Tonebox Recommended Pedals
Pigtronix Infinity Looper
The Pigtronix Infinity is arguably the most musical looping pedal in the market. Exceptionally powerful and versatile but still easy to use, the Infinity Looper establishes a new world standard for latency-free looping. Pigtronix’s revolutionary looping platform delivers quick record, dub, playback, redo and undo, on two stereo loop pairs configurable in different ways. Besides its performance friendly feature set and unparalleled speed, the Infinity Looper sounds marvelous due to its discreet analog limiter stages, 24bit/48kHz HD recording engine, and transparent analog pass-through.
EarthQuaker Devices Tentacle V2
EarthQuaker Devices has released single-dial stompboxes before, but for the Tentacle analog octave up guitar effects pedal, they scrapped even that single control knob and left only a footswitch. It’s all that it needs, really; the Tentacle does one thing—give you direct standalone access to the octave up effect found in the Hoof Reaper pedal—and does it extremely well. Tentacle V2 introduces Flexi-Switch capability, meaning you can engage the octave up effect with a standard tap on the switch ala latching footswitches or hold it down and release like a momentary-type switch.
Electro Harmonix Micro POG
All of the original POG’s perfect polyphonic tracking and musical flexibility distilled and contained in a compact pedal enclosure. The Micro POG Polyphonic Octave Generator can make your guitar sound like a 12-string or cover your sound in hauntingly divine organ tones. Plug in a bass guitar and you can get a massively enhanced bottom end. Dial in one octave up with the Octave knob, add an octave down with the Sub-Octave dial and then mix your wet and dry signals with the Dry control for some truly unique soundscapes.
MXR Distortion +
The Distortion + pedal from MXR loads magical classic distortion tones into a roadworthy, pedalboard-friendly enclosure. It bridges the realm between exaggerated fuzz tones and overdrive, making it a fundamental component of your tonal toolkit. With the Distortion +, it is amazingly convenient to find your ideal tones. Just roll the Distortion control to achieve your desired amount of crunch, and utilize the Output knob to dial in your preferred volume level. The Distortion + lets you add a delightful character to your amp tones.
Boss MT-2W Metal Zone Waza Craft
The special edition Boss MT-2W Waza Craft Metal Zone distortion guitar effects pedal takes all of the already over-the-top distortion capabilities of the venerable MT-2 and then cranks everything up to 11. The MT-2W features a new Standard mode that improved the clarity of the world-famous MT-2 sound while lowering the noise. There’s also a Custom mode that enhances the MT-2’s formidable gain tones with a wider tonal range, increased dynamics, and a tighter low end.
JAM Pedals RetroVibe
Made for Hendrix/Trower fanatics, the RetroVibe is Jam Pedals’ take on the most iconic Vibe pedal of all time. Jam Pedals originally wanted to emulate the sound of a vintage UniVibe. Upon getting there, however, they looked into leveling it up. The RetroVibe includes novel NOS 2SC828 transistors and carbon comp resistors for an authentic vintage sound. Jam Pedals also incorporated an additional internal trimmer which impacts the effect’s maximum intensity as well as manipulates the RetroVibe’s sound while keeping the pedal’s real vintage character.
Drive Pedals
Boss BD-2W Blues Driver Waza Craft
The Boss BD-2W Blues Driver Waza Craft Special takes the venerable Boss BD-2 Blues Driver guitar effects pedal to a whole new level via a newly revised, all-analog discrete amp circuit and a new two-position mode toggle. All of the original Blues Driver’s warm and bluesy overdriven tones are faithfully recreated in Classic mode while switching to Custom mode enhances your sound with more body and sustain. The Boss BD-2W Blues Driver Waza Craft Special remains highly responsive to your unique picking dynamics and volume changes in either mode.
Electro-Harmonix CRAYON 76 Full Range Overdrive
Whether you need a midrange boost, a beefier bottom end, or more high-flying high notes, the Crayon 76 full-range overdrive guitar effects pedal from Electro-Harmonix can handle it. This extremely versatile overdrive pedal gives you powerful tone-shaping tools for crafting your own signature sound. Sculpt your tone with dedicated Bass and Treble control knobs and dial in the perfect amount of rich, warm overdrive with the Gain knob. Hold back on the latter and you can use it as a down-and-dirty boost pedal.
Vick Audio Mount Pleasant
The Mount Pleasant by Vick Audio is a beautiful-sounding low to medium gain overdrive that works great for rock, blues, and several other applications. Except for the toggle switch, it includes your regular tone and volume gain controls. The tone stack was tweaked from the original unit to provide a more balanced response. It also incorporates a high cut switch to deliver other options. Made in the USA, the Mount Pleasant comes in a powder-coated aluminum chassis.
Mosky Mini TM Overdrive
Small size, big sound. That’s the mantra budget guitar effects pedal manufacturer Mosky Audio is following with the TM, an overdrive pedal based on the famous Timmy pedal by Paul Cochrane. The TM features a single control knob that lets you dial in the amount of Gain. If you need more precise tonal control, open the TM and inside it, you’ll find three additional internal trim pots that let you control the bass, treble, and volume.
Emerson Custom Pomeroy
Emerson Custom’s Pomeroy loads a highly customizable overdrive and powerful boost into a pedalboard-friendly, pure analog stompbox. Its overdrive side features six clipping options so you can tweak it to your liking, while the boost side is capable of up to 24dB of clean, full-range gain. The Pomeroy is an excellent choice because of its massive headroom and handy options. You may use the overdrive and boost circuits individually or together. Regarding flexibility, comfort, and power, the Pomeroy is tough to beat.
Donner Tube Drive Mini
If you want a tube tone without the expense and hassle of a tube amp, look no further. Donner’s Tube Drive pedal boasts all-analog goodness for your guitar tone needs, providing you with all the shaping and dialing-in controls you need and makes it convenient. This compact pedal is equipped with Tone, Volume, and Gain knobs that let you set the effect brightness, output volume, and gain of the distortion respectively. You may also choose between Normal and Boost modes.
TC Electronic Dark Matter
Experience a phenomenal distortion pedal with the TC Electronic Dark Matter Distortion. It features an extreme dynamic range providing you with incredibly musical distortion that covers a broad sound spectrum. Vintage-voiced distortion from analog circuits delivers a full sound with dynamic response easily adjustable to a variety of tones. Two-band EQ with active Bass and Treble controls allows you to sculpt your sound. The voicing switch lets you toggle between extra bass for a more contemporary sound or adding retro vibes to your tone.
Maxon Compact Series FF10
The FF10 Fuzz Elements Fire gives you two distinct but equally aggressive fuzz tones based on the iconic sounds of the AF100. In normal mode, its three knobs are capable of dialing in beefy transistor tones similar to an awesome-sounding Big Muff, but with superior note clarity and enhanced midrange response. Although more affordable and compact, the Fire is just as efficient as the original unit it was inspired by. It also features mechanical true bypass switching.
EBS Metal Drive
The EBS MetalDrive brings a pure, aggressive metal distortion for bass and more. It provides high-gain distortion for utilization in contemporary metal music and other music genres which require a mean distorted sound. It is based on a personalized MultiDrive created for bassist John Moyer of Disturbed. The Black Label Pedals offer exceptional tone for keyboard, guitar, as well as other instruments. Smooth working effects with minimal to zero noise and a fat tone which keep the bottom firm.
DOD Grunge
Touted as the “fattest sounding distortion available,” the FX69 Grunge is the most popular DOD distortion pedal ever. It is the perfect tool if you crave a modern crunch with a huge low-end response. So heavy and so nasty, this hypercharged high-gain preamp delivers screaming distortion and may be shaped with four clear-cut knobs: Grunge, Low, High, and Loud. The Grunge features a distorted distortion. Among the pros of utilizing a pedal-type distortion such as this one is that massive distortion can be created at whatever amp volume or setting.
Rowin DIST-IV
The high gain distortion served up by the LEF-301D Dist IV belies its tiny aluminum alloy casing. This distortion pedal from budget guitar effects pedal maker Rowin can throw out everything from aggressive distortion to even more aggressive distortion, thanks in part to a three-way selector switch that lets you toggle between Original, Extra, and Ultra modes. Dedicated Level, Tone, and Distortion knobs provide precise tone shaping and control while a true bypass footswitch keeps your signal quiet while the pedal is disengaged.
Pigtronix FAT Drive
Regarding tone, the FAT Drive by Pigtronix leaves ordinary overdrive pedals in the dust. It leverages a range of cascading gain stages to produce a seamless, natural-sounding overdrive which covers tones that range from dynamic breakup to lush, dripping saturation. What’s more, the FAT Drive will not change your playing dynamics or erase the fundamental character of your axe. If you love your guitar’s sound and want an exceptional overdrive tone, the FAT Drive is the way to go.
Keeley Fuzz Bender
Keeley’s Fuzz Bender is powered by a combination of high-gain silicon and germanium transistors that can serve up gobs of thick, hairy fuzz. You can create fuzz tones both classic and new via a pair of bass and treble gyrators that can act as active EQ controls, a Bias dial that adds a glitchy, velcro-style attack, and Level and Fuzz knobs that serve up massive gain. An epic level of control for epic levels of fuzz.
Mojo Hand FX Colossus
Handcrafted in the USA using only top-grade components, the Colossus Fuzz pedal by Mojo Hand FX serves up that classic Muff-esque fuzz you have been wanting. Armed with volume, gain, tone, and full range mids knobs, plus a three-position toggle with different EQ voicings, the ultra-versatile and tweakable Colossus Fuzz lets you dial in and sculpt your sound for various styles and genres. It comes in a sturdy, roadworthy die-cast chassis built to endure years of touring and gigging.
Maxon Fuzz Elements Earth
Inspired by the legendary 1970s Ram’s Head transistor fuzz circuit, the Maxon FEA10 provides you with a singing sustain and throaty fuzz. Just like an authentic Ram’s Head, this pedal includes no bad sound at any control setting, only variations of awesome. The FEA10’s tone has been modeled on several of the best-sounding Ram’s Heads from various studios and vintage guitar stores in Tokyo. It could cost you thousands and take you ages to find vintage units with such consistency and sound quality.
Greer Amps 18th Anniversary Black Fuzz
In celebration of its 18th anniversary, Greer Amps wanted to do something exciting and has decided to reissue the pedal that started it all for them. The Greer Amps Black Fuzz is a straightforward and classy pedal featuring a distinct sound—think of an overdriven B*ssman amp, with a hint of fuzz tacked above. The single knob selects the pedal’s output volume level. The Black Fuzz is very thick and pick sensitive. By changing the pick attack or tweaking the guitar’s volume control, you can unleash a variety of tones.
MXR Blue Box
Meet the insane effect behind Jimmy Page’s “Fool in the Rain” solo—the Blue Box Octave Fuzz from MXR. It duplicates your guitar signal two octaves down for massive subterranean tones. It features a simple two-knob design consists of Blend and Output controls. Roll the Output control to select the amount of fuzz you desire and utilize the Blend knob to set how much double-octave sound you wish. The Blue Box delivers plenty of fun and chaos, making it perfect for the sonically adventurous.
Fuzzrocious Demon Med/High Overdrive
The Demon by Fuzzrocious sports a special Chicago Music Exchange orange and black finish. This low to medium-high gain drive with gate/boost mod and distortion-like capabilities dives into the gated fuzz range. The Fuzzrocious Demon includes controls for Feedback, Tone, Volume, and Drive. It is capable of the pushed amp sound at high drive settings or “just on the verge of breakup” stuff at low drive settings. It also features mono in and mono out.
