The Japan-made Umbrella Company HUME is a spatial effects pedal designed to occupy the elusive territory between delay and reverb. It emerges from a simple concept: what happens when echoes stop being distinct repeats and start dissolving into atmosphere?
The answer lives in the F&V sliders—the pedal’s defining control. This pair of sliders governs the diffusion of your signal, allowing you to continuously shape how echoes decay and blur. Push one way, and you get clear, defined delay repeats. Push the other, and those repeats lose their edges, transforming into wash, into reverb, into something in between. The space between familiar effects is where HUME lives.
A FLASHBACK toggle introduces reverse playback, generating misty, backward decays that unfurl into reverb tails. It’s the kind of texture that feels less like an effect and more like a memory dissolving.
The AUX footswitch unlocks 3 performance modes.
- Tap Divide sets tempo and subdivisions for rhythmic precision.
- Circulation holds the effect in latched or momentary mode, creating moving, sound-on-sound layers that continue evolving.
- Morphing lets you transition smoothly between current and saved settings – dramatic shifts controlled by footswitch, expression pedal, or CV.
Inputs and outputs can be independently switched between mono and stereo. Full MIDI control via 3.5mm TRS. Made for guitar, synth, or anything with a signal.
HUME doesn’t give you delay. Doesn’t give you reverb. It gives you the space between -and invites you to get lost there.
