Meris Enzo Is The Best Pedal Of 2018 (according To The Internet)

Updated Jan. 26, 2019 | by Paolo De Gregorio

As usual, the Winter NAMM show unleashed on us a tsunami of new pedals (see our coverage here and here).

However, we shouldn’t miss the opportunity given to us by the first month of 2019 to see what devices stood out from the crowd during the previous twelve months.

Since Delicious Audio is an aggregator of pedal news and doesn’t do reviews, our “Best Stompboxes of 2018″ chart is an aggregate of lists compiled by other pedal-focused webzines, videographers and publications. Up to this point, this is the list of relevant year end list we found: Reverb.com, The Pedal Zone, Dennis Kayzer, BestGuitarEffects.com, Popular Mechanics, Pedals and Effects, JHS Pedals, Thomann and Vintage King. Our aggregate chart is based on them.

Some of these lists (like the Pedal Zone’s one) assigned a specific “chart position” to each effect, while others (like the JHS one) just mentioned a list of devices in no particular order. To add these results up, we decided to assign a value of 10 to any pedal that was given the #1 spot. Second places generated a 9 point value, third places 8 points and so on. Pedals beyond the 9th position got just 1 point. Lists that didn’t specify an order generated 5 points for each pedal included.

Here are the results!