Manufacturers
Guitar Pedals from Death By Audio
Welcome to your ultimate guide to Death By Audio's guitar pedals. This catalog serves as your starting point to explore and compare all pedals crafted by Death By Audio. Designed for easy navigation, we hope you can quickly find detailed information on each pedal, including specifications, user reviews, and demo videos. Whether you're searching for the latest releases, seeking to expand your pedal collection, or exploring options for a specific sound, hopefully Stompbx can assist you in finding exactly what you need.
Delay
Speed Tripper
The Speed Tripper by Death By Audio is a collaboration between Death By Audio and Levitation, offering a unique combination of reverb and delay effects. It features an optical phaser placed in the feedback path of a delay circuit, resulting in incredibly unique and psychedelic soundscapes. The repeats bend in and out of phase with one another, creating filtered, morphing swells that go beyond traditional delay effects. Key Features: \- Delay Time: Controls the length of the delay, ranging from approximately 30ms to 1100ms. \- Feedback: Controls the amount of feedback from the delay output back to its input, highly interactive with the intensity control. \- Tripper Speed: Adjusts the speed of the LFO, controlling phase shifting for oceanic movement or spiraling chirps and warbles. \- Intensity: Modulates the amount of delay being sent through the phase network, affecting the oscillation point of the pedal. \- Blend (Internal): Sets the volume of the delayed signal relative to the clean signal. Specifications: \- Dimensions: 4.88” x 3.68” x 2.15” (including hardware) \- Weight: 9.5 oz \- Power: Requires a standard 2.1mm, 9v, center-negative DC power supply, consuming roughly 50mA.
Ghost Delay
The Death By Audio Ghost Delay is a pedal comprised of three digital delay circuits wired to cascade into one another. This design creates a range of effects including backwards sounds, triplet echoes, ghost trails, feedback insanity, straight-up awesome delay, and multi-turning chorus sounds. Each of the delay chips can be controlled via individual Feedback and Time knobs, while a universal Blend control switches between four different proportions of wet/dry output balance. The pedal also features a Master level as well as an Aux output that sends the delay trails of two of the chips to another amp or channel. The Ghost Delay is known for its mindbendingly beautiful and otherworldly delay effects.
Micro Dream
The Micro Dream by Death By Audio is a streamlined and compact lo-fi delay pedal that retains the beautiful, decayed delay sound of the Echo Dream 2. It offers a delay time of up to a full second, introducing lo-fi chirps and noise as the circuit protests. The pedal features a gain stage on the delay line, making it perfect for pseudo looping or creating an incredible slapback effect. The internal trimpot allows adjustment of the feedback point, enabling the pedal to stay mellow or scream into self-oscillation. The controls include F Back for feedback control, Time for delay time adjustment, and Delay for setting the volume of the delayed signal. Technical Specifications: \- Dimensions: 4.95" x 2.61" x 2.34" (including hardware) \- Weight: 11 oz \- Power: 9V (runs on standard 2.1mm negative center 9V adapter or included 9V battery) \- Current Draw: 28 mA \- Handmade in NYC and guaranteed for life The Micro Dream is designed to deliver a simple yet incredible-sounding delay at all times, and it is suitable for integration with fuzz pedals or overdriven amps.
Exploding Head
The Death By Audio Exploding Head pedal is a triple delay dream maker/destroyer system in an ultra-small footprint. It features three delays connected in series with individual controls over delay parameters, including multi-tap echoes, feedback, noise, slapback, and swells. The pedal allows for the creation of otherworldly soundscapes and offers ultimate control over the delay behavior. Key Technical Specifications: \- Dimensions: 5.06” x 2.58” x 2.45" (including hardware) \- Weight: 9.8 oz \- Power: 9V DC (runs on standard 2.1mm negative center 9V DC adapter) \- Current Draw: 70 mA Controls: \- TIME: Controls the time of each delay, from approximately 10ms to 600ms \- FBACK: Controls the number of repeats for each delay \- BLEND: Controls the volume of each delay section \- INFINITY SWITCH: Momentarily feeds the output of the third delay to the first delay, creating a multi-delay feedback network around the individual delays. The first (BLACK) Blend knob controls the volume of this feedback. Additional Features: \- Knob-per-function design for quick changes in delay behavior \- Stereo output section for wide stereo spread \- Momentary footswitch for dynamic swells, bursts of noise, or to slowly build massive walls of sound The pedal offers a unique and versatile delay experience, allowing users to create a wide range of delay effects and soundscapes.
