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WychElm Effects Dharma Drive

Working in your own studio with other artists can lead to great gear discoveries. I was turned onto the Dharma Drive from WychElm Effects by a band I was engineering due to its unique graphics, and stumbled on one of the best drive pedals I've tried in a while. Truly one…... Click for more

WychElm Effects Dharma Drive

New Pedals: SFG Music Supply’s Howlerr

British Columbia's SFG Music Supply may be new to the boutique effect pedal scene, but their debut stompbox is a unique and great-sounding overdrive – the Howlerr. A unit with versatile application, the Howlerr boasts a design based around a solitary transistor amplifier fed into the clipping section of the…... Click for more

New Pedals: SFG Music Supply’s Howlerr

New Pedals: MBS Effects Parallel Universe Routing + Mixer pedal

From MBS Effects out of Buenos Aires, Argentina comes a truly innovative design - the Parallel Universe. This unique pedal provides a variety of signal routing and blending options, offering rig routing choices that before might have only been daydreams. At its core, it is a mixer that allows you to…... Click for more

New Pedals: MBS Effects Parallel Universe Routing + Mixer pedal

New Pedals: Greer Amps Black Tiger Delay Device

With the exception of their tremolo, Athens, Georgia's boutique manufacturer Greer Amps has been focusing on producing great sounding, top quality distortion stompboxes. But since there's fun in change, they recently announced their first delay pedal – the Black Tiger Delay Device, which marries analog and digital techynology, priding itself of a warm decay that…... Click for more

New Pedals: Greer Amps Black Tiger Delay Device

Boutique Pedal Manufacturers: TomKat Pedals

There aren't many pedal manufacturers in Brooklyn (the cost of housing certainly doesn't attract small businesses), but at our recent Stompbox Exhibit we had the chance to familiarize with a really interesting boutique one, called Tomkat Pedals. The company seems dedicated to rei-imagining classic fuzz circuits and incorporating some more modern modifications…... Click for more

Boutique Pedal Manufacturers: TomKat Pedals

New Pedals: Mr. Black Ambience Echoverb

Mr. Black, out of the great northwest, has been designing cutting-edge guitar pedals for a while now. Their latest innovation comes in the form of the Ambience Echoverb, born from the perfect marriage of a multi-tap delay and reverb. The Ambience falls somewhere between a delay, a reverb, and a…... Click for more

New Pedals: Mr. Black Ambience Echoverb

Distortion board at the Bklyn Stompbox Exhibit

Here are the pedals hosted in our Distortion Mixed boards, part of the Brooklyn Stompbox Exhibit at Williamsburg's Main Drag Music. There will be a few hundred pedals for guitarists to try, do not miss!... Click for more

Distortion board at the Bklyn Stompbox Exhibit

New Pedals: Malekko’s Scrutator bit and sample rate reducer

No guitarist that is or was a Ministry fan can help but being intrigued by Malekko Heavy Industries' stompbox insanity (the company's owner is the band's bassist Paul Barker). Although bit reduction pedals - also called "lo-fi" - are not for all (tone purists in particular), Malekko's latest stompbox Scrutator offers a…... Click for more

New Pedals: Malekko’s Scrutator bit and sample rate reducer

Splash Reverb Mk3 by Crazy Tube Circuits

Crazy Tube Circuits has perfected the art of marrying the analog and digital worlds to create some of the most versatile and innovative guitar pedals that exist on the flooded boutique market today. The Splash Reverb Mk3 continues this tradition with three settings, each utilizing a unique algorithm. Setting 1 is labeled…... Click for more

Splash Reverb Mk3 by Crazy Tube Circuits

Real tape in a new stompbox? T-Rex Replicator

We hate to do this to the guitarists out there, but you need to start saving up $800. Rarely does a new pedal completely blow our minds, but this one is pretty special. Amidst of all the hullaballoo around pedal makers and players trying to nail down the best tape…... Click for more

Real tape in a new stompbox? T-Rex Replicator

New Pedals: EHX 22500 Dual Stereo Looper

Looper pedals are a must-have for any musician to sketch song ideas or jot down acousmatic sounds. EHX is well known for creating the 16-Second Digital Delay (arguably the first delay/looper pedal), as well as the now-discontinued multi-track workhorse 2880. But their newest looper pedal take things one step further. The EHX 22500…... Click for more

New Pedals: EHX 22500 Dual Stereo Looper

New Pedals: EHX Good Vibes

Considered one of the quintessential guitar effects, the Uni-Vibe has had a legendary mystique ever since the great Jimi Hendrix added the psychedelic tones it offers to his classic sound. Electro-Harmonix has been making excellent pedals for years, and it's well-known for designing great modulation pedals in particular. Recently the…... Click for more

New Pedals: EHX Good Vibes