Updated Nov. 6, 2020 | by Paolo De Gregorio

Hottest Pedals October 2020

Times are ripe for our appointment with The Monthly StompBuzz, which updates our readers on the most searched pedals on our site in the previous 30 days period.

The release of new pedals has picked up tremendously in October 2020 with the unveiling of some really exciting units that have had the effect of scrambling our charts dramatically compared to the previous month.

The chart below lists the stompboxes that had the most searches in the Month of October 2020*.  It features brief descriptions about each pedal (mouse-over or first tap) and video demos (on click or second tap).

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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
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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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Strymon Nightsky
$429 - A stereo “reverberant synthesis workstation” that combines reverb, pitch-shifting, a resonant filter, modulation with multiple waves shapes (which can be routed to pitch, reverb or filter), and even a step sequencer! Three footswitches allow several functions including preset storage/recall, sequencer control and momentary effects.
Sweetwater | Reverb | Amazon
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BOSS OC-5
$129 | The new Vintage mode faithfully recreates the mono sound of the classic 1982 OC-2. The Poly mode can track chords and features polyphonic enhancements, an octave-up feature for extended range, and improved tracking technology for latency-free response. The variable Range knob restricts the effect to only the lower notes, great for bass.
Zzounds | Sweetwater |
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Reverb Amazon
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Third Man Triplegraph
$399 - A collaboration between Coppersound and Jack White of The White Stripes. The three levers - replacing regular footswitches - activate an Octave Up (left pedal), an Octave Down (right pedal), and a kill switch or auxiliary FX loop (center pedal).  A toggle switch allows the player to choose between the two modes for the center pedal.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
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Chase Bliss Audio + Meris CXM 1978
$899 | A collaborative pedal adaption of the venerable (1978) Lexicon studio reverb, built on the moving-fader format of Chase Bliss Audio's Automatone series and featuring three algorithms (Hall, Room, Plate). Also features a LoFi Mode for vintage digital sounds and Adjustable Decay Crossover for fully shapeable reverb tail
Perf. Circuit | 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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Wampler Belle
Zzounds | Sweetwater |
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TC Electronic Ditto Plus
$128 - Adds to an already popular design the Extended Loop Mode, which allows you to put longer overdubs on top of shorter loops by stacking the short ones together side by side. Navigation is made more user friendly by an LCD screen, and the preset system is expanded to 99 loop sessions
Sweetwater | 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

Here is the text version of the chart highlighting variations compared to last month and total number of Google searches on our site. Click on the links below to read our coverage and video aggregation.

  1. (+2) Hologram Microcosm (9694 searches)
  2. (+6) DSM & Humboldt Simplifier (5168 searches)
  3. (+1) Strymon Nightsky (4565 searches)
  4. (New) BOSS OC-5 (4354 searches)
  5. (New) Coppersound Triplegraph (3059 searches)
  6. (New) Chase Bliss Audio/Meris CXM 1978 (2918 searches)
  7. (New) Chase Bliss Audio Blooper (2725 searches)
  8. (New) Wampler Belle (2715 searches)
  9. (-8) TC Ditto Plus Looper (2701 searches)
  10. (New) Cornerstone Gladio (2558 searches)

*The search data was collected from our Google Search Console.

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