ZVex Super Duper 2-in-1
With the ability to bring your signal from unity gain to a whopping 60 times the gain size, the Super Hard On boost is insanely loud. So, of course, it didn’t take long for boutique guitar effects company Zvex to cram two SHOs into one pedal and come up with the Super Duper 2-in-1. Be warned: this stomp is dangerously loud. Zvex boss Zachary Vex seriously recommends starting off slow and keeping an eye on your amp to monitor any potential damage. This hand painted version comes with a lifetime warranty.
Laney Black Country Customs Steelpark
Boasting incredible versatility, the Black Country Customs Steelpark boost pedal helps you cut through and takes your sound in front of the mix. It works well with gain pedals. You can run it in front of your distortion or overdrive for a more compressed, driven sound or position it after to increase your distorted sound’s volume. The Steelpark consists of four control knobs and a three-way mode switch, allowing you various ways to find the ideal boost for your rig.
Mooer Flex Boost
The Flex Boost guitar effects pedal from budget stomp master Mooer packs a lot of extra gain in its tiny, pocket-sized chassis. Use it to push a clean amp into warm overdrive territory or use the extra muscle to push and overdriven amp’s front end even further down the road into full-on distortion. The Mooer Flex Boost also comes with its own Treble and Bass EQ micro knobs to give you even more tone-shaping options.
Vertex Boost
Expertly built to be a buffer, clean boost, and volume pedal in one, the Vertex Boost will leave your tone unchanged while raising the level of your signal. It boasts an ultra-linear buffer for conditioning your line without any tonal coloration, even with a multitude of pedals in your chain. You also get full volume control by connecting the Boost to any EXP/volume pedal and setting your volume like you would with a standard volume pedal.
J. Rockett Steampunk
Easy yet ultra-versatile, the J. Rockett Steampunk is an exceptional two-in-one Buffer Booster. The Buffer is great for addressing impedance issues caused by employing big boards and long cables. It will let you save your tone and recover any high end loss. An LED indicator watches the Buffer control while it is in phase. The Boost feature gives a clean 20+ Db push to your effects and amps. The Steampunk can also take perfectly clean tones and impart clarity and sustain.
Wampler Tumnus
Any conversation about legendary overdrive circuits will invariably include a mention of the Klon Centaur. Never one to shrink away from a stompbox challenge, Brian Wampler took the classic Klon sound and replicated it to create the Tumnus. You can use it as a standalone drive or dirty boost box. You can also stack it with another overdrive pedal to really push your amp to and beyond its breaking point. Whatever your rig and whatever genre you play in, you can find a place for the Tumnus on your pedalboard.
MOOER 011 Cali-Dual
Mooer Audio’s Micro Preamp line of guitar effects pedals is all about giving shoestring budget shoegazers easy and affordable access to the legendary tones served up by classic and boutique amp models. The Mooer 011 Cali Dual earns its name by replicating the very versatile Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier amp from the ‘90s. It comes with two switchable channels as well as volume, gain, bass, mid, and treble controls. It also features a cab sim on and off switch.
Tom’sline Dumbler
Dumble amps are among the rarest and most expensive boutique amps ever made. Fortunately for musicians who don’t have the cash to blow on a boutique amp, budget guitar effects pedal maker Tomsline has the Dumbler, a cab simulator that perfectly mimics the signature tone of a vintage Dumble amp. No matter your backline, you’ll be able to dial in your favorite Dumble sound with ease. The Dumble features Tomsline’s patented stop bar design to keep your foot from messing up the pedal’s settings when you stomp on it.
MOSKY DELUXE PREAMP
The Deluxe Preamp low to medium gain overdrive from budget guitar effects pedal brand Mosky Audio lets you dial in everything from extremely subtle overdrive right up to a mild, tasteful distortion thanks to its built-in boost circuit. It also one-ups the pedal it’s based on–the Love Pedal Amp Eleven, which itself is a combo of Love Pedal’s OD11 and COT50 stomps–by giving adding four distinct voicings to the overdrive section and two to the boost section.
Greer Amps SOMA ’63
The SOMA ’63 Vintage Preamp is the first installment in Greer Amps’ XFR pedal series. It is built upon the tone and vibe of classic brown era amps from California. It emulates the whole preamp, power section, phase inverter, and the feel of the ten-inch Utah speakers within those iconic brown amplifiers. The tone stack gives you a broad and dynamic range of tonal options. The Presence knob is intended to be a full range control affecting the whole circuit’s sound.
Tech 21 SansAmp GT2
Tech 21’s SansAmp amp simulator technology has long been at the forefront of letting musicians dial in their favorite amp tone without needing to lug around that specific amp. The SansAmp GT2 doesn’t just give you a single amp’s signature tone, though; it packs a whole slew of the most sought-after vintage tube and modern amp sounds, from a clean tweed-flavored rhythm to a scream Mesa-style lead tone. Pair the GT2 with a DI box and you’ll forget your amp even existed.
MOOER 005 Brown Sound 3
Mooer Audio’s Micro Preamp line of guitar effects pedals is all about giving shoestring budget shoegazers easy and affordable access to the legendary tones served up by classic and boutique amp models. The Mooer 005 Brown Sound 3, in particular, is based on EVH’s iconic 5150 “brown sound” amp and pretty much replicates that amp’s sound and features, including clean and drive channels as well as volume, gain, low, mid, and high controls. It also features a cab sim on and off switch.
Mosky BROWN Distortion
Mosky Audio’s Brown distortion guitar effects pedal is a versatile dirt stomp built to grind your signal into the classic “brown sound.” It’s highly tweakable, with two separate tone controls that act as a two-knob parametric EQ for precise tone shaping. The Gain dial goes from low-gain early rock to modern high-gain dirt. The Brown pedal also comes with a Vintage/Modern voicing switch that lets you choose between a darker vintage sound and a brighter, more modern tone.
Xotic RC Booster-V2
As with all of boutique guitar effects pedal maker Xotic’s boost pedals, the RC Booster delivers some of the most transparent boosting power you’ll ever find anywhere. For the RC Booster V2, Xotic takes the pedal’s capabilities to the next level with the addition of an additional gain channel that’ll let you coat your tone in a whole new layer of fatness. Tone tweakers will also appreciate the dedicated treble and bass EQ controls, each of which can cut or boost by 15dB either way.
TC Electronic Spark Mini
Drive your guitar amp into glorious overdrive with the Spark Mini Booster from TC Electronic. You may also utilize it as a clean boost for a mild volume increase during solos. Either way, this innovative pedal boasts premium analog circuitry that does not degrade your tone. Additionally, you can utilize the Spark Mini Booster in two ways—hold the footswitch for a momentary boost or kick it on/off like other pedals. It comes in a compact footprint that easily fits on your pedalboard.
Laney Black Country Customs Steelpark
Boasting incredible versatility, the Black Country Customs Steelpark boost pedal helps you cut through and takes your sound in front of the mix. It works well with gain pedals. You can run it in front of your distortion or overdrive for a more compressed, driven sound or position it after to increase your distorted sound’s volume. The Steelpark consists of four control knobs and a three-way mode switch, allowing you various ways to find the ideal boost for your rig.
Donner Boost Killer
Often likened to the Xotic RC Booster, Donner’s Boost Killer pedal is arguably one of the most aggressive boost effects available. For a budget-friendly effects pedal, it loads plenty of heat, making it an attractive option. If you are looking to enter the world of boosters, the Boost Killer could be a great starting point. Even with its lightweight and compact enclosure, this pedal features a bit more generous controls than your standard booster design. It consists of Treble, Bass, and Volume controls along with a dominant Gain knob.
Wampler Tumnus Deluxe
Any conversation about legendary overdrive circuits will invariably include a mention of the Klon Centaur. Never one to shrink away from a stompbox challenge, Brian Wampler took the classic Klon sound and replicated it to create the Tumnus. With the Tumnus Deluxe drive pedal, Wampler gives you unrivalled control over that legendary sound via an onboard three-band EQ and a toggle that lets you switch between the Tumnus’ original gain levels and a new higher gain mode.
Modulation Pedals
Seymour Duncan Catalina
The bevy of tones the Catalina Chorus from Seymour Duncan can produce is insane. This versatile chorus pedal generates sounds from extreme swirling to clean shimmer, and anything in between. You can utilize the Catalina Chorus to capture classic chorus effects, giving dimension to your sound. Forge Nirvana-esque underwater warbling or achieve rich, deep modulations evocative of 80s goth guitar tones. Leveraging an analog bucket brigade tech for a warm musical character, the Catalina Chorus is an invaluable tool for guitarists.
Carl Martin Atlantic Chorus
The Carl Martin Atlantic Chorus strives to surpass your average pedal, delivering a virtually unprecedented degree of sound control in a pocket-friendly price range. It comes in a sleek ocean blue shade and gives you all the necessary controls. Unlike most chorus pedals, the Atlantic Chorus consists of four knobs including a Level control that can effectively boost the signal to sit in the mix and a Rate knob that blends in vibrato for more intense in-depth chorus modulations.
Keeley Seafoam Chorus
Keeley went above and beyond when developing the Seafoam chorus guitar effects pedal. It features what Keeley calls “True Chorus,” a new type of chorus effect that adds second and third voices that have a slight difference in timing and pitch characteristics from your original tone. This creates a more organic, more real-sounding chorus effect compared to a straight-up copy of your original signal. Add a touch of reverb with the Space knob and switch between modern and vintage voicings to explore new sonic soundscapes.
Mad Professor Double Moon
The Double Moon from Mad Professor is a true modulation effects workhorse powered analog bucket brigade signal paths. Compact and highly versatile, this guitar effects pedal comes packed with 11 different takes on tonal oscillation, from a sweet, subtle chorus to jet engine flange. Choose your modulation mode with the rotary dial then fine-tune the flavor with the dedicated Control knob. Speed, Depth, and Tone controls round out the Double Moon’s full complement of tone-shaping tools.
Alexander Pedals Wavelength
The Wavelength is a massively versatile digital modulation machine in one small, stompable package. The Wavelength has six distinct modulation engines—textured tremolo, bright chorus, eight-stage phaser, flexible flanger, photocell- and lamp-style vibrato, and resonant low-pass filter—all controllable via a customizable LFO. As a NEO pedal, the Wavelength can store up to four presets and up to 16 presets via a MIDI controller. Plug a foot switch into the multi-jack, and you can seamlessly sweep through two different effects settings.
Xvive Duet Looper D3
Although the Duet Looper from budget guitar effects maker Xvive may not be the first micro stereo looper pedal on the market, it does have the distinction of being the first to let players use series recording and dual loop playback. It features two modes you can switch between via a toggle. In Undo/Redo mode, you can record a five-minute loop with undoable and redoable overdubs. Verse/Chorus mode, meanwhile, lets you record two separate loops of up to five minutes each. you can then record, overdub, or play these loops separately.
TWA Wah Rocker
Totally Wycked Audio’s Wah Rocker stomp resurrects the legendary Guyatone Wah Rocker “Duck Box,” a funk machine that has lent its distinctive sound to such greats as Lenny Kravitz and David Torn. The TWA Wah Rocker is based on Guyatone’s original WR3 circuit and adds a host of mechanical improvements including TWA’s Shortest Send Switching (S3) true bypass function. Tone-wise, it’s pure Wah Rocker funk; all the squawky, slippery, and souped-up grooves of the original, minus the vintage price tag.
