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Walrus Audio Highpoint Optical Compressor

The folks at Walrus Audio looked at the compressor section of a Neve console, realized nobody was going to tour with one, and built the Highpoint. It's an all-analog optical compressor that runs on a ±15V internal rail—double the headroom of most pedals, zero starved-voltage compromise. The result is compression…Click on the title for more

Walrus Audio Highpoint Optical Compressor

Keeley RK2000 Funk Siren Delay

In 1983, Ibanez/Maxon built something absurd: the DM2000, a 12-bit digital delay so over-engineered that it made everything else look like a toy. Forty years later, Trey Anastasio has been abusing one onstage, using its Hold function to create infinite, warbling loops called the "Funk Siren." The only problem? Vintage…Click on the title for more

Keeley RK2000 Funk Siren Delay

New Pedal: Monger Pedals The Little Guy Fuzz/Phaser

Monger Pedals named it the Little Guy. Probably to lower your expectations before it melts your face off. This is a dual-effect box that pairs an OTA-based phaser with an op-amp fuzz. Two circuits that could live on separate boards, wedged into a single enclosure, because apparently Monger believes in…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Monger Pedals The Little Guy Fuzz/Phaser

Updated Pedal: IK Multimedia TONEX ONE+

The original TONEX ONE (blurb below) was already a marvel: AI Machine Modeling, hyper-realistic amp captures, and a full rig's worth of tones in a box barely larger than a matchbook. But it had one glaring limitation. To edit presets, load new Tone Models, or organize your sounds, you needed…Click on the title for more

Updated Pedal: IK Multimedia TONEX ONE+

New Pedal: Catalinbread Clean Little Secret

Portland's Catalinbread built its reputation on the Dirty Little Secret, a Marshall-in-a-box that conquered high-gain British roar. But every coin has a flip side. the Clean Little Secret is that flip, a low-gain foundation overdrive inspired by the Bluesbreaker, the combo amp that basically invented the "edge of breakup" before…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Catalinbread Clean Little Secret

New Pedal: Chase Bliss Big Time Stereo Delay

A thousand dollars. For a delay pedal. Let that sink in. Here's the thing, though. Joel Korte and his team and John Snyder (Electronic Audio Experiments) have built something that actually justifies the price tag. The Chase Bliss Big Time isn't another digital delay with fancy marketing. It's a painstaking…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Chase Bliss Big Time Stereo Delay

Vongon Polyphrase Stereo Echo

We were very proud to host the launch of the new Vongon Polyphrase at our 10th Brooklyn Stompbox Exhibit (yeah, after all what happened since our 2019 edition we kind of forgot that this was the event's ten year anniversary!). The Polyphrase is a stereo echo with an infinite feedback loop,…Click on the title for more

Vongon Polyphrase Stereo Echo

New Pedal: Tsakalis AC Master Boost + Overdrive

Athens isn't the first place you think of when someone says "cranked British amp." But Tsakalis AudioWorks is making a strong case for reconsidering that assumption. The AC Master is two classic circuits sharing a single enclosure: a VOX AC30 Top Boost overdrive and a Rangemaster-style treble booster. Not a…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Tsakalis AC Master Boost + Overdrive

New Pedal: Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi 2 with Tone Wicker

The Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi 2 with Tone Wicker is not a polite fuzz. The "Tone Wicker" isn't a gentle EQ boost; it is a set of sonic bolt cutters designed to rip the blankets off your amplifier. The NYC builder pioneered this feature to solve the Big Muff’s most…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi 2 with Tone Wicker

New Pedal: Strymon Canoga Silicon Fuzz

Strymon built a reputation on digital wizardry—big boxes, deep menus, endless presets. But behind all that DSP lives an analog team that's been quietly designing circuits nobody gets to see. Times are a-changing. The Series A line is the company's outlet for analog dirt boxes. No MIDI. No USB. No…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Strymon Canoga Silicon Fuzz

New Pedal: Beetronics Seabee Lite Chorus

Beetronics took their gloriously overcomplicated Seabee and stripped it down to the good parts. The Seabee Lite is still a fully analog BBD chorus, but now you don't need a PhD to operate it. Three modes, six knobs, two toggles, and a pair of footswitches that do more than just…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Beetronics Seabee Lite Chorus

New Pedal: Summer School Fuzz 101

Math class was useless. This isn't. The Summer School Fuzz 101 features two BC108 silicon transistors. The same ones that made London sound like London in the '60s. High-gain, noisy, glorious. Summer School took that DNA, added a few legendary mods, and somehow didn't screw it up. Volume. Fuzz. Bias.…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Summer School Fuzz 101