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Universal Audio 3 New UAFX: Galaxy Tape Echo, DelVerb, Max Dual Compressor

Universal Audio just unveiled three new pedals in their UAFX series, which already comprised six effects with a similar form factor. While the line already featured a reverb and a delay, two of the new entries introduce a more specific tape echo delay named Galaxy, voiced after the Roland space…Click on the title for more

Universal Audio 3 New UAFX: Galaxy Tape Echo, DelVerb, Max Dual Compressor

Walrus Audio Fundamental Drive

One of eight pedals in Walrus Audio’s new, affordable product line, the Walrus Audio Fundamental Drive provides a range of classic overdrive tones that can be dialed in with easy-to-use controls. The three faders control Gain, Tone, and Volume, and the Mode Switch offers three distinct clipping profiles: Smooth, Crunch,…Click on the title for more

Walrus Audio Fundamental Drive

Matthews Effects The Traveler Reverb

The Matthews Effects The Traveler is a three-mode digital, compact reverb pedal by one of the most promising US-based emerging builders with a noteworthy number of releases under its belt. For this device, simplicity and flexibility (but also affordability, at $129) are the names of the game, although the pedal…Click on the title for more

Matthews Effects The Traveler Reverb

Walrus Audio Fundamental Chorus

Part of the Oklahioma-based company's first affordable pedal line, the Walrus Audio Fundamental Chorus is a bread-and-butter digital effect featuring three faders instead of knobs. The controls are for Rate, Depth, and Mix, while a switch delivers three modes voiced after lush analog units, multiple-tap chorus, and the classic Tri-Chorus…Click on the title for more

Walrus Audio Fundamental Chorus

Walrus Audio Fundamental Distortion

The Walrus Audio Fundamental Distortion belongs to the Oklahoma company's first sub-$100 line of pedals, but its circuitry borrows from about a decade of experience in designing distortion pedals costing over twice as much. Although the three controls are what you would expect on any distortion pedal (Gain, Tone and…Click on the title for more

Walrus Audio Fundamental Distortion

Delicious Audio hosts Japanese Effector Collection Box at NAMM 2023 Stompbox Booth

The NAMM Show 2023 is fast approaching and, once again, Delicious Audio will be there with a shared pedal booth (#5241) featuring over 30 boards! This year we are proud for our booth to be a bridge for a some quality boutique builders based in a faraway country with a…Click on the title for more

Delicious Audio hosts Japanese Effector Collection Box at NAMM 2023 Stompbox Booth

New Pedal: ETF Audio Every Good Boy Deserves Fuzz

Hand-built in the heart wine country in Windsor, California, the ETF Audio Every Good Boy Deserves Fuzz is a two-knob, three-transistor fuzz created with stoner and doom guitarists in mind. The two controls are for level and filter, with the latter allowing for a variety of tones from chugging ones…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: ETF Audio Every Good Boy Deserves Fuzz

Best New Pedals 2023 | March Edition

We had a pretty exciting month last month in the pedal release realm, with a mix of releases from the inspiring but pricey to the super affordable but intriguing. Chase Bliss and Beetronics stole the scene with, respectively, a significant update to their ambient looper + reverb pedal, and a…Click on the title for more

Best New Pedals 2023 | March Edition

BSRI Floriography/EVT Dynamic Tremolo

The BSRI Floriography, which was named EVT before 2023, is a boutique tremolo handbuilt in Baltimore with an amplitude and a dynamic mode. The dynamic mode is based on a mysterious Japanese pedal purchased (and then sold) in the early aughts by company owner David Gill, that increased the speed of…Click on the title for more

BSRI Floriography/EVT Dynamic Tremolo

Defects FX Dirty Filter

The Defects FX Dirty Filter is a very tweakable, limited edition resonant fuzz + filter (in that order) hailing from Prague, where it's lovingly hand-built. Each effect has its separate footswitch, but the filter gets the lion's share of the controls, with knobs for Frequency, Filter Type (bypass, low-pass and…Click on the title for more

Defects FX Dirty Filter

LPD Pedals Dutch² Dual Overdrive

The LPD Pedals Dutch² is the latest dual overdrive circuit by what's probably one of the most prolific boutique pedal companies of the decade. It's a dual version of a one-channel limited version pedal that you won't easily find in the second-hand market, whose tone is described by some as…Click on the title for more

LPD Pedals Dutch² Dual Overdrive

New Pedal: Fjord Fuzz Hedda

The Fjord Fuzz Hedda is a two-knob Fuzz Face-inspired circuit designed to sound as dynamic as possible - which is not exactly a common thing for fuzz pedals, since they tend to sound extremely compressed. Company owner and engineer Daniel Thornhill, who's been focused for ten years to this date…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Fjord Fuzz Hedda