Updated Aug. 2, 2022 | by Paolo De Gregorio

Best New Pedal Releases | July 2022

Welcome to our monthly appointment with the best new pedal releases!

July 2022 was, as expected, a rather slow month in the pedalsphere, although there were some yummy new devices brought to light by a handful of boutique builders, including some established ones like Old Blood Noise, Death by Audio, Origina Effects, Caroline and J.Rockett, among others.

Younger but buzzworthy companies unveiled some interesting devices – you can find them all in the interactive galleries below!

And when you are ready to buy, please don’t forget to use the affiliate links, that’s what is allowing us to do this blog!

(Older monthly articles like this one can be found here).

Best New Pedal Releases | July 2022: Non-Gain Pedals

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old blood noise float Dual Filter
$299 | two moving filters in a dual in/out configuration. Each filter has cutoff, sensitivity, resonance, rate, and volume controls as well as 6 waveshapes! The filters can also be switched between LP, HP, and BP modes and can be optionally synced together and run in stereo, parallel mono, or series mono configuration.
Perf. Circuit | Reverb | Amazon
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J Rockett Uni-Verb
$449 | A high-end Uni-Vibe clone with foot-switchable Vibrato/Chorus selection and added a spring reverb that can also be triggered via its own footswitch. An FX Loop allows inserting other pedals between the vibe and the verb, while the output has a dedicated knob and can push your amp. The Reverb has two simple knobs: Dwell, controlling the effect's length, and Reverb, setting the level.
Zzounds | Sweetwater |
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Death By Audio Space Bender Chorus Modulator
$270 | a creative chorus pedal that doubles down on intensity and can behave also as a delay, thanks to a Delay Time switch that increases the minimal chorus delay's ten-folds. The Modulator switch allows the use of the effect as an envelope-style chorus, while the Intensity one accentuates the LFO creating deep oscillations, feedback, and crazy noises.
Perf. Circuit | Reverb | Amazon
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Catalinbread Callisto Mkii
$209 | An analog BBD chorus with a feedback control that can blur the lines between chorus and flanger. In addition to the familiar chorus controls of rate and depth, the Callisto’s mix knob can go to 100% wet, resulting in triangle wave vibrato sounds.
Zzounds | Sweetwater |
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Rainger FX Echo X v2
$229 | an extreme mini-echo that's easy to send into self-oscillation featureing an optional gate and a pressure pad that allows two original functions: 1. you can send the guitar's signal through the echo's circuit only when Igor is pressed - the harder is pressed, the louder the signal. 2. you can control the echo's rate or feedback through the pressure pad.
Perf. Circuit | Reverb | Amazon
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FLAMMA FC14 Analog Chorus
$39 | Sporting the three typical controls of a simple modulation pedal (Rate, Depth, and Level), the FC14 delivers the classic sound of analog choruses that costs twice or thrice as much, in a solid metal mini-case. Compared to other pedals by Flamma, reviews on Amazon are mixed, but at the $40 price tag this is definitely a pedal worth checking out.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
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Flamma FC16 Optical Tremolo
$39 | a bread and butter optical tremolo in a mini case that does well what it promises at an incredible price. Featuring depth, bias, and a large speed adjustment knob, the FC16’s simple design allows for quick customization and tone tweaking on the fly. The Bias knob makes the LFO wave choppier of smoother.
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flamma FC15 Analog Flanger
$39 | With controls for Color, Range and a large Rate adjustment knob, this simple mini flanger allows for quick customization and tone tweaking on the fly. Color controls the effect’s feedback and Range the width of the sweeping’s range. A Filter mode switch adds a low pass filter that makes the sound warmer and more watery. In this mode, the Range control will set the filter’s cutoff frequency.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
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Geckoplex EP-5 V2
$529 | a high-end Echoplex-inspired pedal with reverb and a motorized Delay Time fader. Features include Sound on Sound mode, 3 presets, Tap Tempo, Warp knob for worn tape character, and a FET input with up to 11db of gain. Shift makes the echo time fluctuate when a note is played, causing variations in pitch. V2 adds full Midi control, higher headroom and a few other features.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
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cornerstone Aquarium
$520 | An analog, high-end uni-vibe that runs at 18v like the original and uses the same rotating bulb technology, but has been updated to modern specs to ensure no volume loss or tonal change, and features a few upgrades: a fast and slow speed with inertia control, tone control, dual-mode parallel mix option, and increased output.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
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Blackskycraft Unusual EAS
~$300 - an uber-tweakable, modulated, creative ambient reverb with added filter and bitcrusher providing thick and lush reverberation and several ways to make it sound from textural to cosmic to downright weird. The bitcrusher has controls for resolution and sample rate. 16 LFO waves, Tap Tempo, and FX loop round up the features.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon

