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Old Blood Noise Dark Light Stereo Reverb

Enclosed in a beautiful case featuring an illustration by Jon Carling, the Old Blood Noise Dark Light is a versatile reverb pedal that combines the unique features of the company's Dark Star and Sunlight. Offering various routing options like separate stereo, parallel mono, and series mono, Dark Light merges Dark…Click on the title for more

Old Blood Noise Dark Light Stereo Reverb

Wonderful Audio Fuzz Lands

The Wonderful Audio Fuzz Lands is an original circuit comprising a combination of JFET, germanium, and silicon transistors and features two knobs and three toggles to provide a wide range of fuzzy options, with a knack for keeping the performance's dynamics, something fuzz pedals are notorious for squashing to death.…Click on the title for more

Wonderful Audio Fuzz Lands

Silvertone & Jackson Audio 1484 Twin Twelve

The Silvertone & Jackson Audio 1484 Twin Twelve is a collaborative amp-in-a-box that emulates the tone of the legendary, glassy-sounding Silvertone amp from the '60s that goes by the same name, found in many records and rigs by artists like Dan Auerbach, Beck, and Dave Grohl. The pedal is an…Click on the title for more

Silvertone & Jackson Audio 1484 Twin Twelve

Solar Chug EQ Boost

Presented as the ultimate weapon for forging your guitar tone into a sonic beast, while simultaneously cranking your signal to obliterate the next stage of your signal chain, the Solar Chug EQ Boost is the third pedal in the Chug series by Solar Guitars, the company of Swedish guitarist, record…Click on the title for more

Solar Chug EQ Boost

Catalinbread Adineko oil can delay

Have you ever wondered why many audiophiles or top engineers still don't seem able to admit that digital - in the audio realm - sounds better than analog? The answer is "character": digital is pristine, boring precision, while analog - like a familiar-looking, slightly unpredictable, cigarette-puffing actor of the '50s…Click on the title for more

Catalinbread Adineko oil can delay

Fortin Fourteen Overdrive

Mike Fortin's FOURTEEN overdrive pedal takes his popular amp modifications and puts them in a dual-channel format, in essence, packing his best custom tweaks in one pedal. The pedal is designed to give players a lot of control over the amp's tone and push it into higher gain territory, as…Click on the title for more

Fortin Fourteen Overdrive

PedalPalFX PAL 800 Gold Overdrive V4

The PedalPalFX PAL 800 Gold Overdrive is one of those ever-green pedals that keep getting better and better with each new version. This Hot Rod JMC800 in a box was recently updated to V4, and the new features are relevant enough to push it up in our comprehensive article about the…Click on the title for more

PedalPalFX PAL 800 Gold Overdrive V4

Neural DSP Nano Cortex Amp/Cab Sim

Neural DSP has just entered the stompbox realm with the Neural DSP Nano Cortex, a compact yet powerful amp and effects processor, packing the (much larger) Quad Cortex’s top-tier sound into a pedal that fits in your hand. Weighing less than two pounds, The Nano Cortex boasts 2GHz of SHARC…Click on the title for more

Neural DSP Nano Cortex Amp/Cab Sim

DigiTech HammerOn

At NAMM 2025 it was good to see DigiTech back with some new pedal releases after a few transitional years due to the change of ownership. The HammerOn was one of these new products, announced at the NAMM show but not for sale yet. An evolution of their Whammy-inspired Drop…Click on the title for more

DigiTech HammerOn

Chase Bliss Dirt Bird EQ

The Chase Bliss Dirt Bird is a limited edition modified version of the Minneapolis-based company's Condor HiFi EQ pedal intended to worsen - rather than fix or improve - a distortion issue found in the pedal, linked to an op amp-generated artifact called "phase reversal." Joel from Chase Bliss actually…Click on the title for more

Chase Bliss Dirt Bird EQ

Montréal Assembly Count to 5 Granular Delay

The Montréal Assembly Count to 5 is a unique delay/sampler with three modes that can create sped-up and slowed-down—as well as forward and backward—tape effects, audio slicing, looping and overdubbing. Quantized pitch-shifting makes it possible to create tones that are harmonized chromatically or in perfect fifths and octaves, or you…Click on the title for more

Montréal Assembly Count to 5 Granular Delay

Catalinbread Wake Chorus

The Catalinbread Wake is a chorus effect pedal that draws inspiration from the lush, studio-grade choruses of the ’80s and ’90s—particularly the dream pop era, where shimmering, modulated textures became a defining characteristic of the genre. Through its four simple controls, the Wake leans into this aesthetic with an eight-voice chorus…Click on the title for more

Catalinbread Wake Chorus