Guitar Pedal X News

Mr Wu has expanded the envelope further - another evolved and improved MGAT-1 Pedal is incoming - the Marshall EVO Edition Sinvertek Real Amp Abstraction

End of Year Pedal Chain Update - Class of 2025

JHS Pedals' second collaboration with EHX unearths lost alternative OpAmp Muff - the Big Muff 2 - after a rummage through Bob Myer's Workshop

EarthQuaker Devices' Sunn O))) HalfLife Fer KGR Harmony Collaboration sells out in under 100 minutes

Strymon's new Fairfax is a cool Fuzzy Scuzzy Tube Amp style JFETs saturator with gating sag

Olinthus delivers it's most practically useful Tiny pedal to date - the sleek diminutive Pillbug FET Compressor

2025 Best of the Best Pedals of the year

DOD finally releases its Badder Monkey Triple Parallel Blended Circuits Overdrive

2025 Best New Delay and Reverb Pedals of the Year

Death By Audio unleashes killer Destroyer Series with an Expansive Dream Station Echo-Verb, 6-Mode Moonbeam Phaser, and Thee Treble Overloader

Crazy Tube Circuits delivers another marvellous confection of early 70's Orange 120 Voicing - combined with a smart take on the 90's Frantone Peachfuzz - for the Orama Dual Channel Fuzz-Drive

2025 Best New Modulation, Pitch, Utility and Multi-FX Pedals of the Year

The Lava Studio Amp is the world's best Practice Amp - stuffed with smart features and killer playability

2025 Best New Fuzz Pedals of the Year

I treated myself to an early Christmas present - the Dubtastic Teenage Engineering Riddim & Ting Dub Sound System!

2025 Best New Distortion Pedals of the Year

2025 Best New Boost and Overdrive Pedals of the Year

Mentha.Works evolves highly stylised and unique Monk Echo + Reverb pedal with Celestial Human Formant Voices, Presets, and smart Macro control and LED display

Superlunar's SR-01 Transistor-based Analog Saturation Device is a wonderfully distinctive Multi-Gain Overdrive, Distortion and Fuzz pedal

RhPf Electronics collaborates with Loopy Demos and Sketchy Pedals to deliver the 3rd top tier tentpole for my Doom Fuzz Trifecta - alongside the Blackhawk Balrog and Lichtlaerm Audio Altar

Gamechanger Audio releases limited smart RECODER Phrase Sampler / Modifier / Looper for Black Friday, order window lasts until 10th December

Brian Wampler improves and expands on the OCD Circuit with his very own 4-Mode TCD Drive take

Lichtlaerm Audio now has a Quadfecta of superior Compact gain machines with this potent Lennart Bossu Signature Thorn 3-Mode High Gain Distortion, newly in at Joe's Pedals in the UK

2025 November Pedal-Chain Update - Episode XI - Double Decked

Empty Head Effects' Falling Man Deforming / Yawing PT2399 Modulated Delay is a great blend of versatility and unusual quirky cool!

JHS Pedals 'Fixes' its Expandora take, with a new and much improved Kilt 10 Anniversary Edition in shiny polished aluminium!

2025 Full Metal Racket - 32 of the Best Compact High Gain and Heavy Metal Pedals

Pirate MIDI Unleashes incredibly smart full featured 'Scribble' Mini MIDI Controller with Customisable LCD Scribble Strip Screen

2025 ThorpyFX Capsule Collection - Full Stack - 31 Strong!

Mojo Hand FX delivers cool Nintendo SNES S-SMP Inspired SMPLoFi Bitcrusher / Reverb / Filter

Drunk Beaver's Pedal Drop #34 is a really cool take on the Roland Jazz Chorus Preamp Section - specially as per the JC-120H and JC-77 Editions of Amps

Muir Audio's Silicon Steel Distortion is a gorgeous sounding multi-layered full range harmonic distortion - augmented by Transformer and specially selected Silicon Diodes

Chase Bliss releases new Black Friday - 'Desert Friends' Editions of the Mood Micro Looper and Ambience Generator

My Spaceman Effects Sputnik I Silicon Fuzz has landed - and it's every bit as good as the original Germanium Edition - with the self same sensibilities - but with significantly more range

4 of a Kind - Tascam 424 Portastudio style Preamps

13 of the Best Extended Range Marshall Pedals with Plexi + JCM800 Coverage

Intensive Care Audio's Death Muff it its own unique Fierce and Aggressively Textured variant- in a league of its own

The Moose Electronics Electric Elk is a beautifully textured Muff Fuzz - inspired by the Ram's Head and Black Bubble Font variants

Also Engineered by Thorpy!

