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Best New Pedals of 2019 Readers’ Poll – Results

Please go to our Best Guitar Pedals of 2019 article for a more updated year-end list that includes all pedals released in 2019 as voted by the videographers and websites focused on pedals - rather than readers. --- We can hear you perfectly: "Best Pedals of 2019 list? We are…Click on the title for more

Best New Pedals of 2019 Readers’ Poll – Results

Best New Guitar Pedals of 2019 – Readers Poll + PRS Giveaway! [ended]

Stomp-obsessed minds, This week, to celebrate the upcoming Austin Stompbox Exhibit (March 15/16), we are launching a super special giveaway with a super special prize by our sponsor Paul Reed Smith: a PRS SE Standard 24! And while we are at it, we'll ask you to vote for your favorite new guitar pedals…Click on the title for more

Best New Guitar Pedals of 2019 – Readers Poll + PRS Giveaway! [ended]

Best Budget Delay Pedals (According to JHS)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDLFtxyLm4M Updated on 03.25.2019 - See also our overview article about the Best Delay Pedals organized by type. We already published four other articles in the series, one focused on multi-mode digital delay pedals, best analog delay pedals, best tape delay pedals, best mini delays, best creative delay pedals, and…Click on the title for more

Best Budget Delay Pedals (According to JHS)

The Best New Guitar Pedals at NAMM 2019!

NAMM 2019 has come and gone, and it's time to take stock of what stompable devices left a mark on our collective mind! To do that, we gathered all the "Best Of" articles and videos focused on the guitar pedals released at NAMM and we created an aggregate chart of…Click on the title for more

The Best New Guitar Pedals at NAMM 2019!

Collector//Emitter visited the Stompbox Booth at NAMM 2019…

We weren't familiar with the videos of pedal videographer Ian Pritchard, aka Collector//Emitter - we'll start aggregating his videos from now on! He came over by our NAMM 2019 Stompbox Booths and took a lot of videos of the participating manufacturers' pedals. Out of the 11 boards he highlighted in…Click on the title for more

Collector//Emitter visited the Stompbox Booth at NAMM 2019…

Meris Enzo is the Best Pedal of 2018 (according to the internet)

As usual, the Winter NAMM show unleashed on us a tsunami of new pedals (see our coverage here and here). However, we shouldn't miss the opportunity given to us by the first month of 2019 to see what devices stood out from the crowd during the previous twelve months. Since…Click on the title for more

Meris Enzo is the Best Pedal of 2018 (according to the internet)

Best Pedals of 2018 according to… a bunch of videographers!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgP-TI_wjg4 Our friend Eric Merrow asked a bunch of his pedal loving, video shooting friends to make a brief demo of their favorite pedal of 2018, and this is the result. Here's the interactive gallery of the selected pedals.Click on the title for more

Best Pedals of 2018 according to… a bunch of videographers!

Thomann Music’s Best 5 Pedals of 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uhwyDTWlrQ Thomann (big German online retailer that's coming to the US in 2019) released their year-end list of their favorite pedals of 2018. They stuck to just five effects, but definitely picked some interesting ones, mostly in the gain realm, check them out in our interactive gallery below! You can…Click on the title for more

Thomann Music’s Best 5 Pedals of 2018

Pedals and Effects’ Best 10 Pedals of 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScO3aBqbmJA Pedal Year End List Alert!!! We've been diligently posting all the Best Stompboxes of 2018 lists compiled by our favorite pedal videographers, and we couldn't leave out the one by the folks at Pedals and Effects, who just published it. They didn't specify a particular order for their favorite…Click on the title for more

Pedals and Effects’ Best 10 Pedals of 2018

JHS’s Top 10 Pedals of 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH5NHMPAvZg&t=9s Did you have time to digest our latest Best of 2018 Pedal list? We hope so, because we've got another one for you, and this time from none other than Mr. JHS! It's truly awesome to see so much passion for "stompbable circuitry" and admiration for fellow manufacturers from…Click on the title for more

JHS’s Top 10 Pedals of 2018

Best Stompboxes of 2018 according to Dennis Kayzer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTe84hYtano Dennis Kayzer's year-end pedal lists are always very interesting because the guy's into unusual sounding devices - you won't find much in term of dirt boxes or subtle tone enhancers in them. He's been that way for his whole "YouTube life," anticipating a taste for creative stompboxes that…Click on the title for more

Best Stompboxes of 2018 according to Dennis Kayzer

The Pedal Zone’s Best 10 Pedals of 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQxWaerYzRk&t=40s December, for most people, is the month when big decisions are made about what stood out in the previous eleven months of our lives... Stefan from The Pedal Zone just went through that difficult yet rewarding process to give birth to his "Best Pedals of 2018" video, a gift to…Click on the title for more

The Pedal Zone’s Best 10 Pedals of 2018