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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

TKOG Mini Glitch

The King of Gear is a site "devoted to how Radiohead make all of those funny noises" in their late '90s/early aughts records. The site also builds a pedal called Mini Glitch, inspired by the desire to reproduce Jonny Greenwood’s random Max/MSP “stutter” effect, but that actually does a lot more…... Click for more

TKOG Mini Glitch

Matthews Effects Futurist MIDI Controller / Preset Bank

The new Matthews FX Futurist is an all-in-one MIDI control center with four footswitches for your pedalboard in a compact enclosure. It can send patch, tempo, expression messages and any other Midi message to up to 16 devices, allowing the creation of over 200 Midi presets via dedicated app with…... Click for more

Matthews Effects Futurist MIDI Controller / Preset Bank

Catalinbread Montavillian Echo

Inspired by big and warm tube-driven echoes, Catalinbread Montavillian is an ambient delay that addresses some of the shortcomings of other echo pedals, while maintaining its own unique sonic footprint. Here are some of the standout features of the unit: Headroom and stacking abilities: The Montavillian is designed to have…... Click for more

Catalinbread Montavillian Echo

KingTone Heavy Hand Overdrive

KingTone is the company of Jesse Davey, the guitarist of the now-dissolved British Blues band The Hoax. His interest in engineering and effect circuits led him to start the KingTone after the band broke up, and - as you may have guessed - since then he's been laser-focused in creating…... Click for more

KingTone Heavy Hand Overdrive

Jackson Audio Asabi Mateus Asato Signature Modular Distortion/Overdrive

In the traditionally "analog obsessed" niche of dirt box builders, Texas' Jackson Audio is one of the few pedal companies out there that's been pushing that format's envelope in a direction that incorporates digital innovation. The company's latest pedal, called Asabi, is a Mateus Asato signature pedal that features two…... Click for more

Jackson Audio Asabi Mateus Asato Signature Modular Distortion/Overdrive

Mastro Valvola LEM Ambient Delay/Reverb

Italian stompbox maestro Mastro Valvola unveiled the company's edgier device so far: the LEM (an acronym for Lysergic Emotion Module), a tap-tempo and preset enabled ambiance machine with 8 delay and reverb modes. Here's a graph that shows you all the modes, accessible through the Mode knob: As you can see…... Click for more

Mastro Valvola LEM Ambient Delay/Reverb

CKK Scream Honey Overdrive

Several pedals by the folks at CKK/Sinvertek have been getting ringing endorsements from several YouTube "celebrities" (the N5+ Drive in particular), and the new CKK Scream Honey Overdrive can already count on an extremely positive video review by Pete Thorn. This limited edition overdrive is completely hand-soldered and created with…... Click for more

CKK Scream Honey Overdrive

Chase Bliss Automatone Preamp MKII

When Joel Korte of Chase Bliss Audio touched down in Portland, Oregon and began peppering his Instagram feed with pictures of him noshing with Chris Benson of Benson amps, there was much speculation to be had. That speculation manifested at 2019’s NAMM show with the Preamp MKII, a slider-equipped brushed…... Click for more

Chase Bliss Automatone Preamp MKII

KMA Audio Machines Cirrus Delay / Reverb

German emerging builder KMA Audio Machines just unveiled a new "spacial machine" called Cirrus. The device appears to be a Tap Tempo enabled Delay + Reverb with Modulation, Octave and Filter options heavy in features (and knobs, and switches...) so, for efficiency's sake, for now we'll just paste here the…... Click for more

KMA Audio Machines Cirrus Delay / Reverb

Vertex Boost MKII

Vertex Effects just unveiled V2 of their clean boost pedal simply named "Boost MKII." 33% slimmer than its predecessor, the Boost MKII is a high-end one-knob device that delivers up to 16dB of transparent gain, compatible with both line and instrument-level signals. The simple layout doesn't show the noteworthy engineering…... Click for more

Vertex Boost MKII

Mattoverse Bad Passenger Fuzz MKII

Many new versions of guitar pedals feature the exact same circuit as the original device, with a few improvements. That's not the case for the Mattoverse Bad Passenger Fuzz MkII. Its circuit, which combines cascaded transistors and op-amp gain stage, has been fully redesigned to deliver the brutal fuzz and…... Click for more

Mattoverse Bad Passenger Fuzz MKII