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New Pedal: Native Audio Pattern Keeper Looper

The looper is a tired format. Most of them just capture and repeat—useful, boring, done. NativeAudio's Mike Trombley looked at that and asked: what if the loop kept moving? The Pattern Keeper is a phrase modulator disguised as a looper. Sixty seconds of stereo recording at 48kHz/24-bit, analog dry path,…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Native Audio Pattern Keeper Looper

New Pedal: Polyend Endless Stereo AI-Powered Pedal

We saw this "thing" at NAMM 2026. The booth was crowded with similarly looking pedals with a varying range of graphics. Guitarists were frantically typing things like "reverse reverb that pitches up an octave" into a laptop and then stepping on a pedal that actually did it. People were losing…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Polyend Endless Stereo AI-Powered Pedal

New Pedal: Red Panda RD-1 Pitch Delay

Red Panda has spent years proving that digital doesn't have to mean cold. The Raster was their deep-dive pitch delay - a brilliant box with menus, alternate functions, and enough parameters to make a synth programmer weep with joy . It was also, for the stomp-and-go guitarist, a lot. Enter…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Red Panda RD-1 Pitch Delay

Tone King Royalist Preamp

Following the success of last year's Imperial preamp, Tone King has unveiled the Royalist: a high-voltage tube preamp pedal that distills the sound of their Royalist MKIII amplifier into a compact, pedalboard-friendly format. Where the Imperial covered American cleans, the Royalist is a full-throated tribute to the golden age of…Click on the title for more

Tone King Royalist Preamp

Beetronics Pollinator Hazee Multi-Modulated Delay

Beetronics finally went digital. After years of building analog dirt boxes in those signature hand-painted enclosures, the California-via-Brazil hive unleashed the Pollinator Hazee Delay—their first fully digital pedal . And thank fuck. Because you can't do what this does with bucket brigades and capacitors. Here's the twist: most modulated delays…Click on the title for more

Beetronics Pollinator Hazee Multi-Modulated Delay

JHS Double Dragon Lo-Fi Octave Pedal

After years of building all sorts of effects pedals (but mostly overdrives and fuzzes), JHS finally entered the octave game. The Double Dragon is their first dedicated octave pedal—and they built it on forty-year-old technology. MXR Blue Box. Boss OC-2. Electro-Harmonix Micro-Synth . Those circuits that predated digital precision, that…Click on the title for more

JHS Double Dragon Lo-Fi Octave Pedal

New Pedal: EarthQuaker Devices Towers Reverberant Filter

EarthQuaker Devices has spent twenty years convincing us that reverb doesn't have to sit politely in the background. Afterneath sent drips cavern-dwelling. Astral Destiny went cosmic. Transmisser just… floated off somewhere. Now comes the Towers, labeled as a Stereo Reverberant Filter. Jamie Stillman is very clear: this isn't an evolution of…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: EarthQuaker Devices Towers Reverberant Filter

New Pedal: Alexander Pedals Error XP Multi-FX Pedal

Alexander Pedals took their glitch-centric Syntax Error, shrunk it down, and added more ways to break your signal. The Syntax Error XP is the Leap Series version - smaller enclosure, same digital chaos, now with stereo ins and outs because destroying one channel of audio apparently wasn't enough. Eight modes…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Alexander Pedals Error XP Multi-FX Pedal

Win 3 Pedals + Audio Interface via the London Synth & Pedal Expo

Heads up, UK pedalheads! We're celebrating the upcoming London Synth & Pedal Expo (March 22-23) with a proper giveaway! Three seriously cool pedals need a new home - and that home could be your board. The contenders (in strict anti-alphabetical order, because we love inconsequential subversion): Walrus Audio Qi Etherealizer…Click on the title for more

Win 3 Pedals + Audio Interface via the London Synth & Pedal Expo

New Pedal: Umbrella Company Hume

The Japan-made Umbrella Company HUME is a spatial effects pedal designed to occupy the elusive territory between delay and reverb. It emerges from a simple concept: what happens when echoes stop being distinct repeats and start dissolving into atmosphere? The answer lives in the F&V sliders—the pedal's defining control. This…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Umbrella Company Hume

New Pedal: LPD Sixty8X Overdrive

The LPD Sixty8X is a limited-edition 10th-anniversary evolution of the 2016 Sixty8 Drive. This Marshall-style overdrive and preamp preserves the original’s tonal identity while refining its internal circuitry for a more authentic 1968-inspired amplifier response. Central to the redesign is an updated phase inverter clipping circuit that more closely replicates…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: LPD Sixty8X Overdrive

New Pedal: KHDK Electronics Digital Bath Modulated Delay

After years of relative quiet from the Dunlop-family brand, KHDK Electronics has reemerged with something unexpected . Not another high-gain monster for metalheads—though they've done those—but a filter-delay modulation pedal born from a two-year collaboration with Deftones' Chino Moreno. The Digital Bath takes its name and spirit from the White…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: KHDK Electronics Digital Bath Modulated Delay