Great Eastern FX's second Obsolete Devices pedal - is the beautifully textured and expansive Distortion Filter - which features 3 rare Soviet D312A Germanium Diodes

Mr. Black's excellent Analog Tremolo comes with a really unique 4th 'Robot' formant waveform

KMA Machines releases new and improved Utility Switchers - a Dual Loop Switcher, Active AB/Y, and Active Stereo AB/Y

Highlights from the 4th Witney Pedal Party, 3rd time at Fat Lil's

Catalinbread updates its Belle Epoch Tape Echo - now in Plus Edition with 3 Programs onboard and Tap-Tempo on the one footswitch

Dublin's Moose Electronics Pedals are now available at Joe's Pedals in the UK

Drunk Beaver's V2 Iteration of the Disambiguation Muff-Rat sees a massive upgrade with 2 more controls, and additional and enhanced circuit components

JHS Collaborates with Jack White's Third Man Hardware for Signature Troika Mic Delay

Electro-Harmonix unveils unusual Pico Atomic Cluster Spectral Decomposer - which for me is a Sonic De-Rezzer and Atomic Frequencies Oscillator

My 4-in-1 Manson Supermassive Black Fuzz has landed - and it's an amazingly wide-ranging full-on Fuzz that touches on all the classic references and delivers plenty more besides!

My Electronic Audio Experiments' Glaive Opamp Octave Fuzz has landed and it's every bit as good as I expected!

Fulltone USA reissues and reboots its celebrated Ultimate Octave Upper Octave Fuzz - now in improved Compact Edition

Thorpy's Fat General Parallel Compressor has long been on the cards, and is brilliant in its simplicity

Flattley's New Outlaw Pedal - Plexi Drive + Ace Tone Boost - is probably their best pedal to date - certainly the best looking - and which delivers instant satisfaction from both barrels

Cosmodio's 4th killer pedal in a row is the exceptional Splinter Twin Delau Line Manipulator - which takes you through Flanger, Chorus, Double Tracking, Slapback and Echo Effects

Pasta Pedals' FrankenSTEEN Fuzz take on Dwarfcraft Devices' Eau Claire Thunder is every way phenomenal - underlined by a really smart design

Mr.MojoFX makes really cool Footswitch Toppers with Personality - in Barcelona, Spain, and currently it offers 3 different series - Vintage Tech, Munchies and Masks

Death By Audio delivers potent compact Cavernous Stereo Infinity Verb with 3 different compelling Modes onboard for Reverb.com's 2025 Blacout Event

IK Multimedia throws its hat in the ring for Plugin Headphone Amps, with its TONEX PLUG

A Brief Hobbyist Primer on BBD's - Bucket Brigade Devices

ThorpyFX sneaks out Secret Project #5 - the Redacted Germanium Veteran Fuzz Face + RangeMaster - featuring specially selected fierce mil-spec Transistors

Hangman fx's Tyrannosaur MegaDriver is an incredibly adaptable / balancing Multi-Gain Stage Drive with unique JFET Gated Boost

PastFX brilliantly shrinks down the Electro-Harmonix Echo 600 style Delay by more than half - an expanded slider-style take on the Deluxe Memory Man

Susumu Tamura - the original creator of the Tube Screamer Pedal - makes the next evolution of that format for Totally Wycked Audio - as the new Source Code Overdrive - with unique 'Bite' control and refinements in every area

RhPf Electronics coordinates a 10-Pedal Touring Board - which will travel through Switzerland for 12 different artists to interact with it over a 12 week period

Ritual Devices' Rainmaker is an exceptionally versatile and well-named LFO Modulator - which delivers delightful subtle pitter-patter, pulsing tremolo and lively fluttery vibrato tones

Further insights into Drunk Beaver's incredibly smart-switching Irpin take on the Roland AF-100 Bee Baa Fuzz

Thorpy's 'The J' Dual Channel Preamp take on the Lazy J 20 is his most exquisitely richly textured overdrive to date - indeed a Tweed Supreme!