Echo Master
The Echo Master by Death By Audio features the following technical specifications: \- Dimensions: 6.09" x 3.45" x 2.75" (including hardware) \- Weight: 16oz. (with Alternate Back Plate 30oz. ) \- Power: 9V (runs on standard 2.1mm negative center 9V adapter) \- Current Draw: 25 mA The pedal is designed for vocals and is a lo-fi, analog tape-style delay unit that can transform the voice into a chaotic realm of noise and feedback. It also includes an effects loop that allows additional effects to be placed in the signal chain, making it easy to use with other effects pedals on the vocal sound without any adapters. The Echo Master utilizes matched Bourns transformers on the input to create a vibrant-sounding and feedback-minimizing preamp, enhancing vocal quality before reaching the PA system. It also features high-quality Neutrik XLR jacks and can be purchased with an alternate backplate that mounts to a mic stand for live performance tweak-ability.
Echo Dream 2
The Echo Dream 2 by Death By Audio features the following technical specifications: \- Dimensions: 5.87" x 4.72" x 2.35" (including hardware) \- Weight: 21 oz \- Power: 9V (runs on standard 2.1mm negative center 9V adapter or included 9V battery) \- Current Draw: 40 mA The pedal offers a range of controls including Master, Fuzz, Delay, D Time, FBack, Left Toggle, Speed, Depth, and Right Toggle. These controls allow users to adjust the overall volume, gain, delayed signal volume, delay time, feedback, modulator speed, modulator depth, and modulator waveform. The Echo Dream 2 is described as a powerful, ethereal delay pedal with otherworldly controls, capable of producing beautiful analog delay tones and offering the ability to dial in varying levels of fuzz. It is designed to provide a wide range of sounds, from delicate and beautiful tones to yawning voids of fuzz and feedback. The pedal is hand-made in NYC and is guaranteed for life, with a commitment to durability and repairability.
Fuzz
Soundwave Breakdown
The Soundwave Breakdown by Death By Audio features the following specifications: \- Dimensions: 4.86" x 3.67" x 2.06" (including hardware) \- Weight: 13 oz \- Power: 9V (runs on a positive ring, negative tip 9V DC adapter or included 9V battery) \- Current Draw: 1 mA The pedal takes the concept of a screaming fuzz pedal and reverses it, using specially matched transistors turned backwards to produce bombastic, grizzled psycho fuzz, buzz, bleep, bloop, and synth sounds. The positions of the knobs yield a wide range of sounds, from fuzz, buzz, and grind to bleeps, synth sounds, and more.
Absolute Destruction
The Absolute Destruction by Death By Audio is a pedal that showcases little- to-no respect for traditional instrument sounds. It offers a thick, gnarly fuzz sound and a crushing distortion tone. The pedal features a Master Volume control for adjusting the output volume, an Overload slider to set the ceiling at which the pedal overloads, and a Gain slider to increase gain and distortion. The horizontal sliders are recessed to protect them from bending or accidental movement during play. Technical specifications: \- Dimensions: 4.95" x 2.61" x 2.34" (including hardware) \- Weight: 10 oz. \- Power: 9V (runs on standard 2.1mm negative center 9V adapter or included 9V battery) \- Current Draw: 5 mA The Absolute Destruction harnesses a power amplifier IC to generate its unique sound, and its Gain and Overload sliders interact to create a wide range of sounds in various positions. It offers the flexibility to control the level of destruction, from smooth attack and release to screaming octaves and the sound of the guitar reaching back from the depths of destruction. The pedal is hand-made in NYC and guaranteed for life, with a commitment to durability and repair if needed.
