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Chase Bliss Lossy Digital LoFi

The Chase Bliss Lossy is a collaboration with audio plugin builder Goodhertz, and could be described as a digital version of the company's Generation Loss, informed by Goodhertz's plugin of the same name. Where Generation Loss originated as an effect intent to recreate the sonic artifact of the analog VHS…Click on the title for more

Chase Bliss Lossy Digital LoFi

New Pedal: CGI Brutalist Distortion

God City Instruments is the brainchild of Kurt Ballou, guitarist of yesteryear's metalcore band Converge and producer and owner of a studio in Massachusetts under the same GCI namesake. While the GCI Brutalist is not his debut pedal, it proudly stands as the first creation that has undergone over a decade…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: CGI Brutalist Distortion

GFI System Rossie Multi Filter

Indonesian pedal builder GFI System specializes in digital multi-mode pedals, but their newest release tackles a type of effect that more than any other hangs on to its analog origins: filter. Enter the Rossie Filter, a digital, dynamic multi-filter pedal. The Rossie's circuit offers three modes: Envelope Filter - a…Click on the title for more

GFI System Rossie Multi Filter

New Pedals: Kuro Custom Audio 1942 Fuzz + Filter

Hailing from Italy, the Kuro Custom Audio 1942 is a fuzz + envelop filter combo that merges a classic guitar effect (the former) with a supremely synthy one (the latter). Since in this 10-knob pedal, the fuzz is represented by only two knobs (Fuzz and Volume), it's the filter the…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Kuro Custom Audio 1942 Fuzz + Filter

New at NAMM: Bixonic Auto Wah

The Bixonic Auto Wah is a combo envelope filter and auto wah. The pedal has four knobs that control the effect: Sensitivity, Attack, Tone, and Mix. Sensitivity adjusts the amount of effect based on the dynamics of the guitar player. Attack controls the speed of the wah effect. Tone changes…Click on the title for more

New at NAMM: Bixonic Auto Wah

Chase Bliss Audio Generation Loss MkII

We celebrated in this very blog several of the pedals by Cooper FX, a one-man "cult" builder whose devices were constantly sold out. One of the biggest fans of this manufacturer is Chase Bliss Audio's Joel Korte, who has never been shy about his affinity for the Cooper FX Generation…Click on the title for more

Chase Bliss Audio Generation Loss MkII

Glou Glou Loupe` Creative Stereo Looper

Those who like imaginative pedals and have no problem with complexity and seriously BIG stompboxes, should already be familiar with French builder Glou Glou, a company that has embraced the idea that pedals can be full-fledged synths (without keys). They just announced a new pedal and, once again, it's an…Click on the title for more

Glou Glou Loupe` Creative Stereo Looper

Soma Cosmos Drifting Memory Station

The Soma Cosmos is a stereo pedal offering dynamic looping that evolves as you play and layer sounds. Four creative algorithms affect your sounds differently, featuring a mix of delays, reverb, and a granular mode. Five footswitches control vital parameters crossfading between on and off states. Several knobs (Blur, Drift,…Click on the title for more

Soma Cosmos Drifting Memory Station

GFI System Synesthesia Dual-Engine Modulator

These days, dual-engine pedals seem to be the way forward in a scene constantly striving to devise effects that offer new textures and unheard sonic combinations. Indonesian builder GFI System is, with a few other companies, ahead of the game in the digital effects' engineering field, and their new stompbox…Click on the title for more

GFI System Synesthesia Dual-Engine Modulator

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

Best Pedals for Synths: 7 EQ and FIlter Stompboxes, Reviewed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdjFXND-yb0 Equalizers are a type of effect often overlooked by musicians. They are comprised of normally between 2 and 6 frequency filters configured in one way or another - you can read our guide to the different types of filters here. Since frequencies are the foundation of any tone, EQ…Click on the title for more

Best Pedals for Synths: 7 EQ and FIlter Stompboxes, Reviewed

All-Pedal Macrodose Envelope Filter

Looking like a cover of a collaborative album from the late '60s by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Funkadelic, and Jimi Hendrix, the All-Pedal Macrodose is a striking attempt at delivering the ultimate envelope filter pedal. This device can produce auto-wah with selectable waveforms, sample/hold functions, step filter, random sample/hold,…Click on the title for more

All-Pedal Macrodose Envelope Filter