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The Wah Pedal Inductor: The Secret to Your Favorite Wah Tone

Interested in wah pedals? Check out our comprehensive Best Wah Pedals guide. --- The wah pedal has been with us since 1967, and like most effects, it’s undergone changes during its long run. Some of the most tonally significant revisions have involved the wah inductor. Of all the components in…Click on the title for more

The Wah Pedal Inductor: The Secret to Your Favorite Wah Tone

Johnny Wator started Daredevil Pedals in 2012 as a matter of necessity. Wators’ latest creation is the Almighty Bass Fuzz, which made its debut at Winter NAMM 2018. Based on his original design circuit, the Almighty Bass Fuzz delivers biting and thick gain and has tonal options to cover a…Click on the title for more

Boutique Manufacturers Profile: Daredevil Pedals

Casper Skulls’ Guitar Pedals

Casper Skulls latest LP “Mercy Works” showcases a softer sound than their abrasive post-punk influenced beginnings. The record’s overall vibe is reminiscent of the post grunge alt-rock of the ‘90s, with Neil Bednis’ charismatic spoken word providing an original, edgy signature, and Melanie Gail St-Pierre’s soft vocals triggering the tracks’…Click on the title for more

Casper Skulls’ Guitar Pedals

Five Easy Guitar Pedal Hacks You Need to Know

PHOTO: ArtBrom | Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Anyone who owns guitar pedals has dealt with power-supply issues and faulty connections. If you have even a handful of stompboxes and use a pedalboard, locating the source of these problems can be frustrating and time-consuming. Fortunately, there are a few so-called pedal hacks you…Click on the title for more

Five Easy Guitar Pedal Hacks You Need to Know

Lollygagger FX Canaglia Multi-Stage Overdrive

Lollygagger FX is a Michigan-based pedal manufacturer that, at least for now, is entirely committed to one hand-made overdrive design called Canaglia (Italian for "scoundrel"), which they deliver in many differently colored wooden enclosures. All variations look truly beautiful and, according to many, so they sound - here's an in-depth review…Click on the title for more

Lollygagger FX Canaglia Multi-Stage Overdrive

Toronto's noise rock band FRIGS have been rocking our world for the past few weeks. So much so that we decided to put them on the cover of our SXSW 2018 issue of our sister mag The Deli, linked to the recent Austin Stompbox Exhibit. You can read the cover…Click on the title for more

FRIGS’ Pedals

All the boards of the Austin Stompbox Exhibit 2018

Here's a gallery of all the boards that took part in the Austin Stompbox Exhibit 2018! We organized them according to entirely subjective categories. You can see more pictures of this event in our Facebook profile, here. CLASSIC BOARDS Click on the title for more

All the boards of the Austin Stompbox Exhibit 2018

Intriguing Devices: Landscape’s Stereo Field

The Stereo Field, by Brooklyn's one-man builder Landscape, is no ordinary musical device. It’s three instruments in one. And as you can undoubtedly tell from its inviting geometric faceplate, there’s a lot of intriguing stuff going on here. Used as an audio processor, Stereo Field is a hands-on way to create a range…Click on the title for more

Intriguing Devices: Landscape’s Stereo Field

Tsakalis Introduces the Galactic Multimodulation and Phonkify Filter Wah Pedals

Tsakalis Audioworks has introduced two new pedals: the Galactic multi-modulation pedal and the Phonkify envelope filter/wah enhanced with octaves. The Galactic lets you combine and blend five types of modulation in ways that bring new textures to your sonic arsenal. The pedal has controls for Volume, Blend, Depth and Speed,…Click on the title for more

Tsakalis Introduces the Galactic Multimodulation and Phonkify Filter Wah Pedals

The Pedals of the Austin Stompbox Exhibit 2018

Check out the print section of the latest issue of The Deli with all the coolest pedals participating in the Austin Stompbox Exhibit (March 16/17)!Click on the title for more

The Pedals of the Austin Stompbox Exhibit 2018

Best New Guitar Pedals of 2018 Readers’ Poll – Results

After this year’s NAMM (which we covered in this über-thorough gallery of new pedal releases), we published this Best of NAMM 2018 aggregate list, compiling the “Best of”s published by 5 sites. We then decided to ask our readers, through this poll, what they thought were the most intriguing new…Click on the title for more

Best New Guitar Pedals of 2018 Readers’ Poll – Results

Southampton Pedals Utility Knife Modulator

The Utility Knife Modulator was on the board of Southampton Pedals at our recent NAMM Stompbox Booth. Reverb.com just unveiled this video of it, check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UofulX8Mndw This below is the demo we shot directly in our NAMM booth with owner Hamish Hains! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJCUaVbDOKw&feature=youtu.be Provides four high-quality effects that are…Click on the title for more

Southampton Pedals Utility Knife Modulator