Updated Jul. 2, 2020 | by Paolo De Gregorio

Most Hyped New Pedals for guitar

Here’s our second monthly appointment with the most hyped new pedals of the (previous) month: The Monthly StompBuzz!

The one below is the list of the stompboxes that had the most Google searches in the Month of May* – this is data, not opinion!

Click on the links below to read our coverage.

  1. Chase Bliss Preamp MKII Automatone
  2. Hologram Microcosm
  3. Specular Tempus
  4. DryBell The Engine
  5. DSM and Humboldt Simplifier
  6. Chase Bliss Audio Blooper
  7. Walrus Audio Ages
  8. Cornerstone Gladio
  9. Poly Digit
  10. Source Audio EQ2

Check out the gallery below for brief descriptions about each pedal (mouse-over or first tap) and videos (on click or second tap).

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Chase Bliss Preamp MKII Automatone
$749 - The Preamp MKII Automatone is a collaboration between Chase Bliss Audio and Benson Amps, giving you robotic controls and a digital brain behind one of the best preamps in the business.
Perf. Circuit | Reverb | Amazon
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Hologram Microcosm
$449 - A multi-mode granular looper/phrase looper/delay filter and reverb. Ofers 11 unique granular and looping effects with 44 preset variations, Stereo In/Out, Expression In mappable to many controls, MIDI, 60 sec. Phrase Looper, Stereo Reverb, “Hold” function to freeze effects and patterns, pitch modulation, Resonant Lowpass Filter, presets, trails and Tap Tempo.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
Specular Tempus
GFI System Specular Tempus
$349 - A stereo, dual digital delay + reverb processor with tap tempo, 32 presets and 32 algorithms organizable in two banks triggered by separate footswitches. Pressing both footswitches turns on the Auto Knob Swell function which slowly sweeps an assigned knob to its maximum value. Free app allows fine tuning of the settings.
Perf. Circuit | Reverb | Amazon
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Dry Bell The Engine
$299 - A fully analog, high headroom, extremely versatile dual preamp that aims at covering all the classic, British, ’60s-inspired overdriven tones on any type of amp, at any level you may fancy. The two preamps offer different voicings and can be activated separately or stacked on top of each other in either order.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
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DSM and Humboldt Simplifier
$329 - An amp and cab emulator that features a true analog preamp that recreates in fine detail the most popular clean channel preamps, a power amp sim and dual independent Cab sims with spread control. Stereo FX loop, headphone amp with Aux input for monitoring or silent practicing, two XLR DI out, and two bypassable ¼-inch jacks round up the features. XLR and Headphone out.
Zzounds | Sweetwater |
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Reverb Amazon
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Chase Bliss Audio Blooper
$499 - Built in collaboration with artsy YouTuber Knobs, this is mainly a looper that ALSO does granular effects. With its 30 seconds of high-quality loop time and 7 undo / redo layers, it can behave like a regular looper but also lets you do a lot of creative things, like crossfade two different loops, give it an analog feel, scramble it into a pattern, just to mention a few.
Perf. Circuit | Reverb | Amazon
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Walrus Audio Ages
$199 | An overdrive with five clipping modes for a wide range of tones from smooth to punchy: Low-gain mode with symmetric silicon soft clipping; Low-gain mode with symmetric LED soft clipping; High-gain mode with symmetric silicon soft clipping; High-gain mode with symmetric LED soft clipping; High-gain mode with symmetric silicon hard clipping.
Zzounds | Sweetwater |
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Reverb Amazon
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Cornerstone Gladio
$399 - A unique double preamp pedal delivering two differently voiced D-style channels that can be played alternatively or stacked on top of each other through the S/D toggle switch. Channel 1 is transparent, smooth and creamy (think Robben Ford) while Channel 2 has a harder clipping sound pretty by Sonny Landreth.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
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Poly Digit
$399 - A touchscreen-based multi-FX unit with modulation and synth algorithms that allows for different combinations, and orders, in series or parallel. It includes Eurorack style effects, like slew limiters and LFO applications, all programmable by touch screen. Four freely routable input and outputs allow processing of up to four instruments or creation of quadraphonic effects!
Perf. Circuit | Reverb | Amazon
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Source Audio EQ2
$269 | Offers a combination graphic and parametric equalizer with 10 fully adjustable frequency bands, stereo output and an eight-preset system. Up to 12dB of boost. Additionally, EQs can be different for left and right channels, and there’s also a hidden tuner function! MIDI control provides up to 128 presets. The Neuro Desktop Editor & Mobile App gives players in-depth access to more parameters.
Zzounds | Sweetwater |
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Reverb Amazon

*The data is collected from our Google Search Console.

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