The All Nude New Gear Announcements 2023'd

[echorec]

I think blacked out pedals for black Friday is dumb, but at least there are some new offerings coming with this announcement...

https://youtu.be/I2Ey2ESZbwI?si=HjHLfBdXbXH8DxNc

I don't remember how to imbed and I don't care. New pedals from OBNE, Walrus, Death By Audio and fan favourites JHS.

Oh, cool...a DM-101 with less features for more money. I look forward to seeing white-collar pedal investors asking $3,000 for these in 2024.

[echorec]

Audiority has dropped a Dynacord tribute. If you're a fan of multi-head delays / multi-tap reverbs, this can get quite magical as a standalone tool or within more complex chains of other delays/verbs. I'm running the free demo with Spaced Out, Valhalla Delay, and Mirror for some insanely cool results.

https://www.audiority.com/shop/vertiverb-vrs23/



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b18nVS7BJJk

[K2000]

I think blacked out pedals for black Friday is dumb, but at least there are some new offerings coming with this announcement...

https://youtu.be/I2Ey2ESZbwI?si=HjHLfBdXbXH8DxNc

I don't remember how to imbed and I don't care. New pedals from OBNE, Walrus, Death By Audio and fan favourites JHS.

Black-on-black pedals is IMO a really terrible idea (unless it's only 1-3 knobs maybe?) I have several non-black pedals that are hard to read, and I totally hate that. Add a bunch of shiny knobs with no obvious line indicator or pointer, and a super-bright LED, and that pedal would be one of my most-hated pedals, no matter what it sounded like. This may sound extra salty, but cool design/aesthetics should never hinder the ease of use. It's a tool, it needs to be usable. Maybe these pedals are intended for display by collector scum though.

[coupleonapkins]

I think blacked out pedals for black Friday is dumb, but at least there are some new offerings coming with this announcement...

https://youtu.be/I2Ey2ESZbwI?si=HjHLfBdXbXH8DxNc

I don't remember how to imbed and I don't care. New pedals from OBNE, Walrus, Death By Audio and fan favourites JHS.

Black-on-black pedals is IMO a really terrible idea (unless it's only 1-3 knobs maybe?) I have several non-black pedals that are hard to read, and I totally hate that. Add a bunch of shiny knobs with no obvious line indicator or pointer, and a super-bright LED, and that pedal would be one of my most-hated pedals, no matter what it sounded like. This may sound extra salty, but cool design/aesthetics should never hinder the ease of use. It's a tool, it needs to be usable. Maybe these pedals are intended for display by collector scum though.

I wanna seay this trend started as a fundraising gimmick that turned sour pretty quickly & now overtakes every Black Friday in peddle-land, and I agree on all fronts. Sure, it'll be useful on a JayRakeChess Colour Baux, but when it finally breaks and you haveta send it back, best bet you'll get the white, crystal clear, I-have-made-a-terrible-decision standard edition as a replacement (if they ever answer your email, that is) and nobuddy's gonna wanna be yr friend ever again! Bad choice road X 1M.

Don't get me started on that Lollar Overdrive business, or else I'll end up scalding myself on it's cast-iron artisanal enclosure (at least I can read it clearly!)



Also, Trap Door is releasing a new one next week (not this week.....the next one), and it looks like a reel doozy?




May all future pedals have double and quadruple BIAS knobs, even if they're just really just relabled TONE and SUCK controls

[dubkitty]

as someone with poor vision, i absolutely hate the color choices/fonts/etc. on some current devices. i literally can't read the labels on the EHX Canyon without getting my nose within two feet and looking over my glasses. and it's not like normal humans can read them standing up, either. thin reddish print using a font with extremely thin lines on a cream background? really? so i have to use my gradually-fading memory to remember which four of the 11 or 12 settings i actually like. companies should have a ergonomics/useability consultant on staff who actually thinks about design rather than just going "ooh, pretty" and/or "ooh, badass." while we're about it, send someone over to WIRE magazine and tell them to quit reversing white 6-point type out of a black background. people were complaining about legibility a quarter-century ago, yet here we still are. having done print design, bad examples particularly irritate me because i know the person responsible has a ton of other options one drop-down menu away.

