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Stepping away from pristine, clinical repeats, the Walrus Audio Fundamental Lo-Fi Delay delivers gritty, degraded echoes designed to add atmosphere and character to your board without forcing you through frustrating menu-diving. Part of Walrus’s acclaimed streamlined series, it packs professional-grade sonic integrity into a clean, intuitive layout utilizing tactile control sliders. At the heart of the pedal is a 3-way toggle switch housing three distinct delay algorithms: AM Mode: Accentuates high frequencies with a restricted bandwidth, yielding bright repeats that gracefully bloom into ambient trails. Murk Mode: Generates dark, atmospheric delay clouds that dynamically react to your pick attack, sitting comfortably underneath your playing. Echo Mode: Introduces syncopated multi-tap rhythms packed with gritty degradation, making the most of the built-in tap tempo. True to the company’s Fundamental series‘ philosophy and format, the top panel relies on a clean, no-nonsense interface featuring simple sliders for Time, Feedback, and Mix. Holding down the rugged footswitch engages tap tempo (with secondary slider functions controlling subdivisions), while internal power-up configurations let you choose between natural trails or a dramatic immediate cutoff. ... Click on the title for more
Before shrinking their ecosystem down to the floor, Positive Grid built a massive reputation on software modeling and desktop practice amplifiers, most notably pioneering the BIAS amp-building software and the wildly popular Spark series of smart practice amps. Folding that same powerful technology into a portable floor processor, the Positive Grid Spark Pedal packs an entire guitar rig into a compact, gig-ready enclosure. Driven by the same HD Tone Engine found in Spark 2 Amp, it delivers everything from pristine boutique cleans to modern high-gain tones right out of the box. At its core, the pedal combines powerful amp modeling, EQ, and effects with hands-free performance tools designed to get you from a musical idea to a finished sound instantly. The control layout and feature set are organized as follows: Direct Onboard Controls: Five tactile knobs—including an Amp Type selector alongside Gain, Bass, Mid, and Treble—provide immediate, old-school tone shaping without needing a screen Dedicated Effects Section: Independent knobs for Drive, Mod, Delay, and Reverb allow for straightforward, hands-on adjustments to your spatial and gain textures. Dual-Mode Footswitches: Three heavy-duty steel switches operate in two distinct modes—Preset Mode grants instant access to six saved tones across two banks, while Looper […]... Click on the title for more
When Portland’s Catalinbread set out to design the EG-1, their goal was to move past the simple buzzword of “lo-fi” and truly examine what physical degradation and signal decay actually feel like. Built as the second release on their tap-tempo platform, the EG1 packages up to 900ms of delay time into a deeply experimental yet remarkably musical processor, offering high headroom and an enhanced signal processing path that keeps your core tone intact even as things get delightfully grungy. Rather than relying on a single emulation style, the pedal introduces three distinct transmission modes that fundamentally alter how the delay line behaves: Radio Mode: Simulates the character of an old broadcast receiver, utilizing targeted high-pass and low-pass filtering. Here, the Mod control shapes the filtering intensity to dial in everything from a warm, band-passed echo to a harsh, distant transmission. Tape Mode: Emulates the organic mechanical quirks of vintage tape machines. The Mod control adjusts the depth of the wow, flutter, and tape saturation, providing everything from a subtle, breathing warble to a heavily degraded, unstable loop. Digital Television Mode: Introduces grit via digital artifacts and downsampling. The Mod control applies a gritty Nyquist error, mangling high frequencies with glitchy, […]... Click on the title for more
The IK Multimedia TONEX Board is a cost-effective flagship floor processor that finally bridges the gap between software captures and professional touring hardware. It integrates the vast ToneNET library directly into a live rig, offering uncompromising flexibility without the typical four-figure price tag. The TONEX Board centers around IK’s award-winning AI Machine Modeling technology, which maps the exact dynamic response, volume-knob cleanup, and feel of real-world amplifiers, cabinets, and pedals. Expanding far beyond a standard modeler, it features a robust dual-signal-chain architecture supporting up to four Tone Models simultaneously, complemented by over 70 studio-grade effects derived from AmpliTube. Dual-Chain & Routing Flexibility: Runs dual-amp, wet/dry, or true stereo rigs with split-and-mix routing, 12 effect slots per preset, and a versatile stereo FX loop that can function as two independent mono loops. Control & Navigation: Features a high-resolution 5-inch color touchscreen with five precision encoders, alongside four footswitches configured across three performance modes (Preset, Scene, and Stomp). Extensive Preset Storage: Houses over 1,400 preset slots organized across 12 setlists, 40 banks, and 3 presets per bank. Tour-Ready I/O: Equipped with independent stereo output pairs (balanced XLR and 1/4-inch line) with global parametric EQs, MIDI I/O, dual expression pedal inputs, and a […]... Click on the title for more
