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Wampler Catacombs Stereo Delay/Reverb

The Wampler Catacombs is the Martinsville, Indiana company's take on the multi-algorithm stereo Delay+Reverb combo, popular among ambient and shoegaze guitarists - something also evident by the name chosen for this device. As is often the case with this brand, the pedal's user interface is rather straightforward, and the emphasis…Click on the title for more

Wampler Catacombs Stereo Delay/Reverb

Old Blood Noise Dark Star Stereo Reverb

The Old Blood Noise Dark Star Stereo takes one of the most successful circuits of the Oklahoma City-based brand to its logical next level. The original Dark Star, released in the early '20s, is a 3-algorithm reverb. It became a go-to pedal for many ambient guitarists for its ability to…Click on the title for more

Old Blood Noise Dark Star Stereo Reverb

Kernom Ridge Overdrive

The Kernom Ridge Overdrive is a new pedal concept devised by a French upstart that aims at offering a comprehensive palette of overdrive tones through a six-knob device. Like some sort of multi-mode overdrive without... modes. The central control here is the Mood knob, which is a continuous control that…Click on the title for more

Kernom Ridge Overdrive

Vongon Ultrasheer Stereo Reverb + Vibrato

Oakland's one-man pedal builder Vongon hand-builds elegant-looking guitar pedals with a creative angle. Inspired by the early digital studio effects units of the late 1970’s, the Ultrasheer is a stereo reverb and pitch vibrato with trails and separate footswitches for each effect. Two toggle switches trigger random LFO for the…Click on the title for more

Vongon Ultrasheer Stereo Reverb + Vibrato

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

Nobels ODR-1 and ODR Mini

German pedal manufacturer Nobels has been in the game for a while, slowly building a cultish following. If you’re not familiar with this company, suffice to say it builds one of the best-kept secrets in the overdrive realm: the Nobels ODR-1 (now also available in Mini version). The stompbox's acid…Click on the title for more

Nobels ODR-1 and ODR Mini

Strymon Cloudburst Ambient Reverb

The Strymon Cloudburst Ambient Reverb is the first stompbox by the renowned Californian builder with an almost compact case. Presented as a pedal "unlike anything you’ve ever heard or played before," the Cloudburst is a reverb effect with a particular effect that goes beyond modulation, referred to as an "Ensemble…Click on the title for more

Strymon Cloudburst Ambient Reverb

Electro-Harmonix LPB-3 Linear Power Booster & EQ

Electro-Harmonix has released the LPB-3, an updated version of their classic LPB-1 booster pedal, which was the first stompbox they ever released in 1968. The LPB-3 features an active EQ with a powerful parametric mid control for precise tone shaping and offers up to 33dB of clean boost, with an…Click on the title for more

Electro-Harmonix LPB-3 Linear Power Booster & EQ

Mask Audio Electronics MAYBE? Fuzz

A marriage of the company's two fuzz circuits named Yes and No, the appropriately named Maybe? is a super-tweakable dual fuzz. Each side can be played independently or stacked on top of the other. Judging from the builder's words, the destiny of this union is doomed to be destructive, at…Click on the title for more

Mask Audio Electronics MAYBE? Fuzz

Walrus Audio Mako D1 MkII

Released in 2020, the D1 was Walrus Audio's first Mako pedal, a compact, Stereo in/out, multi-function delay with five, studio-grade, high-fidelity, custom-tuned programs. The company's D1 MkII ups the ante with sonic enhancements, new features and an LED screen for easier setting navigation. The main new feature is the ability…Click on the title for more

Walrus Audio Mako D1 MkII

MXR Sugar Drive M294

The MXR Sugar Drive is the company's take on the Klon Centaur mania! One of the few mini-klones available on the market (at least for now), the Sugar Drive 's simplicity is deceptive. The drive knob in this circuit blends the clean guitar signal with the overdriven one as…Click on the title for more

MXR Sugar Drive M294

Vahlbruch Kaluna II Tube Overdrive

German pedal builder Vahlbruch has just unveiled an update to their tube overdrive, the Kaluna II, a high voltage original circuit operating at 250v, and featuring an ECC83/12AX7 tube. The tube requires a little 30-second warm-up, during which the status LED will flash while the pedal remains in bypass mode.…Click on the title for more

Vahlbruch Kaluna II Tube Overdrive