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Updated Pedal: IK Multimedia TONEX ONE+

The original TONEX ONE (blurb below) was already a marvel: AI Machine Modeling, hyper-realistic amp captures, and a full rig's worth of tones in a box barely larger than a matchbook. But it had one glaring limitation. To edit presets, load new Tone Models, or organize your sounds, you needed…Click on the title for more

Updated Pedal: IK Multimedia TONEX ONE+

The 13 Best Pedals for Synths (One for Each Type of Effect) in 2026

Three years ago, we made a plan. Ten videos with synth influencer Liam Killen, breaking down the best synth pedals by effect type. Nice and tidy. What could go wrong?. Everything. In the best way possible. That tidy little series spiraled into a two-and-a-half-year obsession. We dove into multi-modulation, got…Click on the title for more

The 13 Best Pedals for Synths (One for Each Type of Effect) in 2026

New Pedal: Catalinbread Clean Little Secret

Portland's Catalinbread built its reputation on the Dirty Little Secret, a Marshall-in-a-box that conquered high-gain British roar. But every coin has a flip side. the Clean Little Secret is that flip, a low-gain foundation overdrive inspired by the Bluesbreaker, the combo amp that basically invented the "edge of breakup" before…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Catalinbread Clean Little Secret

New Pedal: Chase Bliss Big Time Stereo Delay

A thousand dollars. For a delay pedal. Let that sink in. Here's the thing, though. Joel Korte and his team and John Snyder (Electronic Audio Experiments) have built something that actually justifies the price tag. The Chase Bliss Big Time isn't another digital delay with fancy marketing. It's a painstaking…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Chase Bliss Big Time Stereo Delay

New Pedal: Tsakalis AC Master Boost + Overdrive

Athens isn't the first place you think of when someone says "cranked British amp." But Tsakalis AudioWorks is making a strong case for reconsidering that assumption. The AC Master is two classic circuits sharing a single enclosure: a VOX AC30 Top Boost overdrive and a Rangemaster-style treble booster. Not a…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Tsakalis AC Master Boost + Overdrive

New Pedal: Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi 2 with Tone Wicker

The Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi 2 with Tone Wicker is not a polite fuzz. The "Tone Wicker" isn't a gentle EQ boost; it is a set of sonic bolt cutters designed to rip the blankets off your amplifier. The NYC builder pioneered this feature to solve the Big Muff’s most…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi 2 with Tone Wicker

New Pedal: Strymon Canoga Silicon Fuzz

Strymon built a reputation on digital wizardry—big boxes, deep menus, endless presets. But behind all that DSP lives an analog team that's been quietly designing circuits nobody gets to see. Times are a-changing. The Series A line is the company's outlet for analog dirt boxes. No MIDI. No USB. No…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Strymon Canoga Silicon Fuzz

New Pedal: Beetronics Seabee Lite Chorus

Beetronics took their gloriously overcomplicated Seabee and stripped it down to the good parts. The Seabee Lite is still a fully analog BBD chorus, but now you don't need a PhD to operate it. Three modes, six knobs, two toggles, and a pair of footswitches that do more than just…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Beetronics Seabee Lite Chorus

New Pedal: Summer School Fuzz 101

Math class was useless. This isn't. The Summer School Fuzz 101 features two BC108 silicon transistors. The same ones that made London sound like London in the '60s. High-gain, noisy, glorious. Summer School took that DNA, added a few legendary mods, and somehow didn't screw it up. Volume. Fuzz. Bias.…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Summer School Fuzz 101

New Pedal: SoloDallas CD65 (CompanDrive 65)

Here's a pedal that admits what most overdrives pretend isn't true: your favorite records sound the way they do because of noise reduction. The CompanDrive 65 (aka SoloDallas CD65) is a compander. Compress on the way in, expand on the way out. That's what Dolby did to tape in 1965.…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: SoloDallas CD65 (CompanDrive 65)

New Pedal: Old Blood Noise Setback Reverse Delay

OBNE killed the BL-44. Good. It deserved a proper successor. The Old Blood Noise Setback is that successor: a reverse delay that ditches the "textural" hedging of its ancestors (Rever, Minim, Parting) for something more surgical. It can drift off on its own or lock tight to MIDI clock. It can…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Old Blood Noise Setback Reverse Delay

Win an Arturia MiniFreak Vocoder ($599!) via the PDX Synth Expo!

We have one last giveaway linked to the Portland Synth & Pedal Expo, and it's a sweet and synthy one!Click on the title for more

Win an Arturia MiniFreak Vocoder ($599!) via the PDX Synth Expo!