The end of the year is time for retrospective lists. Here at Happy we’re doing our best to sift through the haze of the year and the sea of good music that came out to put together our own end of the year lists. Apparently, so have online music gear community and marketplace Reverb.com.
Online gear community and marketplace Reverb.com have just released their best-selling guitar pedal lists for 2016. Get into it gear nerds.
It’s always interesting to see what other people are interested in, and what people are buying, when it comes to gear, especially living in Australia where it often takes longer for gear to make it our way (if it does at all).
Luckily there are international communities live Reverb.com making it easier to explore and discover new equipment than ever before.
Guitar gear, in particular guitar pedals, is an interesting equipment category within the market because they breadth of choices out there is unfathomable, and because of this people are constantly buying and selling gear and there is palpable hype about new pedals and a buzz that is in a constant state of flux.
Reverb.com have just released their best-selling pedals of 2016 lists, and it’s pretty interesting to see what people around the world have been vibing on this year. There are three main categories, ‘new for 2016’, ‘overall best sellers’ and ‘highest grossing’. Check them out below.
New For 2016:
1) EarthQuaker Devices Avalanche Run Stereo Delay & Reverb
2) Electro-Harmonix Mel9 Tape Replay Machine
3) Chase Bliss Audio Tonal Recall Analog Delay
4) Source Audio Nemesis Delay
5) Friedman BE-OD Overdrive
6) TC Electronic Ditto X4 Looper
7) Walrus Audio Julia Chorus/Vibrato
8) Neunaber Audio Effects Immerse Reverb
9) MXR M300 Reverb
10) TC Electronic Sub N’ Up Octaver
11) Keeley Monterey Rotary Fuzz Vibe
12) DigiTech TRIO Plus Band Creator + Looper
13) Dunlop DVP4 Volume X Mini
14) Empress Reverb
15) Way Huge WHE208 Overrated Special Overdrive
Overall Best Sellers:
1) TC Electronic Ditto Looper
2) MXR M-169 Carbon Copy Analog Delay
3) TC Electronic Hall of Fame Reverb
4) TC Electronic PolyTune 2 Mini
5) Electro-Harmonix Soul Food
6) Paul Cochrane Timmy
7) Xotic SP Compressor
8) EarthQuaker Devices Avalanche Run Stereo Delay & Reverb
9) Fulltone OCD
10) Ernie Ball 6180 VP Jr Mono Volume Pedal
11) TC Electronic Ditto X2
12) Xotic EP Booster
13) Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler
14) Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer
15) Boss DS-1 Distortion
Highest Grossing:
1) Fractal Audio Axe FX II
2) EarthQuaker Devices Avalanche Run Stereo Delay & Reverb
3) Strymon TimeLine Delay
4) Line 6 Helix Guitar Processor
5) Fractal Audio AX8
6) Strymon Big Sky Reverb
7) Strymon Blue Sky Reverb
8)Analogman King of Tone V4
9) Strymon El Capistan
10) Eventide H9 Max Harmonizer Multi-Effect Pedal
11) Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2 Plus
12)Chase Bliss Audio Tonal Recall Analog Delay
13) MXR M-169 Carbon Copy Analog Delay
14) TC Electronic Ditto Looper
15) TC Electronic Hall of Fame Reverb
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