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Boss has just announced a new pedal range, the 200 Series. The series launches with a new delay, an EQ, a modulation pedal and an overdrive. Boss says these pedals are part of a new “premium audio quality”, all with of 32-bit AD/DA, 32-bit internal processing and 96 kHz sample rate. Coming in the mid-priced market […]
Eventide has released the Instant Flanger MkII plug-in. Following in the footsteps of the Instant Phaser, the Instant Flanger MkII is a software emulation of another one of the company’s famed hardware units of the 1970s. The bucket-brigade-based Eventide Instant Flanger came out in 1975. For the first time, it became possible to achieve a […]
Pedal Crush is a new book by the author of Push Turn Move all about effects pedals – and it’s now live on Kickstarter. As a guitar player, I am more than familiar with effects pedals or stomp boxes, as I like to call them. Us guitarists are the target audience for a whole lot of […]
Chinese pedal maker Joyo has announced the R-09 Vision, an affordable dual-channel modulation pedal with 18 effects onboard. And it comes in at under $90. That makes it probably one of the best-specified budget modulation pedals around. Joyo R-09 Vision Joyo has released a ton of budget pedals lately, including the R-02 TaiChi drive, the R-07 Aquarius […]
Zoom’s new G1 Four and G1X Four multi-effects pedals manage to cram a boatload of effects into pedals that are, frankly, cheap as chips. These two new products may suit players on limited budgets or those looking to buy their first ever multi-effects unit. Zoom G1 Four and G1X Four After the Winter NAMM launch […]
There are plenty of ways to creatively distort and mangle audio. Developer Denise offers a refreshing take on bit-crushing and flanging, two bread-and-butter choices for adding texture and movement to any track, with its intuitive, nostalgia-ridden Bite and Space Invader plug-ins. With matching GUI designs, the two are among the easiest to master tools of […]
Dreadbox says that Komorebi is a Japanese, untranslatable word, which eloquently captures the effect of sunlight streaming through the leaves of the trees. That’s a beautiful description of a fascinating hybrid Chorus/Flanger pedal that’s designed for much more than guitar. Komorebi I’m really enjoying the trend of taking guitar pedals and turning them into more versatile devices. […]
The fabulously styled Hypnosis from Dreadbox is an eighties-tastic time-based desktop effects processor in pink and green neon. Need I say more? Hypnosis It’s telling me that this is definitely the most awesome desktop effects processor anyone has ever seen. Well, at least it looks pretty groovy. It’s a time-based effects processor featuring a Chorus/Flanger, […]
The new Zoom GCE-3 Guitar Lab Circuit Emulator is certainly the smallest audio interface with amp simulations and multi-effects in one unit I have ever seen and it launches at Winter NAMM. Zoom GCE-3 Guitar Lab Circuit Emulator This ridiculously USB audio interface gives you access to Zoom’s Guitar Lab software collection of guitar effects, amps and […]
Finland’s Mad Professor has dedicated himself mainly to distortion effects like the Big Tweedy Drive or the Loud’n Proud. Now it’s time for a modulation pedal. But which? All of them, of course. The Double Moon has a fully analogue signal path (bucket chain) across its 11 different modulation effects, from shallow warbles to fierce […]