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Glitch Pedals

Folktek Alter X CV-Controlled Stereo Multi-FX

Portland Eurorack builder Folktek just announced their entry into the stompbox niche with two pedal versions of their existing Eurorack modules. The Alter X is the Eurorack Alter 1 in pedal format and, as you can see, retains CV compatibility through a series of 1/8 inch connections. It's an experimental…Click on the title for more

Folktek Alter X CV-Controlled Stereo Multi-FX

Free the Tone Motion Loop

Granular synthesis fans may have found a new best friend in the Motion Loop by Free the Tone. This bright green fella samples a brief section of your performance and loops and manipulates it in real-time, then adding effects like pitch shift, delay, reverse, and filter, among others. It can…Click on the title for more

Free the Tone Motion Loop

Electro-Harmonix Canyon Delay & Looper

The Electro-Harmonix Canyon is a Tap Tempo-enabled, Mono, compact, multi-mode delay (up to 3 seconds) that does it all, including looping, shimmer, trails and subdivisions. Creative guitarists will appreciate the Sample & Hold Function is "glitch" at its finest. It allows easy access to extra parameters through the Secondary Knob…Click on the title for more

Electro-Harmonix Canyon Delay & Looper

Cooper FX Outward V2 Delay / Sampler

The Cooper FX Outward V2 is a digital sampling device that records audio and plays it back in different ways (freezing, stutter, and time stretching effects) depending on the mode. V2 adds a new line of mini-knobs to fine-tune Clock, Tone, Mix and Volume and a new PIT l DIR…Click on the title for more

Cooper FX Outward V2 Delay / Sampler

WMD Geiger Counter Pro

WMD (a name that plays with the two acronyms for Weapons of Mass Destruction and William Mathewson Devices) has been at the vanguard of the stompbox / Eurorack cross-pollination phenomenon, although in recent years they company has been mostly focusing on the modular synth side of things. In the late…Click on the title for more

WMD Geiger Counter Pro

Catalinbread Coriolis Effect

The Catalinbread Coriolis Effect blends a glitching effect, and octaver, wah, filter and harmonizer into one all-encompassing, yet easy-to-use box. Just three knobs and two footswitches combine to give you one of the most expressive boxes at this year's NAMM show. Named after a phenomenon in physics in which one…Click on the title for more

Catalinbread Coriolis Effect

Deep Space Devices Trigonaut Octave/Glitch/Stutter/Drive

Alabama based Deep Space Devices is one of the most promising new US pedal manufacturers, and we can say that with proof to support the claim, since they won our 2018 contest reserved to the emerging manufacturers participating in the Brooklyn Stompbox Exhibit. That's why we couldn't be more excited to…Click on the title for more

Deep Space Devices Trigonaut Octave/Glitch/Stutter/Drive

Red Panda Tensor with Remote 4

The Tensor is the latest special effect pedal by Red Panda, with "reverse and tape stop effects, pitch shifting, time stretching and hold functions that you can combine in creative ways." The company recently unveiled a remote pedal bar with four footswitches appropriately called Remote 4" (selling at $99), which…Click on the title for more

Red Panda Tensor with Remote 4

Dirge Electronics Slowly Melting Glitch/Fuzz/Chorus/Delay

Here's a new pedal for the wild experimenter! The Slowly Melting by Baltimore based Dirge Electronics is an out there pedal that combines several circuits like fuzz, starving circuit and modulation to give adventurous guitarists a heavy handed tool of sonic disintegration - or rather, fusion, hence the name. Described as…Click on the title for more

Dirge Electronics Slowly Melting Glitch/Fuzz/Chorus/Delay

Pladask Elektrisk BAKVENDT Reverse Granular Pedal

Norwegian manufacturer Pladask Elektrisk is well known among pedal geeks for the FORM DYI project, organized in collaboration with Bandorg - FORM being a stompbox you can acquire only by participating in a "build-it-yourself" workshop in... Norway! They recently gave the guys at I Love Fuzz one of their new…Click on the title for more

Pladask Elektrisk BAKVENDT Reverse Granular Pedal

MidValleyFx Mad Robot Distortion with Oscillator

Comprised of a husband and wife team based in Albany, OR, MidValleyFx specializes in heavy fuzz and distortion pedals. Their newest pedal Mad Robot, an oscillating distortion, was recently featured on Premier Guitar, and it's bound to make noise lovers smile. Featuring 5 unnamed controls (four knobs and one toggle switch),…Click on the title for more

MidValleyFx Mad Robot Distortion with Oscillator

Pladask Elektrisk FORM2

Earlier in 2018 we briefly covered the Pladask Elektrisk FORM, a DIY glitch/granular stompbox kit fruit of a collaboration between Norwegian companies Pladask Elektrisk and BandOrg that can only be "acquired" by going to Norway and signing up for the BandOrg pedal-building workshop (if it can be of any consolation, Norway is a country…Click on the title for more

Pladask Elektrisk FORM2