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New Pedal: Death By Audio & Rainger FX Amp Crash

When NYC's noise-mongers Death By Audio and London’s imaginative mad scientists Rainger FX cross paths, the result was always going to be wonderfully unhinged. Both builders share a relentless passion for pushing stompbox design past the edge of convention, favoring wild textures, raw industrial aesthetics, and circuits that feel…... Click for more

New Pedal: Death By Audio & Rainger FX Amp Crash

J. Rockett Aqueous Chorus

The J. Rockett Aqueous Chorus is a thoughtfully designed modulation pedal built around a bucket-brigade (BBD) core. Its defining feature is a Tilt EQ that acts only on the wet signal, allowing you to shape the modulated tone from a vintage, rolled-off character to a brighter, more modern sheen. Control…... Click for more

J. Rockett Aqueous Chorus

Updated Pedal: Old Blood Noise Beam Splitter V2 Stereo Distortion

If you’ve ever chased the wall-of-guitars studio magic of triple-tracking a single part, Old Blood Noise Endeavors' Beam Splitter V2 is built to solve it. It takes your mono input, splits it into three parallel analog drive paths, routes two of them through independent delay lines, and outputs them in…... Click for more

Updated Pedal: Old Blood Noise Beam Splitter V2 Stereo Distortion

New Pedal: Beetronics Seabee Lite Chorus

Beetronics took their gloriously overcomplicated Seabee and stripped it down to the good parts. The Seabee Lite is still a fully analog BBD chorus, but now you don't need a PhD to operate it. Three modes, six knobs, two toggles, and a pair of footswitches that do more than just…... Click for more

New Pedal: Beetronics Seabee Lite Chorus

New Pedal: OPFXS Parallel Dimension Chorus/Vibrato

Another BBD chorus. Great. Just what the world needs. But wait. There's an Aliasing knob! Most analog modulation pedals spend their lives trying to hide the fact that bucket-brigade chips are fundamentally imperfect. They filter out the clock noise, smooth the edges, present a clean, polite face to the world.…... Click for more

New Pedal: OPFXS Parallel Dimension Chorus/Vibrato

DryBell Vibe Machine V3

The Croatian team at DryBell have spent most of their 10-year (plus) existence laser-focused on creating the best possible Uni-Vibe clone. The fruit of these efforts was the Vibe Machine, which quickly established itself as one of the best contenders in that category, as highlighted in our Buyer's Guide to…... Click for more

DryBell Vibe Machine V3

Strymon Deco v2 | Tape Saturation & Doubletracker

Fans of vintage tape emulating effects should immediately take note of the new update to the Deco from Strymon. The Californian manufacturer just updated their all-encompassing mad scientist of a tape effect capable of tackling a whole host of vintage mid-century analog tape tones. This Deco V2 is a rabbit…... Click for more

Strymon Deco v2 | Tape Saturation & Doubletracker

Ghost Audio Swirls Compressor + Chorus

The Ghost Audio Swirls pedal distills the massive, studio-grade rack rigs of the 1980s into a single stompbox, famously capturing the lush, thickened tone heard on guitarist/producer Michael Landau's classic album, Tales from the Bulge. Where guitarists once needed a refrigerator-sized array of units wired in parallel, Swirls delivers that…... Click for more

Ghost Audio Swirls Compressor + Chorus

New Pedal: Summer School + Supercool Pedals Smoking in the Boys Room

Built jointly by Summer School Electronics in Syracuse, New York and Supercool Pedals in Peterborough, Ontario, the Smoking in the Boys Room pedal can be easily classified as a child of our Synth & Pedal Expos, since these two brands attended several of them. The circuit is a deliberate and…... Click for more

New Pedal: Summer School + Supercool Pedals Smoking in the Boys Room

Vongon Solarfaze Multi-Band Overdrive/Chorus

The Vongon Solarfaze redefines stereo processing by merging surgical multi-band saturation with an expressive, dynamic chorus. More than just a drive or modulation pedal, it functions as a complete tonal workstation for guitarists and producers seeking to add depth, warmth, and complex harmonic character. At its core, the Saturate section provides…... Click for more

Vongon Solarfaze Multi-Band Overdrive/Chorus

Asheville Music Tools ACV-1 Chorus/Vibrato

The Asheville Music Tools ACV-1 is a new high-end, Bucket Brigade Device-based mono chorus/vibrato by the North Carolina-based company and part of their Analoger series. What's peculiar about this circuit is that it lets you change the length of the small delay that's at the basis of the chorus effect…... Click for more

Asheville Music Tools ACV-1 Chorus/Vibrato

Cosmodio Splinter Twin Time Modulator

The Cosmodio Splinter Twin Time Modulator is less a single pedal and more a laboratory for sonic discovery. It functions as a master delay-line manipulator, cloning your signal and warping its time, pitch, and texture before blending it back with the original. This process unlocks the DNA of classic modulation—flanging, chorus,…... Click for more

Cosmodio Splinter Twin Time Modulator