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FLEXeFX Introduces Foot Wheels and Kickstarter Campaign

Press Release

FLEXeFX has started a new Kickstarter campaign to help fund a new innovation in guitar pedals, the Foot Wheel.


Charleston, SC (February, 19, 2013) -- FLEXeFX has re-imagined the guitar effects pedal or “stomp box”, and is proud to announce the launch of their Kickstarter.com campaign.

“We live in the Golden Age of guitar pedals with nearly 600 new guitar pedal companies launching in the past 2 years. However, none of them addressed the fundamental short- coming that plagues the pedal’s housing - the inability to change their sound, on the fly with their feet. FLEXeFX pedals solve that problem.” - William Gadol, FLEXeFX President. “FLEXeFX pedals allow the player, real-time, dynamic control over the parameters of their guitar pedal tones which allows for greater expression and artistic creativity.”

Each FLEXeFX pedal features two large wheels that are mounted on either side of the pedal. Each wheel is connected to a potentiometer that controls a single setting on the pedal. For the Delay pedal, the wheels control Mix and Feedback. For the Tremolo pedal, the wheels control Speed and Depth. For the Reverb pedal, the wheels control Mix and Dwell. FLEXeFX is also introducing a Dual Expression pedal with Tap-Tempo and a Mixer pedal. The Mixer’s wheels blend between 2 separate effects loops and blend between wet and dry. The Mixer gives players a level of tonal flexibility that will cause players to completely re-think the capabilities of their existing pedals. The FLEXeFX video on Kickstarter.com demonstrates these pedals brilliantly.

FLEXeFX wheels come with mechanical stops which allow the user to set the wheel’s upper and lower thresholds. These stops act as manual presets and prevent the wheels from traveling past their desired positions. A US Patent has been awarded to FLEXeFX, Inc.

Watch the company's video demo:

For more information:
FLEXeFX


     

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cheerleader
on 02/21/2013 		kickstarter is not about big money finacing this guy its about both large and small investments. check his website for more kickstarter info. Im glad to find something on this magazine worthy of positive comments! After all the BS from the namm show this is a breath of fresh air.
Bart / DiscoFreq
on 02/21/2013 		Tom L: The Russian Spektr pedals (early 80's?) also had roller controls (and interesting switches in the pedals): http://www.effectsdatabase.com/model/s pektr/3 and http://www.effectsdatabase.com/model/s pektr/4
Jon Fine
on 02/21/2013 		definitely an idea whose time has come (back)! I had a Maestro phase shifter with the side wheel controls back in the late '70's, and it worked great. Somebody finance this guy so he can get these into production!
Tom L
on 02/20/2013 		Nice call on the Total Foot Control, Jan. More recently, an early version of the Boomerang phrase sampler had a foot-controlled roller; the current 'rang III doesn't have it, but they sell the roller separately as a volume pedal [http://www.boomerangmusic.com/WR.shtml] . I wonder what about the FLEXeFX was patentable? Perhaps just the stops, which is a clever idea.
Rick-Hayward -Ca.
on 02/20/2013 		Wow! Jan, thats knowing (i know who you are E) your history! You cant knock it for sure, but theres alot of sideways views on this...1 is limited to 2 on the fly adjustments... another is a toy look alike.. definitely a keyboard thing... the most positive idea would be,finding the exact right setting for the tune other than your self centered idea of whats right...."to seek the truth"... SO,..Jan-V see R.D. & contact Me................
Jan V.
on 02/20/2013 		Actually someone did, 40 years ago, in the Maestro Total Foot Control series (made by Moog): http://www.effectsdatabase.com/mo del/maestro/tfc But it's good they're back :)
Duffy Lewis
on 02/20/2013 		Awesome, totally awesome idea. I can't believe someone hasn't come up with the idea before. I like the delay pedal so I hope the Kickstarter project works because investing while the pedals are still low-priced is such a great idea.



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