The words ‘thimble’ and ‘wasp’ don’t exactly conjure up thoughts of expansive and mellifluous guitar tone, do they? But we always like to keep an open mind when a new indie pedal maker comes along… and in this case, that turns out to be fully justified.
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Built in Columbus, Ohio, these three units – a multi-mode delay, a fuzz with added vibrato or reverb and an extremely mean-looking overdrive – are as diverse in sound as they are in styling. One thing they all have in common, however, is a quirkily adventurous spirit. You’ll find no clones or faithful tributes here.
On a more practical note, all three pedals also share reassuringly tidy build quality, with true-bypass and pop-free soft switching… and retail prices that are, by American boutique standards, very reasonable.
由于绿色的“底麦”照明，时间流逝引起了我们的注意，这使它的外观看起来像是粉碎的马自达，宁愿在停车场里做甜甜圈。这是一个数字延迟，具有TAP TEMPO和八种操作模式，有些比其他操作模式更为常规。
The Space Camp is an interesting hybrid, combining a two-mode fuzz (standard or octave) with a digital element that can be switched between pure pitch-vibrato and reverb. And that leaves the Anvil, which is nothing more than a JFET overdrive… albeit one with some interesting tone controls.
TheThimble Waspname, by the way, comes from a line in Ray Bradbury’s华氏451. Great book, 9/10, but you don’t need to have read it to like the pedals.
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The top panel of the Time Lapse has an appealing lo-fidelity sci-fi look but it is a bit of a ’mare to read, so it’s just as well this unit comes with a laminated card listing the eight modes and how the controls work in each of them.
It turns out to be a pedal of two halves. Modes one to four cover simple repeats with adjustable modulation and tape-style degradation, while five to eight take in reverse delay, two different patterns of glitchily fluttering up-octaves, and a highly addictive ‘hold’ option that lets you freeze a gently modulating chord with the tap switch then play dry notes over the top.
全部modes bring a certain amount of operating noise but we’ve heard worse, and there are numerous eminently usable sounds to explore here. It’s not a comprehensive library of delay textures, just a cool little toybox of tones.
太空训练营也可以说，这是一种比您想象的要强大得多的设备，这是一个带有四个旋钮和一个拨动开关的紧凑型围栏。
Starting with vibrato depth all the way down, we get a standard fluffy fuzz with decent touch-sensitivity and a wide gain range; but dial in a dollop of modulation and the woozy pitch-wobble turns everything instantly alien. Full-on freakiness is not necessarily the best use of this effect pairing, however: high gain and low depth is fantastic for adding near-subliminal movement to edgy lead playing.
Pushing depth up to halfway, the vibrato suddenly drops back to zero as the pedal flips into octave fuzz mode. It’s raspily belligerent in true Foxx Tone Machine style, and turning up the wobbles again from here just piles on even more wildness.
老实说，如果太空营停在那里，我们会很高兴。但是现在我们可以通过混响而不是颤音再次完成所有操作。简而言之，这听起来绝对是史诗般的 - 但由于判断很好的延期，但没有淹没干燥的信号。我们不知道他们是否在火星上有冲浪乐队，但是如果是，这是他们需要的踏板。
毕竟，一个简单的超速驱动必须是一个反高潮……而砧座确实感觉像是奇怪的。它没有做任何动荡或极端的事情 - 从本单元中出现的有品味的音调对其名称和艺术品的超金属含义有些不匹配。
That doesn’t stop it being a very nice dirt machine, though. This is a more or less transparent drive that runs all the way from an almost-clean boost to a meaty medium-gain roar. The tone control is a powerful treble-tweaker but ‘voice’ is the secret weapon, sharpening up the upper midrange for just as much bite as you need.
基于这个不同的捆绑包，我们不太确定如何对顶针黄蜂做什么，但是这里显然有一些光彩，从任何标准来看，太空营只是一个宝石。
Key Features
时间流逝– 8/10
- 价格£175
- DESCRIPTIONMulti-mode digital delay pedal, made in USA
- CONTROLS八向旋转模式开关，角色，时间，混合，反馈；绕过和敲击节奏脚踏板
- FEATURES真旁路；仅由9V主电源供电（未提供）
- DIMENSIONS120 x 98 x 56mm
- 判决涵盖了大部分标准推迟娘家姓的ds and adds an interesting selection of more elaborate effects
太空营 - 9/10（编辑的选择）
- 价格£150
- DESCRIPTIONFuzz, vibrato and reverb pedal, made in USA
- CONTROLS速率，深度，增益，音量，颤音/混响拨动开关
- FEATURES真旁路；仅由9V主电源供电（未提供）
- DIMENSIONS114 x 71 x 51mm
- 判决Truly ingenious: a seemingly innocent fuzz box with digital additions that bring all sorts of mayhem
Anvil – 8/10
- 价格£120
- DESCRIPTIONOverdrive pedal, made in USA
- CONTROLS增益，音量，声音，音调
- FEATURES真旁路；仅由9V主电源供电（未提供）
- DIMENSIONS114 x 71 x 47mm
- 判决诚实，不像它看起来那么恐怖 - 只是一个坚实的超速驾驶，顶端具有足够的音调灵活性
- 接触thimblewasp.com,southendmusicexchange.co.uk
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