Lehle DC-Filter
Remove DC voltage from analog signals with the Lehle DC Filter. Audio signals with DC voltage produce annoying switching noise. You can now have both line and high-impedance signals clean, without any loss of sound. Since the DC Filter is of full stereo type, it filters stereo as well as mono signals. This small aid is also capable of processing your balanced signals. The DC Filter requires no power supply as it is a passive filter.
Alexander Pedals Syntax Error
Send your sound back in time to the 8-bit era and beyond with the Syntax Error, Alexander Pedals’ time and pitch modulating pedal that comes packed with a cubic distortion algorithm. As part of Alexander Pedals’ NEO line, the Syntax Error can hold up to four presets by itself and up to 16 with a compatible MIDI controller and lets you precisely sweep through two different effects settings with an expression pedal or a momentary foot switch.
Aguilar Filter Twin
The Filter Twin utilizes two similar filters sweeping in opposite directions—one down in frequency, the other up in frequency—to produce original filter tones or classic 70’s-inspired funk sounds. Two filters sweeping at once provide you a more natural, vocal quality and let you create expressive new sounds. Use the THRESHOLD control to determine the unit’s sensitivity to different playing styles, BLEND to adjust the mix between the filters, and VELOCITY controls to determine every filter’s speed.
Pigtronix Ringmaster Analog Multiplier
The Ringmaster Analog Multiplier pedal from Pigtronix is among the most playable ring modulators you will hear. Sophisticated real-time pitch-tracking tech makes it an amazingly musical-sounding ring mod effect, and you may also disable the pitch tracking for clanging, atonal ring mod effects. The Ringmaster is capable of becoming a vibrant analog tremolo effect with the flick of a switch. An inbuilt LFO and sample plus hold add animation and movement to the effects. The Ringmaster delivers tremendous sound design potential for guitarists and synthesists.
Keeley Super Mod Workstation
Pedalmeister Robert Keeley wasn’t kidding around when he named this modulation multi-effects pedal the Super Mod Workstation. It features two banks loaded with eight high-quality modulation effects each, from thick chorus and pristine digital delay to rotary emulation and wah. Mix ‘em, match ‘em, stack ‘em–you have the power. The Super Mod Workstation also comes with a dedicated tap tempo footswitch as well as expression pedal support for real-time parameter control. A truly super stompbox.
MXR Flanger
The MXR M-117R Flanger provides you with an arsenal of wild sounds from short delay, vibrato, and chorus to a dynamic jet plane and cool space effects. You get full control over the filter so you can shape your sound to your liking. The M-117R Flanger consists of Regen, Speed, Width, and Manual knobs, as well as a footswitch. This mainstay of 70s funk and rock is back by popular demand, featuring dynamic and wild sounds. Use it with bass, keyboards, guitar, or vocals.
MOOER Mod Factory MKII
If modulation effects are what you’re looking for, you won’t go wrong with the Mod Factory MKII guitar effects pedal. This tiny wonder from budget-priced stomp creator Mooer packs 11 distinct modulation effects into its tiny, pedalboard-friendly chassis. It lets you dial in everything from a watery chorus to a dynamic auto wah and through to an extreme envelope ring effect. Three control knobs give you enough flexibility to create a wide range of lush sonic soundscapes for each effect mode.
Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Electric Mistress
The original Electric Mistress’ slithering, rippling modulation effects are once again being made easily available to flang-heads thanks to the Deluxe Electric Mistress XO from Electro-Harmonix. This isn’t just a straight reissue of the classic analog pedal, though. The Deluxe Electric Mistress XO still packs the same rich flange effects and the much-loved Filter Matrix mode, but in a new pedalboard-friendly chassis that features true bypass and can be powered by a standard 9V battery or compatible power supply.
Tom’sline Twister
The Twister is a versatile analog flanger stompbox from budget guitar effects maker Tomsline. Dial in everything from a subtle flange to a screaming jet engine fly by with the Color, Range, and Speed knobs. Use the two position toggle to switch from Normal mode to Freeze mode to give the flange effect a simpler, more vintage feel. The Twister features Tomsline’s patented stop bar design to keep your foot from messing up the pedal’s settings when you stomp on it.
Alexander Pedals Wavelength
The Wavelength is a massively versatile digital modulation machine in one small, stompable package. The Wavelength has six distinct modulation engines—textured tremolo, bright chorus, eight-stage phaser, flexible flanger, photocell- and lamp-style vibrato, and resonant low-pass filter—all controllable via a customizable LFO. As a NEO pedal, the Wavelength can store up to four presets and up to 16 presets via a MIDI controller. Plug a foot switch into the multi-jack, and you can seamlessly sweep through two different effects settings.
Rowin Mod Station
A ton of high-quality modulation effects, all packed into a small, very affordable stompbox that you can carry around in your pocket. The powerful LEF-3808 Mod Station multi-effects stomp from budget guitar effects pedal manufacturer Rowin comes with eleven distinct modulation effects, all of which can be further tweaked via its dedicated Level, Speed, and Depth pots. Its footswitch is also multi-functional: pressing down twice will switch between fixed and non-fixed mode while holding it down will let you store a setting you like.
Mooer Ninety Orange
The all-analog Ninety Orange is budget-priced stompbox creator Mooer’s take on the iconic Phase 90 guitar effects pedal from MXR. The Ninety Orange features two distinct voicing modes: you get a warm, rich phase reminiscent of classic psychedelic rock with Vintage mode while Modern mode serves up a deeper, cleaner EQ-based phase effect for a more contemporary attack. Just select a mode using the two-position toggle switch then dial in the phase rate using the Speed knob and you’re off.
Walrus Audio Lillian
The Lilian multi-stage analog phaser from boutique guitar effects pedal maker Walrus Audio gives you all the whirls, whooshes, and pulses that you could ever need from a phaser pedal. Dedicated Rate, Width, and Feedback controls let you dial in a wide range of phaser flavors, while the multi-stage select lets you switch between a tight four-stage phase and a more complex six-stage effect. The Lilian also features a special D-P-V knob that lets you blend the ratio of dry, phase-shifted, and vibrato-laced signals for pure phaser bliss.
MXR Phase 99
The Phase 99 from MXR sports two Phase 90 circuits within one Phase 90-sized pedal, providing you with a convenient and cost-efficient way of capturing the beautiful sounds you achieve when both circuits interact. You have tons of control, including individual rate controls as well as a Vintage switch that allows you to toggle between modern and classic phasing. You may also select from series or parallel signal flow between the two circuits, and sync their duty cycles.
ZVex Vibrophase
The Vibrophase is actually based on a candle-powered vibrato / phaser machine called the Candela that Zvex mastermind Zachary Vex created a few years back. Fans loved the Candela’s swirling sounds, so Zvex created the Vibropahse. From classic analog phase to Uni-vibe textures and otherworldly pulses, the Vibrophase’s sonic palette is pure bliss. Zvex’s Vexter line of silk-screened pedals feature the exact same tone, features, and parts as their hand-painted counterparts. The only differences are the painting process and the price. The more “standard” vertical orientation of the Vibrophase Vertical also makes it easier to slot this pedal into your pedalboard.
J. Rockett Tranquilizer
Get a Phase 45, Univibe, and Leslie all within one box with the Tranquilizer. It is a reproduction of the original Phase 45 pedals and incorporates additional features. It is capable of the classic sounds of Univibe, Leslie, Phase 45, and vibe only. It carries a Focus knob that serves as the key to all things morphing. Unlike the original Phase 45s, the Tranquilizer lets you control the low-end whomp of your tone. If you are looking for the perfect modulation pedal for your rig, look no further.
Joyo JF-06
Budget guitar effects pedal company Joyo couldn’t have picked a better stompbox to model the JF-06 Vintage Phase’s sound after: MXR’s Phase 90, which was instrumental in helping Eddie Van Halen craft his signature sound. You hear the Phase 90 at the forefront in such classics as “Eruption” and “Ain’t Talkin’ Bout Love,” and that’s the exact sound you’ll hear when you plug into a JF-06 Vintage Phase. A very practical solution for musicians who want to expand their arsenal of tonal textures.
Danelectro CT-1 Cool Cat Tremolo
Serve up some vintage-style tremolo effects for a fraction of a boutique stompbox’s cost with the Danelectro Cool Cat CT-1 Tremolo guitar effect pedal. It’s easy to use: just use the Speed knob to control the trem effect’s speed and dial in the effect’s strength with the Depth knob. There’s also a Hard/Soft switch; you get a square wave shape that gives a more pronounced tremolo effect in Hard mode and a softer, more subtle triangular shape in Soft mode.
ammoon Mini Tremolo
The Trelicopter is an impressive, expressive, and wide-ranging optical tremolo effect packed into a stompbox literally small enough to put in your pocket. This budget-friendly guitar effects pedal from Ammoon can conjure up a gentle, natural tremolo that hews close to a classic Fender tremolo sound. Ammoon also threw in a Bias control knob that lets you adjust the clipping waveform’s hardness or softness as well as a true bypass function. Small, versatile, and highly musical.
TC Electronic Pipeline
With the Pipeline Tap Tremolo’s introduction, TC Electronic takes a highly-anticipated tremolo device to their innovative TonePrint range of effects pedals. Credits to Square and Vintage settings, the Pipeline is a blessing for vintage tone enthusiasts and players seeking new and inspiring sounds. A roll of a knob gives you six tap tempo-based note subdivisions, delivering great rhythmic depth to your sound. As if that were not enough, the TonePrint Library and Editor provide conveniently accessible custom sounds produced by you and artists.
T-Rex Tremster
Handcrafted by T-Rex Engineering in Denmark, the Tremster pedal is a masterpiece of striking simplicity. It consists of intuitive Mode, Volume, Speed, and Depth controls. The Tremster has been precision-engineered to sound marvelous at whatever setting, so you can explore all you want and never yield a sound you do not like. Similar to other T-Rex pedals, the Tremster comes with an elegant, sturdy design constructed for a life on the road. It features a cherry red paint job.
CNZ Audio Tremolo
The CNZ Audio Tremolo returns the classic tones of yesteryear with lots of control on your tone and slick vintage design. It does not sacrifice the tone for effect. It lets you maintain your beautiful guitar tones while adding deep to subtle effects from the CNZ Audio Tremolo pedal. Use the Depth knob to adjust the intensity of the tremolo effect, Speed to control the tremolo’s speed and tempo, and Bias to adjust the tremolo effect’s overall signal. The single switch and labeled dials make this pedal perfect for beginners and experienced players alike.
TC Helicon VoiceLive 3 Extreme
Boasting four times its predecessor’s memory, the VoiceLive 3 Extreme brings TC Helicon’s flexible all-in-one performance device to a whole new level. When you wish to sculpt and improve your vocals with beautiful-sounding onboard effects, craft realistic vocal harmonies, and process your guitar with effects and amp models built on TC Electronic’s famed TonePrint line, it can deliver. The feature-rich VoiceLive 3 Extreme provides you with innovative effects automation features, backing track storage, and USB import/export of loops.
DigiTech Ventura Vibe
The DigiTech Ventura Vibe Rotary/Vibrato pedal will tweak your equilibrium adding swaying, spinning motion to your guitar playing. It serves up both modern and vintage sounds with three rotary/vibrato effects. You may uniquely contour each to accentuate high frequencies and drive to distort using the stacked Drive and Tone knob. These controls’ flexibility, coupled with individual Mix, Depth, and Speed controls let you dial up anything from a slight amplitude and frequency modulation to maximum case of vertigo. A foot-switchable speed function enables you to ramp between fast and slow speed on the fly.
