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(Sound of a needle dropping onto a vinyl record that’s already warped from being left on a hot dashboard. A low, hollow hum, like a test pattern from a ghost station.)... Click on the title for more
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, buffered bypass . But the capture is just the beginning.... Click on the title for more
A transparent overdrive that admits it might get fuzzy. That's refreshing honesty.... Click on the title for more
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 anything they've done before. It's a "linear progression," which translates roughly to "we built something new and we're not telling you exactly how it works."... Click on the title for more
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 British rock.
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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 tracked imperfectly, that sounded alive rather than accurate.... Click on the title for more
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 .... Click on the title for more
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Heads up, UK pedalheads!
We're celebrating the upcoming 
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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.... Click on the title for more
Brian Wampler looked at the 1980s and saw two kinds of fire-breathing monsters. California boutique amps—smooth, articulate, punchy, the kind of gain that lets you bend a note and hear every microtonal ghost in between. British high-gain stacks—saturated, muscular, that cranked-Plexi crunch that made the decade sound the way it looked: dangerous and covered in hairspray .
He put both in one box. Emerald green sparkle. Gold hardware. The Wampler Golden Jubilee.... Click on the title for more