[dubkitty]

cast iron? none of my boards is light enough to even set one of those boxes on top of the case.

[Gone Fission]

Chasebliss has been doing overly subtle teases of a pedal being released Tuesday. Geocities style graphics on the teaser site. I’m guessing they’re porting over the Cooper FX Outward, but I dunno.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Czyxaans ... M2MDRjNw==
https://coolnewpedal.biz/

[Blood_mountain]

Chasebliss has been doing overly subtle teases of a pedal being released Tuesday. Geocities style graphics on the teaser site. I’m guessing they’re porting over the Cooper FX Outward, but I dunno.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Czyxaans ... M2MDRjNw==
https://coolnewpedal.biz/

That would be cool, but I feel like it sounds like a compressor of some sort.

[cosmicevan]

I really love Outward...I was thinking it was some kind of overdrive but what the heck do I know. They did say this will be a new mainline pedal.

[echorec]

Based on the vaporwave graphics and sounds, I thought this was going to be a fidelity pedal that could give you crispy 90s sounds (dial-up sounds, compresssed files, pseudo-bit crusher).

I, too, would like to see an Outward revival, but Joel previously said they weren't planning to relaunch the Cooper stuff (outside the Gen Loss).

[Dowi]

I Just read the email regarding the new CBA pedal.
While I appreciate Chase Bliss stuff, even if just for the idea itself, I can't imagine a parallel universe where this pedal could raise in me less interest than it does now. Sounds like a Gen Loss but for millenials / people that haven't experienced vhs, tapes etc. It seems basically a fine-tuned aliaser+bitcrusher+compressor with some bells and whistles or am I missing something?

[dubkitty]

the whole deteriorated-tape school of delay is getting old and boring. i love some of that stuff, but how many VHS-sounding delays does the earth actually need?

[echorec]

It seems basically a fine-tuned aliaser+bitcrusher+compressor with some bells and whistles or am I missing something?

Lossy is a really popular plugin with producers. (I use Ghz's tremolo and reverb plugins.) They're quite respected in the software world. I think this is kind of a unique offering, in that it's a pedal that's ideal for a full mix. Most pedals are going to be used on an isolated instrument. It's more of a texturizer for your full track, rather than a guitar utility.

How many pedals out there are best-suited for drums and lo-fi hip hop? I get that it isn't for everyone and people may first see it as a narrow application, but as a full-mix colorizer, it's arguably broader in its scope than an effect that only gets used on 1-2 of your signal tracks.

the whole deteriorated-tape school of delay is getting old and boring. i love some of that stuff, but how many VHS-sounding delays does the earth actually need?

Lossy isn't a delay, and while it's in the zip code of VHS-esque deterioration, it's really more for that over-compressed 90s MP3 sound (rather than tape's wow & flutter). For people making bedroom guitar tracks, I can see a lack of excitement, as you could get similar results by stacking pre-existing pedals. If you were producing a whole album, though, and want DAWless options, then this provides instant color for drums/pianos/horns/basslines.

[echorec]

Here's a bass & guitar demo that delivers more than compression/retro fidelity (hiccup modulation, blown-out room reverb, et cetera).



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTAJUHjMj20

[cosmicevan]

I do not see the appeal here...I mean, yeah...it's novel and weird, but is that something you want to spend $400 on? I suppose the whole CBA ecosystem gives you all sorts of power so really any sounds they put in those boxes could be taken places with the right musician. As others are saying, I just don't see the luster for the bedroom musician (which is essentially their core market). I haven't tried it so hard to say, but the sounds seem less immediate than a gen loss...kinda sounds like me using a compressor before I really understood how to use a compressor. Kudos for doing something different. I'm eager to see what's next...and still a little bummed I didn't Reverse Mode C.