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A full-fledged festival of phasing, La Calavera combines an offering to the more traditional effects of days gone by with the essence of rebirth and revolution. Wake the dead with a colorful celebration of vibrant vibes and multiple modes of modulation.

The Octasynth is more than a simulation or an attempt to mimic analog synthesizers. It is an analog synthesizer. The heart and soul of the octasynth are two different effects both built around IC’s commonly used in analog synthesis. The first is an octave generator that converts your guitar into three square waves. The octaves then run through a second effect: A resonant low pass filter. 90% of the analog synth tones you are familiar with are just this – Raw waveforms and resonant filters.

"WORMHOLE" is a delay pedal that can bend delay time by the reflective photosensor. When the repeat knob is full, it starts oscillate. Because it has a limiter circuit in the feedback section, it doesn't make too much loud oscillate sound. You can get kind of vibrato or chorus sound when the time knob is lower position.

Features: ・True Bypass ・Handmade ・Oscillation

MANDALA is a pitch shifted short time sampler pedal. In pitch shift mode (selected by right toggle switch), pitch of sample sounds shift up or down. In hold mode, pitch shift is disabled. When the time knob is full, sample time is randomised and sample time will change everytime you push the button. You can select latch / unlatch by left toggle switch.

AURORA is a pitch shifted delay pedal. When the pitch knob is full, input notes are shifted 1 octave up. Feedback signals are also pitch shifted. Turning the feedback knob up, you will get magical tones.

TARARIRA is a small multifunction arpeggiator pedal. Sequenced pitch shifting make new sounds never heard before.

Features: ・8 selectable scales ・Major / Minor toggle by the left switch(in scale #1-5) ・hold the tone to be pitch shifted by the left switch(in scale #6-8) ・selectable steps from 2-8 ・reset the current step to 1 by the reset button ・random step mode ・tap tempo and sync by the external clock signal(5v, rising) ・true bypass(by relay) ・latching footswitch mode

"3 Program Digital Reverb:

This: Shimmer Reverb. Shimmer controls the dissonance of the reverb.

That: Hightide and Lowtide controls provide filtering for the high and low end of the Room

Otherb: Deep and Rate controls provide the Depth and Speed of the flange

All 3 programs can be blended are warped using the LED backlit trim knobs.

The Whateverb is buffered bypass to allow the reverb tail to trail after the effect has been bypassed."

"The Glacial Zenith was designed to allow dialing in amazing tone in 10 seconds or less. If that'ss not enough, the GZ reveals an independent overdrive, an independent boost, and a sophisticated routing system for stacking and manipulating gain stages by stringing them into one another via the BEFORE/AFTER toggle - which is what separates this box from the rest.

The BEFORE/AFTER toggle gives users the power to select drive followed by a boost (great for leads), or boost followed drive (creating fuzzy mayhem). Throw the LOW toggle into the equation and you have myriad of sonic capabilities. The LOW toggle offers three bass voicings, from conservative low end for purists, boosted low end for modern tones, and thick low end with rich fundamental content for bassists."

The Dream Reaper is a Fuzzy Feedback Modulation Machine loaded with weird features guaranteed to turn your tone into something unexpected.

The Force switch engages a built in "pick up emulator" controlled by the Sense knob, which emulates the the tone knob(s) on your guitar. We found that by putting this pedal in the middle of your chain, the tone knob didn't seem to adjust the feedback frequency when in Dream mode. This built in circuit takes care of that. Rub on that tone knob and squeal this pupper all the way downtown.

The Reap knob controls the strength of your input as it tussles with the oscillations for dominance when in Dream mode.

The Range switch is a low end capacitor selector that doubles as a frequency range selector when in Dream mode.

The Bias knob controls the non linearity of the effect regardless of which mode.

Expression pedal controls the Filter Knob which is something along the lines of a broader big muff filter. We recommend using a Moog Expression Pedal or another with 100k potentiometer value.

We stuck our classic ‘80s flavored delay in the Betamax and fast-forwarded to the good part. But instead of an eyeful of Phoebe Cates, we discovered the Radical Delay II+.

The sound you love with more reasons to love it, like updated cosmetics and built-in tap tempo.