UNIVERSAL AUDIO

UAFX PEDALS $399 (each), uaudio.com

Universal Audio is a company known for many things, though until this year, that didn’t include effect pedals. The three pedals launched as part of the all-new UAFX line at the beginning of 2021 made some headlines, and rightly so — living up to the pro-audio legacy behind them with feature-rich, cutting-edge designs and world-class tones. The Golden Reverberator offers some truly mouthwatering vintage spring, plate and digital reverbs, whereas the Astra Modulation Machine can flick between bucket-brigade chorus, Seventies flanger and tube tremolo settings, with secondary modes for vibrato, doubling and more. The Starlight Echo System packs in three delay types with additional settings for tape wear, modulation and preamp color.