate a mode voiced after his signature custom and extremely rare Vacu-Trem pedal.…Click on the title for more

Source Audio Vertigo Tremolo Mission of Burma LTD Edition

REVV Chat Breaker Overdrive

It's not even close to being April 1st, but the Canadian sense of humor, known for stretching beyond official joke dates, is giving us the REVV Chat Breaker, the first stompbox ever created in collaboration with Artificial Intelligence - Chat GPT, to be precise. But this is not a joke,…Click on the title for more

REVV Chat Breaker Overdrive

Collision Devices TARS Fuzz + Filter

The Collision Devices TARS is the first standalone fuzz pedal by a French company best known for their ambient and organic multi-effect pedals such as the Black Hole Symmetry and the Nocturnal. However, this fuzz is not just a fuzz, but rather a very tweakable square wave generator interacting with…Click on the title for more

Collision Devices TARS Fuzz + Filter

New Pedal: Collision Devices Singularity

The Collision Devices Singularity is the fuzz circuit found in the French company's popular Black Hole Symmetry pedal, released as a standalone effect after popular demand. Compatible with both line and instrument levels, the pedal consists of just one knob for Volume and a 3-way filter toggle switch, that delivers low…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Collision Devices Singularity