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Singular Sound Aeros Loop Studio

The Singular Sound Aeros Loop Studio is a multi-track stereo looper pedal and digital audio workstation in a stompbox footprint, designed to handle both parallel and sequential loop structures across complex song arrangements. • What's Special About it: It features a 4.3-inch color touchscreen displaying real-time color-coded audio waveforms alongside…... Click for more

Singular Sound Aeros Loop Studio

Tubesteader Beekeeper Overdrive

The Beekeper is the first pedal by Canadian company Tubesteader, a boutique shop that prides itself with building its devices to order - and in embedding real vacuum tubes in them! The circuit is a dual-channel overdrive inspired by the legendary Dumble Special Overdrive amp, famous for delivering a sparkling…... Click for more

Tubesteader Beekeeper Overdrive

Keeley Compressor Plus Germanium

Marking a quarter-century of defining modern pedalboard dynamics, the Keeley Compressor Plus Germanium ($189) takes Robert Keeley’s most ubiquitous design and injects it with a distinct vintage soul. While the standard Compressor Plus earned its legendary status as an always-on utility tool for taming transients, this 25th-anniversary iteration introduces a…... Click for more

Keeley Compressor Plus Germanium

Rainger FX Razor Fuzz

The Rainger FX Razor Fuzz is a wild (mostly analog) ride in a stompbox: an unapologetically bold fusion of analog fury and digital mischief. With its original, analog gated fuzz circuitry, it’s bristling with zingy highs and oversized lows. Engaging the “Extra” switch unleashes an even more aggressive tonal onslaught…... Click for more

Rainger FX Razor Fuzz

Marshall BluesBreaker (aka Blues Breaker) Reissue

It looks like with the new reissue of the original 1991 Blues [space] Breaker overdrive, Marshall has decided to surrender to the common misspellings of this pedal's name, as in "BluesBreaker" (without a space), since their entire online literature spells it that way. However, if our friends at Pedaltown are…... Click for more

Marshall BluesBreaker (aka Blues Breaker) Reissue

Mad Professor Milestone Fuzz

Crafting germanium fuzz into something that behaves on a modern board without fighting your buffers is an old engineering puzzle, and Mad Professor has tackled it head-on. Handwired in Finland by the boutique shop renowned for classics like the Sweet Honey Overdrive, the new Mad Professor Milestone reimagines vintage germanium…... Click for more

Mad Professor Milestone Fuzz

Engineered to inject performance-oriented chaos into a traditional BBD circuit, the DOD DRAG pushes analog delay far beyond simple, predictable repeats. Providing up to 750ms of natural analog delay time that stretches to 1.5 seconds in Rubberneck mode, it ranges effortlessly from crisp, punchy slap-back echoes to expansive, self-evolving ambient…... Click for more

DOD Drag Delay

Tone King Imperial Tube Preamp Pedal

One of the most talked-about pedals to emerge from the 2025 NAMM Show was the Tone King Imperial Tube Preamp, a two-channel stereo preamp with tremolo and reverb voiced after the company's namesake amp, and based on a circuit featuring not one but three 12AX7 tubes. Just like in the…... Click for more

Tone King Imperial Tube Preamp Pedal

Chase Bliss Big Time Stereo Delay

A thousand dollars. For a delay pedal. Let that sink in. Here's the thing, though. Joel Korte and his team and John Snyder (Electronic Audio Experiments) have built something that actually justifies the price tag. The Chase Bliss Big Time isn't another digital delay with fancy marketing. It's a painstaking…... Click for more

Chase Bliss Big Time Stereo Delay

Hologram Microcosm Multi-Mode Granular Looper/Delay

Knoxville's Hologram Electronics has been at the forefront of creative (or rather, "out there"!) effects pedals since the release of their debut device, the Dream Sequence, followed by the even more popular Infinite Jets. Their third creation, which, from the looks of it, seems to take things to a new…... Click for more

Hologram Microcosm Multi-Mode Granular Looper/Delay

Origin Effects Halcyon Gold Drive

The Origin Effects Halcyon Gold is the British company's take on the Klon Centaur circuit, the most influential, modded, and cloned overdrive circuit ever. As expected from a company that got us used to an intelligent approach to reinventing classic effect designs, this is not a simple clone (or klone,…... Click for more

Origin Effects Halcyon Gold Drive

Strymon La Brea Analog Tape Drive

Can a dedicated stompbox truly distill the organic, reactive behavior of studio-grade reel-to-reel magnetic tape entirely within the analog domain? Eschewing digital processors for pure analog grit, the Strymon La Brea translates a decade-long R&D focus on tape physics—heavily inspired by the iconic design principles of the Strymon Deco—into a…... Click for more

Strymon La Brea Analog Tape Drive