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Old Blood Noise Sunlight Dynamic Reverb

If creative reverbs with intriguing momentary effects are your kind of thing, you should take a look at the new pedal by Old Blood Noise, the Sunlight Dynamic Reverb. The Sunlight doesn't do "regular" reverb. Its three reverb algorithms are unique and each has the ability to react dynamically to…Click on the title for more

Old Blood Noise Sunlight Dynamic Reverb

Walrus Audio Ages Five-State Overdrive

Walrus Audio just unveiled a new, multi-mode Overdrive called Ages. The pedal offers a rather simple knob layout, with knobs for Volume + Gain, Bass + Treble, and a Dry control to reintegrate some of the clean signal. But the heart of this pedal is the Mode knob which discloses the…Click on the title for more

Walrus Audio Ages Five-State Overdrive

JHS Pedals PG-14 Paul Gilbert Signature Distortion

Here's a new signature distortion pedal by JHS just in time for NAMM 2020. The JHS Pedals PG-14 features a FET engine and an active mid-frequency preamp placed in front of it, offering a parametric mids section - just like in the studio consoles. The circuit was engineered in close collaboration…Click on the title for more

JHS Pedals PG-14 Paul Gilbert Signature Distortion

Mattoverse Inflection Point Tremolo/Vibrato

We profiled Mattoverse Electronics some time ago in this article, and since then the small Wisconsin manufacturer has added a bunch of really interesting designs to its line. The builder's latest stompbox is an update to their Inflection Point multi-wave tremolo/vibrato pedal with tap tempo and clock input - the new…Click on the title for more

Mattoverse Inflection Point Tremolo/Vibrato

Old Blood Noise Black Fountain V3 Delay

The Old Blood Noise Black Fountain is a delay that emulates vintage echo devices based on the short-lived but full of character "oil can" technology from the '50s, a Ry Cooder's favorite. In this pedal, the Fluid control adds those devices' typical dark modulation on the repeats, originally generated by…Click on the title for more

Old Blood Noise Black Fountain V3 Delay

Veri-Tone Azzurro Tube Preamp

Fans of Eric Clapton's tone with the Blues Breakers (a band from the '60s headed by John Mayall), might be familiar with the term "Beano Tone," a warm yet edgy sound that became the signature of those records. If you are wondering what amp Clapton used with that band, you…Click on the title for more

Veri-Tone Azzurro Tube Preamp

Flower Pedals Poppy Dual Boost

Sometimes simple yet innovative ideas are the best ones we come up with, and Flower Pedals' Poppy seems to belong to that category: it's a dual boost with separate in/outs for each channel, so that you can insert the two circuits anywhere you want in your pedal chain. If you…Click on the title for more

Flower Pedals Poppy Dual Boost

Idiotbox Effects Mad Doctor Deluxe Tremolo

The Idiotbox Effects Mad Doctor Deluxe is a tremolo pedal with 8 LFO modes, including some "out there" ones that borderline on glitchy/stutter: ramp up, ramp down, square pulse, triangle, sine, sweep, random levels and random slope. This pedal can create some interesting textures, and it's Tap-Tempo enabled. Check out…Click on the title for more

Idiotbox Effects Mad Doctor Deluxe Tremolo

Pecan Audio Edera Stereo Distortion

Stereo is slowly but surely becoming the standard in the stompbox realm, and even though, for obvious reason, this trend began with time-based and modulation effects, it's now expanding to dirt boxes - coincidentally, we blogged earlier this week about the first stereo pedal guitar amp. One of the big…Click on the title for more

Pecan Audio Edera Stereo Distortion

New Pedals: Anarchy Audio Aftermath Modulation Obliterator

While reverb and delay pedals have been the favorite effects of creative guitarists since the psychedelic '60s, the trend of creative modulation pedals is rather new. Australian pedal builder Anarchy Audio just released their take on this effect niche, and - as one may expect from their name - it's…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Anarchy Audio Aftermath Modulation Obliterator

CKK Infinite Reverb Stereo

While compiling this list of the Best Stereo Reverb Pedals, we've been researching that pedal niche in depth, and totally missed this stompbox by CKK Electronics (we added it now!) - the Infinite Reverb. CKK is a Chinese company whose pedals have been slowly getting more and more attention, in…Click on the title for more

CKK Infinite Reverb Stereo

New Pedals: Mr. Black Analog Chorus/Vibrato Deluxe

The Mr. Black Analog Chorus/Vibrato Deluxe is an expansion of their limited edition, three-knob Analog Chrorus/Vibrato featuring Tap Tempo and extra controls Shine and Lag, for a wide variety of tonal possibilities. The effect's incredible clarity might make you think it's digital, but, as its name underlines, it's not. The…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Mr. Black Analog Chorus/Vibrato Deluxe