Effects

This neat box of tricks offers a wide range of vocal effects, as well as the ability to track the pitch of a guitar or MIDI input.

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...

O-G-SUS (Oliver Greschke) is already well known amongst iOS musicians for the excellent Elastic Drums app, but his latest offering is an effects app: Elastic FX.

Kosmonaut is Bram's take on a delay effect. Like Troublemaker and Ripplemaker, the GUI is both a cool design, easy to use in the compact mobile format and packed with features.

Covering the everyday and the esoteric, could this pedal meet all your reverb needs?

Reviewed here are two brand new variants of possibly the most famous overdrive pedal ever made...

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...

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.