Product: Effector 13 Infinity
Price Paid: US $130
Submitted
07/12/2004
at
10:53pm
by
opultaM
Ease of Use
:
5
This pedal is kinda complicated even though the idea is fairly simple. All it really does is send the signal of any pedal you out in its loop directly back into the pedal...infinitely. So depending what you put in there, it can be pretty interesting, or pretty dull.
The main point that I want to address here is it's practicality. The pedal is certainly a Pandora's box of creative possibilities. But I've had trouble incorporating it into my live guitar rig. The two main problems I have are that whatever pedal (s) you put in the loop are pretty much not going to fulfill their normal roles anymore. For instance, my delay pedal: I can make some great stuff happen with it, but I can't really use it as a delay pedal in conjunction with the Infinity. If you're okay with that, and you maybe have a spare pedal you wanna throw un there, then that's great. I just don't have the room for that on my board.
Also, I have difficulty with the control of the Theramin Eye. I imagine it has something to do with the lighting at shows/rehearsal (which Ever gives a good heads up about) but I just can't seem to figure out what the hell it's actually doing, if anything. Something different every time.
It's gonna take some expereimentation before you figure out just what the hell you want to use it for.
Sound Quality
:
10
I personally think delay sounds great in there and that is primarily why I bought the pedal. I also discovered that I can get some pretty wicked sounds out of my Line6 Filter Modeler pedal when I put that in the loop.
The point of this pedal is to get ridiculous, sometimes terrible, sounds out of whatever you put into it, and it does it's job well.
Reliability
:
No Opinion
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Seems like he's personable. Haven't had to deal with him really though.
Overall Rating
:
8
Here's the deal, I will definitely hold onto this thing, even though I don't plan on using it in my rig. It has great potential for using it in the studio to just generate some random noises. I've sat around with it for hours and hooked up many combinations of pedals to it. Very cool.