Apocalypse
The Death By Audio Apocalypse is a versatile fuzz pedal with the following technical specifications: \- Dimensions: 5.87" x 4.72" x 2.46" (including hardware) \- Weight: 20 oz \- Power: 9V (runs on standard 2.1mm negative center 9V adapter or included 9V battery) \- Current Draw: 5.8 mA The pedal features a rotary selector with five selectable post-amplifiers for five distinct fuzz tones, including Twin-T Scoop, War Fuzz, Dual J-FET, Octave Rect, and Gain x1000. It also includes controls for volume adjustment (Vol) and preamp volume (Drive), as well as a Sweepable Frequency Equalizer for tone shaping. The Apocalypse can be used as a boost for solos, an amp-simulated recording DI, a main fuzz sound, a bass blitzer, or to enhance and modify other audio signals. The pedal is hand-made in NYC and is guaranteed for life, with repair services available if needed.
Total Sonic Annihilation 2
The Total Sonic Annihilation 2 by Death By Audio is a controllable feedback loop pedal designed to run your effects pedals back through themselves, enabling true sonic exploration. Here are the technical specifications and features: \- **New Features of Version 2:** The updated version includes an integrated active boost and limiter circuits, maximizing usability for various applications where the original version fell short. \- **Controls:** \- **Feedback:** Regulates the amount of the external effect input forced back into the external effect output, creating feedback within the circuit for experimental effects. \- **On:** Activates the active boost circuit. \- **Phase:** Flips the phase of the effects loop when the active boost is on. \- **Gain:** Controls the amount of gain of the active boost circuit. \- **Limit:** Limits the output volume of the entire pedal when the active boost is engaged. \- **Stomp Switch:** Bypasses the effect. \- **Connections:** \- **Input:** For instrument input. \- **Output:** Connects to the amplifier. \- **Send:** Connects to the input of the effect (or chain of effects) to be controlled and warped. \- **Receive:** Connected to the output of the effects in the feedback loop. \- **9V:** For a 9V Negative Tip Positive Ring DC adapter. \- **Specifications:** \- **Dimensions:** 4.83" x 2.69" x 2.48" (including hardware) \- **Weight:** 11 oz. \- **Power:** 9V (runs on standard 2.1mm negative center 9V adapter or included 9V battery) \- **Current Draw:** 5 mA \- **Handmade in NYC** \- **Guaranteed for Life** This pedal is designed to create a vast world of textures and possibilities by running your pedals back through themselves, offering unique and incredible results. It is suitable for users who are interested in experimental and innovative sound manipulation.
Waveformer Destroyer
The Death By Audio Waveformer Destroyer is a versatile pedal that offers hundreds of customizable distortion sounds. It features four selectable foot switches and eight internal DIP switches, allowing users to set and forget their preferred settings. The pedal provides a wide range of fuzz, overdrive, and distortion sounds, making it suitable for various musical styles. The controls include Engage Stomp for activation, Boost Stomp for a hyper booster function, Filter Stomp for an advanced equalizer filter, Blast Stomp for an insanity switch, and Master for volume control. The internal DIP switches offer further customization options. The specifications of the Waveformer Destroyer are as follows: \- Dimensions: 5.87" x 4.72" x 2.26" (including hardware) \- Weight: 20 oz. \- Power: 9V (runs on a positive ring, negative tip 9V DC adapter or included 9V battery) \- Current Draw: 6 mA The pedal is hand-made in NYC and is guaranteed for life, reflecting the manufacturer's commitment to durability and quality.
Interstellar Overdriver
The Interstellar Overdriver by Death By Audio is a true overdrive pedal designed to enhance your sound. It features a transparent and discrete circuit, aiming to replicate the natural, harmonically rich overdrive of turning an amp up too loud. The pedal's drive knob allows for a range of gain, from a slight boost to a gritty crunch. The master knob controls the output volume of the effect. The pedal's dimensions are approximately 4.75" x 4.05" x 2.17" (including hardware), with a weight of 12 oz. It operates on 9V power, running on a standard 2.1mm negative center 9V adapter or an included 9V battery, with a current draw of 1 mA.
Micro Harmonic Transformer
The Death By Audio Micro Harmonic Transformer is a fuzz pedal with the following technical specifications: \- Dimensions: 4.83" x 2.98" x 2.34" (including hardware) \- Weight: 10 oz \- Power: 9V (runs on standard 2.1mm negative center 9V adapter or included 9V battery) \- Current Draw: 1 mA Features: \- Volume control: Controls master volume \- Intensity Toggle: Adjusts the mix of the transformation, increasing the fuzz, and bringing out harmonics \- Harmonic Shape Toggle: Adjusts a complex filter, changing the harmonic content. Choose between a deep, full harmonic spectrum, or a drier, scooped metallic sound The pedal is described as extremely loud and intense, highly interactive with the incoming signal, and capable of producing alien noises.
