homemade noize

Maker: Visual Sound

Year: Currently in Production

Fame: This is a well respected pedal these days.

Mojo Factor: It is new but is BBD. So it gets some mojo points.

Price: I am going to call it reasonable since it is 2 pedals in one.

General Sound Description: An analog chorus and digital echo(that sounds pretty analog) pedal that is highly tweakable.

Who it’s for: If you want to kill to bird with one stone this might be the pedal for you. Both a nice echo and chorus pedal.

Controls:

Knobs:

Speed

Width

Delay time

Echo Time

Repeats

Level

Short/long (rocker switch)

on/off (footswitch)

Chorus/delay (footswitch)

Circuit: BBD chips:MN3102 & MN3207. The Bucket Brigade chip of old are hard to find so they made some new ones.

Manufacturer’s Sales Pitch:

H2O Liquid Chorus & Echo continues the Visual Sound tradition of combining two professional quality effects into one reasonably priced pedal. First, you get liquid analog chorus created by using rare NOS BBD (”bucket brigade”) chips. With controls for Speed, Width, and Delay Time, you can get an endless variety of chorus sounds from subtle to lush to under water. Then there’s the echo channel. Up to 800ms of analog voiced, digital echo. You can switch from short to long echo times on the fly and dial in just the right settings with the familiar controls: Echo Time, Repeats, and Effect Level.

H2O even has a second output jack for sending a dry (uneffected) signal to a second amp. And if you prefer to have an effected signal going to your second amp, the pedal can be easily modified to accommodate that.

Users of Note:

Jamie Cook
Robert Fripp
Kirk Hammett?
The Edge?
Eric Johnson
Avenged Sevenfold