Updated Apr. 10, 2022 | by Paolo De Gregorio

best new pedals march 2022

It’s that time of the month, lads and gals, the time when we post our summary of the best new pedals released during the previous month.

If you are a sucker for “best-of” pedal lists, you may want to take a look at our Year-End Best Pedals of 2021 Aggregate List, and the previous monthly lists like this one.

March 2022 marked the reawakening of major digital pedal releases, after a very quiet beginning of the year dominated by analog releases mostly concentrated in the boutique dirt-box niche.

It was a month that saw the release of powerful delay pedals, with two reissues of evergreen (and actually green!) classics like the Boss Space Echo and the Line 6 DL4, but also a long-awaited new delay by Chase Bliss Audio, a device as experimental and unusual as you may have dreamed.

But there were also plenty of interesting releases in the gain and fuzz realms, with releases from Thorpy FX, Catalinbread, SolidGoldFX, Mythos and more!

Here’s the recap of the best new pedals released last month, enjoy and please use our affiliate links if you decide to buy something, they are a simple way to support our blog at no cost to you!

As usual, mouseover or first tap on the thumbnails will open a description of the pedal, while a click or a second tap will open a video of the pedal.

Best New Pedals of 2022 | March Edition: Non Gain Pedals

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line 6 DL4 MkII
$299 | MKII of the legendary pedal that pioneered the delay multi-modeling trend. Not one bit smaller than the original, it retains most of the functionality and all of the modes of the original, adding 15 new delay models, a selection of reverbs, two loopers with up to 240 seconds or recording time, XLR Mic in and Midi connectivity.
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BOSS RE-202 Space Echo
$399 | An accurate stereo digital recreation of the original Space Echo with expanded tones and functionality: "New" and "Aged" tape modes; Saturation and Wow & Flutter knobs; A fourth virtual tape head for extra fx combinations; Independent reverb section with spring, hall, plate, room, and ambience modes; Momentary functions for the footswitches double the delay time, presets, Tap tempo and Midi.
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chase bliss audio habit
$399 | Not "traditionally" multi-mode, this experimental 60-sec. echo/looper can do so many things that it's de-facto multi-mode: from regular echo to pitch-shifted trails to modulated delay and looping. The key feature is a 3 min. memory that records everything you play and that can be replayed and fed back into the effect and mixed with the live signal - so it's also a sampler, among many other things.
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boss RE-2 Space Echo
$249 | a virtual multi-head tape machine offering the authentic sound of the original Space Echo, in mono or stereo. A rotary knob sweeps through 11 modes (each simulating a different configuration of the tape heads), and three dual 'concentric" knobs deal with: Echo Level, Intensity, Rate, (stereo) Reverb, Tone and Wow & Flutter. Tap Tempo and Twist momentary effect are accessible through the footswitch.
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Catalinbread Many Worlds
$199 | an 8-Stage Phaser that can deliver classic and swirly phaser tones in sine or triangle wave, plus four more unusual LFOs (reverse and forward sawtooth. square, and Battle, which has a double LFO wave). Two “auto-phase” modes react dynamically to your performance (Envelop Up and Down) with controls for Attack and Sensitivity.
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NuX Tape Echo NDD-7
$199 | a stylized yet expanded and affordable clone of the Space Echo boastsing 1600ms of stereo delay, a 40-second stereo looper, tap tempo, subdivisions, seven modes based on different tape head combinations, and added spring reverb - all packed in a semi-compact case. Alt knob functions like Wow, Flutter, and Saturation accessible by pressing the Select button. Midi compatible.
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Alexander Pedals Fever Pitch
$299 | a creative ambient pedal with a set of 4 stereo pitch shifters followed by reverb/delay, stereo tremolo/pan, and stereo chorus/vibrato. The left knob can be turned or pushed to navigate the user interface through the high-res OLED screen. The other 5 knobs adjust parameters on the current page, while the footswitches deal with On/Off, Tap Tempo, Preset navigation, and momentary effect.
Perf. Circuit | Reverb | Amazon
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Jam RetroVibe MK3
$319 - Featuring original NOS 2SC828 transistors and carbon comp resistors, it includes an internal trim pot that adjusts the effect's sound and feel. Like the vintage unit, it offers both Vibrato and Chorus modes and lets you dial in anything from slow-rate wavy sounds to fast Leslie-speaker effect, controllable via an EXP4 expression pedal. Mk3 adds soft click footswitch and improves Expression in compatibility.
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Intensive Care Audio Recovery Phase/Tremolo
$279 | a dual phaser/tremolo with tap tempo, 8 waveforms per channel, and independent Depth and Frequency controls. While channel 1 is always a phaser, 2 can be either a phaser or a tremolo. There’s also a Dual Phaser + Trem mode! In Trem mode, the 2nd toggle lets you assign the LFO 2 to tremolo only or tremolo and secondary phase shifting.
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mile end effects Julep
$225 | a versatile optical stereo panning/tremolo and phasing effect that can produce a wide variety of sounds with variable waveform, with the possibility to set separate depths for left and right channel.
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Mojo Hand FX Swim Team
$159 | an original take on the quad chorus design teamed up with a vintage-inspired flanger, accessible through a push button in the middle of the pedal. It can also deliver classic early chorus tones in Flanger mode at low feedback settings. The controls here are for Depth, Rate, and Mix (in Chorus mode) or Feedback (in Flanger mode).
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Westminster Spurgeon Reverb V2
$179 | a flexible digital reverb with modulation featuring algorithms offering a variety of different ambiances thanks to the two-way Voice toggle, with a mode for classic spring-like effect and another for washy plate and hall tones. The Regen knob feeds the higher frequencies back into the circuit for a modulation effect ranging from subtle to insane.
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Side Effects Mocking Bird
$180 | an updated version of this ambient modulated echo based on the PT2399 digital chip. Its six knobs let you create delays from 50ms to 1 second (with the tone degrading the longer the delay), and applying pitch-shifting modulation to it. A Tone knob lets you darken the tails for a warmer, tape-style sound. An extra footswitch triggers self-oscillation or a momentary delay effect.
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Best New Pedals of 2022 | March Edition: Fuzz Pedals

