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“His effects are bonkers in the best way possible”: The pedal with the onboard amp, speaker and microphone, Gibson baritones, the Fender Custom Shop George Harrison Bass VI and more – this is MusicRadar's guitar gear roundup, the August 2026 edit

We take a look back at the gear highlights from August, featuring new signature models from Epiphone and PRS, Death By Audio and Grainger FX's wild collab and more

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“There’s absolutely no doubt this is dream distortion pedal material. But at $415, it’d be hard to justify”: My pick of the best new guitar gear launched this week – and the new drops you might have missed

An insanely affordable new Gretsch and a pedal called Jimothy headline the round-up this week

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“It's an amp for when you feel the need to give the FOH sound engineer a nervous breakdown”: My pick of the best new guitar gear launched this week – and the new drops you might have missed

New releases from Marshall, Harley Benton, Gibson and more…

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Shoegaze guitar has never been bigger – and these 5 pedals are a shortcut to its otherworldly tones

From do-it-all multi-effects to lush reverbs, glitchy delays, and a must-have My Bloody Valentine signature pedal, our guide to the ultimate shoegaze stomps

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“Six room sizes, a gated reverb patch and a reverse reverb patch for your consideration”: Catalinbread launches compact reverb pedal with inspired by the Neil Young and Daft Punk-approved Alesis Microverb

The '90s cult classic studio reverb is reimagined as an 8-mode stompbox with an very useful Mix knob and pre-delay

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“I told myself I’d stop buying JHS Pedals gear. At this rate, my pedalboard is going to look like a shrine to the company”: All the guitar gear that caught my eye this week – including the most outrageous Ibanez I think I’ve ever seen

Feast your eyes on all the weird and wonderful guitar gear that dropped this week, with new releases from Strymon, Ibanez, Catalinbread, and more

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“The Tritone was universally loved by the crew but the vibes clashed with the palette of the Soft Focus Deluxe”: Catalinbread is selling off its prototype guitar pedals, and the first is a “B-side” pitch echo from its smash-hit shoegaze stompbox

Waste not, want not, Catalinbread's Proto Club presents some unreleased gems to the public, and first up is the Tritone Proto 227

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“An additive chorus effect that plays well as an ‘always-on’ tonal thickener with a twist”: Don’t sleep on Catalinbread’s Wake if you’re looking for dream pop tones on your pedalboard

Wake is a chorus with a blendable clean sub-octave effect that can help you dream a little bigger and make one guitar sound huge

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“Part of reimagining old technology is stepping outside the boundaries of possibility”: Catalinbread’s new stompbox tribute to the EMT 140 runs two emulations of the classic plate reverb and runs them in “modulated tandem”

This Ghost with the most yields a chorusing effect to your reverb trails

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“A primo signal destroyer, featuring an oscillating fuzz that dipped into tremolo territory as well as otherworldly squeals”: Catalinbread’s expanded Antichthon Deluxe might be the chaos unit your 'board has been waiting for

Ah, yes, that classic effects combination, tremolo and fuzz, in one pedal... Now with expression pedal input for a more performance-friendly option for dialling in chaos on command

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“A multi-effects pedal on steroids”: Catalinbread’s Bitters reimagines Alesis’ cult sound-mangling DJ effects unit as a guitar pedal – and adds one crucial fix

The Bitters pedal offers a host of out there effects which can be tamed or intensified with a Mix knob

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“Dial in everything from a lush chorus to a crushing barrage of noise”: Catalinbread reimagines cult classic Alesis Bitrman as Bitters – “a multi-effects device on steroids” for guitar, synth and more

Bitcrusher, decimator, frequency modulation and ring modulation combine with distortion and phaser for fresh and bonkers sounds for your pedalboard

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“There’s a great simulator that really does a very good job of simulating my sound”: Brian May reveals which affordable amp-in-a-box gets closest to nailing his iconic Queen tone – but it’s one you might not expect

The Red Special / Vox AC30 combo is one of music's most coveted tones, but this sub-$200 pedal has May's personal seal of approval

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“Fewer things give guitarists that fabled ‘riff face’ more than a fuzz mixed with an analog octave down”: Catalinbread’s Perseus Dio crams its two favorite octave-down styles into one face-contorting pedal

The Perseus Dio blends a guitar’s dry signal with one- and two-octave down channels, with “heavy duty” low-pass filters adding further flavor

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“Whichever type of rock you associate with the ‘70s, the StarCrash Collection has you covered”: Catalinbread's StarCrash Fuzz and SideArm Overdrive give olden-era gain tones a fresh twist

The pedals look to bring the tried-and-trusted tones of the '70s' most famed high-gain effects into the modern era

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“We invite you to bring your vintage tonal dreams into the present”: Catalinbread promises modern twists on golden-era tones from the ‘70s StarCrash Fuzz and SideArm Overdrive

Catalinbread promises modern twists on golden-era tone from the ‘70s StarCrash Fuzz and Sidearm Overdrive

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“We thought of a couple extra variables you could use to craft your perfect EP-3 experience”: Catalinbread adds the versatile Epoch Bias preamp pedal to its Echoplex-inspired lineup

The ultimate tone-sweetener? The Epoch Bias gives players more control over the EP-3 preamp tones than ever before, with Bias to “run the circuit hot or cold” and a gentle hi-cut filter

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NAMM 2024: Catalinbread revamps its Rangemaster-inspired Naga Viper, making MKII hotter and more practical, taking the treble booster circuit “to its logical limit”

Brian May, Rory Gallagher and Tony Iommi fans, the Naga Viper MKII might well be the missing ingredient in your rig

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“Our most ethereal reverb unit to date”: Catalinbread sets its sights on celestial ambient tones with the Sinkhole Modulated Reverb – which doubles as a clean boost

Looking to up your reverb game with some sweet space-y sounds, with added chorus to boot? Catalinbread might have the answer

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Catalinbread opens up the Sinkhole, “a harmonically-rich ‘hole’ reverb with an impossibly deep four-voice chorus” for other-worldly guitar sounds

Described as the Portland, Oregon effects company's “most ethereal” reverb to date, the Sinkhole looks a fun place to visit for adventurous players

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“A dirt device that covers all the gain bases”: Catalinbread sees the JHS Pedals Notaklön and raises the Knight School Overdrive – an $85 DIY pedal kit based on a timeless circuit favored by Stevie Ray Vaughan, John Mayer and Paul Gilbert

The $85 kit can come ready for assembly or readymade for your pedalboard, and harks back to an early overdrive circuit that has been tweaked by EHX, Way Huge and many more

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Catalinbread’s new Carbide distortion pedal offers metal guitarists the ultimate in necro HM-2 “chainsaw” tone

The Carbide might split your guitar’s signal into clean and distorted paths but it is 100 per cent Left Hand Path

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The Catalinbread Carbide takes a fully cranked Boss HM-2 and makes its chainsaw tones (moderately) more usable

This vicious new metal distortion takes the HM-2 build in the opposite direction of EHX’s recent Hell Melter

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Catalinbread rethinks volume modulation with the Tremolo8 – eight trems in one pedal, with some reverb secret sauce too

The Tremolo8 covers classic and crazy alike, from vintage US-amp to weird robotic ring mod, and it even has parallel reverb pairings for dialling in ambience and spaced-out edsounds

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The worlds of reverb and tremolo come crashing together in Catalinbread's new Tremol8 pedal

The Portland, Oregon firm's answer to the Strymon Flint and Fender Tre-Verb was inspired by the Fender Showman, but also features a wide variety of other tremolo/'verb effects, with plenty of tweakability, to boot

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