2020 Prediction Thread of psychic malevolence

[retinal orbita]

I saw a Boss DD8 had been recently released with no fanfare whatsoever and while this has no effect on my life (I’ll stick with my DD7 thank you very much) we are a mere 67 days away from 2020 and a whole new world of gear trends, sends and depends.

We’re literally 9.5 weeks away from a new decade. The death of shimmer? The elimination of all gain knobs? Purple Ringworms? A new generation of minifoogers? A new generation of Moogerfoogers? An Arturia synth with a Steiner-Parker filter?

It could be..... ANYTHING

[crochambeau]

The elimination of all gain knobs?

Over my dead body.

[echorec]

Meris will have something for WNAMM. They’re also not done with their 500 series.

[Blackened Soul]

2020 will be the year pedals become the past and accordions and mandocellos will be the next in thing. All electric music will die in the wake of nu-polka :surprise:

[DRodriguez]

real talk
mandocellos are super fun to play

[coldbrightsunlight]

I bet! Mandolins are too small for my fingers but they sound great. So one that's a size I can comfortably play

I think authentic analog reverb will be the next big thing and everyone will be buying caves

[goroth]

Nothing will be a thing unless some instagram goober demos it. So this thread is highly dependent on the will of the goob.

[Bartimaeus]

I think authentic analog reverb will be the next big thing and everyone will be buying caves

Ideally someone will buy several caves, hook them up with speakers and mics, and allow you to send your recordings through them for a nominal fee and hear the results in real-time through the internet. But it won't sound as "real" as a lexicon so nobody will use it ("this just sounds like a mid-tier digital reverb, where's the modulation?!")

[$harkToootth]

Frogs In The Pond 2020:
1. More cab/amp sims. Cheaper ones.
2. More 1 shot sampler type things in a pedal. Cheaper ones.
3. Shit based around theremins.
4. More sequencing shit in guitar pedals.
5.A. Combination of any 2 or all of the above.
5.B. Especially pitch sequencing your 1 shot samples.
6. The inverse of shimmer... we're going B A S S. Everyone will go full Köner in 2020.
7. More laptop abelton integration into rigs. The demos will show how simple everything is in 10+ steps. "Nah Nah, you can totally do this in real time."
8. CV sequenced stereo compression.
9. Physical filters.
10. Instances where "you" are the pedal. Bio-Pedals

Nothing will be a thing unless some instagram goober demos it. So this thread is highly dependent on the will of the goob.

I would love to start a pool for this. We'll have to do some research of 'what is coming out', 'who we think will get it', 'who has the most impressionable fan base?'

[tremolo3]

2020 will be the year of the Zoia.

(Linux user will get it)

[Eivind August]

It was actually my dad, who does not play, who told me that the DD-8 had dropped. Weird. Looks good.

As for the new age of stompboxes, dotted swells and overdrive so transparent it makes your amp invisible will be the kings of the gear world.

[Gone Fission]

Affordable samplers will be a thing again. Not sample players that you load samples into from your computer or phone. Actual samplers. I’d probably STFU if I would hurry up and get a MicroGranny, but I was shocked surveying and spotting nothing else new that was cheaper than an SP-404. Because who knows, maybe I might want higher fidelity. Crazier things have happened.

[coldbrightsunlight]

I think authentic analog reverb will be the next big thing and everyone will be buying caves

Ideally someone will buy several caves, hook them up with speakers and mics, and allow you to send your recordings through them for a nominal fee and hear the results in real-time through the internet. But it won't sound as "real" as a lexicon so nobody will use it ("this just sounds like a mid-tier digital reverb, where's the modulation?!")

[moid]

Anti-glitch pedals. They'll use AI to play the additional better notes that you should've played if you'd had more talent

[Dowi]

2020 will be the year of random modulation.
i also hope will be the year "clean" ring mods come back so we have more choices besides the usual 3-4 notables.