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Pedal Manufacturers Profiles

Animals Pedal Unveils Three Skreddy Designs

Montreal's SFM will become the first North American distributor of Animals Pedals. Formerly known as Ninevolt Pedals, Animals Pedals is an affordable line of effects that pairs unconventional names and creative, ursine-centric graphics with straightforward functionality, simple layouts, intuitive controls and arrays of impressive sounds. The brand’s line-up includes a…Click on the title for more

Animals Pedal Unveils Three Skreddy Designs

Meris Pedals: An Inspired Approach to Stompboxes

The world of pedal manufacturing is ripe for trailblazers. You can count Meris among them. The company makes a small but versatile range of pro-audio-quality stompboxes that offer a fresh and invigorating rethinking of what can be done with reverb, delay and circuits derived from synthesizers. That sort of approach…Click on the title for more

Meris Pedals: An Inspired Approach to Stompboxes

Manufacturer Profiles: Dawner Prince

Destiny can manifest in unexpected ways, and, sometimes, a rather unprofessional guitar player is all that's needed to trigger a career in pedal-making. When, during his college years, Croatian emerging musician Zoran Kraljevic was dabbling in drums, his band's guitar player was more interested in spending money on alcohol and…Click on the title for more

Manufacturer Profiles: Dawner Prince

Boutique Manufacturers Profiles: Friedman Amplification

Hailing originally from Detroit, Michigan, David Friedman began his career fixing, building and modifying amps. He was good at it and got progressively better and better. He got so good that he ended up becoming the go-to tone-guy for artists like Eddie Van Halen, Steve Stevens (Billy Idol, Michael Jackson) and…Click on the title for more

Boutique Manufacturers Profiles: Friedman Amplification

Happy Accident Generators: DigDugDIY Pedals

Most people find inspiration in control - probably the single most powerful force driving humanity. However, since the 20th century, some artists realized that lack of control can be equally inspiring - at least for artistic purposes - and started integrating elements of randomness in their visual and musical production. There's actually…Click on the title for more

Happy Accident Generators: DigDugDIY Pedals

Krapina, Croatia might best be remembered as being a major site of Neanderthal remains. However, there is nothing Neolithic about guitar pedals coming out of the Eastern European country. DryBell is a small boutique pedal maker formed by founder Zvonko Suhodolcan, an electric guitar player who in the mid '90s…Click on the title for more

Manufacturer Profile: DryBell’s Vibey mission

Danelectro unveils new line of pedals called BILLIONAIRE

California based manufacturer Danelectro is renown for its stylish guitars - their baritone models are particularly popular these days - but until about a decade ago it was also a big player in the stompbox arena. Their original line of pedals from the '90s has some true classics (the Fab Tone distortion above all),…Click on the title for more

Danelectro unveils new line of pedals called BILLIONAIRE

Looking at the names of Alexander Pedals' 9-models-strong line of effects, you'll be hard-pressed to know what many of them do. With names like "Golden Summer," "Syntax Error" and "History Lesson," and abstract artwork adorning their casings, trying to guess their function is a rather futile exercise... But maybe that's part of these stompboxes'…Click on the title for more

Manufacturer profile: Alexander Pedals + Gearphoria’s Feature

Tucked just south of the Mexican border lies the town of Tijuana, a small city rich in history, that has made a name for itself in the States among the under-21 crowds craving some sanction-free fun, and, perhaps, among fans of the prominent brass band. But there's a new reason for…Click on the title for more

Pedal Manufacturer Profile: Paradox Effects

“Amazon doesn’t create demand” – Interview with Mike Matthews of EHX

In 2004, The Deli Magazine (the music publication that launched the Stompbox Exhibit and this very blog) was born with the mission of being on the side of small, independent, and local bands and artists, rather than the big, mainstream, and internationally recognized ones all the other music rags competed to…Click on the title for more

“Amazon doesn’t create demand” – Interview with Mike Matthews of EHX

Germany, considered the manufacturing engine of Europe, may not be the first (or the tenth) country that comes to mind when you think of guitar effects, but Munich-based Ohmless Pedals is working on changing that. The boutique pedal company, which has been churning out stylish looking stompboxes since 2014, has…Click on the title for more

Manufacturer Profile – Ohmless Pedals

Z.Vex’s latest limited edition pedals (2016-2017)

Minneapolis based pedal builder Z.Vex Effects features some true and tried classics among its colorful and quirky looking line of stompboxes. Their Fuzz Factory turned twenty in 2015 and has been a best seller for years - it recently placed second in this list of best selling fuzz pedals compiled by Reverb.com. Other popular models include…Click on the title for more

Z.Vex’s latest limited edition pedals (2016-2017)