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Updated Pedal: Old Blood Noise Beam Splitter V2 Stereo Distortion

If you’ve ever chased the wall-of-guitars studio magic of triple-tracking a single part, Old Blood Noise Endeavors' Beam Splitter V2 is built to solve it. It takes your mono input, splits it into three parallel analog drive paths, routes two of them through independent delay lines, and outputs them in…... Click for more

Updated Pedal: Old Blood Noise Beam Splitter V2 Stereo Distortion

New Pedal: Empty Head Effects Seafarer Reverb

Empty Head Effects , run by Nic out of Mainz, Germany, has been building a reputation for thoughtful, textural pedal designs. We got familiar with the company at our 2026 edition of the London Synth & Pedal Expo, where they attracted a lot of interest. Their upcoming Seafarer is a modulated…... Click for more

New Pedal: Empty Head Effects Seafarer Reverb

Walrus Audio Lüm Granular Reverb

Walrus Audio took three of their most interesting pedals — the Slö, Lore, and Fable — threw them in a blender, and came out with something that's earned its own permanent spot on the roster. The Walrus Audio Lüm is a granular reverb that doesn't just wash your signal in…... Click for more

Walrus Audio Lüm Granular Reverb

New Pedal: MXR Textures Granular Synth Engine

Most pedals take what you play and hand it back to you more or less intact. The MXR Textures does the opposite. It takes your signal, pulls it apart into tiny pieces called grains, and lets you rearrange them into something that barely resembles where you started. Inside the box…... Click for more

New Pedal: MXR Textures Granular Synth Engine

New Pedal: Hungry Robot The Stargazer Dual Ambient Reverb

Hungry Robot has been quietly rebuilding its lineup this year. First came the Moby Dick tape delay. Now comes the new Stargazer, a dual-channel ambient reverb that takes the bones of the 2014 original and gives it a serious update. The original Stargazer was a simple dual-preset reverb. Two channels,…... Click for more

New Pedal: Hungry Robot The Stargazer Dual Ambient Reverb

Updated Pedal: 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

Updated Pedal: Gamechanger Audio Plus Pedal II

New Pedal: AC Noises Continua Stereo Sampler & MultiFX

Most samplers just record what you play and spit it back. This one watches you. The AC Noises Continua is a stereo dynamic sampler and multi-effect that listens to how you hit the strings, how hard, how fast, and reacts while you're still playing. It captures your repeats and twists…... Click for more

New Pedal: AC Noises Continua Stereo Sampler & MultiFX

Red Panda RD-1 Pitch Delay

Red Panda has spent years proving that digital doesn't have to mean cold. The Raster was their deep-dive pitch delay - a brilliant box with menus, alternate functions, and enough parameters to make a synth programmer weep with joy . It was also, for the stomp-and-go guitarist, a lot. Enter…... Click for more

Red Panda RD-1 Pitch Delay

New Pedals: Klowra Budding Bloom Series

Klowra stuffed five pedals into 1590A boxes and somehow none of them feel like a compromise you have to apologize for. The five pedals in their Budding Bloom Series all share the same control layout: four knobs, a 3-way Mode push-button, a 3-way secondary toggle, and a footswitch with different…... Click for more

New Pedals: Klowra Budding Bloom Series

New Pedal: Electro-Harmonix Pico Shimmer Cosmic Reverb

Electro-Harmonix built the Pico Shimmer so you don't have to spend ten minutes dialing in a decent octave reverb. Three scenes, one knob to morph between them, and a footswitch that gives you infinite reverb on a press-and-hold. That's the whole interface. Here are the 3 Scenes: Intergalactic: classic shimmer with…... Click for more

New Pedal: Electro-Harmonix Pico Shimmer Cosmic Reverb

Bananana Mandala Glitch Pedal

The Bananana Mandala isn’t just another “fun-toy” glitch box—it’s a tiny, hand-wired manifesto that says the future of chaos lives on a printed circuit board the size of a postage stamp. Made in Japan by the renegade outfit Bananana Pedals, the Mandala packs eight distinct modes into a single 3-U…... Click for more

Bananana Mandala Glitch Pedal

Beetronics Pollinator Hazee Multi-Modulated Delay

Beetronics finally went digital. After years of building analog dirt boxes in those signature hand-painted enclosures, the California-via-Brazil hive unleashed the Pollinator Hazee Delay—their first fully digital pedal . And thank fuck. Because you can't do what this does with bucket brigades and capacitors. Here's the twist: most modulated delays…... Click for more

Beetronics Pollinator Hazee Multi-Modulated Delay