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New Pedal: Electro-Harmonix Pico Intelligent Harmony Machine

It is a rare and satisfying thing when a manufacturer distills the core intelligence of a beloved, complex device into a form that is both radically simplified and utterly immediate. Electro-Harmonix has achieved precisely this with the Pico Intelligent Harmony Machine. The original Intelligent Harmony Machine was a powerful but…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Electro-Harmonix Pico Intelligent Harmony Machine

Mask Audio Electronics MAYBE? Fuzz

A marriage of the company's two fuzz circuits named Yes and No, the appropriately named Maybe? is a super-tweakable dual fuzz. Each side can be played independently or stacked on top of the other. Judging from the builder's words, the destiny of this union is doomed to be destructive, at…Click on the title for more

Mask Audio Electronics MAYBE? Fuzz

Walrus Audio Silt Fuzz

Pedals with tubes in them are quite rare, and normally confined to the overdrive niche. The Walrus Audio Silt is a fuzz pedal with a 12AU7 tube in it, created in collaboration with tube expert Jim Hagerman of Hagerman Amplification. The Silt is a rather simple device, with the classic…Click on the title for more

Walrus Audio Silt Fuzz

Universal Audio UAFX DelVerb Ambience Companion

The Universal Audio UAFX DelVerb Ambience Companion is one of the three pedals released at NAMM 2023 by the pro audio company turned stompbox builder. It's a dual delay + reverb pedal with a separate footswitch and three modes for each effect. The delay, which has a separate control for…Click on the title for more

Universal Audio UAFX DelVerb Ambience Companion

Strymon Deco v2 | Tape Saturation & Doubletracker

Fans of vintage tape emulating effects should immediately take note of the new update to the Deco from Strymon. The Californian manufacturer just updated their all-encompassing mad scientist of a tape effect capable of tackling a whole host of vintage mid-century analog tape tones. This Deco V2 is a rabbit…Click on the title for more

Strymon Deco v2 | Tape Saturation & Doubletracker

New Pedal: Electro-Harmonix Atomic Cluster

The Electro Harmonix Atomic Cluster represents a genuine departure, a compact laboratory for granular synthesis. It operates not by applying modulation or distortion, but by employing a unique algorithm to systematically deconstruct your signal's frequency resolution, rebuilding it into a cloud of resonant, melodic oscillations. The result is a palette…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Electro-Harmonix Atomic Cluster

BOSS RT-2 Rotary Ensemble

The BOSS RT-2 Rotary Ensemble condenses the complex modulation of vintage rotary speaker cabinets into a compact, stereo pedal format. Using advanced DSP modeling, it accurately replicates the interplay between a spinning high-frequency horn (treble rotor) and rotating bass drum—key components of classic rotary speaker systems. The pedal offers three…Click on the title for more

BOSS RT-2 Rotary Ensemble

Ghost Audio Swirls Compressor + Chorus

The Ghost Audio Swirls pedal distills the massive, studio-grade rack rigs of the 1980s into a single stompbox, famously capturing the lush, thickened tone heard on guitarist/producer Michael Landau's classic album, Tales from the Bulge. Where guitarists once needed a refrigerator-sized array of units wired in parallel, Swirls delivers that…Click on the title for more

Ghost Audio Swirls Compressor + Chorus

New Pedal: Summer School + Supercool Pedals Smoking in the Boys Room

Built jointly by Summer School Electronics in Syracuse, New York and Supercool Pedals in Peterborough, Ontario, the Smoking in the Boys Room pedal can be easily classified as a child of our Synth & Pedal Expos, since these two brands attended several of them. The circuit is a deliberate and…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Summer School + Supercool Pedals Smoking in the Boys Room

New Pedal: Thorn Soundlab Black Swamp Flex Fuzz

Far from a static vintage emulation, the Nashville-made Thorn Soundlab Black Swamp fuzz establishes itself as a sovereign domain of fully analog, user-configurable saturation. It approaches distortion not as a fixed character, but as a flexible texture to be sculpted across the entire frequency spectrum. This philosophy is embodied in…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Thorn Soundlab Black Swamp Flex Fuzz

New Pedal: FruitFX Pedals Melon Cube Synth Fuzz

In a landscape saturated with variations on classic circuits, the FruitFX Pedals Melon Cube presents a genuinely singular proposition. It functions as a pulse-width modulator (PWM), a circuit more commonly associated with synthesizers, applying its transformative square-wave generation directly to guitar. The result is a radical tonal recasting that sits…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: FruitFX Pedals Melon Cube Synth Fuzz

Universal Audio UAFX Knuckles Rev F Double Rectifier

With the Knuckles '92, Universal Audio continues its series of stereo, amp-inspired stompboxes (part of the broader UAFX line) with what has now become a signature format blending a compact footprint with a noteworthy amount of tweakability. The guitar amp subject to pedal cloning (or sound snatching!) is the venerable…Click on the title for more

Universal Audio UAFX Knuckles Rev F Double Rectifier