Empty Head Effects' latest - the King Alex II - is a killer Obliteration Distortion which has similar dynamics to the Expandora's Forbidden Fuzz Mode

The Colortone VibroVerb and ZeroSum get the final tiny tweaks that they need - now with Smarter Preset Switching and slightly Brighter Tone Profile

Manson Guitar Works co-desigs its Supermassive Black Fuzz with Matt Bellamy and in collaboration with Thorpy

2025 October Pedal-Chain Updated - Episode X - Big Thrills and Overspills

Hangman fx's new DAGG'R 2-in-1 Dynamic Auto-Gain/Gate is a magnificent mighty morphing gain-ramping machine

Ritual Devices Cauldron is a Single Mono FX Loop Parallel Blender which allows you to cleverly combine and build up effects in parallel

The Magnificent Teaching Machines' FuzzBillion is one of my all-time favourite pedals - its combination wheel gain-shaping delivers myriad exceptional tones across the gain spectrum

Spaceman Effects releases 2 of its most appealing Affordable Cadet Series Pedals to date - the Polaris and Sputnik III

The master of the PT2399 format - Polarbear Effects has another new variant - the Gardelyn Dual Parallel Delay with 3 independent tremolo points

SHOKR Pedals unleashes its first-born circuit - the smart KRUSH FuzzVerb Shoegazer style combination - with a Muff on one side and a saturating PT2399 Belton Brick Reverb on the other

LPD Pedals melds Super Lead Plexi and Nobels ODR-1 flavours together in the one Series and Parallel Mode Supernode Dual Overdrive / Distortion

Tubesteader's Olly Balan hits new heights with his glorious sounding dynamic Dual Channel Marshall style Gainlord Tube Preamp

Pettyjohn Electronics Improves and Reboots its Channel Strip Style PreDrive - now in 3rd Generation Wood-Facia Edition

The 2025 London International Guitar Show Highlights from Kempton Park - the New Kings of Kempton

Colortone Pedals rolls out to further dealers in Europe including now at Joe's Pedals in the UK, and Effekt Boutique in Germany

Drunk Beaver's Pedal Drop #33 is the superb Irpin take on one of my favourite fuzz circuits - the Roland Bee Baa

Keeley Electronics releases Oaxa Dual True Stereo Phaser - in the same enclosure as its Halo Core, Rotary, and Zoma Pedals

A selection of 7 of the best Gehirn Enterprises Compact Pedals - out of Tasmania

Orange Amps simplifies its Kongpressor with its new 4-knob Class A Highly Musical VCA King Comp

Spaceman Effects releases Limited White Glow-in-the-Dark Editions - 25 each of 5 of its most popular pedals - just in time for Halloween!

Hungry Robot delivers the most glorious sounding Wallflower All-in-one Shoegazer Multi-FX Pedal as it transitions to the next phase of its brand evolution

Nobels' 4th Mini Pedal - the MOD-mini delivers 3 flavours of Stereo Modulation - Tremolo, Phaser, and Uni-Vibe

2025 Rainger FX Baker's / Dirty Dozen Capsule Collection

Diamond Pedals reboots their Memory Lane Modulated Delay - now with a higher fidelity STM32 Arm Processor and 4 new Modes

Old Blood Noise Endeavors combines elements of its Sunlight and Procession pedals for a lush Modulated Stereo Reverb

I picked up this glorious Bee Motif Hello Sailor Effects 3-in-1 Dual RangeMaster at the recent Woking Boutique Guitar Show - as a lovely early birthday present!

Ghost Note Audio releases 3 x mostly 80's rack unit inspired Daedalus Digital Effects Series - consisting of the 3 Bit Fuzz / Crusher, Amverb Reverberator, and Swirls Modulator

Brian Wampler shrinks down his EGO 76 Compressor - not in smart Mini Edition

Reeves Electro rolls out new Daughterboard variant of the much loved Mosrite Fuzzrite - the IZZrite - tonight at 20:00 Hrs BST

Catalinbread gets stuck into Mini Pedals - with diminutive Jr 2-Knob Epoch Boost and Fuzzrite Editions

John Snyder's Electronic Audio Experiments unleashes blistering Glaive +80dB Gain Opamp Octave Fuzz

Discomfort Designs shrinks down its Riemann's Grave Multi-Mode Stereo Modulated Filter and 3-way Distortion Pedal

Color Audio delivers another distinct Tape Recorder Preamp Pedal - The Casette Preamp - this time based on another and as yet unspecified Vintage Japanese Tape Machine

SuperCool Pedals collaborates with Toronto's Blood Brothers Brewing for unique DOD250 Inspired Cutback Overdrive with 80's Australian Surf Culture Theme, and a matching Aussie Style Ginger Beer!

Kinotone unleashes probably its most potent and appealing pedal to date - the Ghosts 6-Voice Polyphonic Chordal Resonator with onboard touch pad, contact mic, synthesiser, drum machine and looper!

