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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

Empress Effects Zoia Modular Multi-Effects Pedal

After its introduction at NAMM 2018, it took Canadian builder Empress Effects more than a year to finalize their noteworthy modular stompbox Zoia, but it was worth the wait: this is a pedal like no other, with truly infinite potential.... Click on the title for more

Empress Effects Zoia Modular Multi-Effects Pedal

New Pedal: Beetronics Abelha Tropical Fuzz

For a minute, we thought that L.A. via Brazil Beetronics had unprecedentedly given one of their pedals a name not related to the world of bees. How wrong were we: Abelha means "bee" in Portuguese, which, for the unaware, is also the language spoken in Brazil, the country where artists like Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil founded the late-'60s music, art and political protest movement known as Tropic á lia - something this pedal celebrates.... Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Beetronics Abelha Tropical Fuzz

EarthQuaker Devices Disaster Transport Legacy Reissue

The EarthQuaker Devices Disaster Transport Legacy Reissue was supposed to be what its name states - a "reissue" of a pedal that started the delay + modulation trend back in 2019 - but it ended up becoming more than that, because, to quote the press release: "the OG of EQD, Jamie Stillman, couldn’t resist tinkering and improving the whole thing."... Click on the title for more

EarthQuaker Devices Disaster Transport Legacy Reissue

DOD Chthonic Fuzz

A dark and sludgy take on the early fuzz circuitry, the DOD Chthonic Fuzz is the first release by the pioneering US pedal company since it was acquired by Cortek Guitars from Samson within the sale of DigiTech.... Click on the title for more

DOD Chthonic Fuzz