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This weeks collection of the best free plug-ins brings us a filter and distortion effect, a versatile impulse response loader and a classic panning effect that should be in everyone’s collection.
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The new MXR M305 Tremolo has six waveforms to choose from, can run in stereo, and has a hidden secret mode. This could easily be the only tremolo pedal you'll ever need!
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Fans of juicy stoner rock and the sounds of Red Fang will be all over the Night Destroyer, a distortion and EQ pedal inspired by the Sunn Beta Bass. There's a snag, though...
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The Strymon NightSky has now officially been launched, a reverb with analogue-synth like control and a step sequencer. It is everything we all hoped for and could be the perfect creative effect for your rig
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The Strymon NightSky leaked! And yes, the blue pedal is a reverb, and you can see the leaked pictures of this new effect here.
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Boss has given its new OC-5 octave pedal some impressive specs, with enhanced, vintage-voiced monophonic modes, as well as modern day polyphonic octave modes.
Is the new Electro-Harmonix Pitch Fork + Polyphonic Pitch Shift pedal imminent? Leaked in January, it's now appearing on dealer sites in the US. Here's what we know so far.
Waves Kaleidoscopes takes the classic modulation effects phaser, flanger, chorus and tremolo and lets you combine them in a variety of ways. It's a colorful swirl of dynamic modulation.
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The new Walrus Audio Julianna Deluxe Chorus/Vibrato is a bigger sister to its Julia pedal, with more features and a handy extra footswitch for added versatility. And it sounds every bit as good!
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Vintage pedal snobs: the truth is that there are distortion, fuzz, delay, chorus and flanger pedals that sound great going for around or under £60/$80! Here are 8 cheap pedals you need to try.
Way Huge's Green Rhino MkV is now in a smaller enclosure, yet it adds two new functions: Frequency and Curve controls. This thing may go straight onto our shopping list.
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The new Sitek Joss Allen Freya signature Overdrive/Booster combines low/mid-gain drive with 12 dB of clean gain and some versatile features to cover a lot of bases for the money.
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SolidGoldFX has just released one of the more out-there flanger pedals. The Oblivion Quad Flanger has three different flange modes, and a whole bunch of control options.
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Misha Mansoor's Horizon Devices has an intriguing new reverb/delay, the Flux Echo - after two years in development we expect this will be one to watch!
Our contributor Jef Stone is a pedal addict. A certified AAA stompbox junkie, in fact. Here's the story of how his pedal collection grew from a single BOSS SD-1 to hundreds of effects.
Supporting music industry workers who have lost their livelihoods due to COVID-19, the Hamstead Ascent boost pedal is built by techs working with A-list music acts.
