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We asked, and you voted, so without further ado here is the list of the top pedals for 2016 as voted for by you.

Every year it seems like our choices for gear get better and better, and 2016 has been one of the best yet. We're asking you all to vote for your favorite with polls closing new years eve. The order of the list is random just for fairness of the vote and be sure to also check out the Demo of the Year as well.

Demos and poll below, on mobile you may have to click below to open the poll:

The year is almost over, and we've looked back over it to find some of the best demos of the year. We're asking you all to vote for your favorite with polls closing new years eve. The order of the list is random just for fairness of the vote and be sure to also check out the Pedal of the Year as well.

Demos and poll below, on mobile you may have to click below to open the poll.

Exciting morning today with TC Electronic releasing not 1, (not 7), but 13 new pedals. They are mainly analog (except the Reverb and Digital Delay) and strip out the Toneprint features of their more recent pedals, but bring TC quality in an affordable package, with top mounted jacks to boot. You can see all the demos in the video and playlist below:

Exciting morning today with TC Electronic releasing not 1, but 7 new pedals. They are all analog (except the Reverb) and strip out the Toneprint features of their more recent pedals, but bring TC quality in an affordable package, with top mounted jacks to boot!

Gear Tube turned one this October, having started as a passion project about a year ago. To celebrate I'm listing the Top 5 demos that inspired me to create Gear Tube, which brings all the best gear videos into one website and app. We're also re-featuring KNOBS demo of the Chase Bliss Gravitas which was on our homepage banner when we very first launched.

Most guitarists are familiar with Tubescreamer and Klon style overdrives being modded or outright copied to produce many other well known overdrives. Lesser known is that the Marshall Bluesbreaker circuit has also inspired quite a few other great pedals. Here is our list of the Top 5, along with a shoot out of a few of them from Sean Gibson

A bit of a weird one for you today, if there isn't a pedal you're itching to get any time soon, maybe spend some time tweaking your existing ones, with this list of pedal knob accessories:

Several months ago Bob Taylor invited several premier music equipment builders for a talk and tour of the Taylor factory. It provides some excellent insight into both his company and business in general. Video from our friends over at 60 Cycle Hum.

Check out the video below: