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New Pedal: Beautiful Noise Exploder Distortion + White Noise

Handmade in Newcastle, Australia, the Beautiful Noise Exploder is a distortion pedal for the heavy yet tweaking-inclined guitarist, with a couple of interesting twists. Besides the expected (white) Gain and Master knob and a 3-way EQ section with (smaller black) Low Mid, and Hi controls, the Exploder offers a 3-way…... Click for more

New Pedal: Beautiful Noise Exploder Distortion + White Noise

Earthquaker Devices Afterneath V3

The EarthQuaker Devices Afterneath is an otherworldly reverberation machine that uses a cluster of short delays to create wild and cavernous reverberations with scattered, rhythmic reflections, offering fine-grained control over the reverberations it produces. More than a simple emulator of acoustic reverb, this pedal lets the player design the character…... Click for more

Earthquaker Devices Afterneath V3

Subdecay M3 – 3 oscillator guitar synth pedal

The slim group of synth pedals featuring one or more tracking oscillators has just gained a new member: the Subdecay M3. This monophonic stompbox efficiently tracks your signal, triggering three digitally controlled oscillators in a circuit inspired by the legendary Korg MS-20. Here's the pedal's path, also immortalized in the…... Click for more

Subdecay M3 – 3 oscillator guitar synth pedal

Polar Bear Petrichor Lo-Fi Delay/Sequencer

The Polar Bear Petrichor Delay is a pedal based on a chip that fortunately seems to be readily available in these days of supply chaos: the PT2399. Like most pedals emplying this device, the Petrichor is a lo-fi delay pedal, but its circuit features an extra creative tool: a step…... Click for more

Polar Bear Petrichor Lo-Fi Delay/Sequencer

Hologram Infinite Jets

Hologram Electronics is a small manufacturer based in Knoxville, TN, that focuses on making unusual stompboxes featuring several effects circuits interacting with each other in intriguing, often unexpected ways. Engineers Jason Campbell and Ryan Schaefer put also a lot attention on an aspect almost entirely overlooked by the community of pedal manufacturers: control automation.…... Click for more

Hologram Infinite Jets

New Pedal: Swamp Witch Pedals Season of the Witch Delay

Based on the infamous PT2399 chip that has inspired so many lo-fi creative devices, the Swamp Witch Pedals Season of the Witch is a handmade, creative modulated delay pedal for the tweaking inclined and the CV enthusiast. The delay section of the circuit offers your expected controls on the left…... Click for more

New Pedal: Swamp Witch Pedals Season of the Witch Delay

Haunted Labs & Dirty Haggard Hell Horse Fuzz/EQ/Delay

Boutique pedal builders Haunted Labs & Dirty Haggard (respectively from Charlotte, NC and Portland, OR) just unveiled a very original take on the fuzz + delay pedal, called the Hell Horse. The fuzz circuit is extremely aggressive, and the delay is powered by the ubiquitous PT2399 chip, often used for…... Click for more

Haunted Labs & Dirty Haggard Hell Horse Fuzz/EQ/Delay

Cat Box Customs Bean Machine V2 Fuzz

Although it's presented in the name as an update, the Cat Box Customs Bean Machine V2 is actually a "deluxe version" of its older sibling. A variant of the Harmonic Percolator fuzz, the original featured a Volume and Fuzz knob, a 3-way diode clipping selection with Germanium/none/Silicon options, and two…... Click for more

Cat Box Customs Bean Machine V2 Fuzz

New Pedal: Free The Tone Cosmic Wave CW-1Y Filtering Delay

The Free The Tone Cosmic Wave is the latest pedal by a Japanese builder that's probably one of the best-kept secrets of the pedalverse. A company that's really good at making delays, and that with this new pedal officially enters the more creative niche of time-based effects within the compact case…... Click for more

New Pedal: Free The Tone Cosmic Wave CW-1Y Filtering Delay

Alexander Pedals Fever Pitch Stereo Pitch Shifting Multi-FX

The Alexander Pedals Fever Pitch might be one of the first digital/DSP-based pedal releases of 2022 (a year marred by a continued chip shortage) but it's a device bound to keep players busy as if they bought half a dozen new pedals. At its core, this is a creative pedal…... Click for more

Alexander Pedals Fever Pitch Stereo Pitch Shifting Multi-FX

Rainger FX Reverb X

One thing you can surely say about London's Rainger FX is that it's a company that specializes in thinking outside the (stomp)box. Their Reverb X is extra proof of it: it subverts an effect routing commonplace, placing an overdrive and a gate AFTER a reverb, rather than before, and that drive…... Click for more

Rainger FX Reverb X

Old Blood Noise Float Dual Filter

A dual filter pedal packed with creative features, the Old Blood Noise Float is a breath of fresh air in an effect niche that too often only caters to funk guitarists - while historically filters are at the basis of electronic music. OBNE's first digitally controlled analog pedal, Float is…... Click for more

Old Blood Noise Float Dual Filter