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Copilot FX touts new stomp duo

Blake — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:55:49 +0000

Adam at Copilot FX has chimed in with news of two new pedals to better fortify your sonic toolkit. First is the Arrow Airwaves 2 – a triggered, white noise generator that can be blended with your instrument signal manually via an expression jack or have the internal tap LFO blend both signals back and forth. It is kind of like having a panner with one side white noise and the other side your instrument. The internal tap tempo LFO boasts square, sine, sample and hold, triangle, escallonated and ramp up waveforms and tap ratios x1, x2, x4 or x1/2.

Second is the Broadcast – a control device to modulate the expression jacks for those who run out of hands to tweak the knobs. The Broadcast has a tap tempo LFO with six waveforms on board and ratio of x1, x2, x4 and x1/2 of your original tap. The Arrow Airwaves is priced at $195 and Broadcast at $110. Check out a couple of demo videos of the pedals in action below!

Copilot teases Dubscope

Blake — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:17:18 +0000

The CoPilot FX effects crew has teased the pre-production art for a new pedal called the Dubscope. The Dubscope is being described as an all-in-one dubstep pedal boasting gated fuzz with a tap-tempo-controlled sequencer and filter. The pedal will also have the ability to mix back players’ original sound. Looking at the art work, the pedal is a knob-fest, sporting controls for Range, Volume, Aux, Gate and Blend… and a series of four additional controls simply labeled I – IV. Adam has suggested a demo video of the new pedal in action will be coming soon. Stay tuned!

CopilotFX adds Terra fuzz to line

Blake — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:22:11 +0000

Adam at CopilotFX, fresh from revealing a quartet of new pedals for 2010, has added another stomp to the line-up – the Terra fuzz. With four knob controls to give you the option to fine tune your fave fuzz tones, the range of the Terra runs from classic, swelling, velcro-ish, gated/chocking… to straight riffing machine, even slightly oscillating. According to Adam, it cleans up well with your guitar volume control, stacks wells with other pedals, is responsive to your picking attacks and it responds and keeps its timbre and voice no matter what type of amp you play it through. The Terra is up for order now for $145. Check out the demo video below!

CopilotFX touts 2010 slate

Blake — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:57:18 +0000

Our favorite Domenican-based pedalsmith CopilotFX has chimed in with details of a slew of new pedals being offered – the Arrow, Caracol, Molecule and Planetoid. In Adam’s own words, the Arrow is an output-only white noise generator. The Caracol is octave up/drone/gonk pedal equipped with a source jack so you can plug in to morph/modulate the incoming signal. The Molecule chops/stutters the signal directly proportional to the frequency incoming. Lower notes produce lower stutter and higher create fast stuttering madness followed by a filter. Lastly, the Planetoid is a ring modulator with built-in gate. A filter section gives the option to achieve clean/dirty sounds.

Copilot FX spins the Gyroscope

Blake — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:05:15 +0000

Dominican pedalsmiths Copilot FX has a new filter stomp due to ship to retailers next month. Dubbed the Gyroscope, it is a dual-wave pedal – a triangle wave that sounds phaser-ish and at high speeds can get in the vibe neighborhood, while a stepped wave sounds like a pseudo sample and hold, according to the company. It also has option to control the speed via an expression pedal. Both waves are independent with their own knobs and are selectable via a toggle switch. The pedal evolved from the original version where the speed of the triangle wave was modulated by steps, to produce some changes on the speed of the LFO, but it was hard to dial in and tweak on the fly. The Gyroscope will run about $165. Demo video after the jump!

Copilot puts fuzz into Orbit

Blake — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:21:47 +0000

Adam Romero, the top man at our favorite Dominican-based pedal shop Copilot FX, is planning to issue a frequency modulation fuzz stomp dubbed Orbit later this month. There are a couple of videos of the prototype of the new pedal on the Copilot website. Adam plans to place the first couple produced on ebay at an introductory price of $130. Once officially launched at the end of the month, the price will be $160. Copilot also plans to issue the long awaited Antdroid pedal around the middle of August. Adam still plans to tweak a few things on the pedal based on feedback from a group of beta testers.

Copilot FX shelves Antdroid… for now

Holly — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:36:45 +0000

Dominican-based Copilot FX has placed its Antdroid ring modulation stomp on hold. Tweaking on the fourth revision of the pedal did not yield the desired results, according to the company’s website. The project will be picked back up – with fresh ears and eyes – later this spring. Meanwhile, Copilot FX is looking into a new LFO controlled tremolo pedal. The prototype has been tested and the unit may be finalized as early as the summer.