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Chase Bliss and Goodhertz's Lossy is a pedal that makes your guitar sound like a crappy MP3
Chase Bliss's latest pedal is a collaboration with Goodhertz that captures the digital dust of turn of the century MP3s.
Chroma Console is Hologram Electronics' unique take on a multi-effect pedal
The Chroma Console allows you to freely rearrange four effects modules, automate them and record loops to jam over.
Meris MercuryX is a modular reverb pedal for the sonically adventerous
The Meris MercuryX is a modular effects pedal that allows you to create the reverb of your dreams.
Universal Audio adds three more stompboxes to its high-end guitar effects line
Universal Audio's latest UAFX pedals capture classic delay, reverb and compression effects.
IK Multimedia ToneX Pedal puts AI-powered guitar rig modeling at your feet
The $400 IK MultiMedia ToneX pedal can recreate everything from a single vintage stomp box to a complicated modern metal rig with help from AI.
Eventide’s H90 Harmonizer is an insanely powerful and insanely expensive guitar pedal
Eventide's H90 Harmonizer is an insanely powerful $900 next-gen guitar pedal.
Universal Audio brings its excellent vintage amp emulations to your pedalboard
The latest entries in the UAFX line recreate iconic British and American tube amps.
The Meris LVX is a powerful modular delay pedal with a slick-looking interface
The LVX lets you design the delay of your dreams with additional effects, including Meris classics.
The Chase Bliss Habit helped me enjoy making music again
The Chase Bliss Habit is an experimental delay, a freeform looper and it's just plain fun.
Boss' SY-200 is a powerful guitar synth that fits on a pedalboard
Boss' latest guitar synth pedal is flexible, immediate and fits on a pedalboard.
ZOIA 2.0 update unlocks more power for complex modular effects
Empress Effect's do-it-all guitar pedal is now even more powerful and versatile.
The Mod Dwarf promises an entire guitar store's worth of effects in a single pedal
The Mod platform has a lot of potential and a lot of rough edges.
Poly Effects Beebo review: A versatile and complex touchscreen guitar pedal
Poly Effects Beebo is one of the most versatile guitar pedals on the market. It’s basically a modular synth in a pedal format with an easy-to-use touchscreen.
Poly Effects fully merges Digit and Beebo into one super pedal
The Poly Effects Digit and Beebo are two of the more interesting guitar pedals to come out in the last few years. They were built on the exact same platform and their firmware are completely interchangeable. Now the company is taking the next logical step, and combining them into a single firmware and single pedal under the Beebo name.
Hologram Electronics Microcosm: A cheat code for making ambient music
The Microcosm can be a rhythmic glitch machine, a top-notch loop pedal or a straightforward delay. It’s more than just a one-trick pony, which is important given the $449 price.
MOD Duo X review: A do-it-all music box with potential
The MOD Duo X is a one-of-a-kind desktop effects processor that has the potential to do even more. It's excellent for building virtual pedalboards, but its synth features still feel unfinished. If you’re looking for an all-in-one device that can be a multi-effects unit, a direct recording box, a headphone practice amp and a live sound mangler the Duo X is a solid choice, as long as you’re willing to spend the $749.
Beebo is basically a modular synth in guitar pedal form
It’s, in theory, a “multi modulation pedal” for your guitar. But, Beebo also has a secret. It’s the same exact hardware as Poly Effects’ last pedal, Digit. It’s just running different firmware.
ZOIA review: A complex and rewarding modular effects pedal
Empress Effects ZOIA is unquestionably a one-of-a-kind effects pedal. Its interface can be daunting at times, but it puts an almost limitless number of sounds at your feet.
MOD's latest effects pedal makes advanced sounds more accessible
MOD Devices might just make powerful effects pedals available to a much wider range of musicians. It's running a crowdfunding campaign for the Dwarf, a pedal that promises the kind of flexibility you'd expect from a much more expensive device. It's really more of a platform than an old-school stomp box. You can load open source plugins (including demanding ones like pitch shifting), synths, virtual instruments and MIDI utilities, and its high power lets it closely model more demanding analog circuits and polyphonic synths. Crucially, you don't need to connect to a laptop to take advantage of it. You can store up to 750 pedals or plugins and create patches using just the on-device controls.
Finally: A guitar pedal you’re supposed to spill beer on
I'm not going to pretend to be an expert on the history of guitar pedals. But, I'm fairly confident in saying there has never been a pedal quite like Rainger FX's Minibar. It's an overdrive pedal, but one that requires a little something extra to work -- a liquid. There's a small container on the top that says "pour liquid here" and, until you put something in there it simply wont make a sound.
