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Ligma Electronics' 'You Need To Wake Up' is an interesting Mix of Room Reverb and Granular Buffer Effects
There’s a lot going on with this pedal - with multiple functions on each control - whether Knob, Toggle-switch or Footswitch.
The top ROOM REVERB Section shapes and swells the Reverb part, the 2nd Row controls the Number of Grains (GUESTS) and how they intermingle (DRIFT). And the 2 toggles give you different playback modes.
Both footswitches have Quick Press and Hold Functions, as detailed below.
Controls - THE ROOM REVERB } DRY>WET MIX [Gate/Sensitivity], DECAY [Swell/Rise], HI ...
Electronic Audio Experiments pays tribute to its discontinued Hypersleep with the Scattering Tapped Delay-Line Networks Stereo Scatter Reverb
The EAE Hypersleep is a retired classic, retired because its core rare MN3011 BBD’s are no longer available.
"Unlike other BBD’s with one input and one output, the MN3011 uses an array of staggered delay outputs to produce a smeared-out echo. Feeding this echo back upon itself produces a reverberant texture."
So John has long toyed with reviving the Hypersleep in some fashion, and so the Scattering looks to evolve that concept somewhat - by digitally modelling the behaviour of the ...
Death By Audio and Rainger FX unleash the perfect Amp Crash collaboration - a scuzzy ripping dirt box with serious garage punk attitude, based on a mic'd up 2-inch tiny-amp-driven speaker
So there’s quite a lot to get stuck into here, but generally a really easy pedal to deploy, with a couple of caveats. This started off as a David Rainger idea/concept which evolved a couple of years ago - and consisted of the core mechanic of having a mini amp + speaker - where an internal condenser mic captures the output of the speaker and feeds it into overall output.
In some ways the Amp Crash’s operation is a balancing act between 3 level controls - DI Out, Mic Out, and Gain. So I ...
Nobels continues its winning streak with Stereo Mini Pedals - with its new classic 3-Mode Reverb - with Spring, Plate and Hall voicings
I first spotted this on Gear News - where it turns out just to be an announcement, as these don’t start shipping until the middle of October. They are however already up for pre-orders on Thomann!
And indeed already listed on Nobels.de site - just below the ODR-1X.
Controls - Size (Decay), Dry > Wet Blend, Tone, Mode : Spring / Plate / Hall, Hold Footswitch for Freeze / Shimmer.
This series has really set a new standard for Mini Pedals - all 5 now are excellent - the original ODR-...
Alexander Pedals releases new limited run Stereo Micro Detuner for the August 8th Midwest Pedalfest
This uses the same DSP engine as Alexander’s other Leap Series pedals, while it looks quite different. It’s a really cool detour from Alexander’s usual fare - and delivers a shimmery detune style chorus underlaid by an ambient medium Hall Reverb.
As mentioned - it was originally made for the Midwest Pedalfest, so I guess we’re talking about remaining stock here really - which didn’t sell through at the fest!
Controls - Tune (±Cents), Dry > Wet Mix, Size : Reverb Decay / Depth, Pan : ...
Empty Head Effects unleashes killer Seafarer Suboceanic Ambient Atmospheric Modulated Reverb - which swells with lapping, swirling and crashing watery waves
Empty Head Effect’s Nic is a fantastic sound designer - and his latest Seafarer Reverb is surely his most ambitious pedal to date. A proper elemental Oceanic Reverb which goes from gently lapping modulated shore waves to Stormy Swirling and Crashing breakers. This monophonic reverb positively drips with ambience and atmosphere!
It is so incredibly evocative of the marine environment in all its states, with no less than 10 controls to harness its elemental nature.
As mentioned - you can ...
Hungry Robot unleashes potent Stereo Edition of its Stargazer Spacey Ambient Dual Channel Reverb with subtle wet octave and swirly pitch bend modulation
A really elegant and tasteful Spacey Ambient Dual Channel Reverb with 2 identical Blue and Red Channels which you can set up independently and flip between on-the-fly.
This circuit sits inside Hungry Robot’s preferred landscape-style 1590BB type enclosure and features Boss-style silver-top knobs of different sizes to great effect.
This latest iteration of the Stargazer features trails, full wet/dry blend, and full stereo signal processing for the first time!
It further benefits from...
Walrus Audio revive their formerly 600 Unit Limited Edition Lüm Texture Engine Reverb, now in Minimal Black and Guava Editions
This is an interesting one for sure - as this was initially billed as a totally limited one-off release - back in September of last year - with a commitment that only a total of 600 units would be produced. But now the self same circuit is back on general release - in 2 new colourway edition.
This essentially re-uses the Slötvå format - but takes in algorithms form the Fable Granular Generator, and Lore Reverse Reverb. Think of it as a best off those 3 essentially. The format and structure ...
My OBNE x Emily Hopkins x B's Music Purr-ting is finally purring on all cylinders!
I first featured the Old Blood Noise x Emily Hopkings Parting back on January 21st. All the demos were great, but I was massively put off by the overly cluttered nature of the artwork. Even in the early monochrome edition - that ultra busy design made it really hard to even look in the direction of the pedal - I imagine anyone on the spectrum would not have reacted well to that design. It kind of drowned out the functional ability of the pedal - and made it look far tricker to deploy than it ...
As per expectations Strymon has very predictably released an upgraded Timeline MX Stereo Dual Algorithm Multi Delay Workstation - to match the prowess of its recent BigSky MX Evolution
We pretty much know the score by now - the same exercise of innovations and improvements that was applied to the BigSky MX - has now been applied to its Delay sibling. We get all the goodness of the original - with vastly enhanced abilities - including 2 simultaneous Stereo Algorithms - much like the Empress EchoSystem has done for a quite some years now.
The number of core surface Models / Algorithms is still 12, and some of the older ones are concealed within options of those 12 updated ...
