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New Pedal: BOSS SDE-3000D and SDE-3000EVH Dual Digital Delay

The new BOSS SDE-3000D and the slightly more expensive SDE-3000EVH are stereo stompbox recreations of the vintage (and mono) Roland SDE-3000 rack unit from 1983 - actually, of a pair of them, since each unit offers two delay channels. The latter (pictured below) also offers 8 exact settings from Eddie…... Click for more

New Pedal: BOSS SDE-3000D and SDE-3000EVH Dual Digital Delay

BOSS DD-8 Digital Delay

BOSS has been at the forefront of digital delays since the early days, and even now that the field is crowded with many excellent competitors, the Japanese company doesn't miss a beat with updates and new, powerful designs (see the recent DD-200). If the DD-200 was a brand new, fully-featured…... Click for more

BOSS DD-8 Digital Delay

New Pedal: Otis Audio Lifetones Filter + Echo

Hailing from Australia, the Otis Audio Lifetones is a pedal for guitarists with knob-tweaking inclinations seeking inspiration: it's a synth-style resonant filter followed by a modulated delay. The layout is very straightforward with all the knobs you'd expect for each effect: two controls on the top for the filter (Resonance…... Click for more

New Pedal: Otis Audio Lifetones Filter + Echo

Intensive Care Fideleater V1 Lo-Fi Chorus/Vibrato/Delay

London's Intensive Care Audio is one of the most interesting emerging boutique makers of the new decade, and the Fideleater, just released in a more compact version, is their take on the lo-fi modulation chorus/delay. This is primarily a chorus with selectable LFO (you can pick from 8 waveforms) and…... Click for more

Intensive Care Fideleater V1 Lo-Fi Chorus/Vibrato/Delay

Old Blood Noise Excess V2 Distortion + Modulation

The Old Blood Noise Excess V2 updates the '80s-flavored (pink) modulated distortion pedal by the Oklahoma company with a case that's 1/2 the size of the original unit and updated features, including a selectable harmonized fifth mode (which was there but "hidden" in V1) in the modulation channel. This is a…... Click for more

Old Blood Noise Excess V2 Distortion + Modulation

Flamma FS03 Stereo Delay + Looper

Chinese company Flamma burst into the pedal scene early this year (2020) with some incredibly affordable and well-designed multi-mode stereo pedals in the time realm (we already wrote about their Reverb and Ekoverb). The FS03 is their delay + looper, and just like the other two devices, it features 7…... Click for more

Flamma FS03 Stereo Delay + Looper

JAM Delay Llama Xtreme

Presented at NAMM 2020, Delay Llama Xtreme is the latest addition to JAM's popular series. It emulates tape machine wildness but also paves new ground. Three 3205 BBD chips deliver up to 800ms of classic delay tone, adjustable through an intuitive layout of three knobs (Time, Release and Level), three…... Click for more

JAM Delay Llama Xtreme

Side FX Sputnik Modulated Reverb/Delay

Presented as a "modulated ambient machine, the Side FX Sputnik is a rather intense stereo (or mono, via a toggle switch) delay+reverb pedal with a lot of extra effects embedded in the circuit, including pitch modulation, filter, tremolo, and a kill dry switch, just to mention a few. Hosted in…... Click for more

Side FX Sputnik Modulated Reverb/Delay

Rorschach Devices Apophenia Delay

Cool delay pedals with interesting features are released almost on a daily basis, and the Rorschach Devices Apophenia, the debut, hand-built product by a new St. Louis-based company, is a rather unique digital circuit with a particular emphasis on the interaction between echo and filters, and a peculiar approach to…... Click for more

Rorschach Devices Apophenia Delay

Line 6 DL4 MkII Stereo Delay Modeler/Looper

Well, we didn't see this one coming! The new Line 6 DL4 MkII. The original DL4 dates back to 1999 and it's a pedal that pretty much changed the way people thoughts about delay pedals. It was the first multi-mode delay that claimed to be able to model (i.e. simulate)…... Click for more

Line 6 DL4 MkII Stereo Delay Modeler/Looper

Sonicake Levitate Delay + Reverb

The Sonicake Levitate launches a new format for Chinese builder of (mostly) mini pedals Sonicake, which could be described as an insanely affordable, non-mini, dual-effect pedal series. The two effects, in this case, are a classic combo, beloved by guitarists with ambient leanings: (digital) delay and (plate) reverb, in that…... Click for more

Sonicake Levitate Delay + Reverb

Pigtronix Echolution 3 Multi-Tap Stereo Delay

NYC's Pigtronix has released a lot of different pedals since its launch, but none has gone through as many variations and evolutions as the appropriately named Echolution, a stereo Multi-Tap pedal with modulation and, in some versions, filter. Today the company announced the Pigtronix Echolution 3, which expands the delay…... Click for more

Pigtronix Echolution 3 Multi-Tap Stereo Delay