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Filter Pedals

Native Audio Pattern Keeper Looper

The looper is a tired format. Most of them just capture and repeat—useful, boring, done. NativeAudio's Mike Trombley looked at that and asked: what if the loop kept moving? The Pattern Keeper is a phrase modulator disguised as a looper. Sixty seconds of stereo recording at 48kHz/24-bit, analog dry path,…Click on the title for more

Native Audio Pattern Keeper Looper

Vongon Polyphrase Stereo Echo

We were very proud to host the launch of the new Vongon Polyphrase at our 10th Brooklyn Stompbox Exhibit (yeah, after all what happened since our 2019 edition we kind of forgot that this was the event's ten year anniversary!). The Polyphrase is a stereo echo with an infinite feedback loop,…Click on the title for more

Vongon Polyphrase Stereo Echo

EarthQuaker Devices Towers Reverberant Filter

EarthQuaker Devices has spent twenty years convincing us that reverb doesn't have to sit politely in the background. Afterneath sent drips cavern-dwelling. Astral Destiny went cosmic. Transmisser just… floated off somewhere. Now comes the Towers, labeled as a Stereo Reverberant Filter. Jamie Stillman is very clear: this isn't an evolution of…Click on the title for more

EarthQuaker Devices Towers Reverberant Filter

Beetronics Pollinator Hazee Multi-Modulated Delay

Beetronics finally went digital. After years of building analog dirt boxes in those signature hand-painted enclosures, the California-via-Brazil hive unleashed the Pollinator Hazee Delay—their first fully digital pedal . And thank fuck. Because you can't do what this does with bucket brigades and capacitors. Here's the twist: most modulated delays…Click on the title for more

Beetronics Pollinator Hazee Multi-Modulated Delay

New Pedal: KHDK Electronics Digital Bath Modulated Delay

After years of relative quiet from the Dunlop-family brand, KHDK Electronics has reemerged with something unexpected . Not another high-gain monster for metalheads—though they've done those—but a filter-delay modulation pedal born from a two-year collaboration with Deftones' Chino Moreno. The Digital Bath takes its name and spirit from the White…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: KHDK Electronics Digital Bath Modulated Delay

TWA Ladditude Envelope Filter

Because of their unique sonic characteristics, including a smooth, warm low-pass filter sound with a pleasing "fat" character, particularly when pushed into overdrive, the so-called "ladder filters" found in vintage analog synths are still highly sought after, even by guitarists. The TWA Ladditude pedal puts that exact circuit at your…Click on the title for more

TWA Ladditude Envelope Filter

TWA Wahxidizer Envelope Controlled Fuzz

The TWA Wahxidizer is a Univox Super Fuzz-inspired circuit with a host of filtering and tone sculpting features, an envelop controller linked to the filter, and two footswitchable filter settings. Its design was inspired by the bass fuzz sound of Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch in the band's song Gratitude -…Click on the title for more

TWA Wahxidizer Envelope Controlled Fuzz

New (LTD) Pedal: Great Eastern FX Distortion Filter D312A

Great Eastern FX has unveiled the D312A Distortion Filter, a limited pedal that reimagines classic hard-clipping circuits through the lens of rare, obsolete components. At its core are three NOS Soviet-era germanium diodes, configured for asymmetrical clipping to produce a distortion rich in harmonic complexity and dynamic response, a significant…Click on the title for more

New (LTD) Pedal: Great Eastern FX Distortion Filter D312A

Source Audio Artifakt Multi-Algorithm Stereo Lo-Fi Pedal

The Source Audio Artifakt Lo-Fi Elements is the new, long-awaited release by the Massachusetts-based brand that excelled at multi-algorithm time-based effects like the Nemesis or the Ventris. While a lo-fi pedal represents a departure from the company's usual offerings (known for their pristine audio quality), the engineers have maintained their…Click on the title for more

Source Audio Artifakt Multi-Algorithm Stereo Lo-Fi Pedal

Discomfort Designs Riemann’s Grave V2

The Discomfort Designs Riemann's Grave is not a simple distortion pedal; it's a powerful, self-contained workstation for timbral sculpting, combining multimode distortion, a state-variable filter, and deep random modulation in a single compact unit. The pedal operates as a dual-engine system. On the right, the "Zeta Function" section acts as…Click on the title for more

Discomfort Designs Riemann’s Grave V2

New Pedal: Alexander Pedals Now We Are Ghosts

The Alexander Pedals Now We Are Ghosts, a device you'll be able to check out in person at the upcoming Brooklyn Synth and Pedal Expo, is a creative, stereo reverb that reimagines the effect as a dynamic sound-synthesis tool. Conceived by designer Matthew Farrow as “a synthesizer built from a…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Alexander Pedals Now We Are Ghosts

Electro Harmonix Talking Machine

The Electro Harmonix Talking Machine (street $220) is, at its heart, an envelope filter. Like many of EHX’s new offerings, though, it pushes the boundaries of everything before it, adding tremendous versatility—and not a little complexity—to the traditional auto wah. The Talking Machine makes seven vowel sounds plus EHX’s signature…Click on the title for more

Electro Harmonix Talking Machine