Fuzz War
The Fuzz War by Death By Audio is a high-tech fuzz pedal that offers a multitude of ultimate fuzz, boost, overdrive, and distortion sounds. It features three knobs for volume, fuzz, and tone control. The specially designed multi-curve shaping filter allows for a wide range of tonal adjustments, from super deep bass sludge to screaming highs. The pedal is hand spray-painted with graphix covering up meaty components and sound, giving it a unique and punk rock aesthetic. Technical Specifications: \- Dimensions: 5.87" x 4.72" x 2.5" (including hardware) \- Weight: 18 oz. \- Power: 9V (runs on standard 2.1mm negative center 9V adapter or included 9V battery) \- Current Draw: 1 mA The Fuzz War is designed to create thick-sounding sustaining fuzz and is hand- made in NYC, guaranteed for life, and built to withstand tough usage.
Supersonic Fuzz Gun
The Death By Audio Supersonic Fuzz Gun is a unique fuzz pedal designed for extreme manipulation of sound. Its features and specifications include: \- Dimensions: 4.72" x 3.84" x 2.06" (including hardware) \- Weight: 13 oz \- Power: 9V (runs on a positive ring, negative tip 9V DC adapter or included 9V battery) \- Current Draw: 2 mA \- Controls: Bias, Density, Fuzz, Filter, Level, Gate/Oscillation Toggle \- Bias: Biases the output transistor to change the overall sound structure \- Density: Increases the Q range input into the fuzz while also adjusting the oscillation frequency in Oscillation mode \- Fuzz: Increases the intensity of the output \- Filter: Sweeps the high frequencies of the output \- Level: Master output volume \- Gate/Oscillation Toggle: In Gate mode, the fuzz tone is more standard and gated. In Oscillation mode, the signal self-oscillates for noisemaking and bizarre fuzz tones The pedal is hand-made in NYC and guaranteed for life. It is designed to produce a wide array of gated and oscillating fuzz sounds, from relatively straightforward distorted guitar to shards of total insanity.
Octave/Pitch Shifters
Reverberation Machine
The Reverberation Machine by Death By Audio has the following technical specifications and features: \- Dimensions: 4.86" x 3.67" x 2.06" (including hardware) \- Weight: 14 oz \- Power: 9V (runs on a positive ring, negative tip 9V DC adapter or included 9V battery) \- Current Draw: 66 mA \- Controls: Volume, Altitude (similar to gain), Reverb Blend \- Dark/Light Symbol: Allows for switching between dark cavernous reverberation and bright shimmering reverberation \- The pedal can produce potentially harmful volumes, white noise, and other artifacts when Altitude and Verb controls are turned past 12 o'clock The Reverberation Machine offers drippy, saturated spring reverbs and cavernous expanses, providing unique and experimental sounds suitable for various musical applications.
Robot
The Robot by Death By Audio is a low-fidelity 8-bit pitch transposer with no emotions, completely synthetic, and capable of transforming any input into a puree of resynthesized robot jargon. It features bendable super lo-fi octave up, octave down, arp, and unity pitches, and offers four modes. The pedal includes a volume control and operates on a 9V power supply. The dimensions are approximately 5.9" x 4.75" x 2.75" (including knobs and jacks), and it weighs around 17 oz. The pedal is designed with a true bypass stomp switch and an internal gain control, providing octave up/down and arpeggiator functionalities.
