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Mini Pedals

Pigtronix Octava Micro

NYC's Pigtronix was one of the early adopters of the mini-pedal format (the Disnortion Micro dates back to 2014). Since then, the company took a few years off (or at least that's the perception) to focus on the revamping of the recently acquired Supro brand, and finally re-emerged with new models in…Click on the title for more

Pigtronix Octava Micro

MOSKY MP-51 Spring Reverb Mini

$32 - A super affordable, but rather popular, Chinese emulation of the Malekko Omicron Spring.Click on the title for more

MOSKY MP-51 Spring Reverb Mini

Malekko Omicron SPRING Reverb

$140 - The first pedal to offer spring reverb in a mini enclosure. Very low noise, and a near bottomless depth of spring reverb sound due to its dwell circuit.Click on the title for more

Malekko Omicron SPRING Reverb

Tone City Tiny Spring

$60 - One knob, no frills but great sounding analog spring delay pedal.Click on the title for more

Tone City Tiny Spring

New, tiny pedals: Valeton Coral Mod

Guitarists who are looking for a modulation effect that's both super flexible and super tiny should take a hard look at Valeton Effects' Coral Mod, a mini stompbox that packs a surprising amount of options. At the heart of this pedal is a digital design that allows for 16 different modulation types! This baby really…Click on the title for more

New, tiny pedals: Valeton Coral Mod

Ibanez launches three new Mini pedals at NAMM

Ibanez debuted a lot of cool stuff at Namm 2016 this past weekend. In the pedal department, the Japanese manufacturer unveiled what can now be called a Mini series of compact stompboxes. The Mini Tubescreamer has been on the market for a while now, and the company decided to also offer their acclaimed…Click on the title for more

Ibanez launches three new Mini pedals at NAMM

The Cry Baby Mini-Wah was born

The "mini-" trend - inaugurated by visionary comedian Mike Myers in his Austin Power series - is becoming somewhat ubiquitous in the guitar pedal world. At our recent SXSW Stompbox Exhibit we had a chance to check out Dunlop's new Cry Baby Mini Wah, which admittedly inspired cuddly feelings -…Click on the title for more

The Cry Baby Mini-Wah was born

Henretta Engineering square mini pedals

We noticed these Henretta Engineering pedals at Main Drag Music during our Stompbox Exhibit back in October - they weren't part of the show - and we got intrigued by them... These mini stomp boxes are described as simple, small footprint pedals packing a lot of tone into a well designed…Click on the title for more

Henretta Engineering square mini pedals

TWA announces “Space Cadette” compact line of pedals

Compact stompboxes are setting the guitar pedal world's abuzz these days, and after products from Malekko, Mooer, TC Electronic, Barber and a few others, it's now TWA pedals' turn to announce a line of small footprint devices, called "Space Cadette." These new mini effects will be available in the fall…Click on the title for more

TWA announces “Space Cadette” compact line of pedals

Pedal News: Xotic SP Compressor

The new Xotic SP Compressor offers the same OTA (operational trans-conductance amplifier) technology used in what many guitar players consider the best compressor ever, the Ross Compressor. This new SP Compressor reportedly has superb tone quality featuring a wide variety of compressor tones from vintage, to subtle, to modern and…Click on the title for more

Pedal News: Xotic SP Compressor