The ambient pedal everyone fell in love with. The Hologram Microcosm chops your signal into granular fragments and rebuilds it into shimmering loops, glacial pads, hypnotic drones and glitchy, tempo-locked rhythms. Eleven effect engines with forty-four variations, a sixty-second stereo looper, lush four-mode reverb, pitch modulation and a resonant filter, all in one gorgeous stereo box. Feed it guitar, synth, vocals or anything else; it makes magic out of all of them.

FEATURES & PROS:

• Granular Engine: 11 effects with 44 presets across glitch, multidelay, forward/reverse and more.
• 60s Stereo Looper: capture, layer and overdub loops, route before or after the effects.
• Lush Stereo Reverb: four reverb styles from room to vast ambient wash.
• Deep Control: pitch modulation, resonant lowpass filter and a Hold sampler to freeze any moment.
• Full Connectivity: stereo I/O, expression input, MIDI In/Out/Thru and clock sync.
• 16 Presets: save effects, settings and whole loops for instant recall.

AS USED BY

• Ed O'Brien (Radiohead), on his touring pedalboard
• St. Vincent, spotted in her studio
• FINNEAS, in his production setup

THE WORD: Sound on Sound called the Microcosm a surprising and wonderful pedal that ticks every box for ambient guitarists but goes far beyond them, a granular processor that reforms your sound into expansive pads, deep drones and loop-based ambience, and a real secret weapon for producers and vocal processing. Read the review at Sound on Sound.

SPECIFICATIONS

• Released: 2020
• Type: granular sampling, delay and looping multi-effects pedal
• Effects: 11 effects with 44 preset variations
• Looper: 60-second stereo phrase looper with overdub, reverse and fades
• Reverb: stereo, 4 styles; plus pitch modulation and resonant lowpass filter
• I/O: stereo in and out, instrument or line level, expression input
• MIDI: In/Out/Thru with clock sync
• Presets: 16 user presets
• Bypass: true bypass or buffered with trails; tap tempo
• Power: 9V DC
• Condition: used