Guitar Gear Gems: Benson Amps Delay pedal and more
Three new pedal you really need to now about this month
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This week on Guitar Gear Gems we check out the new Benson Amps Delay, a new super smooth delay with a highly accurate tap tempo. Then we take a sneaky peek at the new TWA
Benson Amps Delay
This Benson Amps Delay pedal is based on inspiration from tape and bucket brigade echoes. The amount of delay on offer is between the 30ms-1250ms range, so it covers a fair amount of ground. Allowing users to achieve chorus, vibrato, and slapback effects.
It has controls for LFO Speed, LFO Depth, Feedback, Tape, and Mix.
Benson Amps Delay
Oscillation
It will also do nice long haunting delays and users can hold down the tap to boost feedback for some self-oscillation. There is also a Low Frequency Oscillator that has a range of both speed and depth, as well as sine, square, and random waveforms.
Tap Tempo Accuracy
The delay is based on the PT2399 chip and uses Bontempo, an open-source technology concocted by Antoine Ricoux at Electric Canary, this was then refined and implemented by film colorist Octave Zangs. This gives the delay possibly one of the most accurate tap tempos of its kind.
Offering smooth analogue-style delays, but using a digital delay circuit, this is one delay pedal all guitarists to check out this month.
MSRP – USD 279
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The TWA
Treat offers a thick, harmonically rich tube-like drive with optimal compression, and the Trick channel adds a high-octave harmonic to the drive signal.
And yes, the Jack O’Lantern LED illuminates when the effect is engaged!
Octoverdrive
Low End
Plus, the Octoverdrive also manages to keep the low end of the signal when the Octavia effect is engaged.
The circuit includes a three-band cut/boost EQ section with Lows, Mids, and Highs. There is also a Dry Blend control that blends clean signal with drive tone.
The two sides have a dedicated Trick/Treat footswitch to flip between them and the design also uses True Bypass switching. It will also work equally well on both guitar and bass.
MSRP – USD 249
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Gecko Pedals O-Face offers a 4-stage drive circuit and a soft-clipping diode, which they state should give an amp-like tone and feel. What really sets it apart though is the independent optical knob modulation that is available on all of the pedal’s control knobs.
This setting means that the overdrive controls can be set to automatically oscillate. Each with independent control over the speed, depth, wave shape, and phase of the oscillations.
The pedal is a 100% analogue high-output Op-amp overdrive but with super unique control via this unique feature. Each of the modulation pushbuttons has an illuminated ring that pulses to visually show the exact modulation waveform.
O-Face
Tap Tempo
It also has a Tap Tempo for controlling the modulation speed control, along with a Tap-Hold feature to ramp to a configurable modulation speed/depth set-point. Plus, it has three programmable presets and it is MIDI-controllable as well with up to 12 presets available via MIDI.
The pedal also features a Neutral tone adjustment capability that allows sculpting of the core tone. Gecko Pedals states the neutral core tone filter adjustments (in addition to the Tone knob) can be set to sculpt the high and low frequencies.
It has controls for Gain, Tone, Volume, Speed, and Depth, plus a Gain Modulator, Tone Modulator, and Volume Modulator. Along with three Preset LEDs, a Bypass/ Alt Footswitch, a Tap/Hold Footswitch, (press Both Footswitches to scroll Presets,) and mini MIDI In and Out ports on the rear of the pedal.
There is a lot going on with this one and it is no ordinary overdrive pedal, I love that it can modulate overdrive settings and it really does stand out from the crowd.
MSRP – USD 329
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- Benson Amps Delay: Benson Amps
- Octoverdrive: Godyke
- O-Face: Gecko Pedals
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