Effects

Strymon’s effect pedals are revered and rumours of Eurorack versions generated a degree of anticipation. The first module released is Magneto, an echo machine based on tape simulation, with four playback heads, phrase sampling, looping and a lush spring reverb.

This stereo effects processor uses a cartridge system to provide a growing number of new effect algorithms and is Tiptop Audio’s 2018 update to a very successful digital Eurorack module first released back in 2009.

IK Multimedia have launched a collection of Leslie cabinet emulations, designed in collaboration with Hammond USA and Suzuki...

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.

Boss’ latest guitar-friendly floor unit combines the convenience of a multi-effects box with the ability to use your own pedals.

If you’ve found integrating multi-effects units into your existing amp and pedalboard setup problematic, this unit could make life easier...

The Inspire is a compact pedal capable of producing an impressive range of tri-chorus sounds...

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.

Rainmaker consists of a stereo 16-tap spectral delay paired with a 64-tap comb resonator, the latter sporting external triggering options that turn it into a (single-voice) Karplus-Strong synthesizer.

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

Analogue Solutions introduce their new SynthBlocks range with two highly individual devices.

Software instruments range from the massive and deep, such as Spectrasonics Omnisphere, to the very basic. Psychedelic FX 6000 V1 definitely inhabits the simpler end of the spectrum — and that’s all part of its appeal.

If there is such a thing as a classic plug-in, Line 6’s Echo Farm surely falls into that category...

MangledVerb first appeared as an algorithm in the rackmount Eventide Eclipse effects units. It then migrated to the H9 guitar pedal, and is now available as a self-contained plug-in supporting all the usual formats.

BAE’s first guitar pedal was borne of a fruitless search for two classic 1960s stompboxes.

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

Helix systems are converting many guitarists to amp modelling, and the newest of them brings Line 6’s latest algorithms to your DAW.

LiquidSonics have made a convolution reverb that sounds like an algorithmic reverb — and not just any algorithmic reverb...

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

Soundtoys’ new reverb might be little, but it has a big sound...