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CREATIVE GUITAR PEDALS

EarthQuaker Devices Data Corrupter

The EarthQuaker Devices Data Corrupter is a Modulated Monophonic PLL Harmonizer with modulation. This ain't a simple pedal to describe in a few words, but we can certainly tell you that it belongs to EQD's tradition of experimental and even "synthy" stompboxes. Here's the intro from EQD's website: It takes…... Click for more

EarthQuaker Devices Data Corrupter

Seymour Duncan Vapor Trail Deluxe

The original Vapor Trail delay+modulation was one of the most popular pedals by Seymour Duncan, a company mostly known for their electric guitar pickups. The new Deluxe version of that design adds several features to the original design through extensive digital controls, maintaining a fully analog signal path. The most…... Click for more

Seymour Duncan Vapor Trail Deluxe

Fairfield Circuitry Long Life EQ

Quebec-based pedal maker Fairfield Circuitry has built a solid following thanks of a line of stompboxes that's at once stylishly minimalistic and inspiringly creative. Today the company released not one but two pedals! The Long Life is in its essence an analog, parametric, resonant EQ channel with extra controls to…... Click for more

Fairfield Circuitry Long Life EQ

3 Creative Features of the Hologram Microcosm: Hold Sampler, Arp Mode, Granules

Since it was announced in February 2020, the Hologram Microcosm has been consistently the most searched pedals on this blog (it's July 22nd at the time of writing). But look beyond the hype and you’ll find that this pedal is a serious creative and compositional tool. It can be used…... Click for more

3 Creative Features of the Hologram Microcosm: Hold Sampler, Arp Mode, Granules

Now Shipping: Suhr Discovery Analog Delay

Analog delay pedals where the signal id controlled and affected through digital means have been around for some time, but, until today, no pedal builder has created an analog echo with functionality as deep as the one found in digital delay workstations offered by companies like Strymon, Eventide or BOSS.…... Click for more

Now Shipping: Suhr Discovery Analog Delay

Pladask Elektrisk Fabrikat Granular Synth / Sample Playback

The Pladask Elektrisk Fabrikat is a hand-made Granular Synthesizer / Sample Playback pedal built-in Bergen, Norway. The company is known for its DIY workshops. A lighter version of the DIY kit FORM2, the Fabrikat features 16 algorithms focusing on granular synthesis and modified sample playback, including time stretching, pitch shifting with time…... Click for more

Pladask Elektrisk Fabrikat Granular Synth / Sample Playback

KMA Machines Tyler Deluxe

The KMA Machines Tyler isn't really an effects pedal. Rather, a device designed to bring new life to the pedals you already have by splitting the signal into two parallel loops that let you make separate chains for your high and low frequencies. The new Deluxe version takes things to…... Click for more

KMA Machines Tyler Deluxe

IdiotBox Repo Man Double Delay + Drive

Notwithstanding the name, Texas IdiotBox keeps churning out some very interesting pedals. Their latest creature, the Repo Man is a circuit that gives you a delay feeding an overdrive, and then some more delay - dedicated to all the "wall of sound" fans out there. The interface is simple, and…... Click for more

IdiotBox Repo Man Double Delay + Drive

TKOG Mini Glitch

The King of Gear is a site "devoted to how Radiohead make all of those funny noises" in their late '90s/early aughts records. The site also builds a pedal called Mini Glitch, inspired by the desire to reproduce Jonny Greenwood’s random Max/MSP “stutter” effect, but that actually does a lot more…... Click for more

TKOG Mini Glitch

Bardic Audio Bootgazer Fuzz/Modulated Delay

If adding a longish delay to your fuzzed-out guitar tone triggers incommensurable pleasure, you owe it to yourself to check out this new pedal by Bardic Audio and Galvanize Designs: the Bootgazer. It offers the two effects in one box, with a routing order option one stomp away (center footswitch…... Click for more

Bardic Audio Bootgazer Fuzz/Modulated Delay

Shift Line Prism II Stereo Filter Pad

First of all, let us say that this new stereo version of the Prism by Russian builder Shift Line looks rad, and gorgeous-looking devices brighten our day. But that brightness fades in comparison to the blinding beam of creativity it might inspire in the adventurous/unconventional guitarist. The Prism is a…... Click for more

Shift Line Prism II Stereo Filter Pad

Mastro Valvola LEM Ambient Delay/Reverb

Italian stompbox maestro Mastro Valvola unveiled the company's edgier device so far: the LEM (an acronym for Lysergic Emotion Module), a tap-tempo and preset enabled ambiance machine with 8 delay and reverb modes. Here's a graph that shows you all the modes, accessible through the Mode knob: As you can see…... Click for more

Mastro Valvola LEM Ambient Delay/Reverb