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New Pedal: Glowfly Hymnosis Octave / Delay / Reverse / Freeze

The Glowfly Hymnosis is a new stompbox by a UK-based builder specializing in creative effects with a psychedelic angle - perfectly reflected in the company's gorgeous pedal graphics. This handmade circuit integrates a series of effects including octave up/down, forward/reverse delay and freeze, to allow the creation of inspiring…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Glowfly Hymnosis Octave / Delay / Reverse / Freeze

The Best Octave Pedals in 2023 | A Buyer’s Guide

Welcome to our guide to the best octave pedals. This article focuses on clean octavers - not octave-up-style fuzzes. If you are looking for the latter, please check out our guides to the Octavia, Super Fuzz and Foxx Tone Machine, and the list of all the new releases in the…Click on the title for more

The Best Octave Pedals in 2023 | A Buyer’s Guide

RPS Effects Arcade Machine

PLL-Style pedals have become quite trendy after EarthQuaker Devices came out with their Data Corrupter in 2017, but we haven't seen anything yet quite like the brand new RPS Effects Arcade Machine. With its playful approach inspired by vintage arcade video-games, this colorful pedal re-synthesizes your instrument as a square…Click on the title for more

RPS Effects Arcade Machine

Mojo Hand FX Octaverse Reverse Octave Delay

We somehow missed the release of the Mojo Hand FX Octaverse earlier this year, and it's a shame because it looks like one of the coolest pedals released by the Michigan-based company in some time: it's a reverse delay with an added up-or-down octave circuit. The idea is quite unique…Click on the title for more

Mojo Hand FX Octaverse Reverse Octave Delay

MXR Poly Blue Octave – Fuzz + 4 Octaves

Fuzz and octave (up or down) is a match made in Rock'n'Roll Hell (in a good way!) - yes because the results aren't exactly heavenly, are they? The MXR Poly Blue Octave takes this combo to the next level, with a circuit that offers not one, not two but FOUR…Click on the title for more

MXR Poly Blue Octave – Fuzz + 4 Octaves

Beetronics Zzombee Filtremulator

The Beetronics Zzombee Filtremulator is a peculiar effects pedal that combines a fuzz a filter, a low octave and a tremolo. It also offers a new kind of effect labeled "cross-tremolo," which - to quote the manufacturer - "pulses between the fundamental and low octave." The signal goes through a…Click on the title for more

Beetronics Zzombee Filtremulator

KMA Machines Queequeg 2 Subgenerator

The KMA Machines Queequeg 2 Subgenerator is an update on this 2016 one knob pedal that does one thing and does it well: monophonic sub-octave. This new version adds an additional sub-octave (accessible through the central toggle switch) and sports top mounted jacks and relay-based soft switching. The toggle is…Click on the title for more

KMA Machines Queequeg 2 Subgenerator

New Pedal: Hungry Robot The Collective Fuzz

Just like most other devices released by the North Carolina's builder, the Hungry Robot The Collective is a pedal for the creative/tinkerer guitarist, but unlike the other pedals currently in the company's roster, this one is a fuzz - or rather, three fuzzes in one pedal. The man behind the…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Hungry Robot The Collective Fuzz

Redbeard Effects Honey Badger Octave Fuzz

The Redbeard Effects Honey Badger is the second release by this new company comprised of seasoned rock guitarist and self-confessed rock & roll gear head, Mikey Demus (of UK based band, Skindred), and internationally renowned pedal designer and manufacturer, Adrian Thorpe (of ThorpyFX). This is a completely original circuit that…Click on the title for more

Redbeard Effects Honey Badger Octave Fuzz

Third Man Coppersound Triplegraph Octaver

Mr. Jack White of The White Stripes' fame is known for loving noisy and sometimes quirky pedals, so much so that, in the last few years, he's been commissioning selected builders to create custom-tweaked stompboxes to sell exclusively through his label Third Man Records - previous examples include pedals by…Click on the title for more

Third Man Coppersound Triplegraph Octaver

Professor Pedalz Schock Rock Ocean Man Chorus

The Professor Pedalz Schock Rock Ocean Man is a limited edition, creative chorus with a couple of tricks up its sleeve. One of its three modes blends in a polyphonic octave-down to the chorus, while the other two modes (Tide and Wash) open up a world of modulation effects between…Click on the title for more

Professor Pedalz Schock Rock Ocean Man Chorus

SolidGoldFX EM-III Multi-Head Octave Echo

Montreal's SolidGoldFX has been on a tear recently, and if there was an award for the "most prolific pedal builder of the '20s" they would be up there with Walrus Audio and a few other ones. Their latest release is the EM-III, a compact Multi-Head Octave Echo. Building on SGFX’s…Click on the title for more

SolidGoldFX EM-III Multi-Head Octave Echo