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Vaderin Pedals Kroaked Boost/Distortion

The Vaderin Pedals Kroaked is an all-transistor 3-knob dirt-box that can go from pristine cleans to super-saturated and compressed distortion. The LVL knob, when the other two controls are at zero, works as a clean boost. It's not the output but a linear clean boost that precedes the pedal’s second…Click on the title for more

Vaderin Pedals Kroaked Boost/Distortion

Strymon El Capistan V2 Tape Delay

The Strymon El Capistan is a lush stereo emulation of a vintage Tape Echo device, in a cleverly simple box. It offers three Tape modes emulating different reading head configurations (Fixed, Multi and Single) and three ways to slightly tweak each one of them. Separate controls for Tape Age and…Click on the title for more

Strymon El Capistan V2 Tape Delay

Upcoming Pedals: Hagerman Thermionic Reinforcer

To be released in the next few weeks, the Hagerman Thermionic Reinforcer is a pedal featuring the entire 2-channel preamp section of the company's Push-Pull 12W Amplifier including the two 12AX7 tubes. The first channel is a rather traditional overdrive, warm and dynamic, while the second one, triggered by the…Click on the title for more

Upcoming Pedals: Hagerman Thermionic Reinforcer

Sonicake Rockstage Multi-FX Bar

To never be found unprepared is a determining quality of professionals. For this reason, an increasing number of guitarists have been carrying around a multi-fx bar like the Sonicake Rockstage next to their regular pedalboard, just in case anything went wrong with their main rig. Ultra-small (it's only 8" wide) and…Click on the title for more

Sonicake Rockstage Multi-FX Bar

Walrus Audio Eons Multi-Fuzz

After the Ages Overdrive and the Eras Distortion, we would be lying if we said that we didn't see this one coming: the multi-mode fuzz Walrus Audio Eons. Built on the same form factor of the aforementioned pedals, and therefore featuring 5 modes, the Eons is born to do all…Click on the title for more

Walrus Audio Eons Multi-Fuzz

Glowfly Albert Gramophone Simulator

While some lo-fi pedals out there recreate the sonic artifacts of vinyl record players, the Glowfly Albert takes things one notch further by giving us the sound of the record player's grandpa: the gramophone. You can reduce the frequency bandwidth of your tone to make it sound thin or phone-like…Click on the title for more

Glowfly Albert Gramophone Simulator

Harley Benton Double Vision Chorus + Tremolo

The Harley Benton Double Vision is a $66 dual effect pedal featuring a Chorus circuit on the left side and a Tremolo on the right. Based on circuits made popular by Mooer's mini-pedals, the two effects here can be routed one into the other or triggered in a way that…Click on the title for more

Harley Benton Double Vision Chorus + Tremolo

Orange Vintage Series Phaser

The Orange Vintage Series Phaser is part of a pedal line the British amp builder launched in September 2022, inspired by old line of large vintage stompboxes from the '70s. This one-knobbed box does exactly what's expected, delivering a luscious psychedelic swirl at various speeds. Originally named "Phazer," the pedal…Click on the title for more

Orange Vintage Series Phaser

Pedal Update: Crazy Tube Circuits Stardust V3 Overdrive

The Crazy Tube Circuits Stardust V3 is the Greek company's update to their Fender Blackface-inspired circuit. The layout is very simple with knobs for Volume, Tone and Gain and a 3-way toggle switch that delivers the tone of three different Blackface amp models: BSM is voiced after a Bassman, an…Click on the title for more

Pedal Update: Crazy Tube Circuits Stardust V3 Overdrive

Polar Bear Petrichor Lo-Fi Delay/Sequencer

The Polar Bear Petrichor Delay is a pedal based on a chip that fortunately seems to be readily available in these days of supply chaos: the PT2399. Like most pedals emplying this device, the Petrichor is a lo-fi delay pedal, but its circuit features an extra creative tool: a step…Click on the title for more

Polar Bear Petrichor Lo-Fi Delay/Sequencer

New Pedal: LPD Pedals Broiler D-Style Overdrive

The LPD Pedals Broiler Overdrive is a take on the sought-after D-Style overdrive, i.e. an amp-in-a-box voiced after the tone of the legendary Dumble amps. With its pre-clipping bass controls and post-clipping mid and treble ones, the Broiler can deliver a wide range of tones from clean to singing sustain,…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: LPD Pedals Broiler D-Style Overdrive

DOD Looking Glass Overdrive

Here at Delicious Audio we really, really dig this new trend in the pedal world consisting in bigger manufacturers commissioning pedals to talented boutique stompbox designers. After releasing the Black Arts Toneworks-enginnered DOD Boneshaker at NAMM 2015, at the 2016 edition of the Anaheim convention, DigiTech unveiled a new class-A FET Overdrive called DOD…Click on the title for more

DOD Looking Glass Overdrive