Stone Deaf

Looking for a tremolo pedal? Luckily, the pedal world is full to the brim with great effects aimed at every budget and every style.

With 2021 likely to be another strange year for many of us, we caught up with the great and the good of the effects world.

Despite everything else that’s been going on in the world, effects pedal builders have been seeing record sales and huge successes during the pandemic – here’s how they did it.

Combining a versatile preamp with a parametric frequency booster

British indie pedal-builder Stone Deaf believes in high gain without the pain of a high noise floor, so the Noise Reaper is here to slam the gate on your background bedlam.

Boasting simple one-knob operation and an effects loop.

Updated distortion pedal marks the manufacturer’s 10th anniversary.

Can the addition of an expression pedal turn an EQ-filtering overdrive into some kind of secret analogue multi-effects unit?

The British master of fairground-lit pedals with analogue sound and digital control has turned its attention to bucket-brigade delay. And as Richard Purvis finds out, it has hidden talents…

UK company Stone Deaf Effects & Amplification builds innovative stompboxes that have graced the boards of some of the biggest stars in rock. Main man Luke Hilton explains tells the story of the firm’s rapid growth and idiosyncratic designs…