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10 misunderstood guitar pedals that became modern classics

These trailblazing stompboxes baffled players at first, but guitarists eventually caught on…

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The ultimate drop-tuning pedal? Solar Guitars reckons the Chug Capo can outdo DigiTech and Boss

The digital pitch-shifter promises low latency and ultimate tone quality preservation

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“A pedal that leaves players saying, ‘WTF!’”: DOD and Morley team up for the triple threat Wah-ocTo-Fuzz pedal

DOD’s synthy sub-octave circuit and Morley’s wah and fuzz circuits are 2026’s most unexpected power trio

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“A bit of EQ tweaking with the Bad setting will get it sounding like a viable substitute for a Klon... there’s a world of drive to be explored”: DOD Badder Monkey review

From Bad to Badder, DOD revives DigiTech’s drive pedal and gives it increased versatility

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"I need to be honest about how well this pedal holds up for down-tuning against the newer competition it faces": DigiTech Drop Limited Black Edition review

The Polyphonic Drop Tune pedal first landed in 2014, and now a limited run in a new finish gives us a good opportunity to check where it stands today

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“If we see something like the DigiTech Bad Monkey overdrive trending, it’s like, ‘Okay, who opened their mouth?’ And it’s usually JHS’s Josh Scott”: From the amp modeling revolution to the demand for dirt, these are the trends driving the used gear market

Joel Handley of Reverb gives us a peek into used gear’s trends, past, present and what the future might hold

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“Gibson wasn’t the only company to lose its mind in thrall to technology”: The 21st century gear trends that never caught on

Because not all innovations stand the test of time

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“It stacks brilliantly and the additional modes are super useful”: DOD Overdrive Preamp 250-X review

The DOD 250 gets modernized, with two additional modes. Is the workhorse showing its age? We find out.

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“It's a Bad Monkey, turned up to 11”: DOD Badder Monkey review

Not a reissue, but an 'evolution.' So what does that mean?

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“It’s taken its time, but finally one of rock music’s most iconic instruments has been launched as a signature run”: All the guitar gear that has caught my eye this week – including a follow-up to the internet-breaking Bad Monkey story

It's pedal mania this week, with new drops from Strymon, JHS Pedals, and DigiTech – but a long-awaited replica of Tom Morello's legendary Rage Against the Machine guitar steals the spotlight

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DOD reimagines a Gary Moore overdrive favourite as the Badder Monkey – think the DigiTech Green Monkey, only badder, and with a wooden 360º barrel dial

DOD creates the king of the pedalboard swingers, combining the original Bad Monkey circuit with two new drive circuits, and some truly bananas ways of blending them all

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“This isn’t a remake. It's an evolution”: The DigiTech Bad Monkey broke the internet with its Klon-aping antics – now it’s back and badder than ever before

The unassuming budget overdrive sent the gear world into a frenzy when JHS Pedals' Josh Scott pitted it against a Klon Centaur – and the differences were borderline indistinguishable

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“Boss has worked hard to counter the DigiTech Whammy's biggest pitfalls, but whether it dethrones it outright is a matter of taste”: Boss XS-100 Poly Shifter review

After years of dominance, the DigiTech Whammy’s expressive pitch-shifting has a worthy challenger – but can it raise the bar?

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“Sets a new benchmark in polyphonic pitch-shifting effects”: Boss takes on DigiTech with the XS-100 and XS-1 Poly Shifter – could it topple the Whammy?

With an eight-octave range, glitch-free performance, plus simultaneous shifting and dropping, Boss sees the XS-100 as the Swiss army pedal of pitch-shifters

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“My computer blew up on me, but I didn't want to leave the studio without having done anything that day”: How a crashed PC led to the creation of Hide and Seek, the robotic a cappella that introduced millions to the power of vocal processing

Sparked by a tech malfunction at the end of a late-night studio session, Hide and Seek was featured in hit TV shows and sampled by Jason Derulo, becoming Heap's best-loved song. Two decades on, we recount its unlikely story

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“Tom Morello probably sold more units than every other early adopter combined”: How the DigiTech WH-1 Whammy pedal changed the game for guitar effects

Used by Radiohead, Dimebag Darrell, Tom Morello and countless others, the Whammy was the game-changing pitch-shifter guitar was waiting for

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"It’s simple enough to create the perfect hard-tuned and harmonised effects within our DAW, providing you have the right software": How to harness hard-tuned vocals

That hard-tuned, robot-like sound, first popularised by Cher, has now become something of a staple in modern pop

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“It can make you a legato monster like Satch, give you EVH-level tapping skills, or turn your guitar into a synth sequencer”: DigiTech HammerOn review

Time to get wacky with this unique legato-generating, pitch-shifter-slash-sequencer

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“My initial reaction was to marvel at just how creative an effect it is”: DigiTech MonoNeon Whammy review

Designed in collaboration with bassist Dywane Thomas Jr, aka MonoNeon, this tone-bending pedal delivers signature sounds in the Whammy format

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“Surely the most versatile version yet, putting different flavours of gourmet crunch on the menu”: DOD 250 Overdrive/Preamp 50th Anniversary review

A stone-cold pedalboard classic celebrates 50 trips round the sun with a collectable edition that reminds us what the fuss is about

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Game-changers, trends, innovations, revivals and show-stoppers: the key guitars, amps and pedals of NAMM 2025

Our top picks from the likes of Fender, LR Baggs, MXR, DigiTech, Jackson and more

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“The only limit is your imagination”: DigiTech’s HammerOn is a radical pitch-shifter that lets you “play the impossible” and program automatic riffs and licks

This dual-footswitch pitch shifter has a four-octave range, seven modes including "Impossible," and can be used to create automatic trills, note sequences and much more

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“Hands free hammer-ons”: DigiTech’s HammerOn pedal is a 7-in-1 pitch-shifting monster that lets you play the impossible

This brand new offering from DigiTech is packed with expressive pitch-jumping potential – comprising trills, harmonies, and even an “automatic techno guitar sequencer”

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NAMM 2025: “The all-new Hypersonic Mode will kick that pitch shift straight into the stratosphere”: DigiTech and MonoNeon team up for a radical new Whammy Pedal for guitar and bass with three-octave range

DigiTech is calling this its “boldest” Whammy design yet and the specs back this up. Is the world ready for a pinch harmonic and a three-octave pitch rise? It’d better be…

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“The boldest, most expressive Whammy ever”: DigiTech teams up with MonoNeon on a triple-octave Whammy for both guitar and bass – and it even comes with custom gaffer tape

The ultra-experimental MonoNeon Whammy – which comes in an eye-catching neon yellow and orange casing – takes the standard Whammy features up a few notches with a complete overhaul of the Detune settings and an onboard MIDI input

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