Reverb
Rooms
The Rooms by Death By Audio is a stereo, multi-function digital reverb pedal designed for creating various reverberant effects. It offers an intuitive array of controls for live mood-bending performances. The pedal features a studio-quality mixer section providing independent DRY and FX controls over six meticulously programmed reverb algorithms: ROOM, DIGIT, PEAK, GATE, WAVE, and GONG. Each algorithm is capable of producing a wide range of reverberant sounds. Specifications: \- Dimensions: 5.95" x 3.86" x 2.96" (including hardware) \- Weight: 18 oz \- Power: 80 mA, 9V (runs on a standard 2.1 mm negative center 9V adapter) \- Expression Pedal: Compatible with almost any expression pedal Controls: \- FREQ: Controls the frequency parameter of the current mode \- DEPTH: Controls the depth parameter of the current mode \- TIME: Controls the reverb time in all modes \- DRY: Controls the volume of the dry signal, from -inf to 20x gain \- FX: Controls the volume of the reverb signal, from -inf to 20x gain \- ALT: Engages the ALT mode, switching between two sets of controls. When active, FREQ is controlled with the F knob, DEPTH with the D knob, and TIME with the T knob. Additionally, the ALT mode turns on expression control of either FREQ or TIME using the F↔T Switch on the side of the pedal. Note: Expression control ONLY works in ALT mode and when an expression pedal is plugged in. Modes and Parameters: 1\. ROOM: Tone of Decay, Pre-Delay 2\. DIGIT: Delay Time, Delay Feedback 3\. PEAK: Filter Frequency, Filter Resonance 4\. GATE: Decay Tone, Gate Response Time 5\. WAVE: Modulation Frequency, Modulation Depth 6\. GONG: Modulator Frequency, Blends from Aliasing (left) to Ring Modulation (right) The Rooms pedal also features creative I/O switching and dual-mono dry signal lines, allowing for a wealth of possible mono and stereo configurations, making it easy to route signals for parallel processing or stereo amplifier setups.
Reverberation Machine
The Reverberation Machine by Death By Audio has the following technical specifications and features: \- Dimensions: 4.86" x 3.67" x 2.06" (including hardware) \- Weight: 14 oz \- Power: 9V (runs on a positive ring, negative tip 9V DC adapter or included 9V battery) \- Current Draw: 66 mA \- Controls: Volume, Altitude (similar to gain), Reverb Blend \- Dark/Light Symbol: Allows for switching between dark cavernous reverberation and bright shimmering reverberation \- The pedal can produce potentially harmful volumes, white noise, and other artifacts when Altitude and Verb controls are turned past 12 o'clock The Reverberation Machine offers drippy, saturated spring reverbs and cavernous expanses, providing unique and experimental sounds suitable for various musical applications.
Wah Wah
Evil Filter
The Evil Filter by Death By Audio features the following technical specifications: \- Dimensions: 7.75" x 4.72" x 2.4" (including hardware) \- Weight: 25 oz \- Power: 9V (runs on standard 2.1mm negative center 9V adapter or included 9V battery) \- Current Draw: 21 mA The pedal offers various controls and features, including: \- Filter Freq: Cutoff frequency of the filter \- Filter Output: Volume of the filter section \- Filter Selector: Selects between different filter types - Low Pass, Band Pass, and High Pass \- Filter Resonance: Sets the resonance of the filter \- Resonance Switch: Sets the range of the Filter Resonance knob between Normal and High \- Fuzz Output: Volume of the fuzz section \- Fuzz Type Switch: Choose between two different fuzzes \- EXP/CV Input: Allows external control of the Filter Freq knob with CV control or an expression pedal The Evil Filter is designed to provide a wide range of filter and fuzz effects, offering playability and tonal options for users.
Deep Animation
The Death By Audio Deep Animation pedal features the following specifications and technical details: \- Dimensions: 5.92" x 4.72" x 2.34" (including hardware) \- Weight: 21 oz \- Power: 9V (runs on standard 2.1mm negative center 9V adapter or included 9V battery) \- Current Draw: 18 mA \- Handmade in NYC and guaranteed for life The pedal is designed to respond to the player's dynamics and syncs its wave- thumping movement with the force at which it is played. It multiplies dynamics into a hyper-exaggerated frenzy and adds movement to punch through the mix. The pedal reacts to an external trigger to follow the tempo and features six selectable frequency ranges for versatile sound shaping. Controls include Input, Trig, Out, Sensitivity, Intensity, Vol, Frequency Selector, Bypass, and Up/Down for controlling the polarity of the filter decay once triggered. Additionally, there is a subtle light to indicate the external trigger behind the main bypass LED. The Deep Animation pedal offers a mangled, filter-sweeping, and abruptly overdriving effect, providing wild sounds, thick thump, and deep animation.