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Delay Mixed Board at the Austin Stompbox Exhibit

Hey delay maniacs! This is going to be out for ya'll to play with it at our upcoming Austin Stompbox Exhibit! P.S. Pretty darn exciting board if you ask us!Click on the title for more

Delay Mixed Board at the Austin Stompbox Exhibit

Mixed Distortion board at the ATX Stompbox Exhibit 2017

If you are in Austin this week, bring your guitar to the Lewis Carnegie Gallery (hosting the ATX Stompbox Exhibit 2017) and give these bad babies a try!Click on the title for more

Mixed Distortion board at the ATX Stompbox Exhibit 2017

SSD Devices EVA Fuzz (demo)

We are always intrigued when we see a demo of a pedal by a manufacturer we are not aware of - in particular if the effect looks cool and has something different to it. Not much info can be found about SSD Devices, but it sounds like a UK/US collaboration (the…Click on the title for more

SSD Devices EVA Fuzz (demo)

New (Crazy) Pedals: TWA Dynamorph

We saw this pedal by NJ based TWA (an acronym for "Totally Wicked Audio") at our NAMM 2017 mixed booth and it looked intriguing indeed, if anything for the name of its controls - there's a Kafka/Ovid switch, and a "Gestation" mini-knob! The effect's presentation is also interesting: "Distortion? Fuzz? Filter? Synth?…Click on the title for more

New (Crazy) Pedals: TWA Dynamorph

Strymon debuts Sunset Dual Overdrive at Austin Stompbox Exhibit

Strymon, at last, seems to have gotten the distortion bug - and overcome their aversion for the color red! The Californian stompbox manufacturer just unveiled their second distortion pedal ever, after 2016's Riverside Overdrive (since their birth in 2008, they had only released non-distortion pedals, developing a reputation for luscious clean sounds, although…Click on the title for more

Strymon debuts Sunset Dual Overdrive at Austin Stompbox Exhibit

Klon + Tube Screamer in one pedal: Greenchild K818 Dual Overdrive

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Klon + Tube Screamer in one pedal: Greenchild K818 Dual Overdrive

Bondi Effects 2026 Compressor Limiter

You may think that Bondi Effects is another Italian manufacturer (we covered a bunch of them as of late), but the name actually originates from an Australian aboriginal word meaning "the sound of waves crashing over rocks." Is that natural sound the precursor of fuzz? Founded in 2013 and run by husband…Click on the title for more

Bondi Effects 2026 Compressor Limiter

Electro-Harmonix SYNTH9 Synthesizer Machine

This press release just came in from Electro-Harmionix, it sounds intriguing... The SYNTH9 Synthesizer Machine transform your guitar sound into classic electronic synthesizers and features nine of the most distinctive vintage synth type sounds: OBX, PROFIT V, VIBE SYNTH, MINI MOOD, EHX MINI, SOLO SYNTH, MOOD BASS, STRING SYNTH and…Click on the title for more

Electro-Harmonix SYNTH9 Synthesizer Machine

TC Electronics Mimiq and Keeley 30ms

Double tracking guitar parts has been a technique used in recording for decades (and also live actually, if there is more than one guitarist) to thicken things up. It can make guitars sound bigger, fuller, wider, and more textured. In the '60s Abbey Road Studio's engineer Ken Thousand came up…Click on the title for more

TC Electronics Mimiq and Keeley 30ms

New Pedals: Jellyfish Electronics Murder By Fuzz (demo)

Fuzz, as an effect, seems to inspire pretty gruesome names, and fuzz lovers, who play musical genres that tend to sublimate violence through heavy hitting music, love that. On the heel of names like Death by Audio and Fuzzrocious, New Hampshire based boutique manufacturer Jellifish Electronics - which offers religiously gain related, original…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Jellyfish Electronics Murder By Fuzz (demo)

The EHX Blurst is the Best Looking Pedal of NAMM 2017

I had a friend in high school who would just buy some records (from the equivalent of the $1 bin) for their covers. Even though I've never done anything like that, this idea has been slowly growing on me: beautiful art makes things more desirable and therefore more valuable. In this regard,…Click on the title for more

The EHX Blurst is the Best Looking Pedal of NAMM 2017

Alexander Sky Fi Reverb/Delay

Some guitarists (the ones into shoegazer in particular) can be very attached to their digital reverb rack units from the '80s (Alesis ruled at the time), even though they have become obsolete and as ridiculed for their size as the primitive cellphones from that same decade. But sometimes you just need THAT sound,…Click on the title for more

Alexander Sky Fi Reverb/Delay