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Adventure Audio unveils the Outer Rings Ring Mod

If there's one effect that pre-dated the current "glitch pedal" mania, that is, without a doubt, the ring modulator, an effect that sounds wrong, that sounds weird - that sounds like the music your parents don't understand, therefore, wonderful. Adventurous upstate New York effect designer Adventure Audio just unveiled a new…Click on the title for more

Adventure Audio unveils the Outer Rings Ring Mod

JHS Pedals Unicorn V2

JHS updates their classic take on the tap tempo enhanced Uni-Vibe with the Unicorn V2. Check out the video by Living Room Gear Demos. P.S. We added this pedal to our comprehensive list of Uni-Vibe clones and evolutions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b53MMogISXU The Unicorn V1 ws the world's first bulb-driven photocell modulator with…Click on the title for more

JHS Pedals Unicorn V2

BBD (Bucket Brigade Device) Chips: The Magic Behind Analog Delay Pedals

The MN3205 BBD chip in an original Ibanez AD9 Analog Delay pedal. (Photo: Christopher Scapelliti) Guitarists have been treated to a wealth of innovations in the world of delay effects. Originally, echo and other time-based effects could be created only by mechanical means. Analog tape devices, like the 1960s Maestro…Click on the title for more

BBD (Bucket Brigade Device) Chips: The Magic Behind Analog Delay Pedals

Line 6 Introduces HX Effects Multi-Effects Guitar Pedal

Line 6 has been earning raves for its award-winning Helix hardware and software effect processors. The Helix products use Line 6’s latest modeling technology to produce accurate recreations of desirable vintage and modern gear, including amps, cabinets, mics and effect pedals. Now the company has made it easy to integrate…Click on the title for more

Line 6 Introduces HX Effects Multi-Effects Guitar Pedal

New at NAMM: Lightning Boy Audio NuVision Overdrive

Taking part in our very own Stompbox Booth, upstate New York builder Lightning Boy Audio will take the opportunity of the NAMM 2018 show to debut a new overdrive pedal called NuVision. Lightning Boy specializes in tube powered designs, and this stompbox is no exception, since it's built around a circuit…Click on the title for more

New at NAMM: Lightning Boy Audio NuVision Overdrive

Pladask Elektrisk/BandOrg FORM Multi-Effect DIY Pedal

FORM is a collaborative multi-effect pedal in a DIY kit created by Norwegian companies Pladask Elektrisk and BandOrg. I t features 8 separate effects (Ring Modulator, Random Vibrato, Tape Delay Simulator, Texture Reverb, Octave Generator Delay, Reverse Delay, Grain Shuffler and Granular Time Stretch). The two companies are organizing three DIY…Click on the title for more

Pladask Elektrisk/BandOrg FORM Multi-Effect DIY Pedal

It takes more than nerve to call your company Gamechanger Audio. You also need groundbreaking ideas to live up to the name. Since launching in November 2015, Latvian company Gamechanger Audio has shown that it has what it takes. The company’s debut product was the Plus Pedal. Introduced at NAMM…Click on the title for more

Pedal Builder Profile: Gamechanger Audio

Paradox Effects Terran Overdrive with Parametric EQ

Here's a really interesting overdrive we shot at our NAMM Stompbox Booth, the Terran Overdrive by Mexican manufacturer Paradox Effects! Terran is a mid/high gain overdrive with a resonant parametric equalizer, inspired by the legendary V4 Amplifier. The purpose of this pedal, is not only to deliver a sculpted tone, precise…Click on the title for more

Paradox Effects Terran Overdrive with Parametric EQ

Epigaze Audio Ascension Reverb

"Driven by the love for simplicity, rock and roll, and all things cosmic," Milwaukee's Epigaze Audio has been focusing on gain and utility pedals since 2013. At NAMM 2018 they introduced their first reverb, called Ascension and scheduled for a spring 2018 release. This is a unique stompbox with three different…Click on the title for more

Epigaze Audio Ascension Reverb

Cusack Music’s unveils a Digital Reverb Prototype at NAMM

Here's a video we shot in our NAMM 2018 Stompbox Booth of a new dual digital reverb prototype by Cusack Music! Discover more new devices in our comprehensive, interactive page of new pedals announced at NAMM 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqAtTDjc7sw&feature=youtu.beClick on the title for more

Cusack Music’s unveils a Digital Reverb Prototype at NAMM

Cooper FX Moment Machine

Pitch shifting is one of those effects that, when used in non-subtle ways, can open up a wide palette of creative possibilities, which seems to be the precise mission behind the effect circuits of stompbox maker Cooper FX. The company new pedal "Moment Machine" was recently unveiled through a video by…Click on the title for more

Cooper FX Moment Machine

Joel Korte’s demo of the Chase Bliss Audio Condor EQ at NAMM 2018

Joel from Chase Bliss Audio came in person to our NAMM 2018 Stompbox Booth to tell us a few things about his company's new EQ pedal, the Condor. Discover more new devices in our comprehensive, interactive page of new pedals announced at NAMM 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uDUnafaKq8&feature=youtu.be Condor™ is an analog multi-effect…Click on the title for more

Joel Korte’s demo of the Chase Bliss Audio Condor EQ at NAMM 2018