Packing that legendary 1960s Black Panel amp character into a streamlined, pedalboard-friendly footprint, the Mad Professor Super Black Mini brings pure vintage tone to a smaller stage. Featuring a fully analog circuit that faithfully maps out the entire signal path of a classic tube amplifier, it delivers true amp-like touch response. Compared to the original mid-sized unit, the Mini is built with a few vital updates: Streamlined Footprint: The secondary Sweet Honey Overdrive section found on the original has been removed, resulting in a much smaller enclosure that saves precious board real estate. Retained Core Preamp Control: Despite its smaller size, it keeps all eight essential tone-shaping controls intact, including Bass, Middle, Treble, Gain, Volume, Presence, plus the Bass Cut and Compression toggle switches. Enhanced Headroom: Redesigned with increased headroom and a higher output level, the Mini lets those signature sparkly, percussive cleans and punchy dynamics cut through with extra authority. Whether you want pristine glass-like chime at lower gain settings or the glorious, organic breakup of a cranked tube amp without shaking the room, the Super Black Mini handles it all. Run it directly in front of your amplifier as a powerful tone shaper, or drop it straight into […]... Click on the title for more
The Keeley Tube Drive is one of Robert Keeley’s most ambitious projects. It pairs the legendary Super Phat Mod overdrive circuit with a genuine high-voltage 12AX7 tube preamp running at over 100 volts — real tube warmth, not a digital emulation. Each side runs independently or combined in either order, so you get everything from a clean boost to thick, saturated drive. The Super Phat Mod side brings that transparent, dynamic JFET overdrive Keeley’s known for, full of harmonic content. The tube stage adds touch-sensitive breakup on a clean amp, or pushes an already-driven amp harder. Run them together and you get an infinite palette of saturation, from subtle grit to scorching leads. Sweetwater’s tone purists love it because you can never have too much tube warmth in your chain. It’s also built for the modern pedalboard. A remote TRS jack lets you switch each side externally (Tip for Drive, Ring for Tube). It takes 9–18V power so you can dial in headroom. Every 12AX7 is hand-selected and broken in, protected by a custom Keeley shroud with a vented rear panel for airflow. You get true bypass or silent buffered switching, plus a tube-removal tool, shield, and grommet in the […]... Click on the title for more
The Dazatronyx Big Fuzz Console is an absolute dream for fuzz obsessives and circuit tinkerers, offering a true open fuzz laboratory that lets you “unroll” a four-stage Big Muff circuit, giving direct front-panel access to the architecture so you can map out vintage specs like Triangle, Ram’s Head, or Russian units—or venture entirely off-map into custom territory. Hand-built in Melbourne by Darron Thornbury, the Big Fuzz Console takes a delightfully mad approach to a classic design by bringing nearly every defining component value directly to the user. Rather than trying to rigidly replicate inconsistent vintage units, the pedal offers an expansive playground for analog exploration. The layout and features are structured across five distinct, right-to-left sections that mirror the physical signal flow of the circuit: Stage 1 (Gain Boost): Features its own rotary transistor selector, independent biasing, and component-level toggles to shape the initial input gain stage. Stage 2 (Gain Boost with Diode Clipping): Incorporates a rotary transistor selector, selectable clipping capacitors (including a no-clip option), and dedicated clipping-stage controls. Stage 3 (Gain Boost with Diode Clipping): Mirrors the second stage with its own transistor switching, clipping capacitor selection, and circuit-tweaking toggles. Passive Tone Control Stage: Features dedicated rotary controls […]... Click on the title for more
Stepping away from traditional, diffuse ambient washes, the Electronic Audio Experiments Scattering approaches spatial processing through a complex multi-tap delay network that feels refreshingly alive. Tracing its spiritual roots back to EAE’s earlier Hypersleep – which was ultimately limited by exhausted supplies of the rare MN3011 bucket brigade chip – Scattering utilizes a powerful Spin FV-1 digital architecture to bring those vintage-inspired, multi-tap ideas into a much more capable, modern format. It’s a hybrid instrument that balances a high-headroom analog dry path with 24-bit digital processing, ensuring your core tone stays crisp even when things get wonderfully chaotic. Shaping the sound is handled by seven primary controls spread across two rows, letting you dial everything from tight room tones to vast, disintegrating sonic voids. At its core, the pedal features four distinct algorithmic modes: X1 Mode: Directly ports the six tap lengths from the classic MN3011 BBD architecture. X2 Mode: Doubles those tap lengths to push the pedal deep into expansive, long-delay territory. Matrix Mode: Runs eight total delay lines (four per side) through a Feedback Delay Network (FDN), providing enough stability to hold a true infinite reverb. Nonlinear Mode: Employs a swelling envelope applied directly across the delay taps […]... Click on the title for more
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