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TWA Side Step LFO Expression Pedal

While almost every guitar player owns an Expression pedal, Expression controllers are a rather overlooked format in the stompbox world, and they shouldn't be, because they have the magic power of instilling new creative life into any old pedal in a player's arsenal equipped with an Expression or CV input.…Click on the title for more

TWA Side Step LFO Expression Pedal

Hungry Robot Borderland Modulated Reverb

The Hungry Robot Borderland is a complex, creative reverb pedal with a modulation section controllable via Tap Tempo and a resonant low pass filter. The modulation has 6 LFO shapes and features modes including vibrato/chorus, tremolo, three-octave tremolo, and a mode that crossfades between a processed signal an octave up…Click on the title for more

Hungry Robot Borderland Modulated Reverb

Adventure Audio Again Modulated Delay with CV

Upstate NY pedal builder Adventure Audio unveiled (and shot a video of) a fuzz at our 2019 Brooklyn Stompbox Exhibit, but, on their board, also had a prototype of another new pedal which is now ready and shipping: the Again Delay/Modulation. The circuit itself is not as mind-bending as other…Click on the title for more

Adventure Audio Again Modulated Delay with CV

Spaceman Effects Artemis Modulated Filter

Portland's Spaceman Effects just came out with a new filter pedal that will catch the interest of the synthesis and psych-inclined guitarists out there: the Artemis. Featuring a 2-pole state-variable design, which allows to mix, at once, high-pass, band-pass, and low-pass filters, the Artemis can deliver both envelope or LFO…Click on the title for more

Spaceman Effects Artemis Modulated Filter

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 on the title for more

Fairfield Circuitry Long Life EQ

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 on the title for more

Mastro Valvola LEM Ambient Delay/Reverb

SolidGoldFX Oblivion Quad Flanger

This pedal is included in our Best Pedals for Synth with CV In article (modulation list). --- Montreal's own SolidGoldFX has just released a new, multi-mode, multi-LFO, tap tempo and CV-enabled flanger pedal called Oblivion, which features a fair amount of knobs and toggle switches compared to your average flanger,…Click on the title for more

SolidGoldFX Oblivion Quad Flanger

Dreadbox Lethargy 8 Stage Phase Filter

The Lethargy is one of the pedals from a new series recently unveiled by Athen's (the Greek one) Dreadbox FX, a boutique builder that hit it big in the desktop synthesizer world in the last decade or so. This purple beauty represents a very peculiar approach to the phaser effect…Click on the title for more

Dreadbox Lethargy 8 Stage Phase Filter

Folktek Alter X CV-Controlled Stereo Multi-FX

Portland Eurorack builder Folktek just announced their entry into the stompbox niche with two pedal versions of their existing Eurorack modules. The Alter X is the Eurorack Alter 1 in pedal format and, as you can see, retains CV compatibility through a series of 1/8 inch connections. It's an experimental…Click on the title for more

Folktek Alter X CV-Controlled Stereo Multi-FX

Luma Trueno Tremolo

Hailing from Argentina, the Trueno is the first pedal by Luma Sonido, a very creative tremolo that combines classic and harmonic tremolo with a ring modulator. The latter effect can be achieved through a mode called "Dissastro" - which we assume means "disaster" in Spanish. This tap-tempo enabled pedal has…Click on the title for more

Luma Trueno Tremolo

Pladask Elektrisk Draume Reverb

The Pladask Elektrisk Draume is a reverb pedal built on an intriguing premise: that digital reverb is not supposed to recreate the sound of a space, but should be a creative effect in itself, free from real-life emulation constraints. Can a space sound dry, old, veiled or broken? what ambiance…Click on the title for more

Pladask Elektrisk Draume Reverb

Idiotbox Effects Mad Doctor Deluxe Tremolo

The Idiotbox Effects Mad Doctor Deluxe is a tremolo pedal with 8 LFO modes, including some "out there" ones that borderline on glitchy/stutter: ramp up, ramp down, square pulse, triangle, sine, sweep, random levels and random slope. This pedal can create some interesting textures, and it's Tap-Tempo enabled. Check out…Click on the title for more

Idiotbox Effects Mad Doctor Deluxe Tremolo