4.52am Issue: 016 - 8th January 2017

If Magnetic Effects’ Zola is a bit of a
must-have, their reissue of their quite
exceptional Electrochop is a god given
gift as far as I am concerned, as it is
simply put one of the great effects
pedals of the last very many years.
In fact I have to confess a secret love for
this pedal as it is basically Spacemen 3
in a shiny new tin can, and I was gutted
when I initially (many moons ago)
discovered that Magnetic Effects made
the Electrochop and worse that they had
discontinued it. And trust me, you don’t
see them come up on the second-hand
market, I’ve been looking, often hourly.
Timing is everything, and I felt so bad
about it I nearly threw myself behind a
train.
designed around the LFO, resulting in a
tremolo that sounds like the Repeat
Percussion but with a fuller, louder sound
and more controls. All the classic throb
but with more user-friendly features!
The controls are: Volume, Depth and
Speed plus a toggle switch that alters the
overall speed range.
The speed range goes from very slow to
crazy fast. At higher speeds the sound
morphs into a ring modulator type
effect.”
You really should check one of these out,
but maybe let me go first, eh? Some of
us have been waiting a while..
Read all about it HERE
Of course, what makes it special is that
the sound is rich and spinetingling and
when you whip it up it joins together into
a total trance. More technically, I’ll leave
it to the chaps at Magnetc Effects to
describe it, whilst I raid the kids’ piggy
banks…
“The Electrochop is a super choppy
tremolo that features the classic, unique
LFO section from the Vox Repeat
Percussion. A new audio circuit has been