Mount Laurel, NJ (March 7, 2016) -- After an unveiling at NAMM, Anomalies is ready to breathe new life into pedalboards everywhere on April 15, 2016.
Anomalies is Fuzzrocious’ first delay offering. It’s not the normal take on the PT2399 delay chip. This time around, the circuit is chopped down to create a lo-fi, dirty delay. That’s not all…Via a momentary footswitch, the user can instantly shift his/her delay time to either a slower time (about 4x as slow) or a faster time (about 4x as fast). This results in super fast, octave up chrips or super slow, almost suboctave groans. The user can select fast-slow or slow-fast via a toggle.
Features:
- Handpainted by Fuzzrocious or screenprinted/powdercoated locally by JuxtaPrints.
- Handmade by Fuzzrocious in-house.
- Repeats and Time pots, fast/slow slow/fast toggle, internal mix trimpot, internal time trimpot.
Anomalies will sell at $155 USD both direct from Fuzzrocious and from stores/dealers.
Watch the company's video demo:
Feed Me is a tone shaper/EQ boasting four 12-position rotary pots, providing the user with 20,736 combinations. A pair of high pass resistors and capacitors and a pair of low pass resistors and capacitors can be mixed and matched to create treble rolloffs or boosts, mid humps or scoops, and bass rolloffs or additions. Place it directly after an instrument's signal to alter the EQ/tone curve (ex - make a P bass feel like a J or strat feel like a tele) OR for a more dramatic effect, place is last in the pedal chain like a preamp, feeding it the pedals’ signal to change their sound (ex - make muddy delays bright and middy or mid-heavy drives brutal and scooped).
Features:
- Screenprinted and powdercoated locally by JuxtaPrints.
- Handmade by Fuzzrocious in-house.
- Four 12-position rotary pots, one Volume pot, and one Tone pot.
- 20,736 possible tone combinations.
FEED ME will sell at $155 USD both direct from Fuzzrocious and from stores/dealers.
Watch the company's video demo:
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Peterson StroboStomp Mini Pedal Tuner
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But by gosh, if delay—and its sister effect, reverb—haven’t always been perfect for the music I like to write and play. Which brings us to the Fishman EchoBack Mini Delay. The EchoBack, along with the standard delay controls of level, time, and repeats—as well as a tap tempo—has a toggle to alternate between analog, tape, and digital-delay voices.
I hooked up my Washburn Bella Tono Elegante to my Blues Junior to give the EchoBack a test run. We love a medium delay—my usual preference for delay settings is to have both level and repeats at 1 o’clock, and time at 11 o’clock. With the analog voice switched on, I heard some pillowy warmth in the processed signal, as well as a familiar degradation with each repeat—until their wake gave way to a gentle, distant, crinkly ticking. Staying on analog and adjusting delay time down to 8 o’clock and repeats to about 11:30, some cozy slapback enveloped my rendition of Johnny Marr’s part to “Back to the Old House,” conjuring up thoughts of Elvis trapped in a small chamber, but in a good way. It sounded indubitably authentic. The one drawback of analog delay for me, generally, is that its roundness can feel a bit under water at times.
Switching over to tape, that pillowy warmth evaporated, and in its place came a very clear replication of my tone—but with just a bit of the highs shaved off the top. With the settings at the medium-length mode listed above, I could see the empty, glass hall the pedal sent my sound bouncing down. I heard several pronounced pings of repeats before the signal fully faded out. On slapback settings (time at 8 o’clock, repeats at 11:30), rather than Elvis, I heard something more along the lines of a honky-tonk mic in a glass bottle. Still relatively crystalline, which actually was not my favorite. I like a bit more crinkle—so maybe analog is my bag....“That pillowy warmth evaporated, and in its place came a very clear, pristine replication of my tone—but with just a bit of the highs shaved off the top.”
Next up, digital. Here we have the brightest voice, and as expected, the most faithful repeats. They ping just a few times before shifting to a smooth, single undulating wave. When putting its slapback hat on, I found that the effect was a bit less alluring than I’d observed for the analog and tape voices. This is where the digital delay felt a little too sterile, with the cleanly preserved signal feeling a bit unnatural.
All in all, I dig the EchoBack for its replications of analog and tape voices, and ultimately, lean towards tape. While it’s nice having the digital delay there as an option, it feels a bit too clean when meddling with time of any given length. Nonetheless, this is surely a handy stomp for any acoustic player looking to venture into the land of live effects, or for those who are already there.
