Signal Processors

Kemper finally have a floorboard version of their groundbreaking Profiling Amplifier. Has it been worth the wait?

Can I get good results on a Dobro that has a Shertler Basik on‑board mic, or will I need a piezo pickup?

This all-digital pedal's polyphonic envelope technology lets you apply separate envelope shapes to overlapping notes to simulate a tape reverse effect.

This stompbox combines analogue and digital processing to offer bucket-brigade warmth without the down sides.

This pedal aims to emulate a range of amp tones, from clean to heavily distorted, using what Neunaber describe as a 'multi–stage, dynamic gain architecture'.

Two Notes' latest device offers serious power-amp and cabinet modelling in a convenient stompbox format.

The Gigboard crams the processing power of Headrush's flagship Pedalboard into a compact and easy to use format.

Peter Hamstead and engineer Tim Steer’s clever all-analogue design effectively enables the end user to create their own take on an overdrive pedal, as it presents a choice of three different clipping circuits...

The Ottobit Jr adds stereo operation, a six-step sequencer, a synth-like resonant low-pass ladder filter, triggered stutter effects, 16 preset memory slots and MIDI I/O to the mono original’s variable sample rate and bit-crushing abilities.

The humble digital delay pedal has evolved into something we could once only dream of...

Malcolm Toft, the man behind countless classic consoles, turns his expertise to building a high-quality and remarkably flexible bass processor.

Building on Avid’s Eleven Rack technology, this new hardware amp modeller promises to combine great sound with ease of use.

Electro-Harmonix’s Canyon is a delay/looper, but it goes the extra mile, packing a wide repertoire of delay effects into its compact pedal format.

Rather than offer a straightforward overdrive pedal, the Regency Pre-Drive combines a clean signal level booster with a separate, more restrained drive section.

The CP-1X is no typical guitar compressor pedal. It employs Boss’s proprietary Multi-Dimensional Processing (MDP) technology, which analyses various aspects of the incoming signal in real time and then responds by optimising the digital processing for the source.

The Cali76 puts the sound and feel of a Urei 1176 into a guitar pedal, providing epic compression and sustain with studio-like transparency and low noise.

The Origin Effects SlideRig is a unique compressor pedal designed primarily for electric slide guitarists. 

Designed by PandaMIDI in Hungary and inspired by the long-discontinued Akai Deep Impact, this unit adds a useful range of extra features.

TC’s HyperGravity compressor pedal is unapologetically digital and is based on the algorithms developed for TC’s high-end System 6000 platform.

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Not all digital delay pedals strike the right balance between convenience and quality. How does this one fare?