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Chase Bliss Bad Mood

The MOOD MKII, released a couple years back, became one of those pedals people either bonded with immediately or spent months trying to figure out. The Chase Bliss BAD MOOD is the third pedal in the company's Small Batch Bliss collection — a limited-run, made-to-order special edition that takes the…... Click for more

Chase Bliss Bad Mood

Hologram Electronics Chroma Console Multi-Effector

If you are a pedal lover and you are not familiar with Hologram Electronics, well, you aren't really a pedal lover. The Nashville-based company has been churning out incredibly creative pedals for over a decade now, with the latest (the Microcosm) becoming a stellar bestseller. They just unveiled their next device,…... Click for more

Hologram Electronics Chroma Console Multi-Effector

Gamechanger Audio Plus Pedal II

The original Plus Pedal was one of those things that felt like a secret weapon — piano-style sustain for any instrument, wrapped in a brass footpedal that made you feel like you were doing something physical. It wasn't a freeze pedal. It was smarter. It grabbed the tail end of…... Click for more

Gamechanger Audio Plus Pedal II

Updated Pedal: Walrus Audio Fable MkII Granular Soundscape Generator

Evolving from a beloved mono ambient tool into a fully realized spatial processor, the Walrus Audio Fable MkII ($349.99) takes the core experimental architecture of the original 2023 granular delay and supercharges it for modern rigs. While the first-generation Fable captured imaginations with its five distinct dual-effect algorithms—pairing delays with…... Click for more

Updated Pedal: Walrus Audio Fable MkII Granular Soundscape Generator

Red Panda Radius Ring Mod

The Red Panda Radius combines a ring modulator and frequency shifter with pitch tracking and an advanced LFO. It is designed around a novel “eight-quadrant multiplier” algorithm that smoothly transitions from ring modulation to frequency shifting and allows different frequency ratios for the upper and lower tones. The pedal offers a spectrum of timbres beyond traditional ring…... Click for more

Red Panda Radius Ring Mod

Poly Trails Stereo Delay

Just like its reverby brother Verbs, the Poly Trails - a delay, as you may have guessed - is built for discovery. This innovative, stereo unit ditches traditional knobs for a responsive touch interface, putting seven deeply creative effects at your fingertips. Each algorithm is a destination in itself, designed…... Click for more

Poly Trails Stereo Delay

New Pedal: Over Under Pedals Ah, Tremendous Tremolo

Far exceeding the boundaries of traditional amplitude modulation, the Over Under Pedals Ah, Tremendous reimagines the stompbox tremolo as an active system controller and rhythm engine. Assembled in Queens, New York, the pedal houses a flexible dual-tremolo architecture capable of running LFOs in parallel or series (AND/OR modes), moving seamlessly…... Click for more

New Pedal: Over Under Pedals Ah, Tremendous Tremolo

Engineered to inject performance-oriented chaos into a traditional BBD circuit, the DOD DRAG pushes analog delay far beyond simple, predictable repeats. Providing up to 750ms of natural analog delay time that stretches to 1.5 seconds in Rubberneck mode, it ranges effortlessly from crisp, punchy slap-back echoes to expansive, self-evolving ambient…... Click for more

DOD Drag Delay

Asheville Music Tools Analoger APH-12 Phaser

The Asheville Music Tools Analoger APH-12 is the North Carolina company's take on Jimi Hendrix's favorite modulation effect. True to its name, this fully analog phaser with the unique feature of offering up to 12 stages of phase-shifting, selectable via a 12-position rotary knob. Designed by the brain behind the…... Click for more

Asheville Music Tools Analoger APH-12 Phaser

New Pedal: Polyend Loop 8-Track Performance Looper

What happens when you take the sprawling workflow of a desktop DAW and distill it down to a rugged, floor-ready chassis you can pilot with your shoes? Bridging the gap between traditional looping and full-scale production, the Polyend Loop shrinks complex studio power into a pedalboard-friendly workstation. Rather than treating looping…... Click for more

New Pedal: Polyend Loop 8-Track Performance Looper

Fairfield Circuitry Placeholder BBD-based Reverb

Quebec prides itself with being different, and the province's most prominent pedal maker has always done things a little sideways, with devices that don't sound quite like anybody else's. The Fairfield Circuitry Placeholder keeps that streak alive. It's an analog reverb built around BBD chips, but it's not trying to…... Click for more

Fairfield Circuitry Placeholder BBD-based Reverb

EAE Scattering Stereo Reverb

Stepping away from traditional, diffuse ambient washes, the Electronic Audio Experiments Scattering approaches spatial processing through a complex multi-tap delay network that feels refreshingly alive. Tracing its spiritual roots back to EAE’s earlier Hypersleep - which was ultimately limited by exhausted supplies of the rare MN3011 bucket brigade chip -…... Click for more

EAE Scattering Stereo Reverb