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• The Best Lo-Fi Pedals
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• Best Tape Echo Pedals with Lo-Fi Control
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Below, the latest news about lo-fi pedals

New Pedal: Blind Panic Devices Bad Signal

Forget pristine, studio-polished echoes. The Bad Signal from Blind Panic Devices is a hand-delivered felony against sonic purity. This isn't a delay pedal; it's a corrupted broadcast from a parallel universe where your guitar signal got hijacked, scrambled by a dying CRT television, and spit back out through a glitching…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Blind Panic Devices Bad Signal

Mojo Hand FX SMPLoFi

Before the era of orchestral video game scores, a sonic revolution was quietly brewing inside the Super Nintendo. The sonic identity of that gaming console is unmistakable. Its S-SMP audio system broke from its predecessors by using playable digital samples, a technique that created a world of iconic, memory-laden sounds. The…Click on the title for more

Mojo Hand FX SMPLoFi

New Pedal: Mentha Works Monk Echo

Alright, gearheads, strap in. For those who live and breathe inventive circuit design, the name Gamechanger Audio should immediately set your spidey-senses tingling. They're the mad scientists who brought us the Plasma Pedal and the Motor Synth. Well, that same wellspring of Latvian innovation has spawned a new venture. Founded by former…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Mentha Works Monk Echo

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 on the title for more

Poly Trails Stereo Delay

Source Audio Artifakt Multi-Algorithm Stereo Lo-Fi Pedal

The Source Audio Artifakt Lo-Fi Elements is the new, long-awaited release by the Massachusetts-based brand that excelled at multi-algorithm time-based effects like the Nemesis or the Ventris. While a lo-fi pedal represents a departure from the company's usual offerings (known for their pristine audio quality), the engineers have maintained their…Click on the title for more

Source Audio Artifakt Multi-Algorithm Stereo Lo-Fi Pedal

Beetronics BeeBeeDee Analog Delay

The Beetronics BeeBeeDee is far more than a standard analog delay; it’s a creative instrument built around a true bucket-brigade (BBD) analog signal path but enhanced with intelligent digital control. This marriage of vintage warmth and modern flexibility allows it to deliver everything from pristine, musical echoes to experimental pitch-shifted…Click on the title for more

Beetronics BeeBeeDee Analog Delay

Discomfort Designs Riemann’s Grave V2

The Discomfort Designs Riemann's Grave is not a simple distortion pedal; it's a powerful, self-contained workstation for timbral sculpting, combining multimode distortion, a state-variable filter, and deep random modulation in a single compact unit. The pedal operates as a dual-engine system. On the right, the "Zeta Function" section acts as…Click on the title for more

Discomfort Designs Riemann’s Grave V2

Color Audio Cassette Preamp

Chasing that warm, saturated, and beautifully imperfect tape sound? The Color Audio Cassette Preamp distills the soul of a vintage Japanese cassette recorder (reportedly, the Porta 2) into a rugged, tour-ready pedal. This isn't just an emulation—it's a part-for-part reproduction of the original circuit, right down to the prized NJM2068…Click on the title for more

Color Audio Cassette Preamp

New Pedal: Alexander Pedals Now We Are Ghosts

The Alexander Pedals Now We Are Ghosts, a device you'll be able to check out in person at the upcoming Brooklyn Synth and Pedal Expo, is a creative, stereo reverb that reimagines the effect as a dynamic sound-synthesis tool. Conceived by designer Matthew Farrow as “a synthesizer built from a…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Alexander Pedals Now We Are Ghosts

Fairfield Circuitry 20% More Limiting Distortion

Fairfield Circuitry has built a reputation for crafting pedals that marry utilitarian design with bold, unconventional tones. Their latest offering, the 20% More Limiting Distortion, is no exception—a wryly named yet seriously effective take on saturated, compressed dirt. An unorthodox take on fuzz, the 20% more blends synth-inspired circuitry with…Click on the title for more

Fairfield Circuitry 20% More Limiting Distortion

New Pedal: Dirty Sock Effects ‘dot/matrix’

The Dirty Sock Effects 'dot/matrix' is a playful and creative envelope-controlled square-wave tremolo that ventures into experimental territory, blending choppy amplitude modulation, bit-crushing artifacts, and ring-mod-like textures. At its core, it manipulates an analog sample-and-hold circuit pushed beyond conventional limits, with the Rate control dictating the sampling frequency—from sluggish, stuttering…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Dirty Sock Effects ‘dot/matrix’

Red Panda Bitmap 2.1 Stereo Bitcrusher

Among the (not easy to navigate) content of Believe in Music 2021, we somehow missed that Detroit's experimental pedal maker Red Panda had released version 2 of their Bitmap, a Stereo bit crusher with fractional bit reduction and sample rate modulation. The new version features one extra footswitch, an entirely…Click on the title for more

Red Panda Bitmap 2.1 Stereo Bitcrusher