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New Pedal: Earthquaker Devices Gary Modulated Fuzz + Overdrive

The Earthquaker Devices Gary is a signature pedal of Lee Kieran of the post-punk band Idles. It is a combo pulse-width modulated fuzz and overdrive circuit dreamt up by the British guitarist. Started as a simpler replacement pedal for the company's own Gray Channel overdrive featuring just one channel (the…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Earthquaker Devices Gary Modulated Fuzz + Overdrive

Chase Bliss Billy Strings Wombtone Phaser

A discontinued Chase Bliss pedal, the (regular) Wombtone was a wildly flexible digitally controlled analog phaser pedal, thanks to its 6 knobs, 3 toggle switches, two footswitches, and 12 DIP switches in the back panel. The Minneapolis-based company reissued a Billy Strings limited edition featuring some variations on the original,…Click on the title for more

Chase Bliss Billy Strings Wombtone Phaser

New Pedal: Asheville Music Tools AFG-1 Flanger

The Asheville Music Tools AFG-1 is a peculiar take on flanger by a US company that's establishing itself as an innovator in the high-end analog pedal realm, through a unique blend of top-notch components and creative design. Leveraging A 256-stage MN3009 high-voltage BBD chip powered at 15V, the AFG-1 delivers…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Asheville Music Tools AFG-1 Flanger

New Pedal: Land + Vongon Onset Auto Volume Swell

More often than not, simple ideas are the best ones. The Onset, a collaboration between Vongon and Land Devices is a streamlined device with just two faders that does automatically what guitarists normally do using a volume pedal: the volume swell effect. Easy peasy: the Attack control dials in the…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Land + Vongon Onset Auto Volume Swell

Pigtronix Moon Pool Tremvelope Phaser

The Pigtronix Moon Pool Tremvelope Phaser (or how about TremveloPhaser?) was announced during NAMM's Believe in Music 2021 together with two other rather spacey looking mini pedals, but it was the only one lacking a video, which is now available. As you know, a pedal (or any other musical device)…Click on the title for more

Pigtronix Moon Pool Tremvelope Phaser

Greenhouse Effects Logos Creative Chorus

You'll be hard-pressed to find a company as imaginative than Roy Zichri's Greenhouse Effects. In the early aughts, the Israeli pedal engineer first built a reputation as a PCB designer, collaborating with companies such as JHS Pedals and Darkglass Electronics. When the time felt right in 2010 he then started…Click on the title for more

Greenhouse Effects Logos Creative Chorus

BOSS MD-200 Multi-Modulation Pedal

It's pretty amazing how, while most pedal manufacturers work on one stompbox at a time and rarely release more than one product every few months, BOSS is so ahead of the game that they can afford the luxury of unveiling, on the same day, not two, but a series of…Click on the title for more

BOSS MD-200 Multi-Modulation Pedal

Seymour Duncan Polaron Phaser

Seymour Duncan just put out a multi-mode phaser pedal called Polaron that features a selectable number of stages, from two to 16. The signal path is fully analog but controlled digitally. The pedal can work as a regular modulation pedal (with tap tempo footswitch controlling the cycle's speed) or like…Click on the title for more

Seymour Duncan Polaron Phaser

Paradox Effects Futura Multiparametric Envelope Chorus

The Futura by Tijuana's Paradox Effects is an analog BBD chorus pedal with an envelope follower. This unique circuit does fantastic chorus and vibrato sounds and can even get into synth territory. There is a footswitch to enable envelop activation, and it can be set to latching or momentary functionality.…Click on the title for more

Paradox Effects Futura Multiparametric Envelope Chorus

SubDecay Octave Theory Octave Modulator / Synthesizer

Portland Oregon's Subdecay was one of the first boutique manufacturers to predate the "synthification" of guitar pedals in the beginning of the decade with models like the Octasynth and the Promotheus DLX filter. After a few years spent on focusing on more "normal" effects (although always approached in very personal ways),…Click on the title for more

SubDecay Octave Theory Octave Modulator / Synthesizer

Rediscovering the Keeley Bubble Tron Dynamic Flanger/Phaser

The Keeley Bubble Tron is a dynamic flanger/phaser that didn't exactly make a splash when it was unveiled back in 2016. However, pedal geeks are starting to realize that it anticipated a trend that became established in 2018, when companies like EQD, Dwarfcraft Devices and Mr. Black (among others) put out…Click on the title for more

Rediscovering the Keeley Bubble Tron Dynamic Flanger/Phaser