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A MIDI enabled pedalboard
The guitarist's guide to MIDI: how to get more from your pedalboard and stop the tap dancing

By Matt McCracken Published

A no-nonsense guide to switching presets, automating tone changes, and fully utilizing your digital pedals

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Emmergy FX pedals
Meet Emmergy FX, the British boutique pedal builder concocting effects for Slowdive and Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien

By Guitar World Staff Published

Sponsor Content Created With Emmergy FX

The man behind the soldering iron and Emmergy FX is creating custom-built effect stompboxes that are quickly becoming favorites among left-field artists and the shoegaze scene

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Mike Matthews from Electro-Harmonix posing with a cigar in front of stacks of pedals in boxes
How Mike Matthews saved pedal pioneers Electro-Harmonix from the brink

By Janelle Borg Published

When Electro-Harmonix went bankrupt in the mid-’80s, Matthews was forced to pivot and find an alternative market for his business, away from the States

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Electro-Harmonix Pico Atomic Cluster
“Waiting to throw a spanner in the works of your guitar tone”: Electro-Harmonix Pico Atomic Cluster review

By Trevor Curwen Published

EHX’s new Pico pedal is designed to deconstruct your tone to an atomic level

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EarthQuaker Devices Afterneath pedal shot on a wooden backdrop
How EarthQuaker Devices went beyond the boutique pedal boom and took left-field tones mainstream

By Rob Laing Published

EQD founder Jamie Stillman on the pedal that made the company famous, why the overcomplicated is not for him, and the stompbox that serves death metal and country guitarists alike

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Flattley The Outlaw – the red-pink boost/drive twofer is decorated in Mexican Day of the Dead inspired graphics
“Arguably the most practical single pedal you can put in front of an amp”: Flattley The Outlaw review

By Trevor Curwen Published

Flattley combines the functions of two of its pedals into one chassis to create a Marshall-flavoured drive and boost

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The Crumar Burn is a rotary speaker emulator that is designed for keyboards but works just fine for guitar – it has a brushed metal chassis with black dials and control panel
“The basic rotary sound is very convincing”: Crumar Burn review

By Trevor Curwen Published

Made by a keyboard company for use with its organs, this rotary simulator pedal has plenty to get guitarists in a spin

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ThorpyFX x Lazy J The J: Analogue amp emulator based on the Lazy J J 20 amplifier
“It feels like you’re plugged straight into an amp, rather than a pedal”: ThorpyFX x Lazy J The J review

By Trevor Curwen Published

ThorpyFX team up with Lazy J to put the amp brand’s signature take on the Fender tweed sound into a pedal

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Dinosaural Hypoid Drive
“Runs the gamut from boost through to fuzz-flavoured distortion”: Dinosaural Hypoid Drive review

By Trevor Curwen Published

Dan Coggins makes the drive section of his award-winning Cogmeister powerhouse available as a pedal of its own

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JHS Morning Glory Clean
JHS Pedals says it has just made the ultimate first-stage overdrive pedal

By Jonathan Horsley Published

Josh Scott says witnessing a soundcheck gave him the idea of the Morning Glory Clean – which reimagines the world-beating transparent overdrive

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