New Pedals: Electronic Audio Experiments Halberd V2

Massachusetts' Electronic Audio Experiments unveiled V2 of its Halberd overdrive, an original circuit presented as "a medium-gain device with the harmonic fullness and grind of a much higher-gain pedal." Version 2 comes in a compact enclosure (about 2/3rds the size of V1) and features a redesigned circuit that ditches the…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Electronic Audio Experiments Halberd V2

New Pedal: Carl Martin Ottawa Optical Envelope Filter

Denmark's veteran boutique pedal builder Carl Martin released Ottawa, a 3-mode envelop filter powered by an optical circuit. A redesign of the company's previous auto-wah, the Ottawa offers deep control over the filters affected frequencies not only through the three-way filter toggle (High-Pass, By-Pass and Low Pass), but also through…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Carl Martin Ottawa Optical Envelope Filter

New Pedals: Geckoplex EP5 Delay/Reverb

The Echoplex tape delay machine has inspired a lot of echo pedals - as a matter of fact, most of the ones included in our guide to the best tape-style delays on the market. The Geckoplex EP5 by Eugene, OR's Gecko Pedals, is a high-end reinterpretation of that circuit, with…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Geckoplex EP5 Delay/Reverb

New Pedal: Donner White Tape Stereo Dual Echo

Chinese builder Donner has made a name for itself for its super affordable, no-frills guitar pedals, but a few recent releases seem to show a little more ambition - including art on the case! Their new White Tape stereo echo belongs to this new series and, in case you are…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Donner White Tape Stereo Dual Echo

Flattley Solaris Pro Fuzz

This rather gorgeous-looking high-end Big Muff-style fuzz with extra boost footswitch comes from Gloucester, UK's Flatley Pedals, and it's called Solaris Pro. The pedal shares the controls of its muse, but with a lot more gain added to the Sustain knob, so that the amount of distortion can be easily…Click on the title for more

Flattley Solaris Pro Fuzz

Win Hologram Microcosm, Modal Disruption + Hosa Cables! [ENDED]

Every now and then a pedal comes along that disrupts guitarists' minds (and finances). Well, to celebrate the return of our Los Angeles Synth & Pedal Expo (hosted this year in an outdoor environment), we are giving away TWO of them, the Hologram Microcosm (probably the most hyped new pedal right…Click on the title for more

Win Hologram Microcosm, Modal Disruption + Hosa Cables! [ENDED]

New Pedal: Intensive Care Audio Vena Cava Filter

With a name chosen before the COVID pandemic hit humanity, London's Intensive Care Audio intended to cure electric guitarists from life-threatening tone-related diseases. Their Vena Cava Filter is presented as "a distortion with an auto-filter and ring modulation used for the treatment of Bland Guitar Syndrome and Excessive Aural Dryness.…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Intensive Care Audio Vena Cava Filter

Jackson Audio Bloom V2 Compressor/EQ

In the last couple of years, innovation in the pedal realm has been mostly about fitting in a compact enclosure what in previous years would fit in larger cases. However, a handful of companies went beyond that goal, and Houston's Jackson Audio belongs to that shortlist. Their Bloom v2 can…Click on the title for more

Jackson Audio Bloom V2 Compressor/EQ

New Pedals: KMA Audio Guardian of the Wurm

Earlier this year, I stood in front of a contemporary art installation from a Quebec-based artist asking me to trigger, via pedal, the end of the world. Irresponsible as I am, I stomped on it, but nothing happened (Quebequas are renowned for loving provocations). Today I am presented with a…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: KMA Audio Guardian of the Wurm

Win a Novation Circuit Tracks (LA Synth & Pedal Expo Promo) [ENDED]

Hello, knob-heads! To celebrate the upcoming, free, outdoors (!!!) Los Angeles Synth & Pedal Expo we are giving away this outstanding standalone groovebox from Novation, the Circuit Tracks, to the luckiest of our readers! With two refined polyphonic digital synth tracks, four drum tracks, creative FX and on-the-go capabilities, Circuit…Click on the title for more

Win a Novation Circuit Tracks (LA Synth & Pedal Expo Promo) [ENDED]

Volta 1987 V2 Dual Plexi Overdrive

The 1987 v2 is a two-channel overdrive designed to sound like a Plexi hot-rod pushed to the max. Hand-made in Italy by a company that recently changed its name from Nabla to Volta Custom, this is, in essence, an overdrive with a foot-switchable boost appropriately called "11," whose gain can…Click on the title for more

Volta 1987 V2 Dual Plexi Overdrive

Kasleder FX Toxic Twins Dual Tweakable Overdrive

Those among our readers who enjoy highly configurable gain pedals should take a look at the Kasleder FX Toxic Twins, a dual overdrive from Hungary with two sets of internal DIP switches to fine-tune clipping and bass response. The Kasleder is based on an original circuit utilizing a combination of…Click on the title for more

Kasleder FX Toxic Twins Dual Tweakable Overdrive

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