TC Electronic Dreamscape
Craft unique effects for your electric guitar with the Dreamscape John Petrucci Signature Modulation Pedal from TC Electronic. Leveraging TC Electronic’s revered TonePrint technology, John tailored six distinct tones for the Dreamscape. You get flanger, chorus, and vibrato effects, along with a custom voicing switch that provides you with the “dark” feel of John’s chorus sounds. Since it is a TonePrint unit, you may add new effects presets whenever you desire. It consists of controls for Speed, Depth, and FX Level.
Eventide H9 Core
Eventide H9 Core
The H9 Core acts as the entry-level version of Eventide’s monstrous H9 MAX multi-effects pedal. It comes with 25 presets from the original glitch-heavy, pitch-shifting H910/H949 Harmonizers, plus for a fee, you can augment its effects arsenal via the H9 Control app. You can pick and choose the effects you purchase to make an H9 Core that’s truly unique to your needs, or just go all out and turn your H9 Core into an H9 MAX.
Keeley Monterey
A must-have for anyone on a quest to emulate Jimi Hendrix’s legendary tones. Keeley’s Monterey multi-effects pedal combines a number of Hendrix’s favorite effects into one roadworthy bag of tricks. You get a rotary speaker, a vibe effect, and an auto-wah, plus a heaping helping of thick, highly responsive fuzz and variable octave up and down functions. Got an external expression pedal? Plug it in for manual control over the wah or the modulation speed.
Fairfield Circuitry Shallow Water
Fairfield Circuitry took simulation mathematics—or K-field math—theory and used it to create a stompbox capable of generating familiar but still unique tone modulation effects. The Shallow Water effects pedal creates a short time delay then randomly modulates the delayed signal to give it a sprinkling of unexpected pitch shifts. The Shallow Water might look like some simple aluminum box, but this versatile stomp gives you a wide range of chorus, vibrato, pitch-shifting, and other vintage tape-style effects with which to wash your signal.
MXR JIMI HENDRIX UNI-VIBE
The UniVibe Chorus/Vibrato’s thick wash which pervades the landmark Band of Gypsys album is undoubtedly among the most transcendent tones ever recorded. Boasting a chorusy, phasey, Leslie-sounding goodness, Jimi Hendrix had summoned surprisingly lush textures that sound like you can spoon them out of the speakers. The UniVibe pedal gives you those vintage tones in all their stellar analog glory and at a portion of the size of the original Shin-ei unit utilized by Hendrix. It sports a colorful, iconic artwork from rock artist Gered Mankowitz.
smallsound/bigsound Buzzz
The Buzzz by Smallsound/Bigsound is a highly customized take on a classic, incredibly gnarly superfuzz circuit. It retains the standard superfuzz sounds—a clangy and scrambled fuzz featuring noticeable upper octaving and lower harmonics/sub-frequencies—and provides you with more controls to access more subtle dirty boost and drive tones, gated sputter and low buzz-tones. The Buzzz carries interactive controls, including a more extensive gain range, tone-blast toggle, gain modifier toggle, octave on/off, passive LPF, and voltage starve.
Danelectro DJ-12 Chili Dog Octave Mini
A seriously musical stompbox for the shoegazer on a shoestring budget. The Danelectro DJ-12 Chili Dog Octave can generate up to two extra octave tones, each of which has its own control knob. OCT1 gives you a clear, more treble-focused tone one octave down from your guitar signal while OCT2 is a heavier, more pure-sounding tone that’s also dropped one octave down. This guitar effect pedal can also track notes pretty well, even bent ones.
ZVex Jonny Octave
The Jonny Octave stomp from boutique guitar effects pedal company Zvex is as quirky as its name.This octave up pedal is designed to make single notes you play on your guitar sound like they’re actually being played further up the neck by one or two octaves. The Jonny Octave is clean and extremely transparent; you don’t have to worry about your core tone getting drowned out by the octave up effect. If you feel the octave volume pots don’t give you enough tone sculpting power, there are four internal gain trimpots that you can adjust for more tonal flexibility.
Fuzzrocious Grey Stache with Octave Jawn Mod
The Fuzzrocious Grey Stache is built on the GGG-tuned and Civil War variants of a muff fuzz, building a flexible guitar and bass-friendly beast. It sports a CME exclusive orange and black polish. The tone stack boasts the capacity to flatten the mids for an even-keeled sound, scoop mids to enable a massive, deep sound, or boost the mids for a newer sound that lets one punch through in the mix as well as drive speakers. Dialing back the sustain can give more of an overdrive sound.
Electro-Harmonix Octavix
Fuzz and octave effects go together like peanut butter and jelly. The Octavix octave fuzz guitar effects pedal from Electro-Harmonix gives you both in a tiny Nano-form enclosure. Dedicated Volume, Boost, and Octave control knobs let you dial in the exact torn-speaker, self-destructing amp vintage fuzz and octave sound you want. The Octavix also has an interesting switchable 9V/24V power feature; it sounds like a vintage fuzz pedal when you use 9V, while switching to 24V gives you tighter, fatter effects.
ammoon Octa
WIth super fast tracking and dynamic octave generation, budget guitar effects pedal manufacturer Ammoon’s Octa precise polyphonic octave stompbox can make your six-string sound like a 12-string with one stomp. You craft the Octa’s tone by using three dedicated control knobs: the Up and Sub dials control the output level of the upper and sub octaves, respectively, while the Dry knob lets you dictate how much of your dry signal is present in the mix.
Timing, Dynamics & EQ Pedals
Mooer Repeater
If there’s one thing a digital delay should be, it’s transparent. It should be able to repeat the exact sound you play without adding any tonal colorations or tracking issues. Budget stomp maker Mooer’s Repeater guitar effects pedal does just that on its Normal mode setting. If you feel more adventurous, try the Kill Dry mode to remove the original signal entirely and play only the repeats. The Repeater also has a Mod mode that adds a layer of modulation for a spacey, chorus-like delay.
JOYO AQUARIUS
The Aquarius guitar effects pedal from Joyo pulls double duty as both a multi-mode delay pedal and a looper. Use each function separately or use both simultaneously to create some truly righteous soundscapes. The delay section comes with eight different delay modes including digital, analog, and a glitchy 8-bit style delay. The looper part of the equation gives you up to five minutes of recording time. As a part of Joyo’s Revolution or R Series line of pedals, the Aquarius comes with some cool switchable ambient LED effects.
Vox Double Deca Delay
Capture lush sonic landscapes with the Tone Garage Double Deca Delay from Vox. This solidly constructed unit leverages a trio of the legendary 3205 BBD chips for a deep delay. Select long or short delay modes or combine them for an ambient tonal character. A separate modulation control adds a hint of a chorus to your sound. From classic tape echo delay to 900ms of spacious delay, the Double Deca Delay pedal has you covered. Broaden your tonal palette with this versatile pedal.
Rowin Tape Echo
The LEF-3809 Tape Echo is perfect for any musician who wants to add that vintage warbling tape delay sound to their effects arsenal. Budget guitar pedal effects maker Rowin packed three distinct echo modes into the LEF-3809 Tape Echo: a church hall delay-style Clear mode, a classic tape machine echo Normal mode, and a Reverse mode that gradually lengthens the spacing between warbles. To handle you tone shaping needs, the LEF-3809 Tape Echo comes with a full complement of Leven, Regen, and Time pots.
NUX Cerberus
The NUX Cerberus is an ultra-versatile effect pedal that you can utilize as a standalone device to ready your setup or with the four cable method. It comes loaded with innovative features such as IR loader, inside routing, analog overdrive, distortion and digital effects. The Cerberus also includes a MIDI control for organizing your effect pedals while also enhancing your effects control. NUX combined two analog drive/distortion pedals, delay & reverb effects, and modulation effects. These effects and sounds have been improvised from timeless and new gears.
Koogo Digital Delay
The Koogo Digital Delay is your powerful digital delay pedal with 100ms to 1.2s delay times. It carries Time, Regen, and Level knobs, as well as a toggle switch that lets you select from three working modes: Normal, Clear, and Reverse. You can get various types of delay sound in a single pedal. The Digital Delay comes in a durable zinc alloy enclosure. Grab one now, and you will be surprised at how much fun you will get out of this tiny delay pedal.
Electro-Harmonix Holy Stain
The Holy Stain is notable for being Electro-Harmonix’s first true multi-effects pedal, and they really went all out. You get Room and Hall reverb, pitch shifting, and tremolo effects bolstered by analog overdrive and fuzz for creating a truly unique and rich sonic stew. The Holy Stain is like manna from heaven for true knob-twiddling aficionados, as all of its control dials dynamically interact with each other for an even wider range of custom tones and sounds.
EarthQuaker Devices Transmisser
There’s nothing garden variety about the reverb effects conjured up by the Transmisser resonant reverberator guitar effects pedal from EarthQuaker Devices. This is a stompbox for the truly adventurous shoegazer. Extra-long decay times plugged into a highly resonant filter lets you create a load of staccato tails and spacey oscillations, all tinged with a healthy dose of mindbending sonic craziness. Plug in an external expression pedal and you can generate mesmerizing frequency sweeps on the fly.
Source Audio Soundblox2 Dimension Reverb
The Soundblox 2 Dimension Reverb from Source Audio serves up twelve different shades of reverb. You can select from six reflectively diverse room sounds, two spring and two plate reverbs, echo, and modulation reverb. It carries an assignable Option control allowing you to adjust nine distinct parameters: time, treble, bass, wet/dry mix, diffusion, modulation rate, pre-delay, output level, and modulation depth. The Soundblox 2 Dimension Reverb comes in a sturdy, compact cast aluminum enclosure with two user presets and multifunction in/out jacks compatible with MIDI, Hot Hand, or the Source Audio Dual Expression Pedal.
TC Electronic HOF Mini
Get the reverb sound you need while conserving precious pedalboard real estate with the marvelous Hall of Fame Mini Reverb from TC Electronic. Powered by groundbreaking TonePrint technology, the Hall of Fame Mini allows you to load up iconic reverb styles produced by several prominent guitarists. You will find Cathedral, Plate, Room, Hall, Spring, and several other exceptional reverb styles all available in the Hall of Fame Mini. The free TonePrint Editor software lets you craft your signature TonePrint voices for your pedal.
Electro Harmonix Grand Canyon
Twelve different effect types and a robust looper function put the Grand Canyon Delay and Looper Pedal from Electro-Harmonix in the upper echelon of similar multifunction delays and loopers. Comprehensive tone-sculpting controls let you create effects ranging from vibrant echos to animated reverbs. The Grand Canyon’s looper can hold up to 16 minutes of recorded audio that won’t disappear until you clear it, even if you turn the pedal off. The Grand Canyon is a delay and looping aficionado’s wet dream come true.
TC Electronic Fluorescence
The Fluorescence Shimmer Reverb by TC Electronic is among those effects you should include in your bag of tricks. First developed by recording legends Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, shimmer reverb is created by layering a tail of reverb on your natural dry signal. That forms rich soundscapes taking on a life of their known, spanning from beautiful chimes to interstellar travel-esque sounds evocative of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos while you are playing. The Fluorescence Shimmer Reverb consists of controls for Mix, Tone, Reverb, and Shimmer.
