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Chase Bliss Audio Blooper

We've been following the genesis of Chase Bliss Audio's creative looper Blooper since NAMM 2019 and then in the Knobs videos below. On December 10th the Toronto videographer announced that the pedal is ready and will be shipping soon. The company raised almost 400,000 with a Kickstarter campaign for funding…Click on the title for more

Chase Bliss Audio Blooper

Strymon Timeline

Delay pedals are a dime a dozen these days. So if you are going to make a delay pedal in 2012 it has to be something special. Strymon, a company that claims to be a unique group of left brained artists who focus on creativity and quality sounds, is giving it…Click on the title for more

Strymon Timeline

AC Noises Urla CMOS Fuzz + Filter

The AC Noise Urla is an uncompromising new stompbox from one of the most interesting pedal companies to emerge as of late. It's an uber-tweakable CMOS fuzz in front of a dual resonant filter, with separate footswitches for each. At a time when most pedal builders seem to jump through…Click on the title for more

AC Noises Urla CMOS Fuzz + Filter

New Pedal: Warm Audio ODD Box Overdrive (OCD clone)

The Warm Audio ODD Box is a stompbox based on the Fulltone OCD overdrive, the most successful pedal design by Michael Fuller, a controversial, recently retired builder known - among other things - for not taking kindly news about his circuits getting cloned. The original OCD, now out of production…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Warm Audio ODD Box Overdrive (OCD clone)

Pigtronix Gloamer Volume Swell + Compressor

The world is full of pedals that affect the amplitude (i.e. the volume) of the signal they are fed: compressors and tremolos do that. But nothing delivers the sonic goods offered by the Pigtronix Gloamer, a circuit that combines a volume swell with a compressor. Volume swells are normally performed…Click on the title for more

Pigtronix Gloamer Volume Swell + Compressor

Victory V1 The Kraken High Gain Preamp

The Victory V1 Kraken is the third pedal (and the only compact one) in a series of high-gain stompboxes by UK Victory Amplification. Its siblings are a 180w power amp and a bigger preamp "V4" model. Based on the company's VX Kraken amp, which was born out of a collaboration…Click on the title for more

Victory V1 The Kraken High Gain Preamp

Walrus Audio Melee Distortion + Reverb

The Walrus Audio Melee, a distortion + reverb "wall of noise" combo pedal, represents for the Oklahoma-based company both a step forward and a tribute to its past, reminiscent as it is of its early stompbox Janus, which similarly blended two effects (fuzz and tremolo), using not one but two…Click on the title for more

Walrus Audio Melee Distortion + Reverb

Spaceman Meridian Modulator

Although delay by itself is a very popular effect for guitar, a very short delay also constitutes the core of a series of other effects in the modulation realm. With its delay range between 0.8 and 0.50 ms, the Spaceman Meridian represents an exploration of all these delay-based effects, that…Click on the title for more

Spaceman Meridian Modulator

BOSS DS-1w Distortion

The BOSS DS-1w Distortion was an expected update to what's in all likelihood the best-selling pedal ever, launched by the Japanese builder in 1978. Like other models in the Waza Craft, the DS-1w offers a new, Custom mode, next to the Standard one replicating the sound of the original circuit,…Click on the title for more

BOSS DS-1w Distortion

New Pedal: Moth Electric P. Isabella

Utilizing carefully selected parts and rigorous circuit design, the Moth Electric P. Isabella is a hand-built fuzz/distortion based on an old Russian classic (read, Russian Muff) by an emerging builder based in Portland, Oregon. As obvious from the control layout, the P. Isabella adds some extra features to the classic…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Moth Electric P. Isabella

Universal Audio UAFX Galaxy ’74 Tape Echo

The Universal Audio UAFX Galaxy '74 Tape Echo is a stereo pedal that encapsulates the essence of the ’70s Roland Tape Echo into an almost compact case, adding extra features like presets, dual stereo effects, tap tempo, a momentary footswitch function, and doubled delay times that allow creating rhythmic subdivisions…Click on the title for more

Universal Audio UAFX Galaxy ’74 Tape Echo

New Pedal: Kasleder Pipergate (Buzz Tone / Syd Barrett-Inspired)

Fans of Syd Barrett, the unstable but genius lead songwriter/guitarist of early Pink Floyd, should lend an eye and an ear to the Kasleder Pipergate, a tribute to that incredibly influential artist who presumably used a Selmer Buzz Tone (mixed with an assortment of delays and reverbs) for his palette…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Kasleder Pipergate (Buzz Tone / Syd Barrett-Inspired)