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Delay+Modulation

Bardic Audio Bootgazer Fuzz/Modulated Delay

If adding a longish delay to your fuzzed-out guitar tone triggers incommensurable pleasure, you owe it to yourself to check out this new pedal by Bardic Audio and Galvanize Designs: the Bootgazer. It offers the two effects in one box, with a routing order option one stomp away (center footswitch…... Click for more

Bardic Audio Bootgazer Fuzz/Modulated Delay

Producing with Pedals: Sehat Effectors Moisture Fuzz and Masjidil Echo

Producing with Pedals is a series about using guitar pedals in creative applications when recording and mixing. Usually, I take a pedal and write a song with it, using the pedal on every instrument. In my most recent episode, I feature a builder from Indonesia who is making some of…... Click for more

Producing with Pedals: Sehat Effectors Moisture Fuzz and Masjidil Echo

Mastro Valvola LEM Ambient Delay/Reverb

Italian stompbox maestro Mastro Valvola unveiled the company's edgier device so far: the LEM (an acronym for Lysergic Emotion Module), a tap-tempo and preset enabled ambiance machine with 8 delay and reverb modes. Here's a graph that shows you all the modes, accessible through the Mode knob: As you can see…... Click for more

Mastro Valvola LEM Ambient Delay/Reverb

KMA Audio Machines Cirrus Delay / Reverb

German emerging builder KMA Audio Machines just unveiled a new "spacial machine" called Cirrus. The device appears to be a Tap Tempo enabled Delay + Reverb with Modulation, Octave and Filter options heavy in features (and knobs, and switches...) so, for efficiency's sake, for now we'll just paste here the…... Click for more

KMA Audio Machines Cirrus Delay / Reverb

Seymour Duncan Dark Sun Digital Delay + Reverb

Seymour Duncan's new spatial workhorse, the Dark Sun, is full of options for people that don't necessarily need two different pedals for delay and reverb. The Dark Sun delivers the very best of both effects for a hyper-inspirational box that pushes the boundaries of each. The Dark Sun's cool new…... Click for more

Seymour Duncan Dark Sun Digital Delay + Reverb

Polarbear Effects Young Hearts Creative Delay

The PT2399 chip is a chip found in many creative digital delays, including the Polarbear Young Hearts, a lofi echo pedal with modulation and several other interesting and unusual features provided by its Feedback and VCR Toggle Switches, which allow Tape Rewind and Fast Forward modes and also changes in…... Click for more

Polarbear Effects Young Hearts Creative Delay

Alexander Pedals History Lesson Vol 3 Delay

The Alexander Pedals History Lesson is a deceivingly simple pedal that incorporates three decades of delay with added modulation and Tap Tempo + 3 Subdivisions controllable directly through the left footswitch. With Vol 3 the delay modes increase from three to six (the three new ones are at the bottom…... Click for more

Alexander Pedals History Lesson Vol 3 Delay

Keeley Dark Side Multi-Effect Pedal

Robert Keeley Engineering's Dark Side packs a lot of effects in one pedal: Multi Head Tape Delay Modulation section featuring Rotary/Flanger U-Vibe/Phaser Fuzz Here are a few videos that take another look at this 2016 pedal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt7aVkvYxDs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4l4QQCjrOA Here's Mike Herman's take. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MswbldPxn9A The individual pieces that make up the Dark…... Click for more

Keeley Dark Side Multi-Effect Pedal

Joyo D-Seed II Stereo Multi-Delay

The Joyo D-Seed II is an affordable digital, Stereo in/out, multi-delay pedal with Tap Tempo and a Looper that's getting a fair amount of attention from ambient players. It stands out for some rather unique features. It offers 8 delay modes and a loop mode, including Reverse, Modulation, Space, filter…... Click for more

Joyo D-Seed II Stereo Multi-Delay

Fuhrmann Echoes 3-Mode Delay

Brazilian company Fuhrmann is very popular in its home country but not so much (yet) around the world. Their Echoes is a rather simple but sweet-sounding Tap Tempo delay with three modes (Digital, Modulated and Analog) and a filter that affects the delay's tale. Hear how it sounds, below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1XK3Yie8Ss…... Click for more

Fuhrmann Echoes 3-Mode Delay

New Pedal: Zander Circuitry Duplo Lo-Fi Delay

The Junipero, a Stereo multi-modulation pedal by UK stompbox builder Zander Circuitry, gathered a lot of interest in 2020 for its creative/experimental approach to modulation, carving out a niche for itself in a field of pedals built with a focus on replicating the tone of the best vintage units. With…... Click for more

New Pedal: Zander Circuitry Duplo Lo-Fi Delay

New Pedals: Anarchy Audio Aftermath Modulation Obliterator

While reverb and delay pedals have been the favorite effects of creative guitarists since the psychedelic '60s, the trend of creative modulation pedals is rather new. Australian pedal builder Anarchy Audio just released their take on this effect niche, and - as one may expect from their name - it's…... Click for more

New Pedals: Anarchy Audio Aftermath Modulation Obliterator