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Built in Wales, the Holy Island Tides is an atmospheric pedal featuring a reverb followed by two gain stages, creating over-the-top fuzzy walls of sound sprinkled with interesting harmonics and sonic artifacts. Each gain stage can be activated through a toggle switch: Gain I is a low gain, opamp-based overdrive…Click on the title for more

Updated Pedal: Holy Island Tides V2 Reverb > Distortion

Wonderful Audio Ancient Echos Delay + Reverb

Hailing from California, the Wonderful Audio Ancient Echos is a creative take on ambient reverb + delay. The pedal's circuit splits the signal and remixes it a few times between the input and the output jacks, sending it through several effects including echo, modulation, filtering, and a reverb with a…Click on the title for more

Wonderful Audio Ancient Echos Delay + Reverb

Win 5 Ace Pedals via the London Synth & Pedal Expo!

Ay up, mates! We’ve go' ano'her pedal giveaway linked 'o our upcomin (and free!) London pedal (and syn'h) expo 2024 - yes, we used the English to Cockney translator for this sentence...Click on the title for more

Win 5 Ace Pedals via the London Synth & Pedal Expo!

NUX Duotime Dual Stereo Delay Engine

For those among you who love ping pong - the delay variety - the NUX Duotime is a multi-mode, Stereo, dual delay engine with simple controls and a very affordable price tag. It also comes with a Loop mode and includes Tap Tempo functionality. The five modes cover all the basics,…Click on the title for more

NUX Duotime Dual Stereo Delay Engine

Win 2 Eurorack Modules and a Pocket Synth through the London Synth & Pedal Expo

There will be plenty of Eurorack builders at the upcoming (and free!) London Synth & Pedal Expo, and to celebrate this 2nd edition of the event we are giving away three cool modules to a lucky UK-based electronic musician!Click on the title for more

Win 2 Eurorack Modules and a Pocket Synth through the London Synth & Pedal Expo

Walrus Audio Silt Fuzz

Pedals with tubes in them are quite rare, and normally confined to the overdrive niche. The Walrus Audio Silt is a fuzz pedal with a 12AU7 tube in it, created in collaboration with tube expert Jim Hagerman of Hagerman Amplification. The Silt is a rather simple device, with the classic…Click on the title for more

Walrus Audio Silt Fuzz

Chase Bliss Condor HiFi EQ

The Chase Bliss Condor HiFI is an updated, limited edition version of the company's non-HiFi version, an uber-tweakable, 3-band EQ pedal with parametric mids released in 2018 and discontinued after just three years. While the functionality remains the same, this new version features an improvement in sound granted by a…Click on the title for more

Chase Bliss Condor HiFi EQ

Keeley Muse Driver

The Keeley Muse Driver is an overdrive pedal that furthers the builder's collaboration with guitarist Andy Timmons, already involved in the design of the Halo delay and the Super AT Mod overdrive. The Muse Driver merges a three-control blues driver circuit with two switches for the voicing Drive and Tone…Click on the title for more

Keeley Muse Driver

Win 4 Pedals through the London Synth & Pedal Expo 2024!

Y'alright, UK box-stompers? We've got a first pedal giveaway linked to your upcoming (and FREE!) London Pedal (and Synth) Expo 2024 Click on the title for more

Win 4 Pedals through the London Synth & Pedal Expo 2024!

Old Blood Noise Endeavors BL-52 Phase Repeater

The Old Blood Noise Endeavors BL-52 Phase Repeater is the 2023 addition to the company's quirky BL Series, a line of pedals sharing a diagonal fader control named "Clock." Not your regular phaser, the BL-52 is actually a repeater of phase, an effect OBNE claims is unique to this pedal,…Click on the title for more

Old Blood Noise Endeavors BL-52 Phase Repeater

DSM and Humboldt Simplifier mkII Amp/Cab Simulator

The DSM and Humboldt Simplifier mkII is an update to a device manufactured by a team of two Chilean builders whose first version took the guitar world by storm back in 2020. An all-analog, great-sounding, stereo amp and cab simulator with an incredible amount of controls and options. Talking about…Click on the title for more

DSM and Humboldt Simplifier mkII Amp/Cab Simulator

Catalinbread Epoch Bias Preamp

The Catalinbread Epoch Bias is yet another circuit derived from what's arguably the company's most successful and consequential pedal to date, the Belle Epoch, an echo pedal inspired by the venerable vintage Echoplex EP-3 tape delay, a device renown not only for its effect, but also for the pleasing color…Click on the title for more

Catalinbread Epoch Bias Preamp