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Crazy Tube Circuits Splash Reverb Mk IV

The Splash reverb series by Crazy Tube Circuits gains a new member with this 4th version presented at NAMM 2020. The Splash MK IV gathers all the algorithms from the previous versions of the Splash Mk III and Sidekick pedals and adds on top three entirely new ones, for a…Click on the title for more

Crazy Tube Circuits Splash Reverb Mk IV

Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi Hardware Plugin

NYC's Electro-Harmonix is known for pushing the pedal effect envelope, but their latest release is something else entirely: the Big Muff Pi Hardware Plugin is a software plugin that routes your DAW's signal via USB to an analog Muff pedal that also acts as a controller and headphone monitor. While…Click on the title for more

Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi Hardware Plugin

Death By Audio Exploding Head Echo

Released as a Reverb exclusive to celebrate the 13th year anniversary of A Place to Bury Strangers' wall-of-sound-breaking "Exploding Head" LP, the Death By Audio Exploding Head Echo Destroyer is another sonically murderous pedal by the Brooklyn-based builder. Featuring three delay circuits connected in series, each with controls for Time,…Click on the title for more

Death By Audio Exploding Head Echo

BOSS RE-2 Space Echo

Since BOSS worked on a new version of their legendary RE-201 Space Echo (the RE-202), while they were at it they also developed a smaller version of it that retains the most crucial features: enter the BOSS RE-2 Space Echo, compact version! This digital echo is a virtual multi-head tape…Click on the title for more

BOSS RE-2 Space Echo

JPTR FX Katastrophe Octave Up Distortion

German buitique pedal builder JPTR FX likes to make its devices big and noisy and also original, and the Katastrophe finds its originality angle in being an octave overdrive/distortion (as opposed to an octave fuzz). This is a pedal that allows you to radically tweak your tone through two gain…Click on the title for more

JPTR FX Katastrophe Octave Up Distortion

Fairfield Circuitry Barbershop V2 Overdrive

Fairfield Circuitry is an oddball, boutique audio effects company from Canada. I note the canadian heritage in that the physical aesthetic choices as well as the functions of the effects are reminiscent of a backwoods experiment by bearded men with too much time and whiskey on their hands. Fairfield…Click on the title for more

Fairfield Circuitry Barbershop V2 Overdrive

Latent Lemon Audio Hurts Fuzz V2

Based in Luton, UK, Latent Lemon is a boutique pedal builder laser-focused on building quality gain (and fuzz) devices. Inspired by the tones of legendary noise rock producer Steve Albini, the company's latest creation, simply named Hurts, is a take on the Germanium based Percolator fuzz, with added tone sculpting…Click on the title for more

Latent Lemon Audio Hurts Fuzz V2

Spaceman Saturn VI Harmonic Boost

The stompboxes by Portland's Spaceman Effects always have something special about them, and we are not surprised that their version of what's argualby the least "special" of effects (a booster) turns out to be a lot more than what its name implies. Introduced as a "Harmonic Booster," the Spaceman…Click on the title for more

Spaceman Saturn VI Harmonic Boost

Wampler Metaverse Multi-Delay

The list of feature-packed delay pedals keeps growing as Brian Wampler has released his second digital multi-mode pedal, the Metaverse, which features 11 delay algorithms, which are: ANLG - Analog delay WET - Modulated analog BBD - ‘Bucket Brigade’ delay JET - Analog flanger delay DOC - Wampler ‘The Doctor’…Click on the title for more

Wampler Metaverse Multi-Delay

Earthquaker Devices Afterneath V3

The EarthQuaker Devices Afterneath is an otherworldly reverberation machine that uses a cluster of short delays to create wild and cavernous reverberations with scattered, rhythmic reflections, offering fine-grained control over the reverberations it produces. More than a simple emulator of acoustic reverb, this pedal lets the player design the character…Click on the title for more

Earthquaker Devices Afterneath V3

Jam Pedals Delay Llama mk3

Greek builder Jam Pedals has established itself as one of Europe's most trusted makers of boutique stompboxes, and the analog Delay Llama was undeniably the pedal line that helped this company come to the forefront of the guitar effects scene. The Delay Llama mk3 is the latest evolution of the…Click on the title for more

Jam Pedals Delay Llama mk3

Alexander Pedals Superball Kinetic Modulator

We saw the Alexander Pedal Superball at NAMM 2020 and it's now officially out! It's an echo pedal that's as unpredictable as its name. It delays. It pitch shifts. It filters. It modulates. It combines these things, and much more, to make something that has to be heard to be…Click on the title for more

Alexander Pedals Superball Kinetic Modulator