Updated Jan. 14, 2019 | by Paolo De Gregorio

Pedal Year End List Alert!!! We’ve been diligently posting all the Best Stompboxes of 2018 lists compiled by our favorite pedal videographers, and we couldn’t leave out the one by the folks at Pedals and Effects, who just published it.

They didn’t specify a particular order for their favorite pedals of yesteryear, so we reorganized them in reversed alphabetical order in the interactive gallery below (click on the pedals to see the video).

Look out for our “Best of the Best” list aggregating the results of all these year-end lists!

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EarthQuaker Devices Westwood Translucent Overdrive
$179 - Overdrive pedal with a powerful EQ section (“20dB of cut and/or boost at 80Hz and 2kHz”) designed to work with low wattage amps, pushing them – according to the description – “into anything from cutting, edge-of-breakup rhythm tones, all the way to articulate, singing lead tones stacked high with pleasing even-order harmonics and sweet sustain.”
Zzounds | Sweetwater |
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MXR vintage bass octave
$160 - Offers superior tracking, cleaner headroom, adding one octave down and two octaves down that can be Dialed in separately. Delivers a wide range of smooth, musical sounds—from a tone-thickening growl to chest-rumbling dub tones. A "Mid" button adds 6db at 800Hz to the clean signal and can be increased up to 18dp through an internal trimpot.
Zzounds | Sweetwater |
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Source Audio True Spring Reverb
$229 - A Stereo digital pedal derived from the Ventris but designed and optimized with the specific intent to deliver the most authentic spring reverb sound. Three modes emulate classic vintage effects, while the Dwell knob simulates how hard the spring would be pushed. A button in the back turns on a Tremolo effect, also featuring three modes (Bias, Opto and Harmonic).
Zzounds | Sweetwater |
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Red Panda Tensor
Red Panda Tensor
$299 - The Red Panda Tensor gives you live reverse and tape stop effects, pitch shifting, time stretching and hold functions you can combine in creative ways. Slow down, speed up and rewind in real time. Stretch or compress time with no pitch change. Loop, overdub, and randomly slice phrases up to 4.8 seconds.
Perf. Circuit | Reverb | Amazon
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Rainger FX Reverb-X
$193 - Subverting a pedal routing commonplace, the Reverb X places an overdrive and a gate AFTER a reverb, rather than before. Both effects only affect the reverb sound, not the clean signal. The results are very intriguing, in particular when operated with the Igor expression controller to momentarily trigger the gate open. There are two reverb modes (bright and dark).
Perf. Circuit | Reverb | Amazon
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Meris Enzo
$299 | A guitar synth that can track mono or polyphonic parts, the Enzo also features a pitch-shifter, a deep filter section, a 2 tap delay, and ring modulation. It also works as a compressor or chorus in Dry mode.
Sweetwater | Reverb | Amazon
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Malekko Downer
$189 - DOWNER combines the power of wavefolding or saturation, pitch shifting down to one octave, and both high-pass and low-pass filters all in one compact package with just 6 knobs. The PREAMP drives the Wavefolding or Saturation from subtle to extreme. The BLEND control adjusts the Dry/Octave balance from 100% Dry to 100% Octave. the High-pass and Low-pass filters allow for sculpting the perfect tone.
Perf. Circuit | Reverb | Amazon
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BOSS Dimension C DC-2w
$229 - One of the most legendary and rare analog chorus pedals ever, returns! It went out of production years ago, but BOSS brought it back in their Waza Craft line and added some new sweetness - also included are sounds from their famous Dimension D rackmount unit. The control set is unique in that it only has four (silver) buttons, with a fifth option of having them all on. 
Zzounds | Sweetwater |
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Chase Bliss Audio Condor
$500+ Used - An EQ swiss army knife with an analog signal path and digital controls. The EQ offers parametric mids control from 150Hz to 5kHz with 3 “Q” settings. The Bass boost/cut control has 3 intensity settings and a Low Pass Filter with 3 settings: normal, slight resonant, very resonant. A switch transforms it into an overdrive, and Ramping/Hold functionality creates LFO filter tremolo effects.
eBay | Reverb | Amazon
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EarthQuaker Devices Aqueduct
$199 - A vibrato pedal with a very appealing watery quality. 8 modes give this pedal enough flexibility to make it palatable for adventurous musicians, in particular when the right side modes (Random, Env D, Env R and Env P) are engaged. The footswitch allows for both standard latching and momentary switching, which can trigger a series of creative effects, depending on the selected mode.
Sweetwater | Reverb | Amazon

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