Effects

The description 'boost pedal' actually does the Steelpark something of a disservice, since it's also a very sophisticated and flexible low-gain overdrive that works with your amp to recreate a variety of classic tones.

This ambitious overdrive promises to recreate the entire signal path of a valve amp in solid-state electronics.

This surprisingly sophisticated reverb pedal from Laney's BCC brand includes features that may even win over the ambient musicians amongst us.

The ODR‑Mini is essentially a slightly tweaked version of Nobels' ODR‑1 overdive pedal (by all accounts extremely popular with Nashville musicians), with true bypass and a tightened low end, but squeezed into a mini‑format case.

The Gigboard crams the processing power of Headrush's flagship Pedalboard into a compact and easy to use format.

This four-stage analogue phase-shifter pedal delivers the kind of chewy swirl that we all know and love...

Tremotron can emulate an amplifier’s tremolo effect but it also has the unusual ability to run two tremolos at a time to create more rhythmic modulations.

Offering polyphonic pitch tracking without needing a special pickup, this versatile pedal lets guitarists enter the world of synthesis.

This is a reverb pedal which most definitely falls into the 'not as we know it' category — the Dark Star is really a tool for...

The DC‑2W is based on the same principles as the original flagship Roland SDD‑320 Dimension D processor, and it can emulate both the discontinued DC‑2 pedal and the SDD‑320.

Lunastone use cascaded gain stages rather than clipping diodes to achieve their amp-like distortion. And Smooth Drive 1 claims to deliver vintage tones that are just on the edge of break-up, rather than full-on distortion.

Guitar pedals range from the very basic ‘turn a knob’ variety to those with deep MIDI implementations and layers of hidden parameters. Lunastone’s Three Stage Rocket [MIDI Version] overdrive aims to strike a balance between those extremes...

While many multi‑effects units offer a slow‑attack module, finding a discrete pedal to do the job is not so easy. Enter the Slow Engine...

Electro-Harmonix’s Oceans 11 reverb pedal offer you the classic Hall, Plate and Spring options, plus modulated reverbs, pitch-shifted reverb, reverb/delay, reverse reverb, a Shimmer patch, and an infinite reverb mode...

Meris’s recent repackaging of their Mercury7 500-series unit into a reverb pedal has brought with it stereo operation at both instrument and line levels and a very welcome drop in price.

With two separate studio-quality reverb engines, this pedal isn’t only for guitar...

The JB-2 Overdrive is the first example of Boss collaborating with a boutique pedal builder — US company JHS Pedals.

While the Plus Pedal is similar in concept to Electro-Harmonix’s (EHX) Freeze and SuperEgo, there are significant differences...

Hot Wax is a dual overdrive pedal that draws upon and combines two existing EHX pedal designs, the Crayon and the Hot Tubes.

Pairing EHX’s impressive ‘freeze’ technology with a multi-effects processor opens up a world of creative possibilities.

Creating genuine and controllable guitar feedback has always presented a challenge, and few pedal or plug-in designers have...