Or, it would have, but luckily you were using the Rainger FX Minibar, and the introduction of a new liquid just gave you an even more exciting overdrive tone. An audience member is jostled, their plastic pint glass of overpriced lager thrown into the air, landing on your carefully assembled pedalboard – and your signal dies. It’s a scenario that strikes terror into the heart of any effects-pedal aficionado. + Affordable for such an odd pedal + Lots of usable sounds despite the oddness – High-maintenance Price: $/£229 Description: Pitch-drifting chorus/delay, made in USA Controls: Knobs for primary and secondary modulation, ‘magic’ knob and footswitch, knob for overall pitch adjustment of wet signal, tracking control for ‘lag time’ I/O: Mono ins and outs Bypass: True bypass with dual-mode momentary and latching footswitches for both magic and bypass Rainger FX Minibar EQD describes it as “wild pitch take-offs and descends, chaos chorusing, shrieks, groans, gurgles, wizard-blessed wizardry, signal transformation, imminent destruction, and other general mayhem” – a totally fair description. Once this footswitch is pressed, the pitch can glide up or down – though not in a smooth, whammy-like way. Roll a dice to determine which category you’ll find it in on a retailer’s website, because inside here is a polyphonic, pitch-shifting chorus/delay machine that basically does its own thing, especially with the Magic control engaged. Price: $349/€289 Description: Multi-mode spring reverb pedal, made in Latvia Controls: Dry, spring and optical reverb levels, reverb tone, six-way mode switch, mode-dependent control, drive, gate switches for reverb trails on/off and latching on/off I/O: Mono ins and outs, Expression pedal input Bypass: Buffered bypass with switchable trails Sure, it’s big, heavy and makes a thunderous racket if you accidentally kick it – but if you’re in the market for the sort of noises this thing can make, we’re assuming those aren’t problems. Combined, these result in an entirely fresh take on analogue reverbs. So why is the Light Pedal on this list?įirstly, because it uses optical sensing to detect the movement of the spring (alongside traditional methods), resulting in a reverb sound like no other, and secondly, its mode switch mixes things up even more with two flavours of tremolo, a lo-fi delay, self-oscillating feedback and harmonic drive. Spring reverb is one of the oldest effects there is – using a transducer linked up to an audio signal to vibrate a spring, and reintroducing the resulting reverberation back into the signal for a drippy, bright reverb. + Beautiful design + Makes a horrifying sound when kicked on purpose – Makes a horrifying sound when kicked accidentally Death By Audio Total Sonic Annihilation 2.Alexander Pedals Superball Kinetic Modulator.The best experimental guitar pedals to buy in 2021 at a glance: Some are truly unique takes on a given effect – from reverb and delay to and drive pedals – they just feel as though they dropped in from an alternate dimension. That doesn’t mean that none of these effects have any grounding in what came before, however. But the sonic safety that comes with these set circuit baselines can be limiting to some, and so some builders have taken it upon themselves to throw out the rulebook and attempt to create a circuit that sounds like nothing else – that’s the territory we’ll be exploring with this list.
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