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Pitch Shifter Pedals

Dwarfcraft Devices – Super Wizard

If you play weird music, you'll need to pick up a Dwarfcraft Devices pedal at one point or another. Here's the new demo by Dennis Kayzer about the Dwarfcraft Devices Super Wizard, a pitch shifting stompbox with integrated lo-fi echo and some special footswitch controls. Picking up where the Wizard of Pitch…Click on the title for more

Dwarfcraft Devices – Super Wizard

Hungry Robot The Monastery

One of the edgiest "emerging" manufacturers of guitar pedals, Hungry Robot specializes in effects that sound, in two words, droney and ambient-y. Most spaces used for religious functions (or retreats) tend to transform any sound into a cascade of ghostly reflections, so we are not surprised by the fact that…Click on the title for more

Hungry Robot The Monastery

Hungry Robot – The Karman Line delay and oscillation device

Hungry Robot is a new manufacturer churning out super fun pedals, and The Karman Line is arguably one of the most fun in the line. Check out this video of it by Dennis Kayzer! From the manufacturer's site: The Kármán Line is a modulating joystick delay and oscillation device that features a heavily…Click on the title for more

Hungry Robot – The Karman Line delay and oscillation device

Pedal demos: Dwarfcraft Devices’ Super Wizard (by Knobs)

Here's a spanking new video by Knobs about the Dwarfcraft Devices' new Super Wizard, described by the manufacturer as "a behemoth of pitch shifting, glitching, and lo-fi echo delights!" It's sample based pitch shifting identical to the one found in their Wizard of Pitch," but with the added functionality of the…Click on the title for more

Pedal demos: Dwarfcraft Devices’ Super Wizard (by Knobs)

Split pedal? Fuzzrocious/Dwarfcraft Afterlife of Pitch

Here at Delicious Audio we love collaborations, in particular if they are of the creative variety. Both Dwarfcraft Devices and Fuzzrocious Pedals have been churning out several pedals demonstrating how they love to think outside the box - although within the stompbox parameters! The two boutique manufacturers just released what we…Click on the title for more

Split pedal? Fuzzrocious/Dwarfcraft Afterlife of Pitch

Digitech unveils the Whammy Ricochet

DigiTech today announced the Whammy Ricochet, a pedal that takes the popular Whammy pitch shifting effect and places it in a box with a small form factor. Instead of using a foot treadle to manipulate pitch bending rate, such as those found on traditional DigiTech Whammy pedals, the Whammy Ricochet bends…Click on the title for more

Digitech unveils the Whammy Ricochet

Red Panda Raster Delay

It’s not really fair to classify the new Red Panda Raster Delay as just a delay pedal. The Raster is actually more of a Leatherman type multi-tool effect, as it not only has all your standard digital delay needs covered (up to 750 ms and three delay modes for standard,…Click on the title for more

Red Panda Raster Delay

Pedal Reviews: Earthquaker Devices Pitch Bay

One of two new pedals I spotted at NAMM coming from hot boutique manufacturer Earthquaker Devices is on my bench for review. They call it the Pitch Bay Dirty Polyphonic Harmonizer. This pedal is quite simply a three part harmonizer pedal with a preamp that gets just the right amount…Click on the title for more

Pedal Reviews: Earthquaker Devices Pitch Bay

Mixed Boards at the SXSW Stompbox Exhibit 2014

As you probably know, at our Stompbox Exhibits we always have some mixed boards organized by kind of effect - this year Guitar World had also their featured mixed boards. DISTORTION/FUZZ BOARD DELAY BOARD MODULATION BOARD PITCH + OTHER BOARD GUITAR WORLD MIXED BOARDSClick on the title for more

Mixed Boards at the SXSW Stompbox Exhibit 2014

New Pedals at NAMM: EarthQuaker Devices Pitch Bay Polyphonic Harmonizer And Terminal Fuzz

The wizards at EarthQuaker Devices premiered two new pedals at this year’s Winter NAMM: The Pitch Bay Dirty Polyphonic Harmonizer and the Terminal, both of which flaunt simple ideas accentuated by that signature EQD ingenuity. The Pitch Bay includes two harmonizer knobs that function within semi-tone increments up to twelve,…Click on the title for more

New Pedals at NAMM: EarthQuaker Devices Pitch Bay Polyphonic Harmonizer And Terminal Fuzz

At the SNAMM Stompbox Exhibit 2013: Holowon and the Tape Soup

The first Stompbox Exhibit at NAMM is next week (Summer NAMM in Nashville!) and we want to take the opportunity to highlight the various boutique manufacturers who will be participating. Holowon is a small company based in Rochester, NY specializing in hand-built effect pedals. All their designs are 100% originals - no…Click on the title for more

At the SNAMM Stompbox Exhibit 2013: Holowon and the Tape Soup

Guitar Pedal Reviews: Ibanez Echo Shifter

The Ibanez Echo Shifter combines true analog sound quality with digital-like flexibility. It features things like a Tap-Tempo footswitch, Oscillation switch, Feedback control, Modulation, and a Depth control. I found this pedal to be a lot of fun and I really dig the vintage aesthetics. The 3 knobs up top are Feedback (controls the number of repeats), Mix (mixes between wet and dry signal),…Click on the title for more

Guitar Pedal Reviews: Ibanez Echo Shifter