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MOOER A7 Ambiance

At a time when the mini-pedal mania seems a little long in the tooth, we are happy to report that the company that the Chinese started this trend, MOOER, is still churning out very increasingly tempting mini-pedals. The Mooer A7 Ambiance is a new addition to the Chinese company's New…Click on the title for more

MOOER A7 Ambiance

New Pedal: Foxgear XYZ Waves Multi-Modulation Hub

Italian company Foxgear unveiled a new, compact multi-modulation pedal with an analog path, the XYZ Waves. Rather than offering "pure" modulation tones you can find in many other pedals, the XYZ Waves sports five modes with a more creative/ambient angle, with reverb added to four of them: 1 - Room…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Foxgear XYZ Waves Multi-Modulation Hub

Champion Leccy & Zander Circuitry The Brew

A boutique, limited-edition, cross-Atlantic collaboration between Pennsylvania's Champion Leccy and England's Zander Circuitry, The Brew is a fuzz pedal full of different flavors. The pedal consists of the marriage of two existing circuits, one by each builder, each featuring its own footswitch. The Zander side on the right is a…Click on the title for more

Champion Leccy & Zander Circuitry The Brew

Aura Amps Crunch Master V2 Distortion

Aura Amps is a Brasilian company that manufactures amps and pedals. The Crunch Master is a mid to high-gain distortion box with an added, separate boost circuit placed post-distortion, so it won't add to the saturation when active. It delivers smooth high gain tones perfect for rocking out. The newly released V2…Click on the title for more

Aura Amps Crunch Master V2 Distortion

NativeAudio Wilderness V1.5 Delay + Modulation

The Wilderness delay is the latest creation by Dayton, Ohio's NativeAudio, a company that house found its voice in offering sophisticated yet simple looking analog and digital pedals decorated with stilish graphics inspired by owner Mike Trombley’s Blackfeet Native American ancestry. The Wilderness offers 1,000ms of delay and two modulation…Click on the title for more

NativeAudio Wilderness V1.5 Delay + Modulation

Electronic Audio Experiments Halberd Overdrive

Boston's Electronic Audio Experiments just unveiled a new flexible Overdrive called Halberd, in the words of the builder "a discrete transistor overdrive circuit designed for the greatest possible dynamic range and note clarity." Not to be filed under the "transparent ods", and based on a circuit blending silicon and germanium…Click on the title for more

Electronic Audio Experiments Halberd Overdrive

Fender Bubbler Two Speed Stereo Chorus

For Fender, NAMM 2019 was the year of modulation pedals: they unveiled three of them, all sharing a few features with each other. Designed together with Bruce Egnater, the Bubbler is a Stereo chorus that applies a quirk found on rotary effects to chorus through the introduction of two separate, "footswitchable"…Click on the title for more

Fender Bubbler Two Speed Stereo Chorus

Seymour Duncan Polaron Phaser

Seymour Duncan just put out a multi-mode phaser pedal called Polaron that features a selectable number of stages, from two to 16. The signal path is fully analog but controlled digitally. The pedal can work as a regular modulation pedal (with tap tempo footswitch controlling the cycle's speed) or like…Click on the title for more

Seymour Duncan Polaron Phaser

Engl Amplifiers Fuzzyhead

Engl continues to supplement its line of amplifiers with stompboxes that offer players versatility in sound. The Engl Amplifiers Fuzzyhead Fuzzyhead Custom Pedal is the latest addition to the lineup, and it has a lot of bite to it for sure. This ferocious little stompbox has the traditional gain and…Click on the title for more

Engl Amplifiers Fuzzyhead

The 8 Best Stereo Pedals in 2021 – according to The Pedal Zone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L09mWdyoD54 The 8 Best Stereo Pedals, video by The Pedal Zone. See also our other articles about Stereo pedals: Best Stereo Reverbs, Best Stereo Modulation Pedals, Best Stereo Chorus Pedals. --- The statement "music in Stereo sounds much better than in Mono" is one of the few absolute truths we…Click on the title for more

The 8 Best Stereo Pedals in 2021 – according to The Pedal Zone

True North Tweed Drive

Jay Leonard J is running a series on Canadian pedals this week, and since in 2018 we officially moved to Canada (to be precise, Montreal!) we want to praise this effort by giving it some exposure. The "all Canadian rig" he's put together is comprised in most part by pedal…Click on the title for more

True North Tweed Drive

MAS Effects Mimir’s Well

"Many of your favorite pedals have nearly identical circuitry, with the only important difference being the patches running on their FV-1 audio DSPs (digital signal processors). This creates a neat little niche in the market for something like this." This premise, found on the MAS Effects Mimir's Well's presentation page,…Click on the title for more

MAS Effects Mimir’s Well