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Friedman IR-D Tube Preamp

For the uninitiated, in the world of guitar amplifiers, preamps are perhaps the most important section in an amp, because that's where most of the tone is crafted. The Friedman IR-D is a two-channel tube preamp by a US company that built its reputation as an amp manufacturer, and represents…Click on the title for more

Friedman IR-D Tube Preamp

Strymon Zelzah Stereo Dual Phaser

Strymon has become such a dominant force in the realm of guitar pedals that each of their new releases is met with instant hype. The California-based company just unveiled the (very purple) Zelzah, a multi-dimensional stereo phaser with 4 and 6 stage options that can be also played at once…Click on the title for more

Strymon Zelzah Stereo Dual Phaser

Endorphines Ghost Multi-Dimensional FX

To further remind us that pedals are a modular format just like Eurorack, the Endorphines Ghost is a rare example of a synth company venturing into the stompbox format (there are plenty of reversed cases including EQD, Strymon, and Empress Effects, just to mention a few). While the original Ghost…Click on the title for more

Endorphines Ghost Multi-Dimensional FX

Red Panda Bitmap 2 Stereo Bitcrusher

Among the (not easy to navigate) content of Believe in Music 2021, we somehow missed that Detroit's experimental pedal maker Red Panda had released version 2 of their Bitmap, a Stereo bit crusher with fractional bit reduction and sample rate modulation. The new version features one extra footswitch, an entirely…Click on the title for more

Red Panda Bitmap 2 Stereo Bitcrusher

Walrus Audio Monumental Stereo Tremolo

The Walrus Audio Monumental Stereo Tremolo builds on its predecessor's warm tones while offering additional controls and features to enhance the sonic experience for musicians across all genres. Inspired by the rugged beauty of Monument Valley, the Monumental retains the qualities that made the original mono version so popular while…Click on the title for more

Walrus Audio Monumental Stereo Tremolo

New Pedal: Subdecay Noise Theory Fuzz

From a veteran boutique pedal manufacturer that built its name on tweakability comes one of the most feature-rich and unique fuzz pedals on the market: the Subdecay Noise Theory. Presented as a "Parallel Waveshaper Fuzz," the noise theory combines an analog and a digital fuzz circuit placed in parallel, and…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Subdecay Noise Theory Fuzz

BOSS DM-101 Delay

Leveraging eight analog but digitally controlled 2048-stage BBD chips, the BOSS DM-101 is a modern delay pedal that confirms a few new trends in the "big-name" stompbox industry, such as the takeover of stereo and presets, but also a more granular approach to multi-mode devices: where the pedals of yesteryear…Click on the title for more

BOSS DM-101 Delay

BOSS SY-200 Synth Pedal

The BOSS 200 series welcomes another member to its growing family, the SY-200, a rather compact yet fully-featured latency-free synth pedal built on the successful polyphonic circuit of its little sibling SY-1, offering an expanded sound set, more tone-shaping possibilities, 128 memories for storing your presets, and two footswitches for…Click on the title for more

BOSS SY-200 Synth Pedal

Eventide H90 Stereo Multi-FX

The highly anticipated new Eventide upgrade to the popular H9 Multi-FX harmonizer is finally out: it's the H90. The most important detail about the H90 is that it can run two H9 effects at once. Another obvious and important upgrade is the number of hardware controls: five knobs vs 1…Click on the title for more

Eventide H90 Stereo Multi-FX

Neunaber Illumine Stereo Multi-Reverb

Californian company Neunaber built its reputation through the sound of their lush reverb pedals, gaining a certain amount of buzz in particular for their shimmer algorithms. Today they announced their new reverb pedal, ILLUMINE, a mid-size, stereo, multi-mode device with remarkably few knobs (two). The ILLUMINE offers 17 reverb modes…Click on the title for more

Neunaber Illumine Stereo Multi-Reverb

Updated Pedal: EarthQuaker Spatial Delivery V3

A pedal that spans the spectrum of vintage funky or spaced-out and weird filtered tones, the EarthQuaker Spatial Delivery V3 is a vocaloid-sounding envelope filter with Range, Resonance, and Filter controls. v3 adds to it a 6-preset system and an assignable expression pedal input. The Resonance control affects both the…Click on the title for more

Updated Pedal: EarthQuaker Spatial Delivery V3

Flowers Pedals Dahila Dual/Stereo Analog Delay

It may looking rather unassuming, but the Flowers Pedals Dahila is an extremely powerful dual BBD-based modulated delay delivering up to 820ms of (digitally controlled) analog delay per channel. The amount of functionality is truly impressive, and, as far as we know, this is the first analog stereo delay pedal…Click on the title for more

Flowers Pedals Dahila Dual/Stereo Analog Delay