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Tark Audio Squidink Multi-Octave PLL Fuzz

The Tark Audio Squidink is a multi-octave fuzz pedal made by a new company based in Portland, OR determined to create "products designed to help illuminate unexplored areas of sonic cartography." Sounds intriguing... The fuzz is a classic Fuzz Face-style circuit using low-gain Silicon PNP transistors. The multi-octave section of the…Click on the title for more

Tark Audio Squidink Multi-Octave PLL Fuzz

New Pedal: October Audio F Division Sub Octave Drive

If you are looking to give your guitar sound some extra low-end depth in a synthy kind of way, the October Audio F Division might be what the doctor ordered. It's a device that mixes an overdrive circuit with not one but THREE switchable sub octaves. You got that right,…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: October Audio F Division Sub Octave Drive

AC Noises Urla CMOS Fuzz + Filter

The AC Noise Urla is an uncompromising new stompbox from one of the most interesting pedal companies to emerge as of late. It's an uber-tweakable CMOS fuzz in front of a dual resonant filter, with separate footswitches for each. At a time when most pedal builders seem to jump through…Click on the title for more

AC Noises Urla CMOS Fuzz + Filter

Alexander Pedals Syntax Error 2

We were the first one to take a picture and report about the Alexander Pedals Syntax Error 2 at Summer NAMM 2021, and we now are excited to see the first demo videos of it! Twice as wide as the original, this arcade game-inspired pedal packs a ton of new…Click on the title for more

Alexander Pedals Syntax Error 2

Poly Effects Josh Smith Flat V

Australian builder Poly Effects got us used to devices that challenge established pedal trends (as you can see from the company's previous releases). Their new pedal, the Flat V, was designed in collaboration with Florida's blues guitarist/producer Josh Smith, and it's the weirdest pedal you'll ever see on a blues…Click on the title for more

Poly Effects Josh Smith Flat V

Dreadbox Treminator Tremolo

Greek synth innovators Dreadbox have been expanding their pedal line, and one of their latest release is a dynamic tremolo. Like most of their pedals, the Dreadbox Treminator features CV in and out and VCA control to interface with other pedals and modular synths. Rather than using the classic tremolo…Click on the title for more

Dreadbox Treminator Tremolo

Strymon Nightsky Time Warped Reverberator

Strymon surprised everyone on the evening of September 17 by leaking news of a new pedal to be released... a few hours later during a Facebook Live video! The device in question is the Nightsky Time Warped Reverberator, which looks like a major creative release for the Californian company that…Click on the title for more

Strymon Nightsky Time Warped Reverberator

Dreadbox Disorder Fuzz

The Dreadbox Disorder isn't a new pedal (the video of the original version dates back to 2014), but the Greek company, after focusing for almost a decade on its line of synths, in the early '20s has switched its attention back to stompboxes, triggering new attention to their old designs.…Click on the title for more

Dreadbox Disorder Fuzz

Electro-Harmonix String9

The Electro-Harmonix String9 lends the engine of the company's Synth9 to a string section, transforming your guitar signal into nine different string ensembles and string-like synth sounds, without the need for any extra device - it tracks your signal very efficiently. These are the voices you get, each with two…Click on the title for more

Electro-Harmonix String9

RPS Effects Arcade Machine

PLL-Style pedals have become quite trendy after EarthQuaker Devices came out with their Data Corrupter in 2017, but we haven't seen anything yet quite like the brand new RPS Effects Arcade Machine. With its playful approach inspired by vintage arcade video-games, this colorful pedal re-synthesizes your instrument as a square…Click on the title for more

RPS Effects Arcade Machine

Way Huge Atreides Analog Weirding Module

Way Huge just announced - quite curiously, through the JHS Pedal YouTube channel! - a new, unexpectedly creative pedal called Atreides (after the characters in cult sci-fi movie Dune), with the uber-intriguing subtitle "Analog Weirding Module." The pedal, inspired by the 1980 mini-synthesizer keyboard by Electro-Harmonix, like the original only…Click on the title for more

Way Huge Atreides Analog Weirding Module

Alexander Pedals Superball Kinetic Modulator

We saw the Alexander Pedal Superball at NAMM 2020 and it's now officially out! It's an echo pedal that's as unpredictable as its name. It delays. It pitch shifts. It filters. It modulates. It combines these things, and much more, to make something that has to be heard to be…Click on the title for more

Alexander Pedals Superball Kinetic Modulator