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• The Best Lo-Fi Pedals
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• Best Tape Echo Pedals with Lo-Fi Control
• Best Granular, Glitch and Stutter Pedals

Below, the latest news about lo-fi pedals

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

Pladask Elektrisk Baklengs Granular Synth/Glitch Delay

Thanks to a bunch of forward-thinking builders, in recent years, granular and glitch pedals have experienced an exponential growth comparable to no other effect niche. Norway's Pladask Elektrisk has been at the center of this phenomenon and their new release BAKLENGS continues and develops it. Presented as the final release…Click on the title for more

Pladask Elektrisk Baklengs Granular Synth/Glitch Delay

Intensive Care Fideleater V1 Lo-Fi Chorus/Vibrato/Delay

London's Intensive Care Audio is one of the most interesting emerging boutique makers of the new decade, and the Fideleater, just released in a more compact version, is their take on the lo-fi modulation chorus/delay. This is primarily a chorus with selectable LFO (you can pick from 8 waveforms) and…Click on the title for more

Intensive Care Fideleater V1 Lo-Fi Chorus/Vibrato/Delay

Red Panda Particle V2 Multimode Granular Stereo Delay

V2 of the Red Panda Particle Granular Delay sports completely rewritten firmware, as well as high-performance 32-bit processing and conversion. It runs at a higher sampling rate, with more headroom and lower noise than the original and... it has Stereo In and Out! Interactive controls mean a small change can…Click on the title for more

Red Panda Particle V2 Multimode Granular Stereo Delay

Champion Leccy The Swan Hunter LoFi Echo+Reverb

Blending layers of delay and reverb is the favorite hobby of a fair slice of guitarists into stompboxes, and - as you can see from our article about the Best Delay + Reverb Combo Pedals article - effects makers are fully aware of that. Philly's boutique builder Champion Leccy, run…Click on the title for more

Champion Leccy The Swan Hunter LoFi Echo+Reverb

RPS Effects Bit Reactor

The RPS Bit Reactor is a bit crusher and downsampler that takes whatever signal you give it and crunches it up into digital atoms. The central Crush knob selects the number of bits for the crunching, from 1 to 8, while the Sample one deals with reducing the sample rate. The…Click on the title for more

RPS Effects Bit Reactor

Polarbear Effects Drowner Fuzz/Bitcrusher/Reverb

Croatian pedal builder Polarbear Effects sure likes to mix things up a little. The two stompboxes on the company's roster are very creative devices wisely blending several circuits, with the goal of creating very musical and unique effects. Enter the new Drowner, a fuzz/bitcrusher/shimmery reverb. The circuit starts with a…Click on the title for more

Polarbear Effects Drowner Fuzz/Bitcrusher/Reverb

The Best LoFi Guitar Pedals in 2022: Analog & Digital Artifact Simulators

Welcome to our guide to the Best LoFi Guitar Pedals currently on the market. You can find our coverage of similar devices in our Lo-Fi Pedals category. Your Signal's Best Frenemy: the Sonic Artifact Since the dawn of recording technology in the early 20th century (1935, to be exact),…Click on the title for more

The Best LoFi Guitar Pedals in 2022: Analog & Digital Artifact Simulators

Fairfield Circuitry Shallow Water

We are always psyched to feature the cutting-edge stompboxes of Canadian manufacturer Fairfield Circuitry. This modulation pedal, called Shallow Water, is presented as a "K Field Modulator" - for those wondering what that means, here's a technical/philosophical explanation directly from the manufacturer: K-field (Simulation mathematics), an undefined, two-dimensional, non-linear field where…Click on the title for more

Fairfield Circuitry Shallow Water

Cooper FX Arcades, Cartridge-based MultiFX pedal

08.18.2020 Update The cool thing about a cartridge-driven pedal like the Cooper FX Arcades is that it becomes something entirely new every time a new cartridge is released. Today Cooper FX unveiled the following: Reverse - as psychedelic as it gets, it also features pitch shifting Grain - focused on…Click on the title for more

Cooper FX Arcades, Cartridge-based MultiFX pedal

Dreadbox Darkness Stereo Granular Reverb

Greek manufacturer Dreadbox is one of the pioneers of what one day may be remembered as some sort of "Greek Pedal Invasion" of the early 21st century, and even though its most celebrated releases lately have been synths, three new stereo stompboxes have surfaced in 2021. The Dreadbox Darkness, a…Click on the title for more

Dreadbox Darkness Stereo Granular Reverb

Red Panda Bitmap 2

Among the (not easy to navigate) content of Believe in Music 2021, we somehow missed that Detroit's experimental pedal maker Red Panda had released a version 2 of their Bitmap, a Stereo bit crusher with fractional bit reduction and sample rate modulation. The new version features one extra footswitch, an…Click on the title for more

Red Panda Bitmap 2