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Keeley RK2000 Funk Siren Delay

In 1983, Ibanez/Maxon built something absurd: the DM2000, a 12-bit digital delay so over-engineered that it made everything else look like a toy. Forty years later, Trey Anastasio has been abusing one onstage, using its Hold function to create infinite, warbling loops called the "Funk Siren." The only problem? Vintage…... Click for more

Keeley RK2000 Funk Siren Delay

Chase Bliss Bad Mood

The MOOD MKII, released a couple years back, became one of those pedals people either bonded with immediately or spent months trying to figure out. The Chase Bliss BAD MOOD is the third pedal in the company's Small Batch Bliss collection — a limited-run, made-to-order special edition that takes the…... Click for more

Chase Bliss Bad Mood

Updated Pedal: Walrus Audio Lore MkII Reverse Soundscape Generator

What happens when you take one of the most adventurous reverse-soundscape engines in modern pedal history and completely tear down its hardware ceiling? The original 2022 mono release of the Lore earned an instant cult following for its haunting, cinematic cross-pollination of reverse delays, reverse reverbs, and pitch shifting. The…... Click for more

Updated Pedal: Walrus Audio Lore MkII Reverse Soundscape Generator

Updated Pedal: Walrus Audio Fable MkII Granular Soundscape Generator

Evolving from a beloved mono ambient tool into a fully realized spatial processor, the Walrus Audio Fable MkII ($349.99) takes the core experimental architecture of the original 2023 granular delay and supercharges it for modern rigs. While the first-generation Fable captured imaginations with its five distinct dual-effect algorithms—pairing delays with…... Click for more

Updated Pedal: Walrus Audio Fable MkII Granular Soundscape Generator

Poly Trails Stereo Delay

Just like its reverby brother Verbs, the Poly Trails - a delay, as you may have guessed - is built for discovery. This innovative, stereo unit ditches traditional knobs for a responsive touch interface, putting seven deeply creative effects at your fingertips. Each algorithm is a destination in itself, designed…... Click for more

Poly Trails Stereo Delay

Engineered to inject performance-oriented chaos into a traditional BBD circuit, the DOD DRAG pushes analog delay far beyond simple, predictable repeats. Providing up to 750ms of natural analog delay time that stretches to 1.5 seconds in Rubberneck mode, it ranges effortlessly from crisp, punchy slap-back echoes to expansive, self-evolving ambient…... Click for more

DOD Drag Delay

Strymon Volante Magnetic Echo Machine

Strymon, an effect builder that will be remembered for breaking the guitarists' skepticism about digital technology applied to guitar pedals, unveiled their delay/looper pedal Volante in early 2019 - their first pedal release in two years. Featuring four delay playback heads with individual feedback, panning, and level controls, the Volante…... Click for more

Strymon Volante Magnetic Echo Machine

New Pedal: Walrus Audio Fundamental Lo-Fi Delay

Stepping away from pristine, clinical repeats, the Walrus Audio Fundamental Lo-Fi Delay delivers gritty, degraded echoes designed to add atmosphere and character to your board without forcing you through frustrating menu-diving. Part of Walrus's acclaimed streamlined series, it packs professional-grade sonic integrity into a clean, intuitive layout utilizing tactile control…... Click for more

New Pedal: Walrus Audio Fundamental Lo-Fi Delay

Chase Bliss Big Time Stereo Delay

A thousand dollars. For a delay pedal. Let that sink in. Here's the thing, though. Joel Korte and his team and John Snyder (Electronic Audio Experiments) have built something that actually justifies the price tag. The Chase Bliss Big Time isn't another digital delay with fancy marketing. It's a painstaking…... Click for more

Chase Bliss Big Time Stereo Delay

Catalinbread EG1 Lo-Fi Delay

When Portland's Catalinbread set out to design the EG-1, their goal was to move past the simple buzzword of "lo-fi" and truly examine what physical degradation and signal decay actually feel like. Built as the second release on their tap-tempo platform, the EG1 packages up to 900ms of delay time…... Click for more

Catalinbread EG1 Lo-Fi Delay

NativeAudio In the Water Reflector

There's a Blackfeet story about Old Man — Napi — who saw berries reflected in a stream and kept diving in to grab them. Every time he came up empty, he saw them again, dove deeper, tied rocks to his legs, nearly drowned. Finally he crawled to shore, looked up,…... Click for more

NativeAudio In the Water Reflector

New Pedals: Alexander Pedals Velvet Noise

When Alexander Pedals set out to design the Velvet Noise, the goal was to find a better way to tackle stereo widening without falling into the usual traps of phase cancellation, mono collapse, or unnatural artifacts. Traditional methods like mid/side processing or micro-delays can often fall apart under headphones or…... Click for more

New Pedals: Alexander Pedals Velvet Noise