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Thorpy FX The Boneyard
~$600 | a Tone Bender variant product of years spent playing, testing and tweaking vintage Benders and clones. It's based on a three (rare) Germanium transistor design, although the Mode toggle allows you to just use two of them, just like in the early MkI and MKI.V Tone Benders. The Feed knob is the little secret weapon here, affecting the voltage of the pedal and the fuzz’s character.
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Fjord Fuzz Kvasir
$200 | a rather simple, vintage-style transistor-based fuzz circuit (similar to the ones found on old Fuzz Faces and Tone Benders) with a bias control and a “thickness” knob which is a little bit of a signature of the Fjord Fuzz pedals. The result is a thick, velcroy musical fuzzbox with a great lead tone that cleans well with your guitar’s volume.
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Hungry Robot The Collective
$250 | A tweaker's dream 3-in-one fuzzbox with plenty of external and internal controls! One conventional fuzz feeds a 2-band State Variable Filter and runs in parallel with two synth-like CMOS fuzzes, one of which is a sub-octave. The left footswitch triggers self-oscillation, the right one adds the sub-octave - they can both be set in momentary or latch-on modes. Pristine lets you reintegrate the clean signal.
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twa WAHXIDIZER
$249 | A Univox Super Fuzz-inspired circuit with a host of filtering and tone sculpting features, an envelop controller linked to the filter, and two footswitchable filter settings. Its design was inspired by the bass fuzz sound of Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch in the band's song Gratitude.
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DPE Pedals Buzz Tone
$189 | a clone of the '60s Jordan Boss Tone built using hand-selected, high-quality components. It features a modified circuitry that delivers a smoother response throughout the gain ranges and a much-improved floor noise. There’s also a Voltage selector switch that offers two different headroom settings.
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Calico Effects Antlers Fuzz
$149 | a tribute to the Green Muff. Three toggle switches affect mids, gain and diode configuration: Mids: up boosted mids, middle flat mids, down (stock) scooped mids; Gain: up more gain, down less gain (stock) gain; Lift: up removes diodes in first stage, down stock silicon diodes in the first stage (stock).
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magpie Moccus
~$350 | a hand-built, Russian Muff variant with a peculiar “Squeal” knob that makes it do just that. it has a bigger bottom end than the original, non-scooped mids and crisper highs. It also features an added octave-up that gives it an extra edge. The two LEDs on the case in place of the bull’s eye are VU meters that light up when your signal hits the circuit.
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Mask Audio Civil Math
$199 | a “Civil War” Muff variant on the company’s Black Math, which produces a more midrange-y tone with also rounder and bassier quality.
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Best New Pedals of 2022 | March Edition: Gain Pedals

