EarthQuaker Devices Swiss Things Guitar Effects Pedalboard Reconciler

I was a little wary of this at first. Quite expensive for an ABY box but it’s much more than that. I set it up so that all my pedals that rely on unfiltered dynamics or don’t like buffers go in loop one and all my pedals that are fine with buffers (mostly modulations and delays) go in loop two. Loop switching and activation is a cool feature on this. You can use the loop switches in momentary mode just by pressing and holding them or use them as latching by pressing them once normally. This gives you the ability to have effects in one loop on and then activate some others temporarily. It’s cool.The. There’s the clean boost. It lives between the two loops. It’ll boost what comes out of loop one and pass it into whatever is next in the chain. It’s a really nice sounding boost.Then there’s the ABY part of this thing which is the real winner for me. You can run pedals in true stereo without phase issues. The trick is to put stereo pedals like the Avalanche Run after the Swiss Things instead of in one of the loops. You can switch between amps or use two at once. It’s easy to deal with phase issues by pressing the phase switch. The signal to both amps is always clean and strong.Tuner output is great. You have to remember to always leave the tuner on otherwise the Swiss Things won’t work properly. The circuit is designed to have an always-on tuner connected to the tuner output.The volume expression jack lets you use any expression pedal as a volume pedal and they say there’s no tone suck by doing this. I didn’t know volume pedals sucked tone like wahs and never used them but now I have this and it’s fun to play with the volume pedal for different ambient sounds.What I like most is that for someone like me who likes to play directly into the amp but also add in some e pedals, it’s easy to turn all the pedals off at once and go direct into the amp.

You have to buy this, that's all there is to it. I was pretty confident Jamie S./EQD wouldn't develop this and release it unless it was very beneficial to having in your signal chain. It does exactly what it says it does, it routes your signal very efficiently for a number of different scenarios. The Flexi switching is a huge huge advantage, having 2 different loops with and without buffers is HUGE as well. The clean boost is seriously fantastic, it just makes everything sound better, not just louder. The design is just wonderful, i was a little weary about spending this much money on a signal routing utility, but I'm telling you now if you have a pedal board, you need this it's that simple.

The headline says it all. I love this pedal. Hard to believe it's not a particular effect, yet is one of my favorite pedals.

Excellent piece for your pedal board. Cleans up the two loops of effects. Great tool to have.

a very cleaver solution for a switch: would be 5star if had ability to change what efx loop goes to either a or b out- its all or nothing to each out: nice build quality- good direction for earthquaker- check out empress audio