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“An excellent example ofthe genre’s shifting atmospheric soundscapes”: EarthQuaker Devices Towers review

EarthQuaker Devices’ latest pedal offers three filter modes toturn stereo reverb into meandering, hazy soundscapes

MusicRadar · Aug 20

"Any aspiring dirt purveyor worth their salt will naturally gravitate toward the HalfLife’s crushing wall of sound" EarthQuaker Devices Sunn O))) HalfLife Octave Distortion & Booster review

EQD’s HalfLife pedal delivers the droned, bottom-heavy fury inspired by Sunn O))) with uncompromising force

Guitar World · Jul 29

10 misunderstood guitar pedals that became modern classics

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

Guitar World · Jul 17

“We have spent more than $100,000 in tariffs since April 2025”: EarthQuaker Devices CEO calls for musical instruments to be exempt from tariffs as industry continues to be negatively hit

Julie Robbins says money being spent on tariffs could be used to create “good jobs for Ohioans and provided our team with more resources to innovate”

Guitar World · May 15

“When it came out, there was no experimental reverb pedal category. Ifeel like it’s the first. Quote me on that!” How EarthQuaker Devices went beyond the boutique pedal boom and took left-field tones mainstream

EQD founder Jamie Stillman on the pedal that made the company famous, why the overcomplicated is not for him, and the stompbox that serves death metal and country guitarists alike

Guitar World · Mar 30

“It’s like a Christopher Nolan movie in a pedal. Don’t think – feel”: EarthQuaker Devices Towers review

The latest entry into EarthQuaker Device's range of revolutionary ambience machines will make you rethink your relationship with reverb

Guitar World · Mar 27

“The type of reverb pedal that will sound incomprehensibly huge and haunting with all the settings maxed out”: EarthQuaker Devices reinvents reverb once more with the Towers Stereo Reverberant Filter

The Towers Stereo Reverberant Filter does reverb the EQD way, and it could be soundscape generator you've been waiting for (or maybe just something more exotic than room, plate and spring)

MusicRadar · Mar 11

“It offers the holy grail amp sounds beloved by John Mayer, SRV, and more for just $150. A must-try for Dumble fans”: All the new guitar gear that has caught my eye this week – including the angriest fuzz pedal you will ever come across

Plenty of new pedals, amps and more from the likes of Epiphone, IK Multimedia, Fender, Laney, Mesa/Boogie and beyond...

Guitar World · Mar 7

"The EF86 tube is often described as hi-fi, and honestly, that's the perfect way to describe what's coming out of this thing": EarthQuaker Devices EQD ZEQD-Pre review

This new collaboration is exactly what the doctor ordered for modern guitarists suffering from a serious case of digital fatigue

MusicRadar · Feb 2

“It bothers me that there is a generation that has never plugged into a tube amp because they have a free one on their laptop”: EarthQuaker Devices and Dr. Z launch a tube-loaded preamp pedal – and it could be the missing piece of your digital rig puzzle

The ZEQD-Pre pedal has been described as the ultimate end-of-signal-chain tonal tool, giving authentic tube warmth to any setup

Guitar World · Jan 8