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New Pedal: Anasounds Dystopia Modulated Delay

The Anasounds Dystopia is a delay pedal for adventurous musicians who enjoy pushing their gear beyond its conventional use: as suggested by its name, it can transform your guitar into a noisy, unconventional tool, while pushing sonic boundaries and venturing into noise territory when pushed to the extreme. A limited…... Click for more

New Pedal: Anasounds Dystopia Modulated Delay

Bleak District Electric Tapescape

As apparent from our article about the best tape echo pedals on the market, the character imparted by magnetic tape to the sounds recorded on it has been inspiring more than one effect builder, and the Bleak District Electric Tapescape is an interesting new entry in this niche. The peculiar…... Click for more

Bleak District Electric Tapescape

New Pedal: Maneco Labs 4AD

The name "4AD" might mean nothing for the 20 to 30-year-olds among you reading this, but it's bound to bring back fond memories to anyone who was exploring goth and then alternative music between the early eighties and the early nineties: it's the name of a UK label that launched…... Click for more

New Pedal: Maneco Labs 4AD

Walrus Audio Slöer Stereo Ambient Reverb

The Walrus Audio Slöer is the third evolution of the Slö pedal, a compact, mono reverb designed to deliver a textural, rather than realistic, effect ideal for music with ambient and droney inclinations. It was such a resounding success, that the Oklahoma-based company soon followed it up with a version…... Click for more

Walrus Audio Slöer Stereo Ambient Reverb

Red Panda Raster 2 Delay

The ingenious folks at Red Panda released a new version of their flagship pitch-shifting delay Raster at Summer NAMM 2021 and it looks... intense! Compared to the original, at first sight, we can see a slew of new knobs and toggle switches, while the press release highlights invisible new features…... Click for more

Red Panda Raster 2 Delay

New Pedal: Rainger FX Dr. Freakenstein Chop Fuzzz

The Rainger FX Dr. Freakenstein Chop Fuzzz (with three zs) belongs to a family of appropriately monstrous fuzz devices built by London-based mad pedal scientist David Rainger. One of those was the Chop Fuzz with just two zs, the predecessor of the Chop Fuzzz, which is a rather deep, still…... Click for more

New Pedal: Rainger FX Dr. Freakenstein Chop Fuzzz

Alexander Pedals Dynaflanger Model 213

The Alexander Pedals Dynaflanger (shiopping in December 2023 but available for preorder) adds to the company's growing Leap series of compact but highly flexible effects pedals a device that's a homage to flanger. Employing a powerful DSP, the Dynaflanger could be seen as a flanger encyclopedia in a box, featurings…... Click for more

Alexander Pedals Dynaflanger Model 213

Shift-Line Everest II Reverb + Delay

Shift-Line is a well-respected pedal manufacturer out of Russia which just released a fully analog Stereo take on their multi-mode delay+reverb combo, the mono Everest M. This new design inherits the name of the original, but earns a "2" as in the two channels of Stereo: enter the Shift-Line Everest…... Click for more

Shift-Line Everest II Reverb + Delay

LCO Industries Ours & Hours Lo-Fi Reverb

The LCO Industries Ours & Hours is an intriguing take on the lo-fi reverb by an emerging pedal builder based in Aberdeen, MD. Presented as a lo-fi reverb calculator, this device gives you a variety of reverb (and delay) effects, from the traditional to the adventurious, with just five knobs and…... Click for more

LCO Industries Ours & Hours Lo-Fi Reverb

Dr. Scientist Sunny Day Delay V2

The Dr. Scientist Sunny Day Delay is a compact update of the Canadian builder's analog-voiced (but actually based on the PT2399 chip) modulated delay design, whose original version, dating back to 2005, was almost twice as big. Built using almost exactly the same parts as the original (according to GuitarPedalX),…... Click for more

Dr. Scientist Sunny Day Delay V2

New Pedal: BOSS SDE-3000D and SDE-3000EVH Dual Digital Delay

The new BOSS SDE-3000D and the slightly more expensive SDE-3000EVH are stereo stompbox recreations of the vintage (and mono) Roland SDE-3000 rack unit from 1983 - actually, of a pair of them, since each unit offers two delay channels. The latter (pictured below) also offers 8 exact settings from Eddie…... Click for more

New Pedal: BOSS SDE-3000D and SDE-3000EVH Dual Digital Delay

New Pedal: Fuzzrocious Tyrannochorus Fuzz + Chorus

If, at first sight, you thought that the Fuzzrocious Tyrannochorus was a traditional four-knob chorus pedal, welcome to the club. This device is actually a fuzz embedded in a chorus circuit, or, to use the words of the NJ-based builder, a "chorus with gated fuzz in wet loop." That means…... Click for more

New Pedal: Fuzzrocious Tyrannochorus Fuzz + Chorus