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NUX Amp Academy
$189 | Packed with features and affordable, this device comes with 6 built-in amp models + infinite more uploadable via app; 32 slots for Cab IRs; A/B or A-B-C footswitch; Reverb with 2 "alt" knobs; Dirt FX section + 6 band EQ via app; USB audio interface capability; Headphones Out + Aux In; Flexible routing; Drum & Loop function and Full Midi compatibility. If you like how it sounds, it's a no brainer.
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Acorn Amps Solid State
$299 | The Peavey Decade is a solid state 10w amp that was very popular in the late '80s/early '90s. This pedal uses the TDA class-AB power amp device found in the original. It can be used asr a preamp in your pedal chain or as a standalone amplifier plugged directly to a speaker cab - or both at once. A toggle switch lets you send the signal out before or after the power amp circuit.
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SolidGoldFX Commodore
$199 | a Marshall Bluesbreaker overdrive variant with faders that's specially tuned for low to mid-gain tones. The drive circuit feeds an EQ output section consisting of the Tone and Contour sliders, allowing for a variety of tones ranging from black panel spank to Vox-ey chime and British growl. Also, it works with up to 18v for extra headroom.
Alt Seller | Reverb | Amazon
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Mythos Air Lane Drive
$259 | a limited edition, stripped-down, dual overdrive pedal designed with Nashville’s Novo Guitars. The two channels have their own footswitch and gain knob and are based around the same single transistor topology, each slightly tweaked, including hard-clipping diode arrangements made to optimize stacking. Each side features an internal trim pot to set the master volume.
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KMA Machines Wurm 2
$229 | an update to this flagship BOSS HM-2 variant with lots of EQ tweakability: +/-8dBs controls for Highs (2 kHz.), Lows (90Hz), High-Mids (variable from 950 Hz to 3.2 kHz) and Low-Mids (425Hz). A 3-way toggle switch gives you 3 EQ styles on the High-Mids: 1. BOSS HM-2 style; 2. KMA-style with adjustable centre-frequency; 3. BOTH: Combines both EQ styles. An internal trim pot lets you adjust each band's frequency:
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Ibanez TS808 TAMURA-MOD
$349 | a TS808 mod by the original engineer that delivers unparalleled transparency, clarity, and note-to-note separation. The swapped IC alters the overtones of the signal based on input level, producing primarily even-order harmonics at low levels, and a blend of even- & odd-order harmonics at higher ones. It features NOS Toshiba silicon diodes in the clipping section like some vintage units.
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True North Pedals The Tweed Deluxe
$289 | a dual-channel drive that expands on the company's popular Tweed Drive, adding an extra channel with a modified treble boost that can do treble, mid or full-range boost. Each channel has its own footswitch, and a series of toggles allow for a variety of voicing options, including an A/B one that inverts the order of the channels.
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Hughes & Kettner Stompman
$239 | an analog 50 watts amp in a pedal combining the best of all approaches to guitar amplification: the tube’s warm tone, the reliability and lightness of the transistor, and the near-infinite sound-sculpting potential of modeling. Volume, Gain, Tone and Presence knobs are integrated by Resonance and Sagging, which adjust mid frequencies and the amp’s compression at any volume.
Sweetwater | Reverb | Amazon
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Rude Tech Falcondrive
$199 | an Aquabats! signature gain pedal featuring blendable distortion and overdrive, that can produce a variety of tones from light saturation for indie-pop and blues all the way to heavier sounds for Punk and Metal.
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Mattoverse Solar Sound
$229 | a two-knob, one transistor gain circuit finely tuned to take full advantage of the low current provided by the solar panel. It can work when a bright artificial light is pointed at it, but it gives its best when it’s immersed in its natural element: the sun. In the ideal lighting circumstances, it produces anything from starved and choked gain tones to light overdrive and smooth distortion.
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BSM Black Box
~$300 | a treble booster variant inspired by the Schaffer Vega, a wireless device used by AC/DC’s Angus Young as a wireless system in front of his JTM amps: the Schaffer Vega Diversity System.
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Colombo Utopia Overdrive
$219 | a 3-voice, hand-made, analog overdrive with a toggle switch that opens up some interesting options: Vintage mode delivers a tone in the style of a TS808, warm, not overly distorted; Hot mode is inspired by the Klon Centaur; Ultra is a non-clone mode that recreates the effect of an overdrive pedal connected to a distorted amp, achieved by reconfiguring the second stage of the pedal.
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Enjoy and see you next month!

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