Intellijel Stomp brings Guitar Stompbox + Modular Synth Worlds together
Intellijel has introduced Stomp – a new Eurorack module that’s designed to make it easy to use stompbox effect pedals with your modular synthesizer.
Or, as the company says, “It provides the modular synthesist with a portal to stompbox nirvana, and the guitarist with a wormhole to the sonic manipulations of Eurorack modules.”
Stomp makes it easy for modular owners to use the huge range of delays, choruses, flangers, phasers, fuzz boxes, tremolos, wah-wahs, amp simulators, compressors, and pitch shifter pedals available to guitarists. It provides send, return and expression pedal connections that are compatible with guitar stompboxes, modular connectivity, modulation control & more.
In addition, it makes it easy for guitarists to use modular gear. Guitarists can plug their guitar directly into Stomp’s RETURN jack, and get access to capabilities of Eurorack modular synths.
Features:
- Robust Neutrik 1/4″ TS connectors for the SEND/RETURN and TRS for the Expression interface
- Signals arriving at Stomp’s RETURN jack pass through a Class A triode emulator, allowing for some tube-like overdrive at high gain setting.
- Stomp is more than just a simple level shifter — it’s also an impedance converter, which provides proper drive and loading for any FX pedals or instruments you connect.
- Separate gain controls on both the SEND and RETURN. This enables you to adjust the level of any audio being sent to the FX pedals as well as any audio coming back into the modular. Not only does this allow you to optimize the signal-to-noise ratio, but by significantly boosting the RETURN level, you can achieve some pleasingly overdriven tones.
- Supports both Instrument and Line levels via a front panel switch.
- Use Stomp’s RETURN circuit as a “direct box” for connecting any instrument.
- The high input impedance of the RETURN circuit allows it to be used as a piezo pickup preamp for acoustic instruments.
- Use Stomp in the studio as an active “re-amping” device to play pre-recorded tracks back through guitar amplifiers or pedals.
- All inputs are protected for minimum RF interference.
- Return signal can be phase inverted for use with those pedals or effects types that invert phase.
- Low MIX output impedance for driving long cables, lower noise, and minimum interference from outside sources.
- The Expression Pedal Output converts analog CV sources (or the internal LFO) into an output compatible with most stompbox Expression inputs.
Stomp is available now for $199.
