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New Pedals: Darkglass ADAM Distortion (on Guitar)

Our most loyal readers are aware that we don't cover bass pedals in this blog, but some videos are emerging of the Darkglass Electronic ADAM used on guitar, and it sounds very interesting! If you want to have your mind blown, though, you need to check out this pedal's innovative…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Darkglass ADAM Distortion (on Guitar)

New Pedal: Zander Circuitry Duplo Lo-Fi Delay

The Junipero, a Stereo multi-modulation pedal by UK stompbox builder Zander Circuitry, gathered a lot of interest in 2020 for its creative/experimental approach to modulation, carving out a niche for itself in a field of pedals built with a focus on replicating the tone of the best vintage units. With…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Zander Circuitry Duplo Lo-Fi Delay

BOSS EQ-200 Graphic Equalizer

In this popular article (one of the most popular in our blog) we explained how having a graphic EQ pedal in your effect chain can open up a lot of tonal options, in particular when it interacts with your gain stompboxes and amp. The EQ pedal used as an example…Click on the title for more

BOSS EQ-200 Graphic Equalizer

Poly Effect Beebo Multi-FX Pedal

Australian pedal maker Poly Effects has been following a unique path in its full embrace of touchscreens, which have the considerable advantage of easily allowing way more control options than knobs and switches while delivering a more visual and "organized" tweaking experience. The format of their pedals also allows you…Click on the title for more

Poly Effect Beebo Multi-FX Pedal

Electro-Harmonix 1440 Stereo Looper

Picking up where its predecessor, the 720, left off, the Electro-Harmonix 1440 Stereo Looper is a rather affordable Midi enhanced looper that offers 1440 seconds of high-quality, uncompressed, stereo recording time (twice as much as the 720) plus the ability to store 20 different loops. Hosted in a case slightly…Click on the title for more

Electro-Harmonix 1440 Stereo Looper

Hotone Ampero Multi-Effect

The multi-effect pedal Hotone Ampero was announced at Music China 2018 and then unveiled in the US at the NAMM 2019 show. Driven by the company's CDCM HD (Comprehensive Dynamic Circuit Modeling High Definition) and F.I.R.E. (Field Impulse Response Enhancement) systems, the Ampero is a stereo, dual-core modeling digital pedal featuring…Click on the title for more

Hotone Ampero Multi-Effect

BOSS OD-200 Hybrid Drive

Although many guitarists prefer to defer gain-related duties to traditional, "one function" analog stompboxes, the case for multi-mode, digital dirt boxes has become more and more compelling with the advancement of digital and DSP technology in the audio realm. The BOSS OD-200, with its powerful processor and 32-bit/96KHz sampling rate,…Click on the title for more

BOSS OD-200 Hybrid Drive

STOMPBUZZ ALERT! Jackson Audio El Guapo Programmable Distortion

The Jackson Audio El Guapo is available for sale from our favorite indie pedal store The Sound Parcel - buying it there you'll support our site as well! --- The Google searches for this pedal have gone through the roof in the last week, so we'd issue a StompBuzz Alert!…Click on the title for more

STOMPBUZZ ALERT! Jackson Audio El Guapo Programmable Distortion

Alexander Pedals Super Neo-Matic

The Pefftronics Super Rand-O-Matic is a rather unique and semi-obscure pedal that appeared in the early '90s. It used a hybrid analog/digital circuit to produce a very particular modulation sound, described by some as "flange, chorus, doubling, and slapback plus alien blips and even the sound of a Huey chopper."…Click on the title for more

Alexander Pedals Super Neo-Matic

BOSS DD-200 Digital Delay

The first videos of the BOSS DD-200 Digital Delay are surfacing and the feedback is very positive. Operating at 32-bit and 96 kHz sampling rate, this is effect belongs squarely to the next generation of digital pedals, since most digital delays operate at 16-bit / 44,100 Hz. This means a…Click on the title for more

BOSS DD-200 Digital Delay

Poly Digit Multi-Delay/Reverb

Australian Poly Effects has been making a splash with its unique touchscreen-based guitar pedals and at NAMM 2020 introduced a new one, called Digit, (Loki Davidson came to our NAMM Stompbox Booth to shoot a video of it, at the bottom of this post). The touchscreen, of course, opens up…Click on the title for more

Poly Digit Multi-Delay/Reverb

Neunaber Neuron Gain Intelligence

We covered the prototype of the Neunaber Neuron extensively in this post. The Neuron is the result of a painstaking study of what makes real amplifiers and gain pedals sound good. It can dial in a variety of amp-like sounds ranging from chimey cleans to the dirtiest dirt. It is essentially a…Click on the title for more

Neunaber Neuron Gain Intelligence