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BOSS DD-3T Digital Delay

BOSS has been at the forefront of digital delays since the early days, and even now that the field is crowded with many excellent competitors, the Japanese company doesn't miss a beat with updates and new, powerful designs (see the recent DD-200). If the DD-200 was a brand new, fully-featured…Click on the title for more

BOSS DD-3T Digital Delay

Dwarfcraft Devices Hax 2 Ring Modulator

During NAMM 2018 Ben from Dwarfcraft Devices came to see us at our Stompbox Booth to shoot the video of the Hax 2 you can see at the bottom of this post (we kept the blurb we wrote at the time, under this one). The pedal is finally officially out and…Click on the title for more

Dwarfcraft Devices Hax 2 Ring Modulator

The Friedman BE-OD is a popular and highly regarded emulation of a high-gain JCM amp, from a builder that's grown a stellar reputation for manufacturing great-sounding Marshall-style amps (the pedal is said to be a compact version of the Friedman BE100 amp). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtks9lbq5FM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVotKbmlDic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yx3KkT63uI The BE-OD overdrive pedal captures…Click on the title for more

Friedman BE-OD

Catalinbread Blood Donor Fuzz

An updated mod of the company's Katzenkonig, the Catalinbread Blood Donor is the fuzzy circuit marriage of a Tone Bender MKII and a Pro Co Rat, reimagined. Besides improving the pedal's noise floor compared to the original, the company mostly focused on making it more extreme and flexible at once:…Click on the title for more

Catalinbread Blood Donor Fuzz

Electrofoods ULTD Germ Warfare Germanium Boost

We'll let the expert YouTube demo-man Ryan describe what this new germanium boost from Electrofoods does and how it sounds: The Germ Warfare is a germanium boost that does a lot more than just slam your signal and add distortion. You can use the intuitive EQ to brighten a muddy…Click on the title for more

Electrofoods ULTD Germ Warfare Germanium Boost

Alexander Pedals Syntax Error

This is a quirky, creative sampling audio mangling stompbox by Alexander Pedals that got a lot of attention at Summer NAMM. An enhanced "Arcade Game" style effect inspired by the 8-bit sounds of the early videogames, the Syntax Error delivers grainy, lo-bit tones reminiscent of vintage videogames, and includes many…Click on the title for more

Alexander Pedals Syntax Error

Big Ear Pedals Loaf Fuzz

The Loaf by BIG EAR Pedals, (a builder previously known as Big Ear NYC, but now based in Nashville) is a fuzz loved by many. Unlike most pedals in the fuzz niche, it reigns in the gain and provides a less brittle, more low-end-rich sound, tweakable through a Tone knob.…Click on the title for more

Big Ear Pedals Loaf Fuzz

Bondi Effects Breakers Overdrive

Pedal geeks might be familiar with Australian stompbox manufacturer Bondi Effects for their popular Sick As Klon "evolution." Breakers is an overdrive released in 2017 that "started as a revision to our Del Mar Overdrive, and quickly took on a whole new character." Besides your usual controls for Level, Gain, Bass…Click on the title for more

Bondi Effects Breakers Overdrive

Universal Audio UAFX Max Preamp & Dual Compressor

The Universal Audio UAFX Max Preamp & Dual Compressor is part of a triad of pedals from their UAFX line released by the pro audio manufacturer at NAMM 2023. A particular take on dynamics, the Max is rather unique in the stompbox realm in providing two compressors in one device.…Click on the title for more

Universal Audio UAFX Max Preamp & Dual Compressor

Neunaber Neuron Gain Intelligence

We covered the prototype of the Neunaber Neuron extensively in this post. The Neuron is the result of a painstaking study of what makes real amplifiers and gain pedals sound good. It can dial in a variety of amp-like sounds ranging from chimey cleans to the dirtiest dirt. It is essentially a…Click on the title for more

Neunaber Neuron Gain Intelligence

Retro-Sonic Phaser

We met the Retro-Sonic's Tim Larwill at our recent Montreal Stompbox Exhibit earlier this year, and it's great to see this ProGuitarShop video of their Phaser. The company's no frills approach allows them to laser focus on tone. You can read our little profile about the company here. Here's more…Click on the title for more

Retro-Sonic Phaser

BOSS SY-1000 Guitar Synth Pedal

Pedal companies in the last couple of years have been frantically competing to make synth guitar pedals more compact and feature-heavy. BOSS, by all measures the leading manufacturer in this niche, just came out with a new, polyphonic synth pedal (the SY-1000) that looks and sounds like a bold statement:…Click on the title for more

BOSS SY-1000 Guitar Synth Pedal