Best New Pedals 2023 | April Edition

April 2023 was a rather exciting month for pedal releases, if anything due to the unusual timing of the NAMM show, which still triggers a noteworthy amount of product announcements.

Speaking of NAMM, we had our usual, huge shared pedal booth at this year’s show, and our YouTuber friend Devon Blue Whitaker was in a separate booth shooting videos of as many new stompboxes we could fetch him – check out the playlist by clicking the image below.

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However, not all the new pedals released in April were announced at NAMM, therefore we compiled these three comprehensive lists of all the new pedals that saw the light last month, organized by type of effect:

BEST NON-GAIN RELEASES IN APRIL 2023

BEST GAIN/DYNAMIC RELEASES IN APRIL 2023

BEST FUZZ RELEASES IN APRIL 2023