GEAR REVIEW
ELECTRO-HARMONIX DELIVERS THREE FRESH FLAVORS OF TONE // PICO SHIMMER • DELUXE BIG MUFF PI 2 • SPRUCE GOOSE OVERDRIVE | Steve Sattler
KEY FEATURES
• Excellent sound quality across three distinctly different effects, each with its own unique character.
• Smart feature enhancements make classic designs more versatile without sacrificing their core tones.
• Pico Shimmer delivers lush, ambient shimmer reverb in an impressively compact enclosure.
• Deluxe Big Muff Pi 2 expands the classic Big Muff formula with flexible EQ shaping, clean blend, and an effective noise gate.
• Spruce Goose Overdrive offers responsive, amp-like overdrive with exceptional touch sensitivity and natural dynamics.
• All three pedals feature solid construction and integrate easily into modern pedalboard setups.
• Competitively priced, making them excellent values for working musicians seeking professionalquality tone.
Electro-Harmonix continues to prove that innovation doesn’ t always require reinventing the wheel. Three of their latest releases, the Pico Shimmer, Deluxe Big Muff Pi 2, and Spruce Goose Overdrive build on familiar concepts while adding practical features that make them more useful for today’ s players. Whether your board leans toward ambient worship textures, vintage fuzz, or transparent overdrive, this trio has something to offer.
Pico Shimmer The Pico Shimmer distills expansive ambient shimmer reverb into one of the smallest enclosures on the market. It’ s simple four-knob layout— Blend, Tone, Shimmer, and Decay— makes it easy to dial in everything from subtle octave-enhanced ambience to vast, celestial soundscapes. A studio-quality digital reverb engine paired with clean-tracking octave-up processing delivers lush, musical textures while preserving the clarity of the dry signal. The Tone control keeps the shimmer smooth and never overly brittle, allowing the pedal to sit naturally in modern worship mixes. Long decay settings create rich pads for volume swells, while shorter settings add a subtle halo behind clean rhythm work. For players building compact pedalboards, the Pico Shimmer delivers expansive ambient tones without sacrificing valuable pedalboard space.
Internally, the pedal combines a studio-quality digital reverb engine with an octave-up effect that tracks cleanly across the fretboard. The adjustable Tone control helps tame the high-frequency content, making it easy to fit into modern worship mixes without becoming harsh.
For players building compact boards, the Pico Shimmer delivers surprisingly large sounds without sacrificing valuable pedalboard space.
The Pico Shimmer is available now for $ 149. Find out more at: www. ehx. com / products / pico-shimmer /
Deluxe Big Muff Pi 2 Electro-Harmonix’ s Big Muff Pi 2 revives a previously unreleased late-1970s circuit designed by inventor Bob Myer. While retaining the signature singing sustain and massive gain of the classic Big Muff, the Pi 2 delivers a more dynamic, rawer fuzz character with crisp highs, booming lows, and slightly less refined clipping. Housed in a compact nano enclosure with artwork by Daniel Danger, it features the familiar Volume, Tone, and Sustain controls, silent true bypass with both latching and momentary
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