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Posts tagged "digital"

Empress Effects Echosystem Multi-Mode Delay

One of the brand new pedals that were on display at this year's first Montreal Stompbox Exhibit was the Empress FX EchoSystem, the Canadian company's take on the "large-ish" multi-function digital delay pedal concept (its release date of May 4th, 2017 was just two days before our event!).... Click on the title for more

Empress Effects Echosystem Multi-Mode Delay

The Best Glitch, Stutter and Granular Pedals in 2024

The musical genre known as glitch has been around since the late 1990s. It embraces all sorts of electronic noises that are typically produced through error, such as the skipping of portable CD players and the stuttering of damaged CDs, as well as lo-fi sounds like bit-rate reduction, sampling artifacts, and extreme time stretching and compression.... Click on the title for more

The Best Glitch, Stutter and Granular Pedals in 2024

Wampler Metaverse Multi-Delay

Strymon BigSky Reverberator

We were all anticipating a new, BIG reverb stompbox by Strymon, since the Californian company's last two super hyped pedals focused on creating the ultimate digital delay (Timeline) and Modulation (Mobius) pedals. Well we were right: that reverb pedal is now reality, and its name is BigSky.... Click on the title for more

Strymon BigSky Reverberator

Splash Reverb Mk3 by Crazy Tube Circuits

Splash mk3 pic 4_s Crazy Tube Circuits has perfected the art of marrying the analog and digital worlds to create some of the most versatile and innovative guitar pedals that exist on the flooded boutique market today. The Splash Reverb Mk3 continues this tradition with three settings, each utilizing a unique algorithm. Setting 1 is labeled "Exciter" and offers sounds with just a touch of space to synthy textures. The second setting generates a more spacious reverb effect offering anything from spring sounds to larger halls. The final setting is a huge sound that offers cavernous reverberation. ... Click on the title for more

Splash Reverb Mk3 by Crazy Tube Circuits

Pedal Reviews: ZT Amplifiers Extortion

Berkley, California's ZT Amplifiers claims that that the ZT Extortion pedal is a completely unique concept in effects pedal design, allowing guitarists to switch between pristine, vintage-style analog overdrive and DSP-enhanced tonal extremes unlike anything that have come before. And in fact the Extortion covers a wide range of tones from blues to metal. In a world where we are nothing short of the many flavors of distortion pedal, it's always great to see a company try something new.... Click on the title for more

Pedal Reviews: ZT Amplifiers Extortion

Pedal Review: TC Electronic Flashback X4 Delay/Looper

Delay is an effect in which the input signal is recorded to a storage medium then played back some time later. The amount of time it takes for the signal to be played back is typically variable and often times the signal is fed back into the signal path so that you keep getting fading repeats that simulate an echo. The early means of storage and playback were tape machines playing tape loops of various lengths with controls for adjusting the record and playback heads so that the delay time could be manipulated to fit the tune. The first delay machines were commercially available in the fifties.... Click on the title for more

Pedal Review: TC Electronic Flashback X4 Delay/Looper

Pedal News: Strymon Mobius

One of the sickest companies making stomp boxes right now is Strymon. They make really great digital pedals that focus on getting the tone exactly right, often times incorporating high end SHARC processor DSPs. Their next pedal, Mobius, is all about modulation. Everything from lush choruses to pulsating tremolo as well as unlikely additions including AM modulation and bit crushing, this pedal is super diverse. This offering seems similar in technical depth to Stymon's Timeline delay that I reviewed a while back and loved; a tone tweaker's delight. Needless to say, I am extremely excited about this release and can't wait to hear it in person. -Gus Green... Click on the title for more

Pedal News: Strymon Mobius