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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.... 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.... 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, an EQ + compressor inheriting the company's technology used in their mixing consoles' channel strips. That pedal had an obvious downside, though: it was enormous! The newly released TranZformer GTR is a lot more compact, but ditches the compressor in favor of an overdrive/clean boost circuit.... 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.... 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.... 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.... 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.... Click 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! ... 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.... Click on the title for more

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

BOSS VB-2w Vibrato

The BOSS WB-2w is a new/old take on the classic analog vibrato effect launched by the Japanese company in 1982.... Click on the title for more

BOSS VB-2w Vibrato

TC Electronic 2290 P Digital Delay

The TC Electronic 2290 P is a modernized reissue of the the rackmount TC 2290 dynamic digital delay, which in the '80s and '90s left its mark in recording studios, live performances, and guitar rigs worldwide.... Click on the title for more

TC Electronic 2290 P Digital Delay

LPD Pedals Embers Klon-inspired Overdrive

Mesa, Arizona's LPD Pedals in recent months has been releasing more streamlined pedals than the company got us used to, and the Embers Overdrive is their four knob take on the simplest and probably most hyped stompbox of all times: the Centaur Klon.... Click on the title for more

LPD Pedals Embers Klon-inspired Overdrive