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FM synthesis tends to remain a complex mystery for the most part and yet we all enjoy messing about with it. The Quad Operator brings the most useful parameters to the surface in an attempt to open up the magic of FM to exploratory fingers. Quad Operator The module looks clean, complex and largely unlabelled […]
Erica Synths has a bunch of new stuff at Superbooth but here are two impression effects Eurorack modules take caught my attention, the Black Spring Reverb and Black Stereo Delay. Black Spring Reverb Spring Reverbs tend to be emulations of actual spring reverbs unless they have a nice big reverb tank attached to them somewhere. […]
Error Instruments continues to boggle our minds and fill the world with exciting boxes of noise. Their latest box is called Broken Tape and is a “broken tape simulation because sometimes we miss the sound of the unexpected errors.” Broken Tape This is not a little bit of warp, saturation or flutter this is something […]
Steel Panther have announced a second guitar pedal, the Poontang Boomerang. As you’d expect, they aren’t being subtle in their advertising for it, calling it “the world’s greatest digital delay pedal”. Will this one be banned from sites like Reverb.com, too? The pedal’s name comes from one of Steel Panther’s tracks from a few years […]
The new Italian-made Mezzabarba Trinity is a 100-Watt all-valve amp head with MIDI control and plenty of gain on tap. With three distinct channels, it should have enough control to keep you busy for ages. Mezzabarba Trinity The Mezzabarba Trinity amp head is based around six 12AX7 preamp tubes, four EL34 power output valves and custom transformers by […]
Vein-Tap presents its new pedal, enticingly called the Dark Arts Tap Tempo Phaser This is an all-analogue effect designed and built in Plymouth, UK. One thing we liked straight away was the serious amount of control crammed into its small casing. Dark Arts Tap Tempo Phaser Straight off the bat, the first thing that makes the Dark […]
Old Blood Noise Endeavors and Datachoir have combined their knowledge of building effects pedals to bring us the new Rêver. A new modulated reverb, delay and reverse effect that is launching during Winter NAMM. Rêver 2019 Originally, the Rêver was released in limited very numbers back in 2018. Rêver is back for 2019 and so you should […]
Walrus Audio has just announced the new Lillian Analog Multi-Stage Phaser, a (sort of) cousin to its popular Julia pedal. Lillian Analog Multi-Stage Phaser The Lillian Analog Multi-Stage Phaser has settings for Rate, Width and Feedback. That echoes its Julia chorus pedal, where you can blend between Dry, Chorus and Vibrato. Here you can blend between Dry, […]
Eventide is launching a new guitar pedal (or should that be petal?): Rose is coming to NAMM 2019. Presented in a vivid pink, Rose is based around BBD-style delay and throws together the digital and the analogue in an interesting way to achieve modulations galore. But how much will it cost? Eventide Rose Eventide knows a […]
Casper Electronics’ Dark Matter Feedback Observatory Eurorack module was one of the more interesting things to appear at Superbooth back last May. Developer Peter Edwards spent the show breaking waveforms and overdriving signals with it. Built in collaboration with Bastl Instruments the Dark Matter is now available. Dark Matter Dark Matter takes the natural behaviour […]