LO-FI PEDALS

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

Below, the latest news about lo-fi pedals

Electro-Harmonix Mainframe Bit Crusher + Filter

Despised by tone connoisseurs, Lo-Fi pedals are fun devices reserved for those guitarists invested in playful and creative musical genres. Electro-Harmonix has plenty of creative pedals in its arsenal - as a matter of fact, they pioneered the similarly quirky ring modulator - but the Mainframe is their debut in…Click on the title for more

Electro-Harmonix Mainframe Bit Crusher + Filter

SolidGoldFX NU-33 Vinyl Engine Demo

Montreal based SolidGoldFX just released a new "character pedal" that emulates the sonic artifacts of vinyl: the NU-33. Named after the Greek letter symbolizing spatial frequency and the RPMs of a turntable, the NU-33 is mostly a chorus and vibrato with the added option to mix in a varying amount…Click on the title for more

SolidGoldFX NU-33 Vinyl Engine Demo

Pladask Elektrisk Fabrikat Granular Synth / Sample Playback

The Pladask Elektrisk Fabrikat is a hand-made Granular Synthesizer / Sample Playback pedal built-in Bergen, Norway. The company is known for its DIY workshops. A lighter version of the DIY kit FORM2, the Fabrikat features 16 algorithms focusing on granular synthesis and modified sample playback, including time stretching, pitch shifting with time…Click on the title for more

Pladask Elektrisk Fabrikat Granular Synth / Sample Playback

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

Old Blood Noise Endeavors Dark Star Pad Reverb

Unusual, sonically adventurous, and rich with features, the Old Blood Noise Endeavors | Dark Star has been receiving a lot of attention and love since its launch in 2016. It shines in creating long and cavernous reverbs, with an optional lo-fi character - you'll find more info on the controls…Click on the title for more

Old Blood Noise Endeavors Dark Star Pad Reverb

Demedash T-120 V2 Videotape Echo

The Demedash T-120 is a quirky tape-style echo that, instead of using a revered vintage machine as a reference for its voicing, emulates the lo-fi sound of VHS tapes, described as "low bandwidth tape being fed haphazardly through a magnetic read head by an uncalibrated, unbalanced feed mechanism." The Tape…Click on the title for more

Demedash T-120 V2 Videotape Echo

TKOG Mini Glitch

The King of Gear is a site "devoted to how Radiohead make all of those funny noises" in their late '90s/early aughts records. The site also builds a pedal called Mini Glitch, inspired by the desire to reproduce Jonny Greenwood’s random Max/MSP “stutter” effect, but that actually does a lot more…Click on the title for more

TKOG Mini Glitch

Mastro Valvola LEM Ambient Delay/Reverb

Italian stompbox maestro Mastro Valvola unveiled the company's edgier device so far: the LEM (an acronym for Lysergic Emotion Module), a tap-tempo and preset enabled ambiance machine with 8 delay and reverb modes. Here's a graph that shows you all the modes, accessible through the Mode knob: As you can see…Click on the title for more

Mastro Valvola LEM Ambient Delay/Reverb

TEFI Vintage Lab Golden Era Real-Time Lo-Fi Machine

The Italian folks at TEFI Vintage Lab have been releasing some increasingly interesting pedals and the Golden Era Real-Time Lo-Fi Machine seems like an extra step in the right direction. In a world where the increasingly pristine quality of digital recording makes many audiophiles long for the artifacts of old-time…Click on the title for more

TEFI Vintage Lab Golden Era Real-Time Lo-Fi Machine

New Pedals: Cooper FX Generation Loss V2

Cooper FX is a pedal that focuses on quirky and textural pedal designs that - we may add - are constantly sold out and rather pricey when you find them. The Cooper FX Generation Loss is presented as a simulator of cheap tape machines, i.e. a lo-fi "character adder" for…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Cooper FX Generation Loss V2

New Pedals: Hungry Robot Wardenclyffe Deluxe

The Hungry Robot Wanderclyffe Deluxe is an expanded version of the company's original lo-fi modulation/ambiance effect, one of the most popular by the North Carolina manufacturer. The added features are a handful, here's the list, in order of importance: The three new small knobs on top control a new Vinyl…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Hungry Robot Wardenclyffe Deluxe

Caroline Kilobyte v2

Caroline Guitar Company is announcing a few changes to their popular Kilobyte delay pedal. The most notable of which is the introduction of an external trimpot for the modulation effect of the unit. Some boutique pedal purists may have words about the other changes in store for the pedal but…Click on the title for more

Caroline Kilobyte v2