Donner essential d1 beat machine £289

THE TC ELECTRONIC Ditto 2 is the long-awaited sequel to TC Electronic’s ubiquitous little gray box, AKA, the king of compact looper pedals. Building on the success of the 2013 original, which is small

Electro-Harmonix releases its most ambitious reverb pedal to date – and it goes way beyond ’verb to offer myriad sound-sculpting opportunities

ThorpyFX’s latest stacks up the germanium transistors for full-fat vintage tone in a functional modern setting

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French loadbox leader, Two Notes, releases the Swiss Army knife of amplifier attenuation and connectivity – we witness the results

Many speaker companies have tried, but hardly any have succeeded in producing truly class-leading headphones. That’s something of a surprise considering just how similar the basic principles of these