Matthews EffectsTechnician Dual-Channel Auditory Manipulator Pedal

Matthews Effects Technician

Technician from Matthews Effects is a dual-channel delay, reverb, and looper pedal providing a potent palette of time-bending tools to enable complex sound design and live performance possibilities. With its deep, multi-page interface providing surgical access to all the parameters of each effect mode, Technician is capable of everything from simple and straightforward delays to complex, modulated soundscapes. In addition to flexible options for dialing in bespoke tones, Technician also provides immense flexibility in audio routing, perfect for creative signal flows and slick live set-ups.

The multiple delay, reverb, and looper modes in Technician provide ample space to explore a wide variety of effects. Digital and reverse delay modes offer classic manipulations of repeats, while the granular and re-sample modes provide otherworldly soundscapes from your recorded audio, perfect for solo performances and lush textures. In the reverb modes, hall and plate styles provide nostalgic and realistic reverberation, while chasm and grim modes add additional feedback and pitch shifting to create dark and massive ambience. Lastly, the looper gives you latching and momentary recording functionality, as well as quantized looping derived from the delay clock for beat-specific material.

Throughout these effects, additional modulators and DSP blocks help shape your sound. Add LFO modulation to delay time, mix, and even clock to add movement to delay lines. Modulate reverb pre-delay and filtering, or add shimmering octaves to your reverb. You can also adjust loop points and quantization of the looper, enabling effects from subtle warping to clocked chaos. A dedicated filter is also available in all modes, providing resonant low-pass control over your tone to tame high frequencies. With the Technician's flexible audio routing, you can switch up the internal routing of effects, and explore multiple processing modes for stereo, dual mono, mono-to-stereo, and stereo-to-mono routings depending on your set-up's specific inputs and outputs. The addition of expression input and MIDI input and output let you take control over all Technician's many modulators and settings, providing a vast landscape of performance possibilities. If you're looking for a powerful DSP multi-effect to craft creative delays, reverbs, and loops, Technician from Matthews Effects is a lush and flexible effect sure to inspire your next musical move.

Technician Features

• Multi-mode delay, reverb, and looper pedal
• Craft sounds from classic delays to complex soundscapes with deep sound design options
• 48kHz / 24-bit audio provides lush sound quality
• Dual-channel design capable of stereo, dual mono, mono to stereo, and stereo to mono set-ups
• Delay modes:
  • Digital - crisp delay with tap tempo and tone controls
  • Reverse - reads buffer backwards for unique effects with tone controls
  • Granular - chops buffer into grains with randomized size, direction, speed, and buffer location with max grain size control
  • Re-Sample - plays buffer at different speeds with additional octave shifts for complex soundscapes
• Reverb modes:
  • Hall - classic, organic, and less diffused reverb
  • Plate - diffuse and reflective reverb great for vocals and more
  • Chasm - uses feedback networks for unnaturally long reverb tails
  • Grim - variation of Chasm mode with suboctave mix for dark and rich reverb
• Looper modes:
  • Latching - normal loop pedal operation records on switch press, stops recording on next press
  • Momentary - records to loop buffer only when pressing foot switch
  • Quantize - automatically trims loop length in relation to delay clock for tempo-locked loops
• Rearrange delay, reverb, and looper DSP blocks in any order
• Resonant lowpass filter DSP block tames high frequencies
• Multiple modulators for each DSP block adds movement and nuance to parameters
• Set parameters for both channels, or independently for a complex stereo image
• Expression pedal input
• MIDI I/O via 3.5mm TRS (type A)
• Switchable true bypass and tails modes
• Preset saving to recall your favorite settings