Electronic Audio Experiments Scattering Stereo Reverb Effect Pedal

A striking creation in classically "EAE" fashion, the Electronic Audio Experiments Scattering Stereo Reverb is a masterful mix of analog and digital sensibilities. Spiritually succeeding their coveted Hypersleep reverb, Scattering matches the authentic analog messiness of MN3011 bucket brigade components and the intelligence of ultra-modern digital architecture. This expansive reverb comes surely to the delight of many a EAE devotee – both new to the party and veteran experimenters, alike.

Throwing it back to the earliest days of digitally-designed effects, Scattering hearkens to the late stages of analog design, right before it gave way to the new wave of ones and zeroes. Scattering balances dual analog/digital hybrid signal processing at a 24-bit rate for charmingly warm and authentic tones. Analog filters couple with a low noise profile for ensuring close hands-on control with the cleanliness and studio-readiness desired out of modern devices. The pedal's analog dry signal path preserves incoming signals and washes them in expressive, analog reverb textures. With a vintage-style push-and-pull, Scattering reacts with liveliness, animation, and character.

Scattering's bucket brigade-driven reverb tone naturally leans into a more lo-fi-delay-flavored persuasion. Busy webs of hazy analog delays quickly snowball into thick reverb clouds perfect for soundscaping and ambience as much as classic, guitar-forward rock 'n' rolling. Everything is not all classic analog murkiness however, as Scattering plays with plenty of unique digital artifacting, as brought about by its digital scaffolding. Scattering pushes the envelope on your usual multi-tap-style analog delay tones with unique rhythmic, tonal, and textural quirks hanging in the background or standing centerstage, making the weirdness of it all as nuanced or as unabashed as you'd like. Four effect modes build out the tonal and textural character of Scattering in authentically vintage and artificially futuristic ways.

EAE's crack digital design moves this older archetype of effect firmly into the twenty-first century. Throughout the pedal, its lovingly clean, ultra-low noise profile retains the tightness and concision of the effect without sacrificing on an organic tone. Its full stereo routing via TRS stereo input and output connections build it out to the most maniacal of motherboard rigs. Full MIDI implementation offers control over any parameter in the pedal while an onboard preset bank presents ready-to-go memory slots to preserve your best settings.

An instant EAE classic sure to turn at least a few heads, Scattering invites the lo-fi reverb and delay fiends of the world out to play – only to scatter back to their respective mad science labs. C'est la vie.