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Every player looks for new sources of inspiration, and more often than not, it's found in a guitar pedal! The Music Zoo's vast selection of guitar and bass pedals and effects will help you complete your pedal board. Whether you're just looking for a simple Boss or Dunlop classic or a boutique hand-built effect that will set your tone apart from the others, we're the destination with the best mix of the unique and the everyday must-haves. Buy your next pedal online at The Music Zoo or visit our New York showroom to shop today - we're an authorized dealer for all your favorite pedal brands! Pedals & Effects History While most early guitar "effects" themselves were generally built into the amp directly, in 1948, DeArmond produced the first standalone tremolo effect, known as the Trem Trol 800. Other early standalone effects appeared in the late '50s and early '60s such as the WEM Copicat delay and echo pedal, and the Maestro Fuzz Tone, which was the first commercially available distortion pedal. The first "Wah Wah" pedal arrived soon after in 1967, a Vox/Thomas Organ creation. Univox also introduced the Uni-Vibe in 1968 which combined phase shift and chorus effects. The Arbiter Fuzz Face, made famous by Jimi Hendrix, also appeared around this time, as well as the Electro-Harmonix LPB-1 which eventually evolved into the Big Muff. In the '70s, new effect types started to hit the market. The ever funky Mu-tron envelope filter, phaser, and octave pedals were a huge hit in this decade. The first official Big Muff was a product of the '70s as well, along with the now classic Boss DS-1, Ibanez Tubescreamer, and MXR Phase 90. New flanger, phaser, and chorus effects also arrived and ushered in '80s with some help from Eddie Van Halen and his ADA Flanger. In the '80s, there was a shift from analog to digital in all aspects of electronics, and guitar effects began to take the form of rackmount multi-effects processors. Units such as the ADA MP-1, Roland GP-6, Alesis Midiverb,