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Win an IK Multimedia TONEX Amp Modeler Pedal! [ENDED]

This week we have a super special giveaway for our readers: an IK Multimedia TONEX Pedal! A guitar amp modeler, the TONEX allows you to recreate on stage and in the studio the sound of hundreds of amps, cabs, pedals and full rigs, including 1000 downloadable premium Tone Models and…Click on the title for more

Win an IK Multimedia TONEX Amp Modeler Pedal! [ENDED]

Tech 21 SansAmp PSA 2.0

To celebrate its 30th anniversary Tech 21 could not NOT pay homage to their celebrated SansAmp line, which back in the '90s started the amp emulation frenzy. The SansAmp PSA 2.0 is a pedalboard version of the company's original rackmount unit, found in many major studios, with an added…Click on the title for more

Tech 21 SansAmp PSA 2.0

Harby Pedals Centauri

The Harby Pedals Centauri is - as you may gather - is, circuit-wise, a Klon clone, embedded in a compact case much smaller than the original. Selling at $169, it's about 1/30th the price of an original Klon Centaur, using several components as the original and the same 3-knob layout.…Click on the title for more

Harby Pedals Centauri

New Pedal: Industrialectric 567-M Modulation Machine

The Industrialectric 567-M is another extreme-sounding pedal by a Toronto-based small builder thoroughly dedicated to noise-making. Its circuit can deliver a wide combination of grating effects like ring modulation, bit crushing, and data corruption of various (glitchy) kinds mixed with more regular ones like modulation, distortion and filtering. It has…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Industrialectric 567-M Modulation Machine

New Pedal: October Audio F Division Sub Octave Drive

If you are looking to give your guitar sound some extra low-end depth in a synthy kind of way, the October Audio F Division might be what the doctor ordered. It's a device that mixes an overdrive circuit with not one but THREE switchable sub octaves. You got that right,…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: October Audio F Division Sub Octave Drive

Nordvang ’83 Drive (Klone + Blues Breaker)

For such a small country, Denmark has a remarkable tradition in the guitar pedal niche (think TC Electronic and T-Rex, to mention just two), so there's always a lot of curiosity when new Danish builders get introduced to the stompbox scene. Nordvang debuted with a bang back in April by…Click on the title for more

Nordvang ’83 Drive (Klone + Blues Breaker)

Spaceman Aurora Analog Flanger

While multi-modulation pedals delivering different types of modulation are an established niche in the effect world, it's rare to stumble upon a pedal that delivers several kinds of the same type of modulation (we are not talking simply about LFO shapes here, but tonal character). Enter Aurora, the new Flanger…Click on the title for more

Spaceman Aurora Analog Flanger

Best New Pedal Releases | June 2023

Time for our monthly recap of the new pedal releases! Some really cool new stompboxes saw the light of day in June 2023, from the most beastly analog delay ever released (by BOSS) to new, hotly anticipated devices by 1981 Inventions and Thorpy FX, without forgetting the very first Kevin…Click on the title for more

Best New Pedal Releases | June 2023

BOSS OC-5 Octave Pedal

BOSS just unveiled the latest update to their octave pedal series, the BOSS OC-5. The Japanese builder was the first one to launch a compact octave pedal back in 1982, the OC-2, of which the OC-5 is an evolution. The main new features include a new Vintage mode (which faithfully…Click on the title for more

BOSS OC-5 Octave Pedal

Sonicake Levitate Delay + Reverb

The Sonicake Levitate launches a new format for Chinese builder of (mostly) mini pedals Sonicake, which could be described as an insanely affordable, non-mini, dual-effect pedal series. The two effects, in this case, are a classic combo, beloved by guitarists with ambient leanings: (digital) delay and (plate) reverb, in that…Click on the title for more

Sonicake Levitate Delay + Reverb

JHS Legends of Fuzz 2023

The JHS Legends of Fuzz line just almost doubled in size, with the release of three new circuits inspired, just like the first four, by the most influential fuzz designs of all times. While the first four releases were clones of what are undoubtedly the most popular vintage fuzz circuits (Muff,…Click on the title for more

JHS Legends of Fuzz 2023

Poison Noises Glut Cheeks Fuzz

The Poison Noises Glut Cheeks is not a new pedal (it was released in mid 2022) but the exposure given to it by the JHS Show (video streaming below) is comparable to a re-release. Utilizing BC108 transistors, this pedal belongs to the growing category of "flexible" fuzz pedals, comprising circuits…Click on the title for more

Poison Noises Glut Cheeks Fuzz