New gear announcements for 2022

[Blood_mountain]

Philippe is offering a limited edition obsidian Arigato phaser bundle. A portion of the advance proceeds will go to the Innocence Project. The full November release features a faded coral/peach coloration.

https://carolineguitar.com/arigato-advance/ (project history & more about the Innocence Project)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dfpWm-zlPQ (time stamps with video)

I was sort of disappointed with this one. I thought it seemed kind of...boring.

[echorec]

I was sort of disappointed with this one. I thought it seemed kind of...boring.

As a phaser junkie, I will get one...also, Philippe is my guy. I'd link you to the live clips Emily shared the other day, but it seems the video was pulled or temporarily unlisted. If you're a 1-3 phaser kind of individual, you probably don't need it. If you're a 4 or 5 phaser person, it might be for you.

[Blood_mountain]

I was sort of disappointed with this one. I thought it seemed kind of...boring.

As a phaser junkie, I will get one...also, Philippe is my guy. I'd link you to the live clips Emily shared the other day, but it seems the video was pulled or temporarily unlisted. If you're a 1-3 phaser kind of individual, you probably don't need it. If you're a 4 or 5 phaser person, it might be for you.

Yeah, I think that’s probably it. I’m 0 - 1 phaser kind of guy. I dig Caroline and always want to like everything he puts out, but this one just didn’t do much for me

[The Eristic]

https://www.premierguitar.com/news/sold ... s-slo-mini


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHVfJxkQvaA

I could have sworn that they already released that one. Perhaps it was just the inevitability of it coming out of Boutique Amps Distribution after the Friedman, the Bogner, and the Diezel.

Yeah.. personally I don't feel the things... I wish the trend of the tube pre in a box would come back.. those are fun with a cool clean amp.. sure... a bit dumb.. but so are these mini amps

These are basically just the pedals they make for the different brands + a cheap power section, so I'd bet an SLO pedal will turn up soon (and probably with more features than the mini), which I will definitely peep.

Then there is maybe hope.. I wanna see a pedalboard full of them then!

https://www.soldano.com/products/classi ... slo-pedal/

[Gone Fission]

Boss SL-2 compact Slicer pedal: https://www.boss.info/us/products/sl-2/

Keep doing those mock-ups, TGP and Reddit nerds, because there is no way Boss would have thought to put an old pedal in their decades-running standard enclosure without you.

[Dandolin]

Noice. Seems like maybe more patterns available plus access to an editor

[moozz]

I was always intrigued by the Slicer but never tried it out. This is probably gonna be priced a bit more wallet-friendly than the original, like what they did with Space Echo. Maybe it will finally be time to dive into the Slicer.

[Pepe]

Boss SL-2 compact Slicer pedal: https://www.boss.info/us/products/sl-2/

Keep doing those mock-ups, TGP and Reddit nerds, because there is no way Boss would have thought to put an old pedal in their decades-running standard enclosure without you.

I can feel a BOSS RT-2 lurking around the corner. I love my RT-20 - it is such a great pedal with my organ (and for guitar or synthesizer as well). I bet that it would be a good seller in compact pedal format.

[manymanyhaha]

I can feel a BOSS RT-2 lurking around the corner. I love my RT-20 - it is such a great pedal with my organ (and for guitar or synthesizer as well). I bet that it would be a good seller in compact pedal format.

Used to love pairing RT-20 with a HOG, would definitely small footprint versions of both

[friendship]

I can feel a BOSS RT-2 lurking around the corner. I love my RT-20 - it is such a great pedal with my organ (and for guitar or synthesizer as well). I bet that it would be a good seller in compact pedal format.

Used to love pairing RT-20 with a HOG, would definitely small footprint versions of both

I like my RT-20 too. That's a fun one. Ideas for how they'd shrinkify it:

• Nix the trippy light array
• Combine level knobs into a wet/dry mix?
• Concentric pots for slow/fast rate knobs?
• Concentric pots for rise time and bass/horn balance?
• The Final Knob... I guess they could make this concentric too for the modes and distortion?
• And maybe you hold the footswitch to activate the ramp? or maybe the expression out also accepts an on/off switch that handles the job?
  
  it's fun 2 imagine

[echorec]

Ugh, there's so much to criticize about this Slicer mess. BOSS/Roland continues to show that they have some of the worst leadership. They seem to have no fucking idea how to move forward, so they just keep repackaging everything.

Firstly, I can't imagine buying a Slicer ($170 street), when you can grab a used MD-200 ($200 used). You're getting so many more sounds. Secondly, I really dislike the physical layout and features of the new Slicer.

88 memory locations with pre-loaded patterns (eight types with 11 variations for each)

---Not presets, but "memory locations." What idiotic nonsense. Patterns shouldn't be confused as presets. They aren't memories. The device has no MIDI out, so you won't be exporting anything. All you can do is import rhythms via a non-standard MIDI port.

As a plugin or a deluxe pedal with onboard memory, I would've been much more interested. I still have an original, and I've used the MD-200, so I might 'rent' one for a few weeks to compare it. Unfortunately, this is just another mishap in a long line of their products with poor conceptualization.

https://www.boss.info/global/products/sl-2/ <<You can test the patterns by moving virtual knobs, so it's not that Roland/BOSS is incapable of transitioning to the 21st-century, they just have to do so with total inefficiency and poor execution. Again, if you offer testing tools like this, you might as well launch the device as a plugin or a more user-friendly pedal. I just have no patience for this long-running ineptitude. They have all the money and clout to do great things, but they have to do everything as clumsily and as half-assed as possible.

[qersty]

Firstly, I can't imagine buying a Slicer ($170 street), when you can grab a used MD-500

[friendship]

88 memory locations with pre-loaded patterns (eight types with 11 variations for each)

---Not presets, but "memory locations." What idiotic nonsense. Patterns shouldn't be confused as presets. They aren't memories. The device has no MIDI out, so you won't be exporting anything. All you can do is import rhythms via a non-standard MIDI port.

If you can overwrite the "variations" by importing MIDI patterns into it, you can consider that to be a memory bank, right? Is that even how this pedal works? I haven't had time to watch a demo yet.

[coupleonapkins]

Though I am not sold on the Slicer currently, as least it is a pleasing shade of green, and probably the correct form factor for an all-Boss pedalboard :




I'm more intrigued about how none of us can really be bothered to watch a whole video, but I know the onslaught of demos dropped all at once can be exhausting (phone a friend, etc.).

Anyway, here's the least viewed demo at the moment, which I still haven't finished watching :


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldSJc8zLza4

[Gone Fission]

The Tone Studio desktop app for the Slicer seems to already be available for download. That and the MIDI spec whenever they release the manual will tell a lot about the you-don’t-see-everything-you-can-get stuff.

Boss never go full-on digital tweaky madness in their compact pedals, and any serious tweaker already knows this. I certainly wasn’t ever expecting or hoping for that to change. I really think that their compact pedal market doesn’t really want that except for a very tiny minority.

But most of the pedal market will find even this one pretty damned tweaky. Basically for someone who was looking for a new Slicer but was never going to even acknowledge an MD-200/500 as the answer because, egad, menus.