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Eventide Tricerachorus Pedal Stereo Chorus

On Saturday, October 2nd at our LA Stompbox Exhibit, Eventide unveiled a new member of its new family of stereo pedals inspired by their established line of pro audio plugins: the Tricerachorus. The pedal's algorithm will tempt guitarists interested in genres originating from the '80s (shoegazers in particular) and in…... Click for more

Eventide Tricerachorus Pedal Stereo Chorus

Jackson Audio Golden Boy Programmable Overdrive

The Jackson Audio Golden Boy is a signature Bluesbreaker clone designed with guitarist Joey Landreth using Jackson Audio's popular Broken Arrow Overdrive (a TS evolution) as a template, including the separate boost footswitch and three-way EQ. Unlike most pedal overdrive, it's fully MIDI controllable. The pedal features a unique 4-preset…... Click for more

Jackson Audio Golden Boy Programmable Overdrive

Alexander Pedals History Lesson Vol 3 Delay

The Alexander Pedals History Lesson is a deceivingly simple pedal that incorporates three decades of delay with added modulation and Tap Tempo + 3 Subdivisions controllable directly through the left footswitch. With Vol 3 the delay modes increase from three to six (the three new ones are at the bottom…... Click for more

Alexander Pedals History Lesson Vol 3 Delay

New Pedals: Darkglass ADAM Distortion (on Guitar)

Our most loyal readers are aware that we don't cover bass pedals in this blog, but some videos are emerging of the Darkglass Electronic ADAM used on guitar, and it sounds very interesting! If you want to have your mind blown, though, you need to check out this pedal's innovative…... Click for more

New Pedals: Darkglass ADAM Distortion (on Guitar)

BOSS EQ-200 Graphic Equalizer

In this popular article (one of the most popular in our blog) we explained how having a graphic EQ pedal in your effect chain can open up a lot of tonal options, in particular when it interacts with your gain stompboxes and amp. The EQ pedal used as an example…... Click for more

BOSS EQ-200 Graphic Equalizer

Electro-Harmonix Oceans 12 Dual Stereo Reverb

Electro-Harmonix showcased a few prototypes at NAMM 2020 and the Oceans 12 Dual Stereo Reverb is probably the most exciting of the bunch. It's a stereo digital reverb with presets that take the Ocean 11 one step further (hence the name) by adding an extra reverb engine. The two reverbs…... Click for more

Electro-Harmonix Oceans 12 Dual Stereo Reverb

BOSS OD-200 Hybrid Drive

Although many guitarists prefer to defer gain-related duties to traditional, "one function" analog stompboxes, the case for multi-mode, digital dirt boxes has become more and more compelling with the advancement of digital and DSP technology in the audio realm. The BOSS OD-200, with its powerful processor and 32-bit/96KHz sampling rate,…... Click for more

BOSS OD-200 Hybrid Drive

STOMPBUZZ ALERT! Jackson Audio El Guapo Programmable Distortion

The Jackson Audio El Guapo is available for sale from our favorite indie pedal store The Sound Parcel - buying it there you'll support our site as well! --- The Google searches for this pedal have gone through the roof in the last week, so we'd issue a StompBuzz Alert!…... Click for more

STOMPBUZZ ALERT! Jackson Audio El Guapo Programmable Distortion

Alexander Pedals Super Neo-Matic

The Pefftronics Super Rand-O-Matic is a rather unique and semi-obscure pedal that appeared in the early '90s. It used a hybrid analog/digital circuit to produce a very particular modulation sound, described by some as "flange, chorus, doubling, and slapback plus alien blips and even the sound of a Huey chopper."…... Click for more

Alexander Pedals Super Neo-Matic

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 for more

MOOER A7 Ambiance

Poly Digit Multi-Delay/Reverb

Australian Poly Effects has been making a splash with its unique touchscreen-based guitar pedals and at NAMM 2020 introduced a new one, called Digit, (Loki Davidson came to our NAMM Stompbox Booth to shoot a video of it, at the bottom of this post). The touchscreen, of course, opens up…... Click for more

Poly Digit Multi-Delay/Reverb

Neunaber Neuron Gain Intelligence

We covered the prototype of the Neunaber Neuron extensively in this post. The Neuron is the result of a painstaking study of what makes real amplifiers and gain pedals sound good. It can dial in a variety of amp-like sounds ranging from chimey cleans to the dirtiest dirt. It is essentially a…... Click for more

Neunaber Neuron Gain Intelligence