Diamond Bass Comp
The Bass Comp is the first Diamond pedal specially designed for bassists. It was launched in response to the interest of bassists in its famed Compressor. With higher headroom and low-frequency response extending down to 20Hz, the Bass Compressor is perfect for active and passive 4/5/6 string basses. The Tilt EQ control has been revoiced, letting you select between the original 900Hz and new 250Hz setting using the mini toggle. The Bass Comp boasts premium audio components, smooth optical compression/limiting, and true bypass signal path.
T-Rex Comp Nova
Subtle, totally uncolored yet effective. With a pure naturally compressed sound and perfectly simple control set, the Comp-Nova pedal by T-Rex is compression done right. It gives you a mild musical compression—regardless of whether you are employing it to take the edge off an acoustic rhythm part, add sustain to searing leads, or even out funky single-note lines. The Comp-Nova serves up a warm tone that unleashes the natural lushness of your instrument and how you play it.
NUX Masamune Booster & Kompressor
The Masamune Booster and Kompressor by NUX gives you compressor and booster pedals in one convenient metal chassis with selectable signal routing. It features a design of combined circuits, dry signal, compression, two gain stage of FET boost, routing. Its Compressor Section carries Sustain, Clip, Blend, and Komp Level controls, while the Boost Section comes with Drive, Hi-Cut, and Boost Level controls. Masamune’s Kompressor does an impressive job managing and improving your signal. The Booster gives a beneficial color to your signal.
Carl Martin Comp/Limiter
Carl Martin’s Comp Limiter is a studio-quality compressor within a pedalboard-friendly enclosure. It was born out of the request of musicians seeking a studio-level compressor that comes in a convenient, yet versatile pedal. Limiting and Compression are serious business for guitarists. These are capable of transforming your tone from being incredibly musical to sounding as if you are playing via a crushed tin can. To make this extremely dynamic pedal user-friendly, Carl Martin pre-set the Response and Threshold controls, leaving only the Level and Compression knobs.
Electro-Harmonix Bass Preacher
Electro-Harmonix gives bass players a lot of pedal love with the Bass Preacher Compression Sustainer, a pedal designed specifically to handle a bass guitar’s vast dynamic range and powerful low-end frequencies. Intuitive Volume and Sustain knobs make it easy to dial in subtle shifts and extreme tonal transformations alike. There’s also a three-way attack selector switch that lets you choose between Fast, Medium, and Slow compression timings. The Bass Preacher features true bypass switching and works equally well with both active and passive basses.
EBS MultiComp
The MultiComp from EBS is a high-performance, true dual-band analog compressor pedal with an option for multi-band compression, tube simulation, or solid state. It is capable of enhancing an already good sounding instrument and is equally wondrous for guitar as bass. Since the MultiComp is well thought out and seamless, all you have to do is select the level of Comp/Limit and Gain, then pick the mode or type of compression between Normal, Tubesim, and Multi Band (MB).
Fulltone Secret Freq
Serving up everything from clean boost to overdrive and through to full-on distorted rock tones, the Fulltone Secret Freq Overdrive guitar effects pedal is one versatile stompbox. It’s got all the hallmarks of a classic overdrive stomp; it’s highly dynamic, has a natural tube-style overdrive tone, and is very responsive to picking attack. The Secret Freq also has a secret weapon: a Freq control knob that lets you dial in up to 20db of active, narrow-band midrange for more tone-shaping possibilities.
Aguilar Tone Hammer
The Aguilar Tone Hammer preamp/direct box allows you to take full control of your tone. It is an invaluable addition to every bassist’s toolbox. Built on the OBP-3 preamp, the sturdy Tone Hammer boasts wholly sweepable midrange frequencies, treble, and bass controls. This powerful combination places multiple sculpting capabilities at your fingertips, and you may directly connect it to a live sound system or your recording rig. The Tone Hammer is rocking the Adaptive Gain Shaping circuitry, allowing you to dial in anything from serious overdrive to vintage tones.
Source Audio Programmable EQ
The Programmable EQ by Source Audio is a highly streamlined and thoroughly modern update to old-school equalizer pedals. This portable, sturdy, cast aluminum stompbox gives you instant hands-free access to four user programmed EQ settings. No matter your playing style, instrument, or genre, the Programmable EQ is the must-have tone-shaping tool for your live rig. It loads ± 18dB of range over seven frequency bands as well as an extra frequency band at 62Hz, accessible through Octave Extend feature.
MXR Ten Band EQ
The Ten Band EQ by MXR has been updated with true bypass switching, noise-reduction circuitry, brighter LEDs for enhanced visibility, a lightweight aluminum chassis, and a second output so you can run two independent signal chains. Featuring ten meticulously picked frequencies and input/output level controls, the Ten Band EQ allows you to tune your guitar or bass rig to any room quickly, produce earth-shaking low-end, warm up an amplified acoustic, restore level, punch, and treble response to a cramped pedalboard, and many more.
Maxon GE601 Graphic Equalizer
The Maxon Reissue Series Graphic Equalizer pedal is the ideal accessory for guitarists who need accurate control of the tone of their instrument. Providing +/- 12 dB of boost or cut and covering six meticulously picked frequency bands from 100 Hz to 3.2 kHz, you may utilize the GE601 EQ as a level booster, feedback eliminator, tone filter, or pickup simulator. Maxon’s Reissue Series gives you the classic sonic palette that defined the tones of guitarists over the last three decades. Every model’s circuit is pure analog and housed in a durable chassis.
Greer Amps Special Request
The Special Request by Greer Amps is a single knob boost that adds character and color to your sound. An internal voltage and D-Style FET based preamp indicate that you get loads of power behind it, helping the Special Request pack a powerful tonal punch. The Special Request possesses elements of EQ and compression at some points when you roll its single knob. It stacks nicely with other pedals and helps any player achieve their full tonal potential.
Utility Pedals
JIM DUNLOP JHM9
The JHM9 pedal is built to give you a dynamic tonal sweep identical to that of the original Italian-manufactured Thomas Organ wah utilized by Jimi Hendrix—the distinctive wah sound you can hear on Hendrix classics such as Little Miss Lover, Voodoo Child (Slight Return), Up From the Sky, and Still Raining, Still Dreaming. The JHM9 comes in at half the footprint of a regular wah pedal with a black gator base and sleek chrome top rocker.
Korg Pitchblack Advance
The Pitchblack has become a favorite of amateurs and professionals across the globe. Korg has now introduced the new generation model—the Pitchblack Advance. It carries the roster’s easiest-to-read and largest display yet. Nearly twice the size of the earlier model’s display and leveraging high-brightness LEDs, you can view your tuning whether you are out in the bright sunlight or inside a dark club. You will also enjoy the option to utilize the Pitchblack Advance in regular, mirror, strobe, and half-strobe modes.
Lehle Dual
The Lehle Dual amp switcher features three sets of outputs. It routes your instrument signal to three amplifiers or two amps and one tuner simultaneously and enables switching all at once or of whatever combination. The patented LHTZ high-end transformer electronically isolates each signal path avoiding any hum or noise. Crafted in Germany, the Dual features full stereo functionality as well as gold-plated relays and switches. It can be controlled and synced with other Lehle SGoS switchers through MIDI.
TC Electronic PolyTune 3
The PolyTune 3 by TC Electronic is quicker, more intuitive, and more reliable than ever, featuring precision within 0.1 cents and a no-frills approach to the instrument and guitar tuning. Credits to its inbuilt BonaFide Buffer circuitry, the PolyTune 3 is now capable of enhancing your tone for lengthy cable runs. Meaning, you obtain the treble and transient response way closer to connecting straight to an amp. Alternate tuning modes enable you to explore different ways to create your art.
TC Electronic Polytune 2 Mini
Ever since the PolyTune’s introduction in 2010, TC Electronic has been looking to make tuning speedier, better, and more impressive. The PolyTune 2 Mini guitar tuner does all of that in abundance. With 109 super-bright LEDs, it is easily readable at any stage condition. The PolyTune 2 Mini is an incredibly compact tuner with chromatic, strobe, and polyphonic tuning for precise and fast tuning. Polyphonic tuning lets you tune all your strings simultaneously, while speedy chromatic tuner delivers 0.5 cent precision.
Xvive PT-05 Pedal Tuner
Xvive’s PT05 chromatic tuner pedal is built to be unobtrusive but easy to see when you do need to use it. Its small chassis makes it easy to find space for it on any pedalboard, while its color display lets you tune your guitar without having to bend over and squint. Whether you’re playing on a dark stage, outdoors on the street, or in the comfort of a studio, you’ll be able to tune your instrument quickly and painlessly. It’s small, speedy, and straightforward—the three S’s that make for a great chromatic tuner pedal.
TC Helicon Ditto Mic Looper
Go from idea to performance effortlessly in a flash with the Ditto Mic Looper by TC Helicon. It is an incredibly simple looper pedal for your vocal mic or whatever instrument you mic up. It consists of only two buttons and a single knob. You can utilize the loop and stop/erase buttons for endless overdubbing, redo, and undo features to give a greater level of musical interest to your songs with only your voice through looping your harmonies and vocal percussion tracks.
GOKKO Repeater
The GOKKO Repeater Looper GK-27 guitar effects pedal is a workhorse loop stomp at a price that’s very hard to beat. You get one control dial, one footswitch, and a lengthy 10 minutes of available loop time to craft your own highly intricate, multilayered tracks. Recording a loop and adding unlimited overdubs is simplicity in itself; press on the footswitch once to turn the LED red and you’re recording. Step in it again to turn the LED blue and that marks the end of the loop. Rinse, repeat, and enjoy.
NUX JTC
When the NUX Mini Core pedals hit the market, NUX has received requests to include a loop pedal in the collection, so here comes the Jam Track Creator (JTC) Drum & Loop pedal. It is the tiniest 24-bit loop pedal featuring an auto-detection drum machine. The JTC Drum & Loop Mini allows you to select from 11 inbuilt drum rhythms. It gives you unlimited overdubs and up to six minutes recording in 24-bit high-resolution audio quality. Loop and Drum volumes are adjustable individually.
Death by Audio Total Sonic Annihilation 2
The Death by Audio Total Sonic Annihilation is regarded as the “most insane pedal of all time,” transforming all your pedals into various effects by force-feeding them back into themselves. Death by Audio has revamped the original circuit to introduce the Total Sonic Annihilation 2. This new variant boasts additional controls and updated functionality that deliver more wildly warped alien space sounds. The Total Sonic Annihilation 2 consists of Stomp Switch, Feedback, On, Phase, Gain, and Limit controls.
Digitech Jamman Solo XT
After inventing looping many years back, the DigiTech JamMan Solo XT gives you the ultimate stereo looping experience. Increase the energy in your performance and gain new inspiration with almost infinite loops. Smooth transitions between looped phrases make the Solo XT an indispensable device for performing and composing. It features ten pre-loaded drum loops from Pat Mastelotto. Enjoy the stereo looping experience you desire from simple backing loops to complex loop layers with your band or by yourself. Polish your performance with Auto-Quantize, Auto-Record, three Stop modes, and adjustable BPMs.
Digitech Jam Man
DigiTech’s JamMan Stereo Looper boasts the ability to save 35 minutes of CD-quality loops within 99 internal memories and an SD memory card expansion slot that allows you to store more than 16 hours of material in an added 99 slots. It also includes reverse playback, true stereo looping, and a mic input making it suitable for DJ applications and backing tracks. The JamMan Stereo has USB connectivity and will sync to the JamManager XT software which organizes and records your JamMan Stereo loops to your Mac or PC.
