The Best Pedals of 2024 (The Pedals I've Enjoyed Most This Year)

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00:00 Best TrueFire All Acess offer
00:12 honourable mentions
2:14 Chaos Audio Stratus into Origin Effects Deluxe 55 Tweed
3:18 the Boss JHS Angry Driver has never left my board
5:10 the Marshall Bluesbreaker
6:30 the Boss SD1
8:09 The Joyo Baatsin
10:21 the Zendrive
12:05 @fivewattworld BUSS David Barber
14:55 the Origin Effects Deluxe 55 Tweed
16:20 what are your pedals of the year?

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[fivewattworld]

Thanks for the shout out John! Btw, we’re going to have more of the higher gain/ultra dynamics BUSS pedals in the near future.

[JamminJim]

Interesting choices ! A good, not expensive overdrive pedal is the Fender Hammertone Overdrive. There are a lot of tones in it and one bonus with this pedal is the "hidden" potentiometer inside the pedal which controls the brightness. Cheers John.

[ruvchbrevth]

Julianna as a sweet Chorus tone.
Halo Dual Echo Delay Pedal, AT!!
Strymon Cloudburst for ambient.

Falling back in love with my POD GO.

The new HX Stomp stuff is also so 🔥

I’m looking into purchasing this year a Tonex One, from Sound Of Justice FX,
I recently purchased a Son Of Ben, it is so so good as an overdrive with my Solo Dallas Storm Pedal, Solo Dallas just released the SVDS Boost which its another gorgeous sounding 🎸 pedal which I plan to get in the future too…

Finally, 💥 3 years later, the ERAS Distortion is still the best pedal…..

[jp]

I'm absolutely loving my Soldano SLO Super Lead Overdrive Pedal in purple I got a few weeks back. Bit pricey? Probably. But, as I use single coils mainly playing Strats and a Tele, the deep switch and presence controls enable tones that are other level.

[joewyatt]

VP4, Halo Core, Octa PSI, Zoma, & Owen Barry Boost pedal are all stand outs.

[erickuehnl]

I bought and sold about 15 pedals this year. Ended up back on the HX Stomp with a Xotic SP and Blues Driver or Tube Screamer. It’s all I need.

[chrisfit]

TONEX for me. The addition of the effects have made it pretty much perfect for my needs.

[dmac]

Cool vid. I got rid of my Angry Driver and HX Stomp, realized the error of my ways, and bought them again. They’re staying put this time. And the SD1 is probably my favourite pedal of all time. Playing a helix version into a plexi on my stomp right now. 🤘 bluesbreaker circuits are great too! I still have to try the reissue.

[sassafras]

Joyo Taichi does the fusion sound and feels much more refined than early Joyo pedals.

[ThomasLintrup]

This year, the Vemuram Butter Machine and the Shanks ODR1 are the best drives I ever tried and are happy they are on my board. Otherwise, got back into the HX stomp and it is quite a bit better than I remembered.

[Sperrythings]

Jackson Audio Twin Trem has been my favorite pedal of 2024 thus far.

[NormanWoods]

The BAATSIN is surprisingly good. Changed my opinion of cheap pedals. I’ve been gigging/recording with it a little over a year.

[EpicJamTracks]

They keep releasing more and more pedals, but still nothing beats the Big Muff.

[jaspersquire]

So which pedal is the biggest rip off?

[newcroft]

OK, I'll go left field 😮 My favourite pedal purchase this year has been the Paintaudio Midi Captain. Now I can change guitar sounds, vocals and lights all with one switch. It's made my gear so much more 'live' friendly 😊

[giles]

You gotta get the SD-1w. The high end is a lot smoother and it has a lot more low end.

[bobmaulucciproject]

Love the Angry Driver, may have to get one. The Super Overdrive has been a longtime favorite of mine. It reminds me of early 90s when I was trying to get away from distortion and stuff that covered up my sloppy playing. The SD-1 was a wonderful alternative. Probably never sounded better through the rig then when I used that. (Rig was a Ampeg V4 and V4 4x12).

May favorite this year has also been the Nano Cortex. It's very useful and a good backup plan for gigs also. I haven't really bought as many pedals this year until that one. Bought my son an EQD Aurelius and it is a great modulation pedal.

[areallyboredguy]

Walrus 385 mk2, unique film projector overdrive that isn't quite like anything else, except a film projector amp.
Walrus Voyager mk1 or mk2, awesome klon clone with multiple diodes, and a mid parametric EQ
Source Audio Colldier - amazing reverb and delay

[eliasthury]

I've been really impressed with the ross distortion, only had it for a few weeks now but it's super super versatile, way more so than I was expecting.

[damonwalton]

I've really enjoyed the Custom Tones: Ethos Clean Fusion Deluxe.