EHX Releases New Line of "Pico" Pedals

[Rodrigo Silva]

EHX's Biggest Pedal Release Ever! Meet the Pico-sized NYC DSP Series - Electro-Harmonix

Anybody else excited about this? With exception of my beloved SLO preamp, all my other pedals are mini (pico) sized. This massive release is flaring my GAS.

 

[JKos]

So each of those pedals is going to A/D your signal, process it, then D/A it. Then pass it to the next pedal. Do that each time for each pedal. I do fully realize this is where we are these days and that more and more pedals do exactly this.

It’s just sad that we don’t have a standard which allows digital pedals to pass the data digitally. Only do the A/D and D/A once. Oh, wait, that’s called a multi-fx unit like an HX Stomp.

 

[Michedelic]

So each of those pedals is going to A/D your signal, process it, then D/A it. Then pass it to the next pedal. Do that each time for each pedal. I do fully realize this is where we are these days and that more and more pedals do exactly this.

It’s just sad that we don’t have a standard which allows digital pedals to pass the data digitally. Only do the A/D and D/A once. Oh, wait, that’s called a multi-fx unit like an HX Stomp.

Oh, wait, not everybody likes multi-fx.

 

[bassbrad]

Lots of very interesting features in those tiny pedals, not much to interest me but still very cool as always from EHX, MM and the gang.

@JKos valid observation but manufacturers would never agree on a standard format as I suspect manufacturers may use different types of internal processing. Plus most of us use a mix of analog and digital processing, or how does my TS, Rat or Fuzzrocious communicate to digital?

 

[Parzival]

The Pico Platform compressor is pretty good for the price.

 

[Michedelic]

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EHX's Biggest Pedal Release Ever! Meet the Pico-sized NYC DSP Series - Electro-Harmonix

Anybody else excited about this? With exception of my beloved SLO preamp, all other pedals are mini (pico) sized. This massive release is flaring my GAS.

I’m very intrigued, I’m hoping that, when they boiled down the essense of a particular pedal into the smaller package, they chose the “right” parameters(as not everybody wants the same things), but they’re a pretty savvy company.
It’s interesting that they’re just now jumping into the mini market, after Mooer and all the rest. At first, when that stuff appeared, it was seemingly a great advantage in saving pedalboard space, but now I’ve found I appreciate bigger boxes because you don’t have do the tapdance as with a bunch of mini’s squeezed together. I just use them now for always on or seldom used effects, which I’d think is the kind of market that EHX is pitching this series to, along with the players who don’t need options/just want one basic function.

 

[micguy]

I proposed using the prefix pico for a product once, and was informed that, in certain Spanish speaking cultures, it means....something other than a trillionth.

 

[Michedelic]

I proposed using the prefix pico for a product once, and was informed that, in certain Spanish speaking cultures, it means....something other than a trillionth.

As long as it doesn’t mean “tiny”.

 

[micguy]

As long as it doesn’t mean “tiny”.

What it does mean, you don't want associated with tiny.

Back on topic (Yeah, I know, who does that around here?), I ordered one of the attack/decay pedals - seems like it does a decent dsp version of a slow gear, which should be useful to me (hopefully) at church gigs - autoswelling seem like it'll be helpful in my genre when we're underscoring.

 

[The Ruiner]

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EHX's Biggest Pedal Release Ever! Meet the Pico-sized NYC DSP Series - Electro-Harmonix

Anybody else excited about this? With exception of my beloved SLO preamp, all my other pedals are mini (pico) sized. This massive release is flaring my GAS.

I didn't need to see this!!

 

[ole Jason]

The Attack Decay looks super cool. I don't do pre-orders but I'll pick that one up when available.

 

[40Hz]

Lots of very interesting features in those tiny pedals, not much to interest me but still very cool as always from EHX, MM and the gang.

@JKos valid observation but manufacturers would never agree on a standard format as I suspect manufacturers may use different types of internal processing. Plus most of us use a mix of analog and digital processing, or how does my TS, Rat or Fuzzrocious communicate to digital?

The main barrier to competing companies all sitting down and establishing industry wide standards like that are antitrust regulations. It'd be a nightmare to get permission from government to do that because such standards could be seen as them colluding to create a non competitive marketplace for guitar effects owing to the fact that smaller companies theoretically might have trouble adopting them and wind up frozen out.

 

[ardgedee]

So each of those pedals is going to A/D your signal, process it, then D/A it. Then pass it to the next pedal. Do that each time for each pedal. I do fully realize this is where we are these days and that more and more pedals do exactly this.

It’s just sad that we don’t have a standard which allows digital pedals to pass the data digitally. Only do the A/D and D/A once. Oh, wait, that’s called a multi-fx unit like an HX Stomp.

On the other hand if you only need one or two, these are more sensible than buying a multi-effects box.

 

[ardgedee]

The main barrier to competing companies all sitting down and establishing industry wide standards like that are antitrust regulations. It'd be a nightmare to get permission from government to do that because such standards could be seen as them colluding to create a non competitive marketplace for guitar effects owing to the fact that smaller companies theoretically might have trouble adopting them and wind up frozen out.

Companies form standards groups all the time, openly and legally. How do you think the USB connectors on your computers were designed?

 

[bassbrad]

The main barrier to competing companies all sitting down and establishing industry wide standards like that are antitrust regulations. It'd be a nightmare to get permission from government to do that because such standards could be seen as them colluding to create a non competitive marketplace for guitar effects owing to the fact that smaller companies theoretically might have trouble adopting them and wind up frozen out.

Manufacturers have done it before when MIDI was adopted even though some manufacturers still use their own interface system as well.

 

[JKos]

Now that I’ve completely derailed the thread… Digital audio standards already exist. How do you think a whole bunch of professional digital audio products already work together?

I just meant to say it is kinda sad to me that the general public buys pedals like these not realizing what is going on and that each pedal is A/D-D/A and adding latency to your signal. Yes, latency would still exist and add up even if it was a digital link between pedals.

 

[MYLOWFREQ]

I'm only excited about the deep freeze and I hope I won't like it, because my wallet does not. If it does everything the original does though, (which looks like it) I'll probably get it

 

[_One//Man//Mutiny_]

The little pitchfork is cool, I really like mine.
I feel like half the fun of the Attack decay is putting stuff in the effects loop.

 

[dabis]

I proposed using the prefix pico for a product once, and was informed that, in certain Spanish speaking cultures, it means....something other than a trillionth.

You are refeering to the prefix that equals 10 to the -12. The word pico itself has some other meanings, including the translations of "peak", "bird beak" or even "a kiss with closed lips": pico | Diccionario de la lengua española

Picosomething in spanish it's like micromicrosomething in english.

 

[Jaygetsreal]

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EHX's Biggest Pedal Release Ever! Meet the Pico-sized NYC DSP Series - Electro-Harmonix

Anybody else excited about this? With exception of my beloved SLO preamp, all my other pedals are mini (pico) sized. This massive release is flaring my GAS.

Congratulations to EHX for demo videos that cut to the chase, no waffle