PastFX's Gallstone is a wonderfully warm and expansive take on the EHX Small Stone V2 Phase Shifter

Coffee Shop's 4th official pedal - the Portafilter Dual Channel Programmable Overdrive truly knocks it out of the park!

Strymon throws its hat into the Oil Can Delay Ring - with its Olivera Vintage Oil Can Echo

ThorpyFX Collaborates with Legendary Comic Imprint 2000AD for 3 Special Editions of its most popular pedals - Rogue Trooper (Fallout Cloud), Judge Dread Deathbringer (Warthog), Judge Dredd Lawbringer (Gunshot)

Fredric Effects' Modified 4-way Demon Fuzz take on the EHX Muff Fuzz is one of the most instantly satisfying fuzzes around!

My Fuzzer and Purrer NRG Effects Pedals get Neil's Special Satin Polished Finish!

Greer's Mizuki Blue replicates Tube-Amp-like Textures with 2 JFET Gain Stages

CopperSound shrink their Foxcatcher BluesBreaker take - now in sleeker V2 Compact Edition

Highlights from the Sophomore Woking Boutique Guitar Show at Fiery Bird

Moth Electric unleashes its best pedal to-date with the M. Stellatarum 32-Combination Multi-Mode Optical Analog Tremolo

Warm Audio takes on the BluesBreaker and King of Tone with its expanded features Throne of Tone Dual Channel Overdrive

Warm Audio is back on track with it's Multi-Screamer WA-TS Tube Squealer - which cleverly covers the Trifecta of - TS808 + TS9 + TS10 voicings

Thomas of RhPf Electronics has created a quite superb Resource for Pedal Enthusiasts and Professionals alike - 'Tone Maps' - where you can compare the output profile of up to 5 pedals at a time!

After a near 10 year chase - I finally have a Spaceman Effects Gemini III Dual Fuzz Generator - in gorgeous Blue Edition

Spaceman Effects rolls out a More Aggressive Silicon Variant of one of my favourite Fuzz Pedals of All Time - the Sputnik I!

Becos FX rolls out a more streamlined Stella essentially - named the CompIQ Pro Yuna - a soft-knee Blackmer VCA Studio style Compressor which covers around 95% of the Stella's functionality - but with overall easier dial-in!

In one of the nicest moves that I've experienced to date - Dr. No sent me one of his legendary 2006-2014 run Power Driver & Booster pedals from his own Archive Collection - a highly distinct Overdrive with exceptional breakup character

PastFX's Deluxe Electric Mistress take - the Deluxe Elastic Mattress - is particularly lush sounding with a slightly richer and denser texture than the original Mistress & Mattress

New fully formed Manchester Pedal Brand Gigahearts delivers a fabulous take on the Jan Ray & Timmy Format - the January Dynamic Overdrive

Blue Colander's Grimrobe Cascaded Dual Gain Stage Super-Rat is a fantastic sounding multi-textural Distortion

Coriolis Effects releases its second superb Compact take on the Spaceman Effects Gemini III - the improved Grissom Young Dual Fuzz II Edition - with fully variable gain controls

Poly Effects assembles an intriguing mix of unfamiliar effects that sustain & grow - including resonators, vinyl and pitch-shifting delays, vocal modelling, Wavefolding Distortion and an 8-Step Sequencer

Blue FX's very first wholly original design - the Fuzz Fields is the most magnificent and aptly named Ultimate Dynamic Modulated Fuzz - with sophisticated layers and waves of killer textures and tones

Roland slays the competition with its new TR-1000 Rhythm Creator Drum Machine - which combines Analog TR-808 and TR-909 Engines with Digital ACB, FM, VA and PCM Engines - with Sampling and Morphing also!

Glou-Glou unleashes its highly formidable PiLuLe Phase Locked Loop Fuzz Harmonizer

Frank Naughton of Teaching Machines and Grindle of Life is Unfair Audio Devices - together engineer the most fantastic and expansive 10 billion combination distortion shaper pedal - the FuzzBillion!

Olinthus targets the Big Muff format with its new dinky Earwig Fuzz

There's just a little over one week left until the 2nd Woking Boutique Guitar Show at Fiery Bird on Saturday October 11th

2025 September Pedal-Chain Update - Episode IX - 55-Part Lunacy!

Singular Sound massively levels up its Beat Buddy 2 - now in sleek gold accented custom enclosure with all-round improvements and a handy SuperSwitch Controller

Alexander Pedals rolls out Ghost-like Synthy Sci-Fi Stereo Modulated Reverb in the same format as its recent Forget Me Not Delay