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New Pedal: Empty Head Effects Seafarer Reverb

Empty Head Effects , run by Nic out of Mainz, Germany, has been building a reputation for thoughtful, textural pedal designs. We got familiar with the company at our 2026 edition of the London Synth & Pedal Expo, where they attracted a lot of interest. Their upcoming Seafarer is a modulated…... Click for more

New Pedal: Empty Head Effects Seafarer Reverb

Warm Audio Dirty Boy Jr. Overdrive

Dirty Boy Pedals have been a cult brand since the 1980s. The company started with Alex Saraceno building one-off circuits for his son, Blues Saraceno, who was making a name as a session guitarist. Those hand-wired, no-compromise designs earned a quiet but fierce following among players who knew. Over the…... Click for more

Warm Audio Dirty Boy Jr. Overdrive

Audio Cultivation Project PALA Compressor

The Audio Cultivation Project PALA Compressor started as a commission for a transparent compressor without the pumping common to OTA-based designs, then spent three more years in development. It's still a compressor, but evolved to capture the feel of a loud amp in a reverberant room — that clean, edge-of-feedback…... Click for more

Audio Cultivation Project PALA Compressor

New Pedal: Gigagain Golden Legacy Plexi Overdrive

Just when you thought the universe had manufactured enough stamped-aluminum boxes to choke every basement guitarist from here to purgatory, a brand called Gigagain crawls out of the woodwork waving a Marshall-in-a-box named the "Golden Legacy." It retails for roughly a hundred and twenty-nine bucks. For that price, what do…... Click for more

New Pedal: Gigagain Golden Legacy Plexi Overdrive

New Pedal: Origin Effects EQ Deluxe

Most EQ pedals are utility. You cut some mud, boost a frequency, move on. The Origin Effects EQ Deluxe (also spelled EQDELUXE) is not that. It's based on the Pultec EQP-1a, a passive studio equalizer from the 1950s that engineers still hunt down because it doesn't just change your…... Click for more

New Pedal: Origin Effects EQ Deluxe

New Pedal: MXR Textures Granular Synth Engine

Most pedals take what you play and hand it back to you more or less intact. The MXR Textures does the opposite. It takes your signal, pulls it apart into tiny pieces called grains, and lets you rearrange them into something that barely resembles where you started. Inside the box…... Click for more

New Pedal: MXR Textures Granular Synth Engine

New Pedal: NativeAudio In the Water Reflector

There's a Blackfeet story about Old Man — Napi — who saw berries reflected in a stream and kept diving in to grab them. Every time he came up empty, he saw them again, dove deeper, tied rocks to his legs, nearly drowned. Finally he crawled to shore, looked up,…... Click for more

New Pedal: NativeAudio In the Water Reflector

New Pedal: Greer Mori Drive

Mori means "forest" in Japanese. The name fits — this one's got a deep, woody midrange that feels like it belongs in the undergrowth of your pedalboard. Greer has been asked for years to build their take on that old vintage TS-style circuit with the famous mid hump. They finally…... Click for more

New Pedal: Greer Mori Drive

New Pedal: Fairfield Circuitry Placeholder BBD-based Reverb

Quebec prides itself with being different, and the province's most prominent pedal maker has always done things a little sideways, with devices that don't sound quite like anybody else's. The Fairfield Circuitry Placeholder keeps that streak alive. It's an analog reverb built around BBD chips, but it's not trying to…... Click for more

New Pedal: Fairfield Circuitry Placeholder BBD-based Reverb

New Pedal: Hungry Robot The Stargazer Dual Ambient Reverb

Hungry Robot has been quietly rebuilding its lineup this year. First came the Moby Dick tape delay. Now comes the new Stargazer, a dual-channel ambient reverb that takes the bones of the 2014 original and gives it a serious update. The original Stargazer was a simple dual-preset reverb. Two channels,…... Click for more

New Pedal: Hungry Robot The Stargazer Dual Ambient Reverb

New Pedal: RhPf Electronics Regista

There's a midrange console EQ that studio engineers have whispered about for years. The Amek Mozart MZ15-RN — built during Rupert Neve's later run with Amek, remembered by the people who used one for a mid section that made things sit in a mix like nothing else. But the Mozart…... Click for more

New Pedal: RhPf Electronics Regista

Updated Pedal: Gamechanger Audio Plus Pedal II

The original Plus Pedal was one of those things that felt like a secret weapon — piano-style sustain for any instrument, wrapped in a brass footpedal that made you feel like you were doing something physical. It wasn't a freeze pedal. It was smarter. It grabbed the tail end of…... Click for more

Updated Pedal: Gamechanger Audio Plus Pedal II