Updated Jan. 13, 2020 | by Paolo De Gregorio

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Once again, we’ll be at Winter NAMM with two booths hosting several emerging boutique pedal builders. In this section, we highlight their latest releases. If you are going to NAMM, don’t forget to stop by booth #5046 and #3423!

Check out also our coverage of the new pedals released at NAMM here: Gain Pedals – Non-Gain Pedals.

This year our booths will be sponsored by:

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BOSS Katana Amp MkII
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Hosa Technology Cables
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Sennheiser Studio Headphones
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BUILDERS AT BOOTH #5046

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Aclam Dr. Robert
$329 | A recreation of the Normal channel of the Vox UL730, made famous by the Beatles. Modeled after one of the few originals, this pedal employs a custom FET saturation engine to mimic the attributes of the amp’s tube power amp section and the amp’s peculiar Mids knob. The second footswitch engages an extra saturation boost.
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Anasounds Element La Brute
Anasounds Element
$218-285 - An all-analog spring reverb transducer unit, which connects remotely to one of three different real spring reverb tanks (La Brute is the medium-size one). The main box gives you the front end of a Fender Twin Reverb, for a super-clean pedal platform with tons of headroom, while the three tanks offer varying size/decay time options. The Spring Saturation toggle creates a unique fuzz/overdrive sound.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
1353720953
Birmingham Sounds Twentyseventeen Distortion
Designed to be a wide range overdrive and distortion, the 2017 is a “Swiss Army Knife” kind of pedal, offering a variety of tones, from a slight hint of crunch all the way up to a huge distortion. A two band Baxandall EQ allows for tone shaping and fine tuning to any amp or sonic environment. Inside the box you’ll only find high quality components used throughout as well as a soft-touch relay bypass.
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342805363
Cusack FX Meta Plexi
An amp-in-a-box with a decidedly British sounding gain structure. It’s an early Fender/Marshall hybrid pre-amp that uses FETs instead of tubes. The controls are interactive just as they would be in a classic amp tone stack. Features include a three band EQ with Gain and Volume controls, Vintage or Modern tone circuits, and a Lead Boost footswitch with three selectable levels of boost.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
3097857171
DryBell, Unit67 Compressor/EQ/Boost
A utility pedal with a semi-clean boost circuit inspired to the Range Master, a compressor voiced after the Urei 1176 and a low/high EQ section. 
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Dusky Electronics Hypatia Fuzz
It made the cover of Premier Guitar’s “Gear of the Year” issue. In his review, Charles Saufley said: “If you love the mainline rush of guitar into a piping-hot English amp, you’ll love Hypatia’s aggressive but articulate personality. Spend enough time with this pedal and you’ll find it’s capable of much more than that.”
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Epigaze Audio Grammatika
It blends an ambient pad or drone under the guitar signal. Select the desired song key and easily navigate the internal library of pad types via MIDI or the onboard soft switches. Add a volume pedal in the effects loop or utilize the onboard side roller knob to fade the pad in and out.
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Frost Giant Electronics Athos
A distortion designed with one thing in mind: pure saturated distortion, but with breath and heft you can feel in your gut. It adds a carefully fine-tuned boost circuit around the company’s Mountain distortion. With the boost pushing the Mountain, you can blend both gains and use the Pre to add even more saturation.
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Haunted Lab Paranormal Fuzz V2
An aggressive fuzz packed with tons of gain with a cleaner and quiter circuit design than v1. Great for stoner and shoegazer guitarists.
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KMA Audio Machines Cirrus
$229 - A creative Tap Tempo enabled Delay + Reverb with Modulation, Octave and Filter options packed with features. 3 modes for delay and reverb offer a special dynamic feature controlled by the signal's attack. A host of controls open up infinite sonic options, including momentary latch features for both footswitches.
Alt Seller | Reverb | Amazon
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Meris New Device
At this stage we don't know what it is, but Meris will launch a new device at our NAMM booth #5046, come to check it out!
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Mojo Hand FX Dream Mender
Echo / Chorus / Vibrato based on the classic late ’70s DMM - but much smaller and with many other improvements: twice the delay time, blend knob, clearer repeats, longer feedback, and a more pronounced vibrato effect. It has a SPIN DSP based processor which will never need the originals’ costly and frequently needed BB adjustments.
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Noatronic Onboard Expression Receiver
Best in Show at SNAMM '19. It delivers tactile Midi, Expression and Switch control onboard to the guitar without changing its aesthetics or construction. The guitar is connected with a stereo (TRS) cable to the Receiver, which reads the Controller position and pushpush switch status and then controls pedals, amps, amp modellers and more.
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2878623458
Option Knob Danger Zone Phaser + Tremolo
$249 | A flexible and creative tremolo plus phaser in parallel with separate footswitch and foot controllable rate and depths. The three fotswitches offer intriguing effects: Arm, turns the tremolo on; Jet Wash change the intensity of the phaser, while Fire is a momentary effects that intensifies the phasing.
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SolidGoldFX Communication Breakdown
It combines a pair of legendary fuzzes in one stompbox. “Channel A” provides a warm and dynamic 2-transistor Tone Bender MK1.5-inspired circuit with slightly hotter silicon transistors; “Channel B” delivers hard-rockin’, midrangey tones à la Tone Bender MKII. Stacked them or run them separately and use Bias knob and dip switches to tune them to your tastes.
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Spiral Electric FX White Spiral Boost
A dirty boost with 18v internal operation that exploits various JFET circuits inspired by Jimmy Page’s use of the Barcus Berry Preamp. It uses a dual JFET for amplification and the Grit, which is a combination of JFET and Silicon clipping found in the company’s Yellow Spiral Drive, but with a user-definable location in the circuit.
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VS Audio Alchemy
$275 - A stereo BBD analog chorus based on the re-issued version of the MN3207 delay chip. Offers six different presets and a delay control that sets the center delay time for the modulation. Each knob is controlled by a small microprocessor while the signal stays 100% analog. This allows to save and recall multiple modulated tones instantly.
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Westminster Effects Exegete
A true sonic reproduction of the Bixonic Expandora, the Exegete provides a vast array of tones, from clean crunch all the way to over-the-top fuzz.
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Zander FX Junipero Multi-Modulation Pedal
~$400 | A multi-modulation pedal boasting 8 unique takes on classic effects including chorus, flanger, phaser and tremolo. With five on-board presets, tap tempo with subdivisions, full expression control & MIDI, the Junipero offers incredible versatility that fits right in with anyone’s rig.
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BUILDERS AT BOOTH #3423

