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Death By Audio Introduces the Total Annihilation 2 Pedal
Pedals & Effects

Death By Audio Introduces the Total Annihilation 2 Pedal

Death By Audio was launched in 2002 with the concept for a single pedal: the Total Sonic Annihilation. Now they’ve revisited the feedback looper with the introduction of the Total Sonic Annihilation 2 pedal.

Iron Ether Introduces Divaricator Bass Pedal
Pedals & Effects

Iron Ether Introduces Divaricator Bass Pedal

Effects pedal company Iron Ether Electronics has announced the Divaricator, a crossover and exciter pedal for bass that they call a “tone toolbox” for bassists. The pedal, which also includes an effects loop, splits your signal up to process it. “Using its 4th-order variable crossover, the pedal splits a signal into high and low frequency bands, and processes the high...

Radial Engineering Adds Bigshot EFX to ToneBone Series
Pedals & Effects

Radial Engineering Adds Bigshot EFX to ToneBone Series

Radial Engineering has announced the BigShot EFX, a true-bypass dual effects loop. The device lets you set up two separate effects loops to have two distinct and selectable pedal chains. This also helps to reduce tone-robbing and noisy by-products of certain non-true bypass pedals. Both loops are in series, allowing you to feed loop-A into loop-B for more creative options....

EC Pedals Announces Superswitcher 2
Pedals & Effects

EC Pedals Announces Superswitcher 2

EC Pedals has announced the Superswitcher 2, a compact switcher for controlling multiple effects or amps at once. The pedal has eight audio loops for pedals (seven mono and one stereo), as well as an effects loop module, two relay switches for controlling amp channels, and MIDI in and outs. The switcher is based on a Microchip MCU that allows...

Effects: Straight In or Through the Loop?
Ask Damian Erskine

Effects: Straight In or Through the Loop?

Q: Is it ok to plug my bass directly into my chain of effects pedals and out to my amp, or is it better to run the pedals through the effects loop, and plug my bass straight into my amp? A: I seem to be on a roll with the topics I have limited experience with personally, and so I’m...