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Win an Arturia MiniFreak Vocoder ($599!) via the PDX Synth Expo!

Apr 9, 2026

We have one last giveaway linked to the Portland Synth & Pedal Expo, and it's a sweet and synthy one!

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New Pedal: Wilson Effects Capstone Overdrive

A transparent overdrive that admits it might get fuzzy. That's refreshing honesty. Most pedals in this category promise to be nothing but a clean volume lift with maybe a little hair. Then you turn them up and they turn into something else entirely. The Wilson Effects Capstone just tells you…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Wilson Effects Capstone Overdrive

EarthQuaker Devices Towers Reverberant Filter

EarthQuaker Devices has spent twenty years convincing us that reverb doesn't have to sit politely in the background. Afterneath sent drips cavern-dwelling. Astral Destiny went cosmic. Transmisser just… floated off somewhere. Now comes the Towers, labeled as a Stereo Reverberant Filter. Jamie Stillman is very clear: this isn't an evolution of…Click on the title for more

EarthQuaker Devices Towers Reverberant Filter

Win 6 Pedals and 1 PSU via the Portland Synth & Pedal Expo

We’re getting excited for the Portland Synth & Pedal Expo (April 11-12), and to celebrate, we’ve got a giveaway for you.Click on the title for more

Win 6 Pedals and 1 PSU via the Portland Synth & Pedal Expo

New Pedal: OPFXS Parallel Dimension Chorus/Vibrato

Another BBD chorus. Great. Just what the world needs. But wait. There's an Aliasing knob! Most analog modulation pedals spend their lives trying to hide the fact that bucket-brigade chips are fundamentally imperfect. They filter out the clock noise, smooth the edges, present a clean, polite face to the world.…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: OPFXS Parallel Dimension Chorus/Vibrato

New Pedal: Native Audio Pattern Keeper Looper

The looper is a tired format. Most of them just capture and repeat—useful, boring, done. NativeAudio's Mike Trombley looked at that and asked: what if the loop kept moving? The Pattern Keeper is a phrase modulator disguised as a looper. Sixty seconds of stereo recording at 48kHz/24-bit, analog dry path,…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Native Audio Pattern Keeper Looper

New Pedal: Polyend Endless Stereo AI-Powered Pedal

We saw this "thing" at NAMM 2026. The booth was crowded with similarly looking pedals with a varying range of graphics. Guitarists were frantically typing things like "reverse reverb that pitches up an octave" into a laptop and then stepping on a pedal that actually did it. People were losing…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Polyend Endless Stereo AI-Powered Pedal

Win 3 Electronic Instruments by ASM, Novation, and Soma via the PDX SPXPO 2026

To celebrate the upcoming 5th edition of the Portland Synth Expo (part of the city's own Synth and Pedal Expo), we are giving away 3 awesome synths for an aggregate value of over $2,000!Click on the title for more

Win 3 Electronic Instruments by ASM, Novation, and Soma via the PDX SPXPO 2026

New Pedal: JHS Coyote Fuzz

Josh Scott has made a career of digging up lost circuits and handing them back to guitar players. The JHS Coyote Fuzz is his tribute to Glenn Wyllie, a North Carolina builder who's been soldering transistors since the '60s and somehow never became a household name. Wyllie's Moonrock fuzz was…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: JHS Coyote Fuzz

New Pedal: Red Panda RD-1 Pitch Delay

Red Panda has spent years proving that digital doesn't have to mean cold. The Raster was their deep-dive pitch delay - a brilliant box with menus, alternate functions, and enough parameters to make a synth programmer weep with joy . It was also, for the stomp-and-go guitarist, a lot. Enter…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Red Panda RD-1 Pitch Delay

Pedal Giveaway: Win a Native Audio Pattern Keeper Looper

Hello, creative beasts! Some loopers truly spark our creative juices, and the new Pattern Keeper by Native Audio does exactly that—at least according to the Harp Lady!Click on the title for more

Pedal Giveaway: Win a Native Audio Pattern Keeper Looper

New Pedal: Source Audio Pathways Multi Stereo Tremolo + Reverb

The Source Audio Pathways is a tremolo and reverb pedal that understands its lineage. Spring reverb and tube tremolo have lived together since the days when amps came with both built in—because motion and dimension just work together. Pathways takes that classic pairing and expands it without overcomplicating it. Seven…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Source Audio Pathways Multi Stereo Tremolo + Reverb

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