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DSM and Humboldt Simplifier
$329 - An amp and cab emulator that features a true analog preamp that recreates in fine detail the most popular clean channel preamps, a power amp sim and dual independent Cab sims with spread control. Stereo FX loop, headphone amp with Aux input for monitoring or silent practicing, two XLR DI out, and two bypassable ¼-inch jacks round up the features. XLR and Headphone out.
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Electric Eye Audio Mud Killer
A pedal that delivers tons of gain and definition by cutting selected frequencies before the signal hits the overdrive.
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GØRVA Design Parts
A parts company focused on providing high-quality components specifically designed for pedals and audio. GØRVA designs some of its own parts based on research on metal’s physical and electrical properties. Their catalog includes enclosures optimized for pedal use, military-spec metal film resistors with lower noise and tighter tolerance, and now also all sorts of potentiometers, switches, jacks etc.
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Old Blood Noise Endeavors Minim
$229 - An ambient machine offering a newly voiced reverb with harmonic tremolo, a modulated delay, and a reverse section selectable between normal speed or double speed activated with a footswitch for momentary or latching operation. The placement of the two effects can be changed through the Order toggle switch.
Perf. Circuit | Reverb | Amazon
1566530020
West Co Pedals Grease Juicer
Inspired by funk drummer Curt Bisquera, the Grease Juicer - West Co’s first signature pedal - is a unique Buffer-Splitter-Fuzz-Envelope Filter with Sidechain trigger. The detector and audio circuits are specifically tweaked for bass (green knob and LED version) or guitar (orange knob and LED version). If you like your funk a little nasty, this is the pedal for you.
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About the Delicious Audio’s NAMM Stompbox Booths

Delicious Audio organizes in-the-headphones pedal (and synth) pop-up events in several North American cities and, starting 2020, also in the UK. Pictures of our past events can be seen SB Pics.

At both NAMM shows we give the opportunity to smaller pedal builders to attend these important musical instrument conventions at a fraction of the cost, through the shared Stompbox Booths.

Some now established builders have started attending NAMM through our shared booths, including Red Panda, Meris, Old Blood Noise Endeavors, Fairfield Circuitry, and DryBell among others. Bigger manufacturers like EarthQuaker Devices, Walrus Audio, Source Audio and Chase Bliss Audio occasionally take part in these shared booths as well.

Pedal companies interested in reserving a spot for the upcoming Summer NAMM (Nashville, July 9-10) and Winter NAMM 2021 can reach out to paolo.dg@thedelimag.com.

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