While not technically an “effect” pedal, today’s featured piece of gear is essential to certain setups (ours included), especially when running your rig in stereo. The Anole from Red Eft Electronics is both a passive signal splitter and a summing box, allowing for one of the most discrete passive signal routing options in today’s market.
Here at Pedal of the Day, we use the Anole for all of our demo videos (except this one, of course) to mix the signals of two different amps together for the audio tracks in our demo videos, and it works like a charm. Small and quiet, it does exactly what it should, without us ever having to even think about it. You can send two guitars to one amp also, mix clean and dirty signal OR use it with other stereo effects for awesome results…
In the video below, you’ll see we used the Anole along with a stereo delay pedal (a Boss DD-7, one of our favorites) to feed back into itself and produces some huge, sweeping soundscapes, with virtually endless possibilities. The routing looks like this:
Instrument –> Anole Input
Effect Right Output –> Anole Left Output
Anole Right Output –> Effect Left Input
Effect Left Output –> Amp
With this configuration, you just need to use the Anole’s balance knob to limit the amount of feedback the effect receives from itself, dialing in the perfect amount that you’re looking for (or that’s tolerable, depending), and you can really expand on the effect’s sound and capabilities. The video is just a small sampling of what you can do, as it’s pretty crazy with a reverb pedal as well.
The Anole can be used in a number of ways, including the passive splitting, summing, and mixing of signals, with minimal losses in both volume and tone. This makes it a great match for pedalboards or rigs with multiple buffers or buffered pedals, as the tone-suck is not an issue whatsoever. Plus, using it with a stereo delay or reverb pedal yields some exciting and unexpected sounds for the experimentalist in us all. Thanks to Vince at Red Eft Electronics for sending this little black box over for us to review and now utilize – we’re anxiously awaiting whatever they’ve got coming down the sonic pipeline in the near future, so keep your eyes and ears out for more of their gear here!
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