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Pitch Shifter Pedals

Alexander Pedals Marshmallow Artificial Sweetener (Dual Modulated Pitch Shifter)

Alexander Pedal has a knack for releasing creative and playful pedals, and their new creation pushes the limits in both realms. With colorful, cartoonish illustrations likely to make any toddler want to steal it from you, the company’s brand new Marshmallow is a rather ‘out-there” take on dual modulated pitch shifting, featuring six modes (listed under…Click on the title for more

Alexander Pedals Marshmallow Artificial Sweetener (Dual Modulated Pitch Shifter)

Hologram Electronics Dream Sequence

Hologram Electronics brings a prolific new box to the pedal game with a sophisticated workstation called the Dream Sequence which spans a host of capabilities including octaves, arpeggiation, sequencing, and sampling. You can use the pedal effectively as a sound designer to create full chord sweeps, pitch shifts, envelope filters, echoes,…Click on the title for more

Hologram Electronics Dream Sequence

Catalinbread Coriolis Effect

The Catalinbread Coriolis Effect blends a glitching effect, and octaver, wah, filter and harmonizer into one all-encompassing, yet easy-to-use box. Just three knobs and two footswitches combine to give you one of the most expressive boxes at this year's NAMM show. Named after a phenomenon in physics in which one…Click on the title for more

Catalinbread Coriolis Effect

TC Electronic Brainwaves Pitch Shifter

TC Electronic didn't participate directly in the NAMM 2019 show (they haven't "partied" since Behringer bought the company in 2017), but they synchronized the launch of a new pedal with the Anaheim convention: the Brainwaves, a new, all-in-one polyphonic stereo pitch shifter that joins the popular Toneprint series. The effect…Click on the title for more

TC Electronic Brainwaves Pitch Shifter

Shift Line A+ Prism-9 Filter Pad

Shift Line pedals have some kind of cultish reputation in the US. The Russian manufacturer doesn't have US distribution (yet) but was able to grab the attention of many US pedal videographers with creative stompboxes like the Tremofuzz or the Force microsampler/freeze reverb, which sparked interest among the more informed pedal lovers.…Click on the title for more

Shift Line A+ Prism-9 Filter Pad

Dwarfcraft Devices Witch Shifter Pitch Shifter/Echo/Fuzz

The folks at Dwarfcraft Devices have been on fire lately, releasing a pedal after another. Their Witch Shifter is an Octave Up/Down effect with built-in Fuzz and an under-the-hood Echo. But of course, like in all devices built by this manufacturer, there's a lot more to it: The Bend knob creates a detuned…Click on the title for more

Dwarfcraft Devices Witch Shifter Pitch Shifter/Echo/Fuzz

MidValleyFx Mad Robot Distortion with Oscillator

Comprised of a husband and wife team based in Albany, OR, MidValleyFx specializes in heavy fuzz and distortion pedals. Their newest pedal Mad Robot, an oscillating distortion, was recently featured on Premier Guitar, and it's bound to make noise lovers smile. Featuring 5 unnamed controls (four knobs and one toggle switch),…Click on the title for more

MidValleyFx Mad Robot Distortion with Oscillator

Dwarfcraft Devices Grazer – Granular Repeater

The Dwarfcraft Devices Grazer was one of the newly released pedals visitors of the 2nd L.A. Stompbox Exhibit had the chance to check out this past weekend at the Sunset Blvd. Sam Ash store. Hosted in an attractively chunky, orange "brick-style" enclosure, this stompbox belongs to the rather trendy category…Click on the title for more

Dwarfcraft Devices Grazer – Granular Repeater

Chase Bliss Audio Thermae gets the Knobs Treatment

We are huge fans of Knobs and we were actually eagerly waiting for this video of the Chase Bliss Audio Thermae, a bucket-brigade based delay/pitch shifter that promises to bring "a radically new approach to analog delay and harmonization." Joel from Chase Bliss shot a video preview of the Thermae…Click on the title for more

Chase Bliss Audio Thermae gets the Knobs Treatment

Death By Audio Robot 8-bit Fuzz Octaver

The Death By Audio Robot is a manic 8-bit pitch transposer fuzz that's become somewhat cherished among experimental guitarists. It does octave up, octave down, and it even has an arpeggiator function. Rabea Massaad got one in the mail directly from the manufacturer and made this demo of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysLMoburfzYClick on the title for more

Death By Audio Robot 8-bit Fuzz Octaver

Malekko Heavy Industry Downer Wavefolder/Saturation/Octave/Filter

If you like your guitar tone deep-down low and distorted, Malekko Heavy Industries has a new pedal that can take it to new depths. The appropriately named Downer - a pedal whose prototype we saw at NAMM 2018 - is a combination wavefolder/saturation and pitch-shifting pedal. Saturation, the more “subtle” of…Click on the title for more

Malekko Heavy Industry Downer Wavefolder/Saturation/Octave/Filter

TC Electronic Quintessence Harmonizer

TC Electronic unveiled their new Quintessence Harmonizer in late 2017. Finally, some video demos of it are surfacing, here's the one from EytschPi42. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGc28P_YNSY And here's the video the guys from That Pedal Show took at GuitCon in Germany. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU_7FJYsiyE More from the manufacturer's website: Quintessence Harmonizer is a state-of-the-art…Click on the title for more

TC Electronic Quintessence Harmonizer