I am not cool enough to be exclusively employed as a writer for arguably the coolest guitar effects publication this side of the 21st century. By night, I will always be Jake Behr: obsessive, loquacious Pedal Dweeb. But by day, I am Jake Behr: obsessive, loquacious Printer. In the latter field, colour – exact colour – is everything, and there is an insane amount of factors that play into producing it, whether you’re mixing it by hand in a solo cup for a silk screening or tweaking CMYK curves for a digital print.
So when I heard that Alexander Pedals was releasing the Colour Theory Spectrum Sequencer, I had to see if it held up to such a lofty concept as the entirety of colorimetry. While I can’t say the choice of name is much more than aesthetic, one important aspect of colour theory (the concept, not the pedal,) kept returning to me when I was reviewing the Colour Theory: Metamerism.Metamerism is a trick of the eye that occurs between two imperceptibly different colors that makes them appear identical due to factors such as reflectiveness, angle, or differences in color vision between observers. In an extrapolated (yes-I’m-reaching-to-appear-more-interesting) sort of way, the Colour Theory is an exercise in metamerism; where you may see a guitar pedal, I see a piece of synth-like rack gear with endless possibilities.
Features:
- Eight-Step Sequencer
- Sequence “Park” Pauses Sequencer
- Multijack input/ouput for MIDI, footswitch, and expression control
- USB Input for extended TouchOSC MIDI control and firmware updates
- Tap-Tempo for Sequencer
- Six effect types
- Nine controllable parameters via multi-function knobs
- TRS Stereo Output
- Buffered Bypass
- Rate determines the speed of the sequencer
- Steps controls how many steps in the sequence are played
- Level controls overall output of the Colour Theory
- Mix is the wet/dry blend
- Lag controls how quickly the sequencer ramps to the next step
- External Control outputs a MIDI CC value to an external device
- Value is the first variable parameter; Pitch shift, delay time, filter frequency, tremolo rate, oscillator pitch, or PWM octave
- Amount controls the sequenced wet/dry blend
- Tweak is the second variable parameter; Tone, delay feedback, filter resonance, tremolo wave, oscillator wave, or PWM modulation.
That concludes our Alexander Pedals Colour Theory review. Thanks for reading.
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