Random wobbles, jerky stutters, background noise, honky filtering – this pedal promises to push your tone through a rusty mangle. But if you think that all sounds a bit niche, prepare to expand your soundscaping horizons.
More than a decade after it rewrote the rulebook for compact reverb pedals, the BlueSky has received an overhaul to compete with the modern big guns, but is the Sky still the limit?
UK pedal maker Origin Effects turns its attention from amp in a box, to box before amp, and starts with arguably the most influential pedal circuit of all time. Make the best pedal ever even better? Halcyon days indeed!
One of the most talked about pedals of recent years, this collab between MXR and AnalogMan promises to bring the near-mythical King Of Tone to anyone with a couple of bills in their pocket. But is this a rightful heir to the throne?
The Jazzmaster-toting figurehead of the slacker generation has put his name to an official Muff for the first time. But is it worth buying ahead of the standard model? Time to gear up for a sludgefeast.
EHX’s latest ‘9’ pedal wants to turn your guitar into something much more polite and sophisticated… but its vintage synth tones can also get pretty wild.
With faintly ridiculous oversized boxy enclosures and stripped-back controls and livery that recall a much simpler era of effects – but there’s more going on here than revivalism.
