Effects

Right from the outset, our goal has been to offer products that bring with them something new and worthwhile. We could have hurriedly loaded S-Gear with a bunch of standard effect algorithms - but this would have undermined what we want to achieve in the longer term. More, suitably high quality effects will come, we have our own wishlist and of course we are interested to hear suggestions. For now we offer the essential effects for guitarists, versatile delay and modulation processing...

DelayThing

Based on clocked delay line, DelayThing works in a very similar way to a Bucket Brigade Delay chip, but with much more control over the quality and frequency response of the delay line.

There are two delay line modes to choose from, 'Analogue' and 'Tube', each offering different tone and decay characteristics, Tube mode including an ECC83 tube stage for warm overdriven feedback effects. Both modes provide feedback filtering which can be tailored by the Tone control.

Delays can be modulated by either triangle or sine wave signals with variable rate and depth. Tape delay sounds can be produced using the Tube setting and adding just a little modulation depth. Two stereo delay modes provide big, wide guitar sounds with the width control adjusting the percentage delay spread between the two channels. Three time ranges give delay settings between 20msec and 1 sec.

ModThing

ModThing, released in v2.0 is the newest addition to the S-Gear rack. Delivering authentic analogue style chorus and flanging effects, ModThing utilizes the same analogue modelled delay line technology used in DelayThing. Again ModThing uses a Tube Stage in the delay line feedback loops to provide extra warmth and harmonic richness.

The main controls provide the familiar characteristics of an analogue effect device. The stereo section delivers huge versatility distilled down into two easy-to-use stereo controls - for Stereo Width and Modulation Phase.