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“The best Big Muff there’s ever been for bass”: Electro-Harmonix Bass Big Muff Pi 2 review

A long-lost EHX Big Muff variant, made real – and now made for bassists to enjoy too.

Guitar World

RedOctane's 'next evolution in rhythm gaming' sure looks a lot like 2007's Rock Band

Stage Tour is expected to be out late in 2026.

PC Gamer

Devs recall 'sweating bullets' at showing The Beatles Rock Band to the actual Beatles, and 'tough customer' Yoko Ono making sure they made John Lennon a 'balls out rock and roll god not giving a f**k'

"That looks stupid. He doesn't act like that."

PC Gamer

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The Beatles: Rock Band devs were "sweating bullets" when they showed their version of John Lennon to Yoko Ono – "She's like, 'That looks stupid. He doesn't act like that'"

"She was a tough customer – as she should have been"

GamesRadar

“First of its kind”: Electro-Harmonix’s Effects Interface turns your pedals into plugins – and puts your prized plugins on your pedalboard

The utility tool could be a game-changer for your rig, forgoing converters and complex cable methods for a frills-free approach

Guitar World

“We are building a system to stimulate and retrieve energy to Earth”: Electro-Harmonix wants to harness the magnetosphere’s energy to solve the AI power crisis

Brand founder Mike Matthews has teamed up with a former Bell Labs scientist to shape his plans

Guitar World

“Dipping our toe into the cosmic pool of glitchy synth pedals with this one”: EHX expands its Pico series with the Atomic Cluster Spectral Decomposer – a mini-pedal that sounds so wrong its right

The Atomic Cluster might be teeny tiny but it's packing transformative energy for your guitar tone, with celestial synth sounds that soundscapists and adventurous players will love

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Guitar Hero at 20 – how a plastic axe bridged the gap between rock generations

Guitar Hero’s controllers let anyone become a star in their own living room – and made the bands featured in the game household names again

The Guardian - UK

15 Years Ago, The Perfect Music Game Was Too Late To The Party

Harmonix's 'Rock Band 3' is the feel-good grand finale of gaming's rhythm game obsession, one that aimed for the stars just as the genre's popularity was waning.

Inverse

15 years later, the Guitar Hero studio that Activision acquired and killed is back and teasing a spiritual successor to the rhythm game that put it on the map: "They said the era of 5-fret music games was over"

The spirit of Guitar Hero lives on

GamesRadar

“The Oceans Abyss expands on Electro-Harmonix’s highly acclaimed reverb technology to deliver a truly immersive effects workstation”: EHX’s unveils Oceans Abyss – a stereo reverb powerhouse promising a “completely unique soundscape building experience”

It's not just any reverb pedal, it's an "Advanced Reverb Laboratory", and it allows you to run two stereo reverbs at once, pan them across the stereo field, add effects and get creative

MusicRadar

Fortnite's latest update has semi-resurrected Harmonix's undeservedly short-lived DJ rhythm game

Close enough, welcome back Fuser.

PC Gamer

“Packed with musical features to keep you jamming without missing a beat!”: Electro-Harmonix’s Pico 360+ is tiny $137 looper with 360 seconds of recording time and unlimited overdubs

A pedalboard space saver that's packed with features, the latest in EHX's Pico Series has 11 memory slots, overdub control and adjustable fade-out

MusicRadar

“Massive tones that obliterate like Godzilla bouncing the bullet train to oblivion… it’s completely unlike any other fuzz and/or octave effect out there”: Electro-Harmonix Lizard King Octave Distortion review

Voiced for bass but awesome on guitar, this pedalboard Godzilla might just take the crown as this year's must-have octave fuzz

Guitar World

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“This is a huge update to music’s best octave pedal”: EHX unveils the POG3 – now with 6 voices, 100 presets, individual pan controls, MIDI and more, say hello to the ultimate polyphonic octave generator

The POG3 expands upon Electro-Harmonix's polyphonic classic with stacks of new features, lightning-fast tracking as standard, and it might just be EHX's most ambitious pedal yet

Louder

“The kid lost his mind: ‘You’re the guy from Guitar Hero! Do you play real guitar too?’”: how a 2000s video game phenomenon made Slash famous all over again

Guitar Hero was a worldwide smash hit – and it introduced Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash to a whole new audience

Guitar World

“This slant on the Bluesbreaker offers real flexibility at a manageable price point”: Electro-Harmonix Spruce Goose review

We have a gander as Electro-Harmonix debuts its enhanced take on Marshall’s Bluesbreaker overdrive sounds

Guitar World

“Everything from synthy stacked lines to organ-style tones are easily and quickly achievable”: Electro-Harmonix Pico POG review

Papa's got a brand new POG and it might be tiny but it packs the same octave-shifting power as its larger siblings

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NAMM 2024: “For all of the original mojo and magic craved by the true believers”: EHX’s Double Anniversary Big Muff Pi delivers its first ‘big box’ Ramshead circuit since the 1970s – and sells-out in hours. Will there be more big boxes on the way?

The firm’s extremely limited edition full-size reissue of the definitive ’70s fuzz circuit sold-out soon after its announcement

TechRadar

Rock Band 4 will receive its final DLC next week after over 8 years of weekly releases

Rock Band 4 is getting its final DLC release next week, marking the end of an era.

PC Gamer

Rock Band 4 won't get any more DLC because we're living in Fortnite's world now

Harmonix has also been supporting Rock Band 4 DLC releases for eight years, so that might be a factor too.

GamesRadar

After 16 years and 2,779 songs, Rock Band DLC is coming to an end because "Fortnite Festival is the place to be"

"This is not the time to hang up your guitars just yet"

MusicRadar

Electro-Harmonix Pico Pog review

Smaller than ever but just as mighty, the highly acclaimed octave pedal is reborn

PC Gamer

What the hell Harmonix, you definitely could have done something better than Fortnite Festival

It has so much potential, yet falls short.

GamesRadar

Fortnite Festival looks like the future for the Rock Band devs, and that might not be a bad thing

Fortnite Festival's opening act is just what I want out of a new Harmonix rhythm game

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