Over the course of the last two months DigiTech have released 10 new e-pedals for the DigiTech iStomp. Here is the full line-up of pedals launched in DigiTech's 'STOMP-tember' and 'ROCK-tober' promotion.
Unplugged Acoustic Simulator
The Unplugged Acoustic Simulator uses proprietary Harman-developed DSP algorithms to analyse and process the input from an electric guitar and transform it into the sonic signature of an acoustic guitar, with all of its distinctive acoustic timbres, harmonic complexity and dynamic responsiveness. The acoustic ambience can be further enhanced by dialling in the e-pedal’s Lexicon Hall reverb – the classic lush, expansive reverb heard on thousands of recordings. Adding to its sonic spaciousness, the Unplugged Acoustic Simulator features true stereo inputs and outputs. Its controls include LOW EQ, HIGH EQ, REVERB (reverb level) and LEVEL (effect level).
Snake Charmer Tremolo
The DigiTech Snake Charmer Tremolo gives guitarists complete control over every aspect of the tremolo effect. The Speed control regulates how slow or fast the tremolo pulsates, from a slow throb to a fast oscillation. Depth controls the degree of the effect, from a subtle modulation to volume completely on and off. Waveform changes the “shape” of the tremolo sound, from a choppy square wave on and off to a smoother pulsating sine wave and many other variations. It can even be turned into a panner using the exclusive Spread knob.
Freeze Wah Fixed-Position Wah Effect
The DigiTech Freeze Wah gives guitarists the distinctive tone of a wah wah pedal kept in a fixed position. The Freeze Wah re-creates this effect without having to keep the pedal of a standard wah wah pedal in one place. The DigiTech Freeze Wah features knobs for Position, which sets the sweet spot “pedal position” of the wah, Q, which controls the frequency bandwidth of the effect, and Boost, which adjusts the boost level of the effect. By manipulating these three knobs, a wide variety of fixed-wah effects can be obtained.
Angelic Choir
Based on a Lexicon Hall reverb, Angelic Choir offers cascading octave pitch shifting and creates an ethereal synthesiser-like effect for guitar. The Angelic Choir uses proprietary Harman-developed DSP algorithms that process the input from a guitar to generate a totally unique ambience effect unavailable from any other effects pedal. The e-pedal’s Voices knob adjusts from a single “voice” to an entire choir or anything in between. A guitarist can use his or her volume knob or volume pedal to produce enthralling volume swells.
Tone Boost Dual-Boost
The DigiTech Tone Boost offers two boost options – up to 20dB of clean boost and 20dB of frequency-specific boost. The BOOST knob provides a straight-head clean boost. For frequency-specific tone shaping, the FREQUENCY control lets players select the frequency they want to emphasise and the WIDTH knob adjusts the frequency bandwidth, from a narrow range to a wider frequency spectrum. The EQ BOOST control gives an additional 20dB of boost, and the BOOST and EQ BOOST controls can be used together if desired. The Tone Boost offers true stereo operation, for use in stereo pedalboard setups and with two amplifiers.
Vanishing Point Modulated Delay
Vanishing Point gives guitarists the sound of high-end rack delays that lightly modulate the sound of the repeats after they delay – along with a host of additional sonic possibilities. The Vanishing Point Modulated Delay can add shimmer to clean chordal work or a touch of animation to overdriven guitar solos. Vanishing Point can provide up to two seconds of true stereo delay, and its Tap Tempo feature enables the musician to tap the footswitch to sync the delay speed with the tempo of the music. Vanishing Point offers controls for Delay (delay time), Repeats (number of repeats), Mod (degree of modulation) and Level (effect level).
Magic Fingers Vibrato
Magic Fingers can modulate the pitch of a guitar to give it that classic warbling sound that can add tons of personality to a rhythm track or make a lead guitar stand out. The SPREAD control changes the modulation from being synchronised in both of the pedal’s outputs to moving from left to right in the sound field, to create dramatic stereo spatial effects. The e-pedal’s MIX control enables the player to mix the dry signal back in with the effected signal to produce some of the most lush chorusing ever heard from a stompbox. SPEED and DEPTH controls let guitarists tailor the speed of the effect from a slow sweep to a frantic warble and from subtle pitch variation to an up-and-down sonic roller coaster.
Swing Shift
Swing Shift provides a four-voice pitch shift effect, letting guitarists mix Octave Down, Fifth Down, Octave Up and Fifth Up voices with their original note to create massive harmonised chords, riffs and solos.
Red Coral Dual Detune
The DigiTech Red Coral offers a detuning effect that’s similar to a chorus pedal in that it adds a pitch-shifted signal to the original. However, the pitch shift doesn’t modulate like the regular slow or fast cycling of a chorus pedal – the amount of pitch shift stays the same. The resulting effect sounds like two guitarists playing at the same time. The Red Coral Dual Detune offers two independent voices each capable of plus or minus 24 cents of pitch shift, to produce anything from extremely subtle to lush detuning and double tracking effects. Each of the voices has an independent level control so that when the pedal is used in stereo one channel can be detuned while the other channel remains unaffected.
3Q Three-Band EQ
The 3Q gives guitarists and musicians three frequency bands of adjustable passive and active equalisation for wide-ranging tone shaping. The 3Q features only 4 controls making it extremely easy to use. The Bass and Treble knobs are fixed-frequency boost/cut controls that are used to increase or decrease the low and high frequencies by +/- 12dB. The Mid Freq knob employs semi-parametric EQ with a sweepable frequency range of 500Hz – 3kHz while the Mid knob provides +/- 12dB of boost or cut for precise midrange tailoring.
The DigiTech iStomp is a new concept in guitar stompboxes that allows musicians to turn the iStomp into any pedal in the Stomp Shop online pedal store. Offering almost limitless sonic possibilities, the iStomp connects to an Apple iOS device where musicians can use the Stomp Shop app to load it with the e-pedal of their choice. The Stomp Shop is a free app and comes with two of the most popular requested pedals, the DigiTech Total Recall Delay™ and the DigiTech Redline Overdrive™. It gives access to more than 40 additional pedals that musicians can browse, try out and purchase, with more pedals added every month.
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