PEDALBOARD
Ernie Ball leads the pack with two new treadle-powered expression pedals, followed by Strymon’s innovative Riverside drive and a quartet of Walruses offering reverb, delay and dirt…
Do you like putting the pedal to the metal when you play? You might just be interested in two new offerings from Ernie Ball. Based on a treadle system as opposed to the more usual footswitch, they allow you to dial in the amount of either overdrive or ambient delay on the move. Stand by for action on p112.
Strymon has been producing some interesting and innovative units of late and the company’s new Riverside drive pedal is no exception. Capable of dishing the dirt with the best of them, we found it to be an incredibly flexible unit that offers a surprisingly wide spectrum of usable sounds. If your rig could use another shovelful of overdrive mojo, we invite you to check out the review on p114.
Walrus Audio has a range of intriguingly named pedals on the market at present. Take the Descent, for example – more than just a straightforward reverb pedal, it allows you to take complete control of your wildest ambient domain dreamscapes. Then there’s the Bellwether, a true bypass analogue delay pedal that takes a step or two beyond what many similar units can do… Read all about it on p116. Staying with the Walrus Audio brand, the Messner and Mayflower employ a themeand-variation take on the subject of distortion. All is revealed on p118. Enjoy!