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Pedal Update: Electronic Audio Experiments Dude Incredible V2

The Electronic Audio Experiments Dude Incredible V2 is a redesign of one of the early circuits by the Boston-based pedal company, a dual gain pedal inspired by the work of indie rock producer Steve Albini. On the right is a Harmonic Percolator clone, and on the left is an IVP…Click on the title for more

Pedal Update: Electronic Audio Experiments Dude Incredible V2

SolidGoldFX Surf Rider IV Spring Reverb

The SolidGoldFX Surf Rider IV is a spring reverb hand made in Montreal, QC, that recreates the lush sounds of 2 vintage spring reverbs and one... fantasy unit, adding several controls for extra versatility, including a modulation effect (Flutter) that can be turned on via the on/off footswitch. The pedal…Click on the title for more

SolidGoldFX Surf Rider IV Spring Reverb

Beautiful Noise When The Sun Explodes – Reverb+Distortion+Tremolo

Handmade in Newcastle, Australia, the Beautiful Noise When The Sun Explodes is a reverb/distortion/tremolo pedal for space explorers. The device, hosted in a rather large case with three footswitches for Boost, Feedback and Bypass, features two sections: the first one, under the Reverberation grouping, includes a master volume and spring-voiced reverb with…Click on the title for more

Beautiful Noise When The Sun Explodes – Reverb+Distortion+Tremolo

Summer School Science Fair

The Summer School Science Fair is an overdrive-distortion pedal based on a simple but innovative idea: you've got a RAT-stile distortion (black knobs) and a TS-style overdrive (green knobs) in parallel, and two extra knobs to control for master volume and bland control. Each gain channel has a knob for…Click on the title for more

Summer School Science Fair

Pigtronix Disnortion Micro

This new micro version of the Pigtronix Disnortion Micro improves on the original’s broad palette of touch-responsive dirt sounds by including the ability to switch from a parallel routing to a new, super-saturated series routing where the 6-stage CMOS overdrive circuit is cascaded into unique Pigtronix diode-clipping fuzz, and then…Click on the title for more

Pigtronix Disnortion Micro

J. Rockett Archer Select Klon-style Drive

The J. Rockett Archer Select is an evolution of what has been an extraordinarily popular line for the Nashville-based pedal builder. Constantly in the top three of our article about the best Klon clones, the original Archer (in its two gold and silver iterations) is in all likelihood the best-selling…Click on the title for more

J. Rockett Archer Select Klon-style Drive

Strymon Riverside Multistage Drive

Strymon, a company that built its name on clean, warm and lush tones, has finally entered the "dirty" pedal distortion market with Riverside, described as "the culmination of a thorough analysis of numerous analog and vacuum tube circuits." The company's goal was to deliver a new world of harmonically rich, versatile,…Click on the title for more

Strymon Riverside Multistage Drive

Thorpy FX The Deep Oggin Chorus

Lately, creative (and crazy sounding) effect pedals have dominated most "Best of" lists - whether year-end ones or NAMM-related ones. Yet, some more traditional pedals are still able to make the cut just because of how good they sound. Enter Thorpy FX's The Deep Oggin chorus, selected by Reverb's Andy…Click on the title for more

Thorpy FX The Deep Oggin Chorus

Mr. Black Twin-Lazers True Stereo Phase Shifter & Modulator

It looks like stompbox designers are having a lot of fun with phaser pedals these days! After intriguing 2018 releases by EQD, Alexander Pedals and Old Blood Noise (among others) Portland's Mr. Black also unveiled a new (and blue) dual phaser called Twin-Lazers - a "True Stereo Phase Shifter & Modulator."…Click on the title for more

Mr. Black Twin-Lazers True Stereo Phase Shifter & Modulator

NUX Amp Academy

It seems like amp and cab modelers have been getting better and more feature-rich by the day since the turn of the decade. The next challenge is to keep that quality and features and bring down the price, which is what the NUX Amp Academy, a $189 fully-featured device, is…Click on the title for more

NUX Amp Academy

Electro Harmonix East River Drive

After a period spent focusing on effects other than distortion, Electro Harmonix in 2013 seems to have shifted its attention back to what made it famous in the early days. After repackaging their classic 70s Hot Tubes pedal in "nano" format, the NYC-based builder has released a brand new distortion…Click on the title for more

Electro Harmonix East River Drive

TC Electronic Infinite Sample Sustainer

Since it was acquired by Behringer's Music Tribe, Danish company TC Electronic has lost a lot of its original appeal - the one of a forward-thinking company run by bright and likable people. A series of redesigns of cheap, old Behringer pedals and unnecessary clones of existing circuits have diluted…Click on the title for more

TC Electronic Infinite Sample Sustainer