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Keeley Halo Stereo Dual Echo

The Keeley Halo is the latest delay pedal to pack a true stereo path into a compact enclosure - which is no easy feat. But it's also a dual-echo delivering up to 1500ms per channel with a ton of features for its size, including presets, tap tempo, delay rhythms, optional…Click on the title for more

Keeley Halo Stereo Dual Echo

Caline Brigade Dual Overdrive DCP-07

The Caline Brigade is a dual overdrive that features the circuits of two of the Chinese company's drive pedals inside one enclosure. The two circuits feature separate controls and footswitch and are an emulation of the Tubescreamer on the left side and a recreation of the Timmy overdrive on the…Click on the title for more

Caline Brigade Dual Overdrive DCP-07

New Pedal: Ghoib Elektronik Clang Invasion

As you may have guessed from the color scheme and control layout, the Ghoib Elektronik Clang Invasion is a replica of the Harmonic Percolator, the clangy and noisy fuzz pedal brought to fame by Steven Albini, a producer specializing in noisy indie-rock. The enclosure here is much smaller than the…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Ghoib Elektronik Clang Invasion

REVV Northern Mauler Distortion

Although it's white and made in peaceful Canada, the REVV Northern Mauler is a pedal for guitarists who are after the "Swedish Chainsaw" tone pioneered by metal acts with vicious names like Entombed, Dismember, Repugnant, Bloodbath, and Fuming Mouth, just to mention a few. Designed in collaboration with (also) Canadian…Click on the title for more

REVV Northern Mauler Distortion

Laney Black Country The Difference Engine Delay

The Laney Black Country The Difference Engine is a 3-mode delay pedal by a British builder that had made a name for itself through quality amps and stompboxes since 1967. It's the company's first pedal to feature more than one mode, to have presets, stereo in/out and an LCD screen, and…Click on the title for more

Laney Black Country The Difference Engine Delay

Electro-Harmonix String9

The Electro-Harmonix String9 lends the engine of the company's Synth9 to a string section, transforming your guitar signal into nine different string ensembles and string-like synth sounds, without the need for any extra device - it tracks your signal very efficiently. These are the voices you get, each with two…Click on the title for more

Electro-Harmonix String9

GFI Orca Stereo Delay

GFI System is an Indonesian builder that has been gaining momentum in the guitar pedal world thanks to innovative hybrid digital effects like the Synesthesia and the Specular Tempus. The Orba is a studio-quality, streamlined, multi-mode, stereo digital delay that replaces the Clockwork Delay in their line. It features four…Click on the title for more

GFI Orca Stereo Delay

Strymon blueSky v2 Reverb

Strymon have updated their iconic blueSky reverb to a v2 edition, with some quality of life improvements and new features. The biggest change is the implementation of a dedicated shimmer knob. The modulation is now on a three way selector for off, light, and deep. In addition, the pedal now…Click on the title for more

Strymon blueSky v2 Reverb

Catalinbread Csidman

Although it can function as a standard digital delay pedal, the Catalinbread CSIDMAN — which, apparently, should be pronounced “Discman”— is a glitch/stutter device with Cuts and Latch controls that lets you create the sound of a skipping portable CD player. Though its behavior is pseudo-random, the CSIDMAN gives you…Click on the title for more

Catalinbread Csidman

Blackstar AMPED 1 Pedal Amp

The Blackstar AMPED 1 is the latest release and perhaps most ambitious release by the British company within their new Dept 10 line. Rather than just a gain pedal, like the other three pedals in the series, the AMPED 1 is a full-fledged 100w guitar amplifier with tons of extra…Click on the title for more

Blackstar AMPED 1 Pedal Amp

New Pedal: Mr Black Heaven’s Gate Gated Reverb

Music producers have been using gated reverb on drums (snare and toms in particular) for fast-tempo pop songs since the '80s (first adopted in Peter Gabriel's 1979 self-titled album). The Mr. Black Heaven's Gate brings that effect to guitarists in the pedal format. Gated reverb works well on uptempo snares…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Mr Black Heaven’s Gate Gated Reverb

KMA Machines Wurm 2 Distortion

The KMA Machines Wurm 2 is an update of the Berlin-based company's high-gain flagship distortion pedal, featuring a circuit based on the BOSS HM-2 but with lots of extra features - or, in the words of the builder, "taking it much further and pushing the envelope of how destructive it…Click on the title for more

KMA Machines Wurm 2 Distortion