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Vongon Ultrasheer Stereo Reverb + Vibrato

Oakland's one-man pedal builder Vongon hand-builds elegant-looking guitar pedals with a creative angle. Inspired by the early digital studio effects units of the late 1970’s, the Ultrasheer is a stereo reverb and pitch vibrato with trails and separate footswitches for each effect. Two toggle switches trigger random LFO for the…Click on the title for more

Vongon Ultrasheer Stereo Reverb + Vibrato

All-Pedal Macrodose Envelope Filter

Looking like a cover of a collaborative album from the late '60s by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Funkadelic, and Jimi Hendrix, the All-Pedal Macrodose is a striking attempt at delivering the ultimate envelope filter pedal. This device can produce auto-wah with selectable waveforms, sample/hold functions, step filter, random sample/hold,…Click on the title for more

All-Pedal Macrodose Envelope Filter

Nobels ODR-1 and ODR Mini

German pedal manufacturer Nobels has been in the game for a while, slowly building a cultish following. If you’re not familiar with this company, suffice to say it builds one of the best-kept secrets in the overdrive realm: the Nobels ODR-1 (now also available in Mini version). The stompbox's acid…Click on the title for more

Nobels ODR-1 and ODR Mini

New Pedal: Collision Devices TARS DLX Dual Fuzz + Filter

A dual-channel, improved version of the French company's fuzz + filter pedal, the Collision Devices TARS DLX is a (so far) limited edition that's bound to excite the noise seekers out there. The first 100 units sold out in an instant, but there are more on the way. Fuzz and…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Collision Devices TARS DLX Dual Fuzz + Filter

Mask Audio Electronics MAYBE? Fuzz

A marriage of the company's two fuzz circuits named Yes and No, the appropriately named Maybe? is a super-tweakable dual fuzz. Each side can be played independently or stacked on top of the other. Judging from the builder's words, the destiny of this union is doomed to be destructive, at…Click on the title for more

Mask Audio Electronics MAYBE? Fuzz

Walrus Audio Mako D1 MkII

Released in 2020, the D1 was Walrus Audio's first Mako pedal, a compact, Stereo in/out, multi-function delay with five, studio-grade, high-fidelity, custom-tuned programs. The company's D1 MkII ups the ante with sonic enhancements, new features and an LED screen for easier setting navigation. The main new feature is the ability…Click on the title for more

Walrus Audio Mako D1 MkII

Vahlbruch Kaluna II Tube Overdrive

German pedal builder Vahlbruch has just unveiled an update to their tube overdrive, the Kaluna II, a high voltage original circuit operating at 250v, and featuring an ECC83/12AX7 tube. The tube requires a little 30-second warm-up, during which the status LED will flash while the pedal remains in bypass mode.…Click on the title for more

Vahlbruch Kaluna II Tube Overdrive

New Pedal: Keeley Rotary (Stereo)

This Keeley Rotary pedal is a stereo, limited edition emulation of the Leslie cabinet effect, sold exclusively through the manufacturer's website. Although the company released a few other effects of this kind in the past, it claims the Rotary is based on a new circuit particularly effective in delivering the…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Keeley Rotary (Stereo)

New Pedal: TomKat Super Heavy Reverb

We are happy to learn that our ex-fellow NYC citizen Tom of TomKat pedals is still churning out pedals, since this new Super Heavy stompbox appears to be his first release in five years. Alas, at first glance, it looks and sounds like something that would take a long time…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: TomKat Super Heavy Reverb

Universal Audio UAFX Knuckles Rev F Double Rectifier

With the Knuckles '92, Universal Audio continues its series of stereo, amp-inspired stompboxes (part of the broader UAFX line) with what has now become a signature format blending a compact footprint with a noteworthy amount of tweakability. The guitar amp subject to pedal cloning (or sound snatching!) is the venerable…Click on the title for more

Universal Audio UAFX Knuckles Rev F Double Rectifier

Chase Bliss Clean Stereo Compressor

Can what's arguably the most creative pedal maker of this decade make the most boring effect ever exciting? Enter the Chase Bliss Clean and find out. Clean is a studio-grade, two-stage stereo analog compressor with an out-of-the-box approach that - to quote the builder - "brings the interactivity of distortion…Click on the title for more

Chase Bliss Clean Stereo Compressor

Strymon Mobius Multi-Modulation Pedal

Strymon is a company that focuses heavily on... getting it right. They use powerful DSP processing to create pedals that echo and sometimes surpass the most fabulous designs of the past, but with a modern spin of course. I reviewed the TimeLine a while back and gave an extremely detailed…Click on the title for more

Strymon Mobius Multi-Modulation Pedal