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“The first pedal emulation that truly captures the mechanical yet wildly organic nature of these oddball machines”: Strymon’s all-new digital stompbox offers an authentic recreation of classic oil can delays

The Olivera blends syrupy charm with modern usability, thanks to MIDI, presets, MultiSwitch, and expression pedal compatibility

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“The first pedal emulation that truly captures the mechanical yet wildly organic nature of these oddball machines”: Strymon’s Olivera is a vintage oil can delay without the oil, without the mechanics, and with a lot more control over your tone

Vintage sounds from 21st-century tech, the Olivera has a powerful ARM processor under the hood, giving us 300 presets, stereo, MIDI, while a discreet Class A JEFT input preamp keeps things real

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“Modelers are like Spotify. I’d never get excited about a box that has every single tone”: My pedalboard is so huge it’s got wheels. But switching to modelers costs guitarists their identity

Tom Peters, guitarist for UK math-rock heroes Alpha Male Tea Party, reckons that while we’re losing back pain in reducing the physical weight of our rigs, we’re causing ourselves creative self-harm

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“It’s taken 3 years, but a more affordable spin-off of one of the 21st century’s most advanced guitar designs has finally landed”: All the new guitar gear that has caught my eye this week – including the most extravagant acoustic you will see all year

A $99,999 SJ-200, two Randy Rhoads tributes, and some visionary electrics from Ibanez – here are all the gear launches that you might have missed from the past seven days

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“A pristine direct interface and a killer built-in headphone amp to make sure that what you’re sending to the PA or recording rig is exactly what you intend to”: Strymon unveils the PCH Active Direct Interface – the missing link for your amp-less rig?

The digital stompbox specialist serve up an analogue solution for amp-free rigs, with a super-tough active DI box offering full stereo support and a headphones amp for practice and monitoring

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“John Mayer ruined me with getting new guitars and vintage stuff. He’s always experimenting, so I had to expand my own rig”: Isaiah Sharkey is one of guitar’s most versatile talents. He lets us in on how he works with Mayer, D’Angelo and Miles Davis

Rigs big and small feature in a career that’s seen Isaiah Sharkey become a master of jazz, R&B, gospel, blues – and he hopes his new Ibanez signatures mean session players will only need to carry two guitars

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Your guide to John Mayer's guitar gear, era by era

We take a head count of the six-string sensualist's most significant guitars, amps and pedalboard rigs

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“At times it can really feel like more of a multi-effects pedal rather than just a straight reverb pedal”: Electro-Harmonix Oceans Abyss review

EHX brings us a reverb pedal with sliders, a screen, and all the potential to be a Strymon-killer

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“It’s a bit of an investment, but I think these power supplies will truly go the distance if you let them”: Walrus Audio Canvas Power series review

I trialled three pedalboard power supplies from Walrus Audio’s Canvas series of utilities – and found some stunning practicality in the process

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“Dive deeper into the depths of ambience”: Electro-Harmonix launches the Oceans Abyss – taking on the likes of Strymon and Meris with an immersive ambient reverb

With two independently programmable reverb engines, 10 voices, and a bevy of effects, the Oceans Abyss is throwing its hat in the ring for 2025’s best one-stop ambience machine

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“We are open to just about anything... I am all for writing anything that sounds like a cavalcade of horses!” Trevor de Brauw and Laurent Schroeder-Lebec are crafting an epic journey, one riff at a time, as Pelican's original lineup takes flight again

Flickering Resonance is the first Pelican album since the return of Schroeder-Lebec, and it finds the Chicago post-metal institution's sound on an evolutionary path to destinations unknown

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“This is a powerhouse of a stompbox that manages to keep things simple while offering endless inspiration”: Strymon EC-1 Single Head dTape Echo pedal review

Strymon brings its beloved dTape technology to a smaller format stomp creating one of its most inspiring delays to date

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“The dreamy sound of a classic ’60s single head tape echo complete with the harmonic richness of the accompanying tube preamp”: Strymon launches the EC-1, a tape-echo emulator based on a vintage EP-2 modded by SRV's tech

All the mojo of a vintage tape echo, none of the servicing – and the EC-1 is typically feature-packed, with Strymon giving us true stereo, tap tempo and 300 presets

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“The most inspiring tape echo ever crammed into a small form factor”: Strymon’s new EC-1 was modeled after an iconic delay unit – which had been modded by “one of the most storied gear techs of the last 50 years”

Strymon got its hands on an Echoplex EP-2 that had been modded by Stevie Ray Vaughan's old tech, and used it to mastermind its latest compact stompbox

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“A veritable cornucopia of modulating textures”: Kernom Elipse pedal review

We check out a multi-modulation pedal with a difference

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"There's more reverb options here than most of us will know what to do with, but there is something really attractive in that": Strymon BigSky MX Multi Reverb pedal

How does Strymon improve on one of the greatest reverb pedals ever? It takes it to the MX

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Everything guitar players need to know about reverb, from the history of the effect to how to get the best from your pedals

Whether you prefer a sprinkle or a soaking, reverb is the master of all musical effects. Here is our comprehensive guide to a guitar essential

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The best new guitar gear of 2023: our favourite guitars, amps and pedals that we played this year

The year of the amp pedal, Fender's new horizons, Boss being bosses and more effects than we knew what to do with

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The Strymon Cloudburst is the top-selling new pedal on Reverb in 2023, but overall Boss is still… the boss!

An old-timer distortion pedal comes out fighting this year

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“You can have all the pedals you want, but the guitar/amp combination makes the sound. Pedals are just some extra paprika”: Rich Robinson reveals what’s on his pedalboard

Why a Black Crowe seeks the company of a Red Lama and an Angry Troll but finds the meaning of life (tone-wise) lies in the magic that happens between guitar and a vintage tube amp

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Strymon UltraViolet Vintage Vibe Pedal review

Purple reign?

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There’s no beating the Boss: Reverb reveals its best-selling guitar pedals of 2023

From an orange classic to Josh Scott’s fake-it-til-they-make-it hit, here are the stompboxes that shifted over the last year

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“The sounds of classic tube amps and mic’d speaker cabinets in a standard stompbox”: Boss takes the fight to Universal Audio and Strymon with its smallest amp and IR pedal to date, the IR-2

11 factory amp and cab pairings – including Fender, Soldano, Marshall and Mesa/Boogie-inspired amp models – and third-party IR compatibility head up the new unit

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“I showed the Strymon BigSky to Lana, and she was like, ‘Oh, we need that.’ I plugged into a 100-watt Marshall, and the riff came out in 10 seconds”: Lana Del Rey guitarist Blake Lee thrives on making his Strat sound like anything but a guitar

The boundary-breaking guitarist – aka Blake Stranathan – had an unlikely route to session guitar success. He reveals how gear shaped his collaborations with one of the biggest singer-songwriters of our age, his theory on how “the less paint or lacquer on the guitar, the better it will sound” and…

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“I got the call saying there was a band looking for a player. I said yes before even asking which band it was. Then I got told it was Ghost”: Former Nameless Ghoul Chris Catalyst breaks cover about his time in Tobias Forge’s epic metal project

The UK session guitarist went from marathon tours with Sisters of Mercy and Ugly Kid Joe to massive arena shows with Ghost. He reveals what it takes to cut it in one of metal’s biggest bands, why Noel Gallagher has one of his all-time favorite guitar tones, and how a…

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