gear giveaway

Synth Pedals

New Pedal: Discomfort Designs Phantom Limb Dual Delay/Looper

The Discomfort Designs Phantom Limb is an interesting and creative dual effect sporting separate delay and looper channels, built by a boutique company out of Tucson Arizona specializing in non-ordinary stompboxes. The looper side has its own footswitch and consists of nine separate loopers featuring individual random playback triggers, and…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Discomfort Designs Phantom Limb Dual Delay/Looper

Hologram Microcosm Multi-Mode Granular Looper/Delay

Knoxville's Hologram Electronics has been at the forefront of creative (or rather, "out there"!) effects pedals since the release of their debut device, the Dream Sequence, followed by the even more popular Infinite Jets. Their third creation, which, from the looks of it, seems to take things to a new…Click on the title for more

Hologram Microcosm Multi-Mode Granular Looper/Delay

New Pedal: Valeton VLP-200 Multi-Track Sampler

For those looking for a looper pedal, for $129, the Valeton VLP-200 Multi-Track Sampler provides a lot of bang for your buck. It features two loopers and a variety of drum rhythm patterns thanks to an embedded drum machine, making it a great option for songwriting, practice, and live performance.…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Valeton VLP-200 Multi-Track Sampler

MWFX Judder Lofi/Glitch Echo/Sampler

An extremely unique device, the MWFX Judder is part echo, looper, and phrase sampler all rolled into one science experiment of a guitar pedal. It’s designed around analog chip technology to provide degrading repeats like those found in tape echo units. Utilizing an innovative switching system it can inject echo,…Click on the title for more

MWFX Judder Lofi/Glitch Echo/Sampler

Old Blood Noise Pardner Fuzz with Looper

To their credit, Oklahoma City's Old Blood Noise Endeavours has yet to attempt to make a "normal" guitar pedal, and the Pardner Fuzz (depicted here in its purple variant, but also available in teal blue and yellow-tan) confirms this inclination by mixing two normally antithetic effects: a fuzz and an…Click on the title for more

Old Blood Noise Pardner Fuzz with Looper

Chase Bliss Onward

Lately, every new Chase Bliss release feels like the unveiling of a new, magical (sonic) toy. The latest device to join this creative family of circuits is Onward, an evolution of an existing pedal by Cooper FX (whose owner Tom Majeski is now part of the Chase Bliss team), called…Click on the title for more

Chase Bliss Onward

Collision Devices Crushturnal

The Collision Devices Crushturnal is the latest inspiring device by a French pedal brand that has gotten us accustomed to delivering complex yet intuitive creative effects. Available for preorder, it will ship in the 2nd half of June 2024. Inspired by the glitch created by clock change on digital processors…Click on the title for more

Collision Devices Crushturnal

Rainger FX Mini Drone

A pedal evolving from the company's Drone Rainger Delay, the Rainger FX Mini Drone drops the delay circuit and focuses on the drone side of things. As expected, the Mini Drone generates a continuous drone sound, with a focus on the low end. It uses three bassy triangle waves, two…Click on the title for more

Rainger FX Mini Drone

Meris Ottobit Jr.

The Meris Ottobit Jr. is presented as 'a maniacal little machine, inspired by vintage gaming consoles' - or, if you wish, an 8-bit pedals on steroids: a stereo “Audio In >> Video Game Out” device that lets guitarists employ synthesis techniques and bitcrushing to create new audio textures. Sample-rate and bit-reduction…Click on the title for more

Meris Ottobit Jr.

The Best Glitch, Stutter and Granular Pedals in 2024

[lwptoc depth="4" numeration="decimal" title="TABLE OF CONTENTS (click to jump)" titleFontSize="125%" titleFontWeight="semibold" itemsFontSize="110%" skipHeadingText="A Guide to the Best Granular, Glitch and Stutter Pedals|The Best Glitch/Stutter/Granular Stompboxes|Related Delicious Audio Posts:"] Last updated on 12.01.2023 A Guide to the Best Granular, Glitch, and Stutter Pedals The musical genre known as glitch has been…Click on the title for more

The Best Glitch, Stutter and Granular Pedals in 2024

Meris Enzo Synth Pedal

Born from a rib of Strymon, LA pedal manufacturer Meris has been getting a lot of traction in the last year or so with imaginative stompbox designs (we wrote a profile about them here), and we are thrilled to find out that they have launched a brand new pedal called Enzo.…Click on the title for more

Meris Enzo Synth Pedal

New Pedal: Subdecay Noise Theory Fuzz

From a veteran boutique pedal manufacturer that built its name on tweakability comes one of the most feature-rich and unique fuzz pedals on the market: the Subdecay Noise Theory. Presented as a "Parallel Waveshaper Fuzz," the noise theory combines an analog and a digital fuzz circuit placed in parallel, and…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Subdecay Noise Theory Fuzz