About

We help people buy a used guitar pedal without getting burned. Name the pedal you’re after, like a Boss DS-1, a TS-808, a Ram’s Head Big Muff, an MXR Phase 90 or a Cry Baby, and there’s a page for it. Each one tells you the pedal’s story, the versions that matter and what to check in a listing before you buy.

What players know about these pedals is scattered across forum threads, maker histories and decades of trial and error, and a raw eBay search gives you none of it. So we keep 55 pedal pages in one place, write down the tells that usually take years to learn (reissues sold as originals, swapped chips, quiet mods, scratchy pots and tired footswitches) and pick the listings we’d buy.

We don’t sell pedals. No affiliate links. We earn nothing. We run no analytics or tracking cookies, and we’re not affiliated with any pedal maker. See how we work for how the pages are researched and our disclosure for how links, picks and photos work.

The Pedalboard is part of allbutnew, a set of shops for secondhand gear. Got pedals to sell? The “Get an offer” link on every pedal page sends it to our pedal expert, who replies by email.