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Best New Pedal Releases | August 2023

August is traditionally a slow month in pretty much any sector except for tourism, but the pedal realm was an exception this year, with a fair amount of notable announcements. Numerically speaking, there weren't a lot of new releases, but there were certainly some intriguing ones, in particular the announcement…Click on the title for more

Best New Pedal Releases | August 2023

New Pedal: Hungry Robot The Stampede

Hungry Robot got us used to very "knobby" pedals, so the company's latest device, a 2-knob pedal called The Stampede, comes a little bit as a surprise. It's a glitchy, square-wave CMOS fuzz based on a 4069 CMOS chip. It acts as an effect that transforms your signal into a…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Hungry Robot The Stampede

New Pedal: Mythos The Fates Analog Chorus

Designed in collaboration with Brian for Madbean Pedals, the Mythos The Fates represents the first foray of the Nashville-based company into the modulation realm: It's a high-quality analog, mono chorus pedal inspired by the classics of the '80s with bread-and-butter controls and the typical Chorus/Vibrato toggle. The company's owner and…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Mythos The Fates Analog Chorus

New Pedal: Fender Waylon Jennings Phaser

After gifting shoegaze guitarists a Kevin Shields signature fuzz pedal, the biggest guitar company in the world is turning its attention towards country musicians with the Fender Waylon Jennings Phaser. Part of Outlaw Country, an anti-Nashville musical establishment movement from the '70s also joined by Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson,…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Fender Waylon Jennings Phaser

UAFX Heavenly Plate Reverb

Plate reverb is not a type of reverb commonly associated with electric guitar, but its lush, long and smooth reflections make it ideal for musicians with ambient leanings, and the UAFX Heavenly Plate Reverb is probably the most authentic digital recreation of the ginormous vintage units, with the added bonus…Click on the title for more

UAFX Heavenly Plate Reverb

The 3 Best Delay Pedals per Type, in 2023

This page provides in-depth advice to musicians who are researching the best delay pedals for their needs, through an approach a little more involved than a top 10 list. "Why not a simple top 10?" - you may ask. Because delays are not all created equal. There are hundreds, if…Click on the title for more

The 3 Best Delay Pedals per Type, in 2023

New Pedal: UAFX 1176 Compression Pedal

Based on what's in all likelihood the most popular studio compressor of all times (the Urei 1176), the Universal Audio UAFX 1176 is a pedal, digital version of that unit that's about 1/20th the size of the original - which is also sold by the US company in a modernized…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: UAFX 1176 Compression Pedal

Dirty Sock Effects Transistoriser

Inspired by pioneering silicon fuzz designs of the late '60s/early '70s like the Shin Ei FY-2 and the Mosrite Fuzzrite, the Dirty Sock Effects Transistoriser hails from Sidney, Australia. Although its sound is vintage, the components in the circuit were updated to modern standards, with the goal of making this…Click on the title for more

Dirty Sock Effects Transistoriser

Alameda Angry Hornet

The Alameda Angry Hornet is one of two pedals released by a (we assume) Californian company better known for their guitars. It's a circuit that blends a Maestro Fuzz-Tone FZ-1b with a Vox Treble Booster. Although the two circuits can't be separated (there is only one footswitch that turns them…Click on the title for more

Alameda Angry Hornet

Oneder Onederwall Dual Distortion/Fuzz

Although it features a (truly beautiful) flowery image on its case, the Oneder Onederwall is not exactly a device for the delicate guitarist: it's a dual channel, routable pedal merging a new, Russian-flavored Muff circuit with the distortion circuit of the company's Oneder Drive MkII. While Channel 1 (the fuzz)…Click on the title for more

Oneder Onederwall Dual Distortion/Fuzz

New Pedal: LoFiMind Effects Reverberador

Hailing from Spain, the LoFiMind Effects Reverberador is a pedal inspired by a vintage spring reverb mixing console (something like this) and, just like the original, it features a real spring inside the case, hence its sizeable dimensions. It also features a separate boost circuit with its own footswitch packing…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: LoFiMind Effects Reverberador

New Pedal Line: UAFX Compacts (Orion, Evermore, Heavenly and 1176)

Universal Audio entered the stompbox market at the beginning of the decade with a series of multi-algorithm pedals priced between $280 and $300. Today they introduce a new, more affordable line named "UAFX Compacts" with four pedals smaller in size and price ($199-220). This new series includes the following stompboxes,…Click on the title for more

New Pedal Line: UAFX Compacts (Orion, Evermore, Heavenly and 1176)