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Retroactive Pedals Dot Chaser Cassette-Style Echo with Modulation

The PT2399 chip is found in a lot of modulated delay pedals inspired by old tape machines - you can find a list of the most popular in this section about the Best Creative PT2399-Based Echo Pedals. Nashville's Retroactive Pedals has an intriguing stompbox that fits this profile called Dot…... Click for more

Retroactive Pedals Dot Chaser Cassette-Style Echo with Modulation

Meris Polymoon Modulated Delay

Meris in 2018 was probably the most buzzworthy new builder to hit the pedal scene. The Polymoon is their take on modulated delays. It's a very deep stereo modulated delay that can take you from familiar earthly environments to parallel sonic universes. It boasts 6 delays in series, dual dynamic…... Click for more

Meris Polymoon Modulated Delay

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

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

Foxgear T7E Baby Stereo Echo

Born from a collaboration between Italian boutique builders Guru Amps and Baroni Lab, Foxgear has so far been releasing compact pedals with a lower price tag and broader commercial appeal. The new T7E Baby is a stereo, Binson Echorec inspired echo that represents a return to more tweakable and large…... Click for more

Foxgear T7E Baby Stereo Echo

GFI System Specular Tempus

Based in Indonesia, GFI System manufactures some rather impressive pedals, and has built a solid reputation for its time-based effects. Their Specular Tempus is an expanded, more powerful version of their very well received Specular Reverb, with a more ambient angle. In a horizontal case slightly bigger than a Boss…... Click for more

GFI System Specular Tempus

TC Electronic Mimiq Mini Doubler

A slimmer version of its bigger (stereo) brother, the TC Electronic | Mimiq Mini Doubler creates the impression (in mono) that your guitar track was double-tracked - a studio trick where the same part is played twice. With a tap of your toe, the Mimiq Mini Doubler simulates all the…... Click for more

TC Electronic Mimiq Mini Doubler

Old Blood Noise RÊVER delay/reverb

Emerging dream-pop Brooklyn based band Datachoir has recently unveiled a collaborative pedal called RÊVER, a reverse delay + reverb circuit built by the folks at Old Blood Noise Endevors. The collaboration springs from a long time friendship born in Oklahoma, home to both entities, and the resulting stompbox is as dreamy and ambienty as…... Click for more

Old Blood Noise RÊVER delay/reverb

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

Electro-Harmonix Grand Canyon Delay & Looper

Following a trend we discussed a few months ago in this article, Electro-Harmonix, once known for the simplicity of their delays, seems to be developing some more complex devices on the heels of the success of companies like Strymon. To spot the trend, all you need to do is count…... Click for more

Electro-Harmonix Grand Canyon Delay & Looper

Tomkat Day Dreamer and Super Day Dreamer Echo-Reverb

Brooklyn one-man builder Tomkat Pedals unveiled the expanded version of his popular Day Dreamer Echo-Reverb, which adds Modulation and Subdivision buttons. The Super version delivers up to one second of delay time (the old one stopped at 600ms) and both have a separate control for spring-style reverb. In the Super version,…... Click for more

Tomkat Day Dreamer and Super Day Dreamer Echo-Reverb

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