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Jackson Audio Asabi Mateus Asato Signature Modular Distortion/Overdrive

In the traditionally "analog obsessed" niche of dirt box builders, Texas' Jackson Audio is one of the few pedal companies out there that's been pushing that format's envelope in a direction that incorporates digital innovation. The company's latest pedal, called Asabi, is a Mateus Asato signature pedal that features two…Click on the title for more

Jackson Audio Asabi Mateus Asato Signature Modular Distortion/Overdrive

Alexander Pedals Sugarcube Stereo Chorus/Rotary

In our Best Pedals of 2020 year-end summary, we stated that the Stereo/compact case combo was one of the new stompbox trends of the decade, and the Alexander Pedals Sugarcube seems to confirm it. This is the first Stereo pedal in the company's Neo Series, which is in compact case…Click on the title for more

Alexander Pedals Sugarcube Stereo Chorus/Rotary

Jackson Audio Golden Boy Programmable Overdrive

The Jackson Audio Golden Boy is a signature Bluesbreaker clone designed with guitarist Joey Landreth using Jackson Audio's popular Broken Arrow Overdrive (a TS evolution) as a template, including the separate boost footswitch and three-way EQ. Unlike most pedal overdrive, it's fully MIDI controllable. The pedal features a unique 4-preset…Click on the title for more

Jackson Audio Golden Boy Programmable Overdrive

Empress Effects Zoia Modular Multi-Effects Pedal

After its introduction at NAMM 2018, it took Canadian builder Empress Effects more than a year to finalize their noteworthy modular stompbox Zoia, but it was worth the wait: this is a pedal like no other, with truly infinite potential. This page gathers all the news about the Zoia in…Click on the title for more

Empress Effects Zoia Modular Multi-Effects Pedal

Alexander Pedals History Lesson Vol 3 Delay

The Alexander Pedals History Lesson is a deceivingly simple pedal that incorporates three decades of delay with added modulation and Tap Tempo + 3 Subdivisions controllable directly through the left footswitch. With Vol 3 the delay modes increase from three to six (the three new ones are at the bottom…Click on the title for more

Alexander Pedals History Lesson Vol 3 Delay

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