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Aggregating the<br />
A<br />
s usual, the Winter <strong>NAMM</strong> show will<br />
unleash on us a tsunami of new pedals<br />
(we’ll shoot demos for as many as we<br />
can together with the guys at 60 Cycle Hum,<br />
check <strong>Deli</strong>cious-Audio.com for the c<strong>over</strong>age!).<br />
However, we shouldn’t miss the opportunity<br />
given to us by the first issue of <strong>2019</strong> to see<br />
what devices stood out from the crowd during<br />
the previous twelve months...<br />
Since <strong>Deli</strong>cious Audio is an aggregator of<br />
pedal news and doesn’t review gear, our “Best<br />
Stompboxes of 2018” chart is an aggregate<br />
of the year-end lists compiled by other pedal-centered<br />
online resources. Up to this point<br />
(early January at the time of writing), we found<br />
this list of relevant “best ofs”: Reverb.com,<br />
<strong>The</strong> Pedal Zone, Dennis Kayzer, BestGuitarEffects.com,<br />
Popular Mechanics and<br />
Vintage King — the chart in these pages is<br />
compiled by tallying these lists’ results.<br />
Here’s how we did it: some of these lists (like<br />
<strong>The</strong> Pedal Zone’s one) assigned a specific<br />
“chart position” to each effect, while others<br />
(like the JHS one) just mentioned a list of devices<br />
in no particular order. To add the results<br />
up in a way that made sense, we decided to<br />
assign a value of 10 to any pedal that was<br />
given the #1 spot; we gave second places<br />
9 points, 8 to third places and so on. Pedals<br />
beyond the 9th position got just 1 point.<br />
Lists that didn’t specify an order generated 5<br />
points for each pedal.<br />
Here are the results!<br />
P.S. We’ll updating this page on<br />
<strong>Deli</strong>cious-Audio.com whenever new,<br />
relevant year-end lists will be published:<br />
bit.ly/BestFX18—keep checking it!<br />
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2<br />
Chase Bliss Audio<br />
Dark World<br />
27 pt.<br />
delicious-audio.com<br />
“Best Pedals of 2018” Lists<br />
3<br />
Meris<br />
Enzo<br />
29 pt.<br />
Red Panda<br />
Tensor<br />
23 pt.
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