Roger Linn Designs has released the AdrenaLinn III, the successor to Linn’s Adrenalinn II, which featured guitar effects beat-synced to an on-board drum machine. Adrenalinn II owners can buy an upgrade kit to take their machine to III status.
“AdrenaLinn III provides a guitar modeler, plus a wide variety of unique modulation and delay effects,” said […]

Summer NAMM Show: The Roland RE-201 Space Echo has been reborn as the BOSS RE-20 Twin Pedal. According to BOSS, they’ve recreated every sonic detail and nuance of the original, providing users the warm, unpredictable and highly tweakable retro sounds of the RE-201.
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The original Roland RE-201, commonly known as the Space Echo, was an analog […]

Continuing their series of innovative, retro-styled tube effects pedals, Effectrode has announced a limited edition of the Phaseomatic Deluxe vacuum tube phaser pedal.
That’s right - a vacuum tube-based phaser effect pedal!
This version of the PM-2.1 has an all tube signal processing path controlled by a powerful NCO (Numerically Controlled Oscillator) to drive the bulb and […]

 

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Alien Apparatus has announced the availability of Solo Performer Show Controller version 3.5. The new version 3.5 is now a Universal Binary application that runs natively on the new Intel Macs.
While the older releases could run on Intel Macs under Rosetta emulation, the new version takes advantage of the speed of the new processors and […]

Line 6 announced at Winter NAMM the Floor POD Plus, the latest addition to their POD line. Floor POD Plus offers all the features of the studio-standard POD 2.0, along with additional premium effects in a road-ready floor pedal with real time foot controls.
Floor POD Plus can be used as a multi-effect unit in front […]

NAMM Show: Line 6 announced the Bass Floor POD, the latest addition to their POD line of products. A complete all-in-one solution, Bass Floor POD provides the bass player with premium tone and effects in a portable, easy-to-use package.
Bass Floor POD can be used as a front-end multi-effects/tone pedal for any bass amp, a complete […]

2007 NAMM Show: DigiTech, a manufacturer of musical instrument signal processors, and a Harman International, announced two new vocal effects processors - the Vocalist Live 2 and Vocalist Live 4 vocal harmony and effects floor processors for performing guitarists.
Utilizing DigiTech’s MusIQ technology, the Vocalist Live processors generate intelligent, multi-part vocal harmonies using the singer’s voice. […]

Grafton Electronics, under license from Dan Armstrong Enterprises, announced a new unit to its line of Armstrong Sound Modifiers. The Black Reaper, introduced at the NAMM Show, is the newest sound modifier added to the series, which includes Red Ranger, Purple Peaker, Green Ringer, Yellow Humper, Blue Clipper, and Orange Squeezer. Each Black Reaper is […]

Line 6 is now shipping the newest addition to the POD line, Floor POD. An all-in-one tone solution, Floor POD is a multi-effect floor processor with a built-in foot controller that delivers premium tone and features in a portable, easy to use package.
Floor POD can be used as a simple multi-effect pedal for any guitar […]

Pigtronix has introduced the the OFO Disnortion (Overdrive, Fuzz and Octava) pedal.
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The Overdrive, Fuzz and Octava, used in combination yield amazing distortion. Because the Overdrive and Fuzz are wired in parallel, you can run both effects without sacrificing clarity or dynamic response. Well-voiced tone and shape controls make it easy to focus each effect on […]

NAMM Update: A new looping unit from BOSS was turning heads at the recent Winter NAMM Show. BOSS calls it “the most feature-laded looper in the company’s history.” (We’ll take that as feature-laden!)

The RC-50 is housed in a seven-footswitch floor unit, and allows three stereo loop tracks to be manipulated simultaneously. Each loop track […]

The fuzzboxes keep coming! ArielFX has introduced the Germanium Phuzz Phace, which is handmade and features new old stock germanium transistors, a bright LED indicator and real true bypass.
According to ArielFX, “Our Phuzz Phaces come with medium gain germanium transistors that have the “right” gain ratings – just like in the original Fuzz Faces. The […]

Red Witch, a maker of analog effects devices, has introduced the Fuzz God, a celestial device featuring two hand picked, new old stock, Germanium transistors.
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The Fuzz God allows you to create fuzzyness of epic proportions (think red seas parting, burning bushes, pillars of salt etc).
From your classic fuzz tones of the sustaining, soulful, singing […]

Pro Tone Pedals has introduced the Boom Box, a clean boost design utilizing a high fidelity integrated circuit chip from Texas Instrument. In response to users demands for more tone shaping options, the Boom Box also features the tone stack designs from 3 of the most popular amp manufacturers in history - Fender, Vox, and […]

Radial Engineering is shipping the Tonebone Trimode, a tube distortion pedal that features a ‘true bypass’ clean tone, and two separate distortion modes for rhythm and lead settings.
Like the Tonebone Classic, the Trimode is a 12AX7 equipped tube distortion pedal that combines the warmth and harmonic generation of a vacuum tube with proprietary solid-state overdrive […]