Lehle D-Loop
Employ two different effects loops with the D.Loop from Lehle. It boasts two true-bypass loops and high-end gold-plated relays, so your tone stays pristine when you are not utilizing it. Stomp on the D.Loop to bring in whatever range of effects you desire. You may also use the D.Loop to incorporate another preamp on the fly or utilize the main input and a return to bring in various instruments. Whatever you do, you will appreciate this stompbox’s full MIDI capacity, since you can make its switches operate the way you desire.
Donner Boost Killer
Often likened to the Xotic RC Booster, Donner’s Boost Killer pedal is arguably one of the most aggressive boost effects available. For a budget-friendly effects pedal, it loads plenty of heat, making it an attractive option. If you are looking to enter the world of boosters, the Boost Killer could be a great starting point. Even with its lightweight and compact enclosure, this pedal features a bit more generous controls than your standard booster design. It consists of Treble, Bass, and Volume controls along with a dominant Gain knob.
Alexander Pedals Quadrant
As its name suggests, the Quadrant Audio Mirror combines four unique delay effects—magnetic, analog, digital, and lo-fi—into a sonic space-time stompbox. Complementing the rate (up to 915ms), feedback, mod, and mix controls is a new Glide knob that controls changes in the delay time; set it to low for a seamless shift and crank it up for pitch shifts. The Quadrant Audio mirror comes with expression pedal and MIDI compatibility, tap tempo, and an Auto-Trail setting that lets you control how long your delays ring out when you turn the pedal off.
Truetone V3 Jekyll & Hyde
The Visual Sound Jekyll & Hyde overdrive is a true classic, having been the first real dual effect stompbox ever released. With Visual Sound’s rebranding into Truetone, they’re releasing an updated version of their popular pedal. V3 of the Jekyll & Hyde drive stomp is a complete redesign that modernizes the original. It features the same warm Jekyll & Hyde tone but with modern conveniences like optional true bypass or Pure Tone buffered bypass, MIDI compatibility, and custom Forever Footswitches.
Chase Bliss Audio Gravitas
The Chase Bliss Audio Gravitas is not your dime-a-dozen tremolo pedal. It can create a beautiful and unique tremolo sound that sits well in a mix. Boasting dual tremolo modes, discrete class A clean boost circuit, and famous Analog Devices AD823 op-amps for superior analog warmth and tonal clarity, the Gravitas is capable of things you have not heard a tremolo do. To control the boost circuit’s gain, adjust the DRIVE knob to your liking. You can run the Gravitas at 18V rather than the standard 9V if you seek more headroom and output out of it.
Donner Viper Mini
The Donner Viper Mini is a two-in-one Expression/Volume pedal with a super lightweight housing that gives you convenience. This mighty little pedal features an excellent Expression response as well as Volume function. The Viper Mini instantly detects and catches the output source (EXP/Vol) objective. It also includes a special analog circuit design and smooth taper that precisely responds to different parameters. The Viper Mini comes in a sturdy, hard plastic compact enclosure and works without a pedal power supply or battery.
Throne Room Pedals Tiny Tap Tempo (Normal, 2 Outputs)
With even smaller enclosures made from solid aluminum, Throne Room Pedals’ Tiny line of pedal switches are some of the tiniest and most road tough control pedals out right now. The Tiny Tap Tempo is built to work with other guitar effects pedals that comes with external tap tempo compatibility, such as a delay pedal or tremolo stomp. This particular version features two tap outputs and works with pedals that require a normally open switch.
BOSS FS6 DUAL FOOTSWITCH
As its name implies, the Boss FS-6 Dual Footswitch is two footswitches in one, combining a latch-type footswitch and an unlatched or momentary-type footswitch in one rugged unit. You can even choose which of the two pedals is latched and which is unlatched, and since both pedals are side by side, you can get even more precise control over the effects pedals you connect to the FS-6. Of course, the Boss FS-6 Dual Footswitch doesn’t just work with pedals; you can also connect it to keyboards, rhythm machines, amps, and more.
DigiTech FS3X
The FS3X is a valuable addition to various DigiTech products, including Expression Factory, the JamMan, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, and others. It boasts improved functionality and hands-free control of UP/DOWN choice of models, loop selection, mode adjustments, auto START/STOPS, as well as arms auto record where appropriate. Portable and compact, the FS3X’s mini footprint occupies minimal space inside your gig bag or on stage. The DigiTech FS3X features a durable three-button metal chassis construction and 10′ stereo TRS cable.
Caline Time Space
With a delay time range of 25ms to 600ms, the Caline CP-17 Time Space Digital Delay guitar effects pedal gives you a lot of digital delay bang for your buck. Dedicated Mix, Repeat, and Time knobs give you full control over your delay settings, while a high-quality filter makes this digital delay pedal come very close to the sound of more expensive classic analog delays. The Caline CP-17 Time Space Echo Digital Delay comes with a true bypass feature.
Sabbadius Mostro Synthesizer Fuzz Modulator
A significant fuzz pedal created using top-grade materials and silicon transistors. The Sabbadius Mostro Synthesizer Fuzz Modulator was designed and inspired by Dante Spinetta, who asked Nico if he could devise a pedal for his band, IKV, and said he wanted one that is capable of delivering an explosive fuzz sound yet very deformed. The Mostro Synthesizer Fuzz consists of Wah Wah Trick, Bias, Fuzz, and Synth Controller knobs, as well as a toggle switch that lets you select from Normal or Deform settings.
Lehle Sunday Driver SW
The Sunday Driver SW from Lehle is a portable high-end preamp for acoustic and electrical instruments. It allows acoustic guitars, electric guitars and basses, as well as other stringed instruments like cellos, double basses, and violins to unleash their musical potential. Boasting a high-quality JFET technology, the Sunday Driver SW lets you switch between two operation modes: D (Driver) and S (Sunday). In off status, the Sunday Driver SW offers two modes of operation—TB (True Bypass) and TS (True Sound).
MOSKY PURE BUFFER
Buffer pedals are indispensable weapons in the constant struggle against tone suck. Budget guitar effects pedal manufacturer Mosky Audio’s Pure Buffer is a tiny one, which makes it the ideal candidate for inclusion in compact and crowded pedalboards. The Pure Buffer helps eliminate the inherent issues of multiple daisy chained pedals and long cables, making your guitar signal’s core tone sound like you’ve plugged your instrument straight into an amp with a short cord.
JHS Pedals Little Black Buffer
The Little Black Buffer by JHS Pedals is the remedy for poor guitar sound resulting from employing numerous pedals. Since it gives the perfect input impedance for your rig, you can quickly notice your guitar sound is reinvigorated with a full, natural tone that sounds like you are connected directly into your amp—regardless of how many pedals you utilize. The Little Black Buffer is your ticket to a sound signal chain and a small price to pay for tonal perfection.
Xotic Super Clean
In the battle against tone suck, a good buffer pedal is an indispensable weapon in your arsenal. And when it comes to high-end buffer pedals, the Super Clean from boutique guitar effects stompbox company Xotic is one of your best choices. This buffer stomp is powered by a legendary JRC4558 chip and delivers up to +12dB of clean boost. It features a convenient Gain mini-pot as well as four side-mounted dip switches that let you tweak the EQ settings to your liking.
T-Rex Nitros Hypergain
The Nitros Hypergain by T-Rex Engineering is capable of capturing a very punchy and scooped high gain distortion. As a highly tweakable dirt pedal, the Nitros Hypergain will make the “80s hair rock” sound to a T as well. Lower gain settings are perfect if you want Texas boogie-rock. By featuring an active three-band EQ, the distortion’s color is adjustable, and the EQ knobs’ range is extensive. The Nitros Hypergain features an aggressive and bold clipping circuitry.
Lehle Sunday Driver SW
The Sunday Driver SW from Lehle is a portable high-end preamp for acoustic and electrical instruments. It allows acoustic guitars, electric guitars and basses, as well as other stringed instruments like cellos, double basses, and violins to unleash their musical potential. Boasting a high-quality JFET technology, the Sunday Driver SW lets you switch between two operation modes: D (Driver) and S (Sunday). In off status, the Sunday Driver SW offers two modes of operation—TB (True Bypass) and TS (True Sound).
Empress Effects Buffer
The Buffer from Empress Effects has been built to serve as the complete I/O interface for your pedalboard while preserving the highest fidelity of your guitar signal. For decades, guitarists have been struggling with signal loss resulting from long, unbuffered cable runs. The Buffer aims to erase that signal loss, making sure that your cables will never affect your tone. Moreover, it consolidates all your pedalboard’s connectivity to make the set up convenient and fast.
GOKKO KULT
Rein in unruly and unwanted signal noise with the Kult Noise Gate GK-28 guitar effects pedal from GOKKO. This budget- and pedalboard-friendly stompbox helps reduce the hums, hisses, and buzzes that invariably show up to pollute your signal when you have a lot of pedals, especially high-gain ones, in your chain. Use the sensitivity control knob to tell the noise gate when to kick in and use the two-way selector switch to choose between a soft, gradual volume cut or a hard and steep drop.
Electro-Harmonix The Silencer
Give unwanted signal noise a double-tap to the head with Electro-Harmonix’s The Silencer. This sophisticated noise gate pedal gives you Threshold, Reduction, and Release controls for precise fine-tuning that takes your gear and playing style into account. It doesn’t just help eliminate annoying buzzes and hums, either; the Silencer also expands your pedal routing options. You can use it as an inline noise gate or add it to an effects loop to kill noise from specific pedals.
Joyo Gate Of Kahn
No pedalboard setup built around high-gain stompboxes is complete without a reliable noise gate. The JF-324 Gate of Kahn guitar effects edal from Joyo may be small but it fill this role admirably. Dial in the perfect Threshold setting to keep away unwanted buzzes, hums, and hisses from your guitar signal then go to town with your high-gain units. As one of Joyo’s Ironman pedals, the JF-324 Gate of Kahn is small enough to fit in your front pocket and features a flip cover for keeping your control dial settings safe.
Electro-Harmonix Hum Debugger
Signal hum can be a source of headaches and frustrations for all musicians. Throw a Hum Debugger into your effects chain, though, and you can kick that annoying sound to the curb. This hum eliminator isn’t a noise gate, and neither is it a noise suppressor, but it extracts hums and buzzes from your signal and turns it into dead silence via some sonic voodoo courtesy of Electro-Harmonix. Accurate and precise noise elimination has never been easier to achieve.
TC Electronic Sentry
Enjoy a dynamic, noise-free performance with the Sentry Noise Gate pedal from TC Electronic. Leveraging the groundbreaking multi-band System 6000 algorithms, it provides you with smooth, natural-sounding noise reduction. The Sentry Noise Gate comes packed with a classic hard-gate mode sporting a Return/Send loop for dealing with noisy pedals or utilizing it for creative sidechaining. It consists of controls for Decay, Threshold, and Damp. Keep your rig’s noise in check with the Sentry Noise Gate pedal.
MOSKY Noise Reduction
The Noise Gate is budget guitar effects pedal maker Mosky Audio’s offering to those musicians who are having headaches dealing with unwanted buzzes, hisses, and hums in their signal. It takes you guitar’s dry signal and eliminates the noise level by up to 26dB within your effects loop. You can set the minimum volume threshold where the pedal’s functions kick in via a dedicated Gate knob. Just dial in your preferred threshold, hit the footswitch, and enjoy noise-free playing.
