The best-selling pedals of 2019 have been revealed

Walrus Audio Slo Reverb pedal
(Image credit: Future)

Last week, we presented Reverb.com’s list of the site’s best-selling guitar amps of 2019. Now, the digital gear marketplace has revealed another year-end best-of, this one focusing on the site’s top-selling effect pedals, both overall and for stompboxes new for 2019 (and as regular readers of this site are well aware, there were a lot – and we mean a lot – of pedals released over the past 12 months).

In the best-selling overall category TC Electronic ruled the roost, with the company’s Hall of Fame Reverb and Ditto Looper taking first and second place. Other high-rankers included the Fulltone OCD, MXR Carbon Copy and Keeley Compressor.

Best-selling pedals overall

  1. TC Electronic Hall of Fame Reverb
  2. TC Electronic Ditto Looper
  3. Fulltone OCD
  4. MXR M169 Carbon Copy Analog Delay
  5. Keeley Compressor Plus
  6. Strymon TimeLine Delay
  7. Electro-Harmonix Canyon
  8. TC Electronic Flashback Delay & Looper
  9. Boss DS-1 Distortion
  10. Strymon Big Sky Reverb
  11. Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer
  12. Electro-Harmonix Soul Food Transparent Overdrive
  13. Dunlop DVP4 Volume X Mini
  14. Electro-Harmonix Oceans 11 Reverb
  15. Paul Cochrane Timmy Overdrive

On the new for 2019 side, Walrus Audio’s Slo multi-texture reverb took top honors, while Chase Bliss Audio’s MOOD micro-looper/delay (which was recently released in a special Reverb 'blacked out' version) came in second. 

The top five was filled out by Electro-Harmonix’s Attack Decay, EarthQuaker Devices’ Plumes and another EHX offering, the Bass Mono Synth.

Best-selling new-for-2019 pedals

  1. Walrus Audio Slö
  2. Chase Bliss Audio Mood
  3. Electro-Harmonix Attack Decay
  4. EarthQuaker Devices Plumes
  5. Electro-Harmonix Bass Mono Synth
  6. Strymon Volante Magnetic Echo Machine
  7. Keeley Fuzz Bender
  8. MXR DD25 Green Day Dookie Drive
  9. EarthQuaker Devices Swiss Things
  10. Boss SY-1 Synthesizer
  11. JHS Clover Preamp
  12. Walrus Audio Lillian Multi-Stage Analog Phaser
  13. Electro-Harmonix Guitar Mono Synth
  14. Old Blood Noise Endeavors Rever
  15. TC Electronic June 60 Chorus

And because there are just so, so many pedals both new and old out there in the, um, guitar world, Reverb also took it upon themselves to break down the top-selling units in six effect categories: Overdrive, fuzz, delay, reverb, chorus and compression.

To check out all the top sellers, head over to Reverb.com.

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Richard Bienstock

Rich is the co-author of the best-selling Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion. He is also a recording and performing musician, and a former editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He has authored several additional books, among them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the companion to the documentary of the same name.