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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 on the title for more

Origin Effects Halcyon Gold Drive

Jam Pedals Harmonious Monk Mk2 Tremolo

A trip to Athens in 2020 kick-started a pedal collaboration between the British YouTube channel That Pedal Show and Greek stompbox artisans Jam Pedals. A monstrously geeky meeting between the two parts developed into the idea of a collaboration on a harmonic tremolo with a very peculiar character - which…Click on the title for more

Jam Pedals Harmonious Monk Mk2 Tremolo

Spaceman Charon Ge/Si Hybrid Fuzz

Fuzz lovers who can't make up their minds on whether to buy a silicon or a germanium fuzz should take a look at the Spaceman Charon, a fuzz with a hybrid circuit that includes diodes with both elements, including a NOS germanium transistor. The careful balancing of these components allows…Click on the title for more

Spaceman Charon Ge/Si Hybrid Fuzz

API TranZformer GTR EQ+Overdrive

A name nothing short of legendary in the pro audio realm, API entered the stompbox niche in 2017 with the TranZformer GT, an EQ + compressor inheriting the company's technology used in their mixing consoles' channel strips. As good as it sounded, that pedal had an obvious downside: it was…Click on the title for more

API TranZformer GTR EQ+Overdrive

Westminster Armistice Overdrive

A collaboration with AZ guitar store Pedal.ly aimed at supporting veterans, and only available to purchase there, the Westminster Armistice is a versatile overdrive that can deliver tones useful for genres as disparate as blues and metal. Controls for Timbre, affecting the high-mids, and Texture, adding compression and saturation, are…Click on the title for more

Westminster Armistice Overdrive

GFI Skylar Stereo Reverb

GFI System is an Indonesian manufacturer that has been gaining traction in the pedalsphere thanks to forward-thinking hybrid digital effects like the Synesthesia and the Specular Tempus. The Skylar is a studio-quality, streamlined, multi-mode, stereo digital reverb that replaces the Specular Reverb in their line. It features four of its…Click on the title for more

GFI Skylar Stereo Reverb

Joyo Vintage Overdrive

At $35, the Joyo Vintage Drive is an incredibly affordable Tube Screamer clone delivering more defined mids and a wider gain range. We added it to our article about the best Tube Screamer original pedals, clones and variants. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSVHnlY7NJAClick on the title for more

Joyo Vintage Overdrive

Collector//Emitter & Mask Audio Electronics Cascader

The Cascader is the second collaborative pedal by pedal YouTuber collector//emitter and Mask Audio (after the Part Garden Dual Fuzz). This is an aggressive fuzz inspired by Devi Ever and EHX circuits, combining a smooth fuzz with a low gain gated fuzz to conjure a dense yet tight mix of…Click on the title for more

Collector//Emitter & Mask Audio Electronics Cascader

BOSS VB-2w Vibrato

The BOSS WB-2w is a new/old take on the classic analog vibrato effect launched by the Japanese company in 1982. The new Waza Craft technology employs the classic BBD chips to authentically reproduces the original unit's sound and adds a new vibrato mode with a filter wave (Custom Mode) and…Click on the title for more

BOSS VB-2w Vibrato

TC Electronic 2290 P Digital Delay

The TC Electronic 2290 P is a modernized reissue of the the rackmount TC 2290 dynamic digital delay, which in the '80s and '90s left its pristine sonic mark in recording studios, live performances, and guitar rigs worldwide. This authentic recreation features a captivating vintage design, complete with iconic digital…Click on the title for more

TC Electronic 2290 P Digital Delay

LPD Pedals Embers Klon-inspired Overdrive

Mesa, Arizona's LPD Pedals in recent months has been releasing more streamlined pedals than the company got us used to, and the Embers Overdrive is their four knob take on the simplest and probably most hyped stompbox of all times: the Centaur Klon. This Klon-inspired circuit adds a Bass knob…Click on the title for more

LPD Pedals Embers Klon-inspired Overdrive

EarthQuaker Devices Disaster Transport Legacy Reissue

The EarthQuaker Devices Disaster Transport Legacy Reissue was supposed to be what its name states - a "reissue" of a pedal that started the delay + modulation trend back in 2019 - but it ended up becoming more than that, because, to quote the press release: "the OG of EQD,…Click on the title for more

EarthQuaker Devices Disaster Transport Legacy Reissue