NUX JTC
When the NUX Mini Core pedals hit the market, NUX has received requests to include a loop pedal in the collection, so here comes the Jam Track Creator (JTC) Drum & Loop pedal. It is the tiniest 24-bit loop pedal featuring an auto-detection drum machine. The JTC Drum & Loop Mini allows you to select from 11 inbuilt drum rhythms. It gives you unlimited overdubs and up to six minutes recording in 24-bit high-resolution audio quality. Loop and Drum volumes are adjustable individually.
DigiTech SDRUM
The DigiTech SDRUM is an intelligent drum machine for bassists and guitarists. By merely scratching across your guitar strings, the SDRUM learns a kick and snare pattern which establishes the foundation of the beat you wish to hear. The SDRUM yields, according to this pattern, a professional sounding drum beat with different variations and embellishments to complement your beat. You no longer have to disrupt your creative flow when browsing through lists in a frustrating attempt to get your desired beat.
BOSS DB-90 Talking Dr. Beat
Practicing alone becomes a whole new experience with the Boss DB-90 Dr. Beat, the flagship product of Boss’s Dr. Beat Metronome line. This monstrous metronome packs four great metronome sounds—including human voice!— as well as dozens of drum patterns in its tiny, lightweight frame. The Boss DB-90 Dr. Beat also comes with a Rhythm Coach function, a reference-tone tuning function, instrument and MIDI input, and other useful tools for making solo practice less mundane.
Singular Sound BeatBuddy
Introducing a drum machine within a guitar pedal format—the BeatBuddy by Singular Sound. It allows you hands-free and creative control of the beat. You can conveniently insert fills, throw in drum breaks, add accent hits, shift from verse to chorus, and more, to produce an unparalleled live drummer effect—all in an iconic, natural 24-bit sound. The BeatBuddy is loaded with features for all kinds of musicians. A visual beat display makes it effortless to enhance rhythm or play with unusual time signatures.
Rowin Beat Loop
The LBL-01 Beat Loop is a versatile and affordable combination drum machine and looper pedal from budget-priced guitar effects pedal manufacturer Rowin. The looper section can record for up to five minutes in each of 30 separate storage locations. The drum machine has two drum groups with 40 drum types, half of which are standard while the other half is electronic. The LBL-01 Beat Looper also has a separate dual footswitch controller that lets you control the drum section.
Singular Sound BeatBuddy Mini
The Singular Sound BeatBuddy Mini is a drummer within a guitar pedal enclosure. It provides entirely hands-free, creative control of the beat. No matter what instrument you use, you can easily transition from verse to chorus, insert fills, throw in drum breaks, add accent hits, and more to yield an unparalleled live drummer effect. Utilized in the music programs of Berklee College of Music and Frost School of Music, the BeatBuddy Mini is arguably the most efficient way to enhance your rhythm and master different genres while improvising and having a great time.
Other Pedals
JOYO CLASSIC WAH
Two useful effects in one reasonably priced and pedalboard-friendly pedal. The Joyo Classic Wah Volume guitar effects pedal is a dual-mode unit built to act as a standalone wah pedal or as a combination wah and volume pedal. There’s a switch on the side that lets you choose between these two modes, and beside it is a control dial that lets you set the minimum volume. When in wah-only mode, the Classic Wah Volume pedal features a true bypass function to keep your signal clear.
Morley Bad Horsie 2
Steve Vai’s signature wah, the Bad Horsie, has become one of the most legendary wah pedals today—not to mention Morley’s best selling wah ever. Now, Morley has gone and enhanced the Bad Horsie with an all-new Contour Wah mode that lets you alter the pedal’s wah frequency and output via dedicated control dials. If you’re still hankering for the classic Bad Horsie wah tone, don’t worry. Switch the Bad Horsie II over to Bad Horsie Wah mode and you’ll get the original’s Vai-approved wah tone.
Big Joe Wah Wah
Big Joe’s wah guitar effects pedal offering, the Big Joe B-601 Wah Wah, is a flexible, easy-to-use tone monster powered by a proprietary, specially-voiced, vintage-spec custom inductor. A three-way selector enables you to choose between three different resonance ranges: Classic, British, and Big Joe. The first two profiles let you go all the way back to the ‘60s and ‘70s with classic rock wah tone signatures, while the latter’s broader bandpass shape gives you a meatier, more unique sound.
Electro-Harmonix Cock Fight
The cocked wah sound is a staple of the rock genre, and with the Cock Fight cocked talking wah from Electro-Harmonix you can easily add it to your own arsenal of effects even if you don’t actually have a wah pedal. It’s basically a crying wah and a talking pedal in one, with a grinding, growling fuzz effect on top. A comprehensive set of control knobs and toggle switches provides a wide range of sound-shaping options, plus an expression pedal jack lets you take more precise control of the pedal’s effects.
ZVEX Vexter Wah Probe
The Vexter Wah Probe from boutique guitar effects pedal company Zvex is a wah pedal that replaces the standard-issue rocker pot with a proximity sensor that allows for insanely fast wah action. It also packs a built-in Super Hard On for extra volume drive. Zvex’s Vexter line of silk screened pedals feature the exact same tone, feature set, and internal parts and circuits as their hand-painted counterparts. The only differences are the painting process and the price.
Boss AW-3 Dynamic Wah
Whether you’re a guitarist or a bass player, you can get all the wah you need with the Boss AW-3 Dynamic Wah thanks to its dedicated guitar and bass input jacks. Use the built-in tempo control or adjust your picking strength in auto-wah and dynamic wah modes, or plug in an optional expression pedal for much finer wah control. The Boss AW-3 Dynamic Wah also comes with a Humanizer function that lets you really go crazy with wild, human-like vocal sounds.
NUX Stageman Floor
The Stageman Floor Acoustic Preamp + DI by NUX is an analog acoustic preamp boasting digital effects and looper function. Preamp featured with an extremely sensitive three-band EQ with input gain control, adjustable notch filter, and MID scoop toggle switch. It also offers a massive headroom that gives you the sound all-natural. The notch filter helps you cut the resonating frequency. The Stageman Floor consists of Treble, Middle, and Bass knobs, depending on the speaker/amp characteristic, acoustic guitar’s body type, and playing style, you may tune your sound to your liking.
Koogo Acoustic
The Koogo Acoustic pedal makes your electric guitar sound like an acoustic guitar. It also boasts the ability to transform an intermediate level electronic or acoustic guitar into an incredible sounding professional guitar. The beautiful sounds produced by each knob and switch make it suitable for virtually any style or player. The Acoustic pedal carries a toggle switch that lets you select between Jumbo, Standard, and Piezo modes. All three modes work well for various genres and effects.
Mooer Woodverb
The Woodverb from budget stompbox maker Mooer is a reverb guitar effects pedal tuned specifically for expanding the tonal palettes of acoustic guitars. The Woodverb comes with three reverb modes, all selectable via a three-position toggle switch. First is the classic, lush space of the pedal’s magnificent plate reverb. The second mode adds a subtle chorus effect to the reverb. The third and final mode adds mild filtering into the mix for a snappier attack.
Caline Snake Bite Reverb
The Caline CP-26 Snake Bite Ambient Reverb guitar effects pedal is an affordable slimline stomp with a six-knob interface that gives you full tone-shaping control over your sound. Dial in a reverb mode with the RES knob, shape the tone with the CFR knob, and add a little warmth with the LPF knob. Then, use the PRD knob to set the delay time, the MIX knob to control the amount of reverb, and the DECAY knob to set the reverb’s decay length. The Caline CP-26 Snake Bite Ambient Reverb comes with a true bypass feature.
Tech 21 Acoustic Fly Rig
The Acoustic Fly Rig from multi effects wizards Tech 21 is a complete set of acoustic performance-focused tools that you can carry around in your backpack. It comes with an effects section that packs built in delay, chorus, and reverb effects and a dedicated analog compressor section for more precise tonal control. Sandwiched between these two is Tech 21’s renowned SansAmp amp emulator, which serves up the warm, natural tones of some of the most legendary amplifiers ever built.
Rowin Auto Wah
Boutique level auto wah sound at a price that won’t flatten your wallet. The LEF=3804 Auto Wah from budget guitar effects pedal maker Rowin can serve up a wide range of classic wah tones, from a soft, slow wah to a faster, more watery Cry Baby-esque attack. You can dial these in using the dedicated Cutoff, Shape, Reso, and Speed control knobs. The LEF-3804’s Auto Wah’s footswitch also has a secondary function: hold it down to store a parameter to create some interesting layered tones.
MXR Bass Distortion
The nasty sound of the MXR Bass Distortion comes in two flavors, selectable using the SIL/LED switch. The LED setting utilizes LEDs for a beautiful gain bump and more wide-open sound, while the default SIL setting leverages silicon clipping diodes for a biting, aggressive sound and a hint of compression. The Bass Distortion was co-designed with Fuzzrocious Pedals founder Ryan Ratajski, taking a popularly raunchy sounding distortion circuit and tweaking it for modern bassists. It includes Dist, Tone, Wet, and Dry knobs.
EBS DynaVerb Studio Edition
The EBS DynaVerb Studio Edition leverages a 24-bit digital processing circuitry for noiseless and excellent playing both in the recording studio and on stage. It features three types of reverb—Hall, Room, and Plate. The Hall reverb has two variations, while Plate and Room are capable of running in three variations. The knobs select the tone volume (Tone) and the amount of reverb you want to blend in (Reverb). The DynaVerb Studio Edition is great for use with keyboard and bass.
Donner DI Box
With the Donner DI Box, routing your signal straight to a pro audio system or mixer has never been as better-sounding and easier. It consists of Balanced/Unbalanced output, Cabinet Simulator for replicating onstage speaker setups, GND Lift function, and a Gain switch for boosting low-level signals (-20db, 0dB, +20db). It also features a true bypass output so you can still connect to your amp. The GND Lift button can help you eradicate hum or ground loops.
MXR Bass Fuzz Deluxe
MXR has taken an elusive vintage fuzz and tweaked it for modern bassists. The Bass Fuzz Deluxe provides you with a bold and cutting fuzz tone sans degrading the clarity and punch of your natural signal. With independent Wet and Dry knobs, the Bass Fuzz Deluxe sounds like you are employing two separate amps. Combine to your liking, from mild hairiness to full-on wrathful fuzz, with Tone and Fuzz knobs impacting only the Wet signal. The Bass Fuzz Deluxe also includes true hardwire bypass.
EBS Uni-Chorus
Suitable for bass, guitar, or whatever you play, the UniChorus by EBS provides you with a sort of quality modulation effects you would expect from an expensive unit of EBSOC studio gear. It makes dialing your sound a breeze. It carries a three-way switch that allows you the choice between low noise studio-quality Flange, Chorus, and Pitch Modulation effects, letting you craft effects ranging from surf rock vibratos to classic Hendrix-style flange. You only need two knobs to select the depth and rate of the modulation.
Tortuga Bassquatch
Tortuga Effects is keeping things simple with its Classic Series, a hand-made pedal line marked by simpler graphics, simpler effect names, and more affordable price tags. The tone of Tortuga’s Classic pedals, however, are anything but simple. The Bassquatch, as its name suggests, is a bass optimized version of one of Tortuga’s most popular pedals, the Sasquatch fuzz stomp. The same killer fuzz of the Sasquatch, but with a heavier, more aggressive low end that works well with both basses and drop-tuned guitars.
Morley PDW-II
The Morley Pro Series 2 Distortion Wah Volume gives you not two but three essential effects in one tank-tough pedal. You get the versatility fo Morley’s well-loved wah and volume combo pedals—a high Q wah and volume control with silky smooth audio taper—plus an independent overdrive circuit for when you need to really push your amp over the edge. Plug it into an overdriven amp or another distortion pedal to give your wah tones an aggressive growl.