Best New Pedal Releases | July 2022: Fuzz Pedals

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Caroline Crom Fuzz
$199 | a fuzz pedal based on the old Supa Tone Benders and Muff style pedals that inspired the company’s now discontinued Olympia fuzz. Engineered for a fuller midrange, the Crom features two voicings delivering different gain range and frequency responses. Originally created as a limited edition release, the Crom is now part of the regular Caroline roster
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
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Pedal Pawn Octone
$~240 | The result of hundreds of years (and thousands of Sterling Pounds!) spent researching the ideal octave-up fuzz sound, The Octone faithfully recreates the original's fuzz circuit, while the builder went the extra mile to improve the octave circuit to make it as clean as possible, and also clearly audible at high Boost setting and when playing above the 12th fret.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
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sabbadius love drops fuzz
$235 | a wah-compatible Fuzz Face that recreates the warmth of Germanium diodes using low noise low to medium gain silicon transistors. Among the unsual knobs, a BIAS control changes the voltage feeding the circuit, while the WAH WAH TRICK knob allows to find the sweet spot fot wah compatibility.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
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industrialectric incinerator deluxe
$430 | a dual-channel Silicon fuzz integrated by two oscillators whose function is to add an insane unpredictable element. Its size is not for nothing: it has 26 transistors under the hood, and a whole host of tonal options lent by six knobs and five toggle switches. The Deluxe version has a potentiometer and separate ins/outs for the two channels.
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Cunningham Amps MK 1.6 Fuzz
$350 | a high-quality, vintage-voiced fuzz hand-built in New Zealand that blends the line between a MK 1.5? Tone Bender and a Fuzz Face. Attack sets the amount of fuzz and Level controls the overall output. A Gain Mode switch provides three gain settings: Low is a slightly brighter boost setting, while Med and High progressively add more gain and fuzz and body.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
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Zero G IOD Honey Coma Fuzz
$119 | a "hotter" variant of the ’70s Roland Bee Baa from the '70s, a combination of Fuzz and Treble Booster. It maintains the two voices of the original, one thick and heavy with some mid-scooping, the other one with the activated high-frequency boost, and therefore thinner and a little more nasal. The Tone and Wool knobs allow fine-tuning of – respectively – the high and mid/low frequencies
eBay | Reverb | Amazon

Best New Pedal Releases | July 2022: Gain Pedals

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great eastern FX Design-A-Drive
$265 | an overdrive with a unique tone-shaping system. A 6-way rotary knob named "Width" modifies the contour and response of the midrange and low end. The Edge knob controls 2 high-frequency filters and alters clipping characteristics. Combining these two controls along with level gives access to wide-ranging overdrive tones, from transparent to fat and midrangey.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
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Victory V4 The Sheriff Amp
$999 | there are 5 flavors of this 2-channel, 4-valve preamp followed by a solid-state, 180w Class D power amp. This is the Plexi in the series. Each channel has saparate Gain and Master knobs, while sharing 3-way EQ, reverb and cab sim with presets by Two notes. It has headphones out and generous routing. The other 4 V4 units offer a variety of British and American amp tones
Zzounds | Sweetwater |
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Origin Effects Halcyon Green Overdrive
$299 | a TS808 variant with a proprietary Adaptive Circuitry that adapts the effect's voicing in real time in response to pick attack and volume changes, improving dynamics and tone consistency. A DRY knob lets you reintegrate the clean signal, while the VOICE switch, when set in MOD, moves the TS808 mid bump slightly higher in the frequency spectrum.
Zzounds | Sweetwater |
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Mythos SUSMARYOSEP! v2
$329 | RJ Ronquillo's signature 3-in-1 pedal, featuring a treble booster, followed by the company's Herculean overdrive, followed by a PT2399-based slapback echo with front-mounted mix, time, and feedback knob. The treble booster circuit has a 3-way voicing switch with bass, mid, or treble focus, while the drive is op-amp based with an amp-like, dynamic response.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
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Aclam Woman Tone
$339 | a pedal tribute to Clapton's "woman tone" from the 1960s, consisting in rolling back the tone control on his SG or Les Paul to get a muffly, fuzzy sound through a Marshall amp. The pedal combines a Plexi-style overdrive with a humbucker pickup simulator to achieve this. The second footswitch bypasses the woman tone control for two different tonal voicings. Artwork by Marijke Koger, the painter of Clapton's "The Fool" SG.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
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Retro Mechanical Labs 432k Rev2 Distortion
$349 | a massive pedal featuring a distortion + filter circuit feeding a a transistor drive and op-amp fuzz, with a Clean knob. A Muff-inspired sustain knob further increases the fuzz. Three white toggles switches let you apply variations to the clipping, the diodes, and the low-frequency response. CV In controls the filter's frequency cut.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
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Gurus Doubledecker MKii
$349 | a dual Marshall-in-a-box sporting a high-voltage tube in the preamp circuit. The two, stackable Plexi-style channels have different diodes and dedicated controls and footswitches. Gain and Volume knobs are complemented by smaller ones for Tone and Presence on each channel, while a toggle switch engages the “Jose Mod,” a mod made popular by Van Halen’s tech Jose Arredondo.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
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Coppersound strategy V2
$249 | An update to an overdrive featuring 30db of boost, powerful tone shaping, and a touch sensitive overdrive built around a studio-grade Burr Brown Op-Amp. Wide-sweep capable tone control and a Master volume control ranging from boost to breakup deliver a wide range of sonic options.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
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baroni AFK 150
$599 | a hybrid, Class D tube amp providing 150w of power, and two channels (Clean and Drive), each with a three-band EQ and two gain stages (one pre- and one post-EQ). Clean delivers a vintage tone inspired by the Fender Blackface amps, while Drive is voiced after the Plexi sound. Master Volume and Presence knobs at the end of the chain are shared by the two channels.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
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LPD Pedals Lucent Overdrive
$225 | a take on the Marshall Blues Breaker featuring the classic tone/gain/level controls as well as a clipping diode toggle that switches between the classic Blues Breaker voicing and a custom one with more headroom, gain, and smoother EQ. It can operate on 9-18 volts.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
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Craftros Trident Overdrive
$243 | a high-end transistor-based, "diodeless" drive made in Japan that delivers amp-like tones from low to high gain. The controls are pretty straightforward, with the only exception of the “Fat” knob, which adjusts the amount of distortion and bass. A toggle in the center offers 3 Presence options.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
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That New Pedal Company 70's Overdrive
~$230 | vintage-inspired drive manufactured by four dudes based in Galacia, a region in Spain. Built by hand using the best possible components, the ’70s Overdrive features two knobs (Volume and Gain) curiously placed on the back on the case, and is voiced after the tone produced by the overdrives of that decade, without necessarily focusing on a specific unit.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon

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