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"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

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“All the sonic devastation of its predecessors at roughly half the size”: EarthQuaker Devices unveils compact version of Sunn O))) Life Pedal – and this time the ultimate doom pedal is here to stay

The EarthQuaker Devices' HalfLife is a more compact version of the drone metal pioneers Sunn O))) octave fuzz and boost pedal based on the

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“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

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“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)

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“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

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“You don’t really see that a lot with competitors in other industries – throwing parties together, doing joint releases, supporting each other online”: The boutique pedal explosion and what comes next in this golden age of guitar effects

Jamie Stillman of EarthQuaker Devices gives GW a pulse check on the trends affecting what we see on our pedalboards

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“Your new best bud for silent shredding!” The Easy Listening from EarthQuaker Devices is an analogue amp simulator mini pedal designed for headphone practice – and it can do amp-less recording too

Easy Listening has a circuit inspired by a 65 Deluxe that is designed to work with your pedals

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“Big Muffs are usually 'all or nothing', but the Chelsea is a different beast”: EarthQuaker Devices Chelsea Low End Fuzz Driver Pedal review

The secret weapon behind LCD Soundsystem's bass tone is here at last, and it's... a Big Muff?

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“There was talk about doing a pedal release in conjunction with the album, and the Dirt Transmitter was the perfect fit”: EarthQuaker Devices joins forces with Dave Catching of Rancho de la Luna to bring back an old EQD fuzz classic

The Fuzz Face-inspired Dirt Transmitter returns, complete with its second-generation Bias control – and some new artwork to celebrate Catching's legendary Joshua Tree studio

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“All the idiosyncrasies of the original but without the threat of total collapse”: LCD Soundsystem used a ‘one-of-a-kind’ vintage pedal to define their fuzz tones – and now it’s been recreated by EarthQuaker Devices

The Chelsea Low End Fuzz Driver is a close replica of James Murphy’s oddball vintage fuzz

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“The same hand soldered through-hole construction and super rare military spec germanium transistors that were used in the original”: EarthQuaker Devices celebrates two decades of stompbox design with the Hoof Fuzz 20th Anniversary Edition

EQD takes it back to the very beginning with a deluxe reissue of the fuzzbox that started it all

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“A domineering and interactive fuzz and natural overdrive with a dark side”: IDLES' Lee Kiernan encourages EarthQuaker Devices to revive its Gray Channel overdrive and fuzz pedal for his signature stompbox, Gary

The two-sided pedal brings back a stompbox loved by many, and ensures it comes back with an evil streak

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“With proper playing dynamics, this creates a very cool effect that can sound like an exploding amp coming in and out of life”: EarthQuaker Devices and Lee Kiernan of IDLES introduce Gary, a drive/fuzz wildcard for maverick tone-seekers

There are two sides to Gary's personality, one is a wide-ranging drive. The other?Well, it's an "Automatic Pulse Width Modulation Fuzz" and it's not for the faint-hearted

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“Incredible… will significantly expand your mind and your sonic palette”: Death By Audio/EarthQuaker Devices Time Shadows II review

EQD’s Jamie Stillman and DBA's Ollie Ackermann put their heads together and design a pedal that will blow your mind

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“An ambitious foray into uncharted territory”: Tired of over-complicated delay pedals? EarthQuaker Devices’ Silos might just be the answer

Meet EQD’s Multi-Generational Time Reflection Device – the no-nonsense compact delay pedal with settings you’ll actually use

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“An insane synth buzz bazooka sound on the EarthQuaker side and a remorphinator of cosmic waves on the Death By Audio side”: EQD and Death By Audio revive their cult collaboration pedal, Time Shadows

The two firms’ original collaboration sold-out almost immediately in 2020, now it’s back as a full production run

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“A domesticated drive with a broad range of fattened boost, crunchy speaker breakup and muscular distortion”: EarthQuaker Devices Zoar Dynamic Audio Grinder review

EQD's latest dirt pedal offers amp-like drive and heaps of tone-shaping capabilities, but is above all a love letter to dynamics

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NAMM 2024: “All the headroom you could ever desire” – EarthQuaker Devices’ Blumes brings chunked-up Plumes tones to the bass world, with the firm’s first ever bass overdrive pedal

With bipolar power and twice the gain, EQD’s first bass OD does not do things by halves – indeed, it doubles them, but keeps the same $99 price tag

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EarthQuaker Devices’ new Zoar Dynamic Audio Grinder is the brand’s “most tweakable distortion device ever” and promises “dozens of mind-blowing sounds”

Don't be fooled by its streamlined control layout. According to EQD, it's enough to harness everything from “jangly on-the-verge of break up to blowing-the-walls-out heavy saturation”

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EarthQuaker Devices Aurelius Tri-Voice Chorus review – all the chorus you could ever need?

Not just another modulation, Aurelius comes strapped with vibrato, chorus and rotary settings, plus presets to save your sounds

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