Mission Engineering VM-Pro (Black)
An incredibly sophisticated volume pedal, the VM-PRO by Mission Engineering addresses several typical issues with volume pedals, which cause mismatching and tone sucking problems. The VM-PRO works with your electro-acoustic, electric, bass, or baritone guitars. It is also compatible with several other electric and acoustic instruments, including steel guitars, electronic keyboards, and instrument microphones like horn mics and harmonica. The VM-PRO features onboard buffers, sparkle control, isolated tuner out, and compatibility switches for utilization with active and passive pickups.
Donner Vowel Mini
The Donner Vowel Mini is a two-in-one Wah/Volume pedal that delivers an exceptional Wah response based on the original Crybaby response along with a Volume function. Donner gives you all that within a footprint smaller than a standard Volume or Wah pedal. Press the footswitch to shift between Volume mode and Wah mode. The Vowel Mini includes two LED lights that show you the current mode: red for Wah and green for Volume. As a Volume pedal, the Vowel is capable of fulfilling the strict demands of each guitarist.
Mission Engineering VM-1
Featuring a sleek red finish, the VM-1 from Mission Engineering is a passive volume pedal intended mainly for utilization with your guitar. The 500K impedance is perfect for use with various passive electric guitar pickups. The VM-1 is point to point hand-wired with a mute switch and tuner out. The potentiometer comes sealed needing no maintenance and is rated at greater than a million operations. The VM-1 is entirely passive, requiring no external power supply or battery to operate.
Big Joe Volume
The Big Joe B-602 Volume guitar effects pedal is a uniquely-buffered active design volume pedal featuring true bypass. A three-way switch lets you choose between three operation modes: the normal classic buffered volume mode, a -12db cut mode that gives you finer volume control, or a customizable Program mode that lets you dial in the precise dB parameters you want, from 6db to 18db of gain and -6bd to max signal off cut. The Big Joe B-602 Volume can handle both high and low impedance signal loads.
Death By Audio Soundwave Breakdown
Now boasting an external volume control, the Soundwave Breakdown from Death by Audio turns the idea of a screaming fuzz pedal inside out. It leverages reversed matched transistors to achieve its bombastic sound. The very positions of the controls produce entirely different sounds ranging from grind, fuzz, and buzz to bleeps, synth sounds, and more. The Soundwave Breakdown grants you a massive universe of gnarliness and creates the alien to your amp. Be warned though as it is always only grizzled psycho fuzz.
Mission Engineering EP-25K (Black)
Housed in a sleek black chassis, the EP-25K by Mission Engineering is a professional quality, dual-channel pedal intended for utilization with equipment that favors a 25K expression pedal such as Moog, Strymon, TC Electronic, and Eventide. It features a 25K Ohm potentiometer instead of the 10K potentiometer found in the Mission EP-1. It incorporates two outputs that you may utilize to control two expression pedal devices at the same time. The EP-25K is also compatible as an input for the Expressionator.
Mission Engineering EP-25-Pro Aero Gold Carbon
Donning a beautiful gold carbon fiber graphic finish, the EP-25-Pro Aero Gold Carbon expression pedal is perfect for guitar, acoustic instruments, keyboards, and both studio and live use. It incorporates individual polarity switches for every channel. That enables compatibility with a broad range of pedals, modeling amps, MIDI controllers, keyboards, rack effects, and other expression controlled devices. The EP-25-Pro features a fully sealed 25K Ohm linear taper potentiometer for durability and smooth action. The all-aluminum Aero is half the weight of a regular Mission pedal.
Ernie Ball Ambient Delay
The Ernie Ball Expression Series Ambient Delay pedal gives you access to lush digital delay and plate reverb effects. Intuitive controls let you dial in a delay time ranging from 50ms to 1s, delay feedback, and reverb level. Since the Ambient Delay already comes in expression pedal form, you don’t need to plug in an external expression pedal to control the sweepable effect levels. Leave the footswitch open for a clean, transparent tone and rock the treadle forward to increase the amount of delay and reverb.
Mission Engineering SP-HR
The SP-HR by Mission Engineering is a switching expression pedal purpose-built for your Headrush Gigboard. It allows you seamless, expressive control over whammy, wah, volume, and any number of assignable parameters. The SP-HR features an ergonomic design that combats foot fatigue while giving an expressive throw, which will be intuitive for all guitarists to utilize. It also incorporates a toe switch toggle that enables you to change pedal assignments on the fly. The SP-HR delivers everything you need to take charge of your HeadRush Gigboard.
Korg EXP-2 Expression
Bring your keyboard playing to life with Korg’s EXP-2 Foot Controller. You can use this ultra-versatile foot controller as a compact and lightweight expression pedal when using OUTPUT-2 or a volume pedal when employing OUTPUT-1 and INPUT-1. You may set the minimum volume in a range from zero to about 50%. The EXP-2 works with most Korg keyboards, modules and effect processors. It features a selectable minimum setting through the side-mounted slide control and carries a three-conductor cable.
Tapestry Audio Bloomery Passive Volume Pedal (Black)
The Bloomery passive volume pedal from Tapestry Audio features some very unique differences from a regular volume control pedal. This compact (measures only 7.8″ x 2.25″), convenient to use, and efficient passive volume pedal comfortably fits on your pedalboard. The Bloomery is machined out of steel for a tough, durable solid feel. A slide potentiometer alongside a direct shaft drive eradicates the need for annoying strings. With a smooth volume curve, you get a more nuanced pedal sweep. The Bloomery quickly turns tuner output into an expression output.
Tech 21 SansAmp GT2
Tech 21’s SansAmp amp simulator technology has long been at the forefront of letting musicians dial in their favorite amp tone without needing to lug around that specific amp. The SansAmp GT2 doesn’t just give you a single amp’s signature tone, though; it packs a whole slew of the most sought-after vintage tube and modern amp sounds, from a clean tweed-flavored rhythm to a scream Mesa-style lead tone. Pair the GT2 with a DI box and you’ll forget your amp even existed.
JOYO CAB BOX
Calling the Joyo Cab Box an amp modeler and IR loader is technically accurate, but it does so much more that it stretches the definition. You get four different tube amp models, 20 cabinet models, and 11 classic mic models. Tweak the model parameters, load up to 30 impulse response (IR) files, and then save all your personal presets in up to 128 cab memory slots. The Cab Box also comes with a three configurable five-band post-EQs for guitar, bass & parametric.
MOOER Radar
The tiny Radar guitar effects pedal from budget stomp maker Mooer might just be the next mainstay on your pedalboard. It’s a full-featured pro-grade cab sim that comes packed not only with 30 different cab models, but it also features 11 mic models and 4 power amp models. You can store and recall up to 36 user presets, connect it to a computer via USB, or plug in headphones when you want to squeeze in a quick practice sesh.
NUX MOD Core DELUXE
The Mod Core Deluxe from NUX is a pro-quality modulation effects pedal featuring eight modulation effects (Phaser, Chorus, Pan, Flanger, Tremolo, U-vibe, Rotary, and Vibrato) with two kinds of algorithms suiting the needs of every musician for sound enhancement and colorization. Add-in Depth and Rate controls to adjust the primary parameters and Tweak knob to set relevant parameters for every effect, and you get more tone-sculpting possibilities compared to other modulation pedals. The Mod Core Deluxe includes a tone lock function to prevent improper operation.
Death by Audio Apocalypse
The Apocalypse is touted as Death by Audio’s jack-of-all-trades fuzz pedal. Once greatly overdriven, the signal is routed to your chosen post-amp. You may toggle through its five signal paths and select the apocalyptic sound you desire. To make it more refined, adjust the sweepable frequency equalizer and craft your tone to your liking. Utilize the Apocalypse as your main sound, an amp simulated recording DI, bass blitzer, boost for solos, or run into it anything you want to supercharge, beef up, or blast out.
Strymon Lex Rotary
The Strymon Lex Rotary gives you a complete, faithfully recreated rotary system: the tube-driven amp, the rotating treble horn, finely tuned microphone placement, the low-frequency bass rotor, and all the intricate sonic interactions between such elements. Leveraging an incredibly powerful SHARC DSP, each bit of processing power is exploited to represent the details genuinely. With eight parameters to tweak, you get extensive control of the rotating speaker system’s mechanics and tonality. You may manipulate every element, from horn level, mic distance, rotor speed, tube drive and saturation, acceleration time, and volume level.
Boss SY-300 Guitar Synth
Boss and its parent company Roland have built up a staggering amount of expertise in guitar synth technology. With the Boss SY-300 Guitar Synthesizer, they’ve bottled up that legendary level of expertise and sold it in guitar effects pedal form. The SY-300 lets you turn your guitar into a polyphonic synth machine straight out of the box, while three simultaneous synth sections and four effects processors let you create your own rich and dynamic synth tones.
WMD Geiger Counter Pro
This is the future of digital dirt. WMD’s Geiger Counter boutique distortion guitar effects pedal delivers a cornucopia of dirt tones, from the classic and recognizable to some insanely twisted, octave folded lo fi fuzz that brings to mind the irradiated wind that follows in the wake of a mushroom cloud. The Geiger Counter Pro is the evolved version of the Geiger Counter that crawls out of that radiation fallout. It ups the number of wavetables to 512 in total, has a wavetable morphing feature, comes with 16 switchable presets, and is even upgradeable via USB..
Rowin Cursh Bit
Forget the typo in the name; the LEF-3810 Cursh Bit (or Crush Bit, in keeping with what it does) is a powerful bit crusher pedal from budget guitar effects pedal maker Rowin. Bit crushers reduce the sample quality of your guitar signal to make it sound all kinds of lo-fi. Blend your dry and wet signals with the Mix knob and control the reduction of the sample’s rate and depth using the Bit and Crush pots, respectively. It also comes with a three-way toggle that lets you switch between low-pass, high-pass, and normal modes.
Tom’sline Mario Bit Crusher
The aptly named Mario stompbox is a powerful bit crusher pedal from budget guitar effects pedal maker Tomsline that lets you reduce the sample quality of your guitar signal to make it lo-fi and degraded. Blend your dry and wet signals with the Mix knob and control the reduction of the sample’s rate and depth using the Bit and Crush pots, respectively. It also comes with a three-way toggle that lets you switch between low-pass, high-pass, and normal modes.
TC Helicon TalkBox Synth
With the Talkbox Synth from TC Helicon, you get classic Frampton-style guitar effects without the fiddly hose-in-the-mouth stuff. A guitar-triggered vocoder and onboard synth sounds give thrilling robotic vocal effects to your single-note runs. But this pedal is not merely for guitarists. Vocalists will love its inbuilt mic preamp and Adaptive Tone functionality, along with studio-quality pitch correction and reverbs. Its simple three-knob design delivers ease of use. The Talkbox Synth is capable of adding excitement to your performance.
EarthQuaker Devices Organizer V2
The Organizer is a polyphonic organ emulator that makes your instrument sound like a massive, old-timey church organ. The Organizer’s Leslie-style warbles give your sound a decidedly haunting atmosphere, whether you plug in a guitar, a bass, drums, synths, or even a mic into it. Create brand-new sonic soundscapes quickly and easily with the Organizer’s six control knobs, including Up and Down controls for the octave effect and a Choir knob that lets you dish out an additional two octaves up, two octaves down, and slightly delayed direct signal for that full church organ sound.