The Drone Rainger by Rainger FX isa dub-flavoured digital delay (based on our Echo-X delay pedal), that also produces low, throbbing drones that can also be mixed through the delay circuit. If you play shoegaze, doom/heavy/psychedelic rock, or ambient music its a fantastic tool for making a powerful base note to play over. Maybe you play in a two piece band? Then its essential! Youre a solo electric guitarist making sonic textures?. You improvise over an atmospheric backing? The Drone Rainger is for you!
The guitar signal and the drone signal are independently mixed through the same delay circuit (about 1 second maximum repeat time), with a totally dry guitar switching option. There are actually two analogue tone generators inside the Drone Rainger making up the soundone with a 12-way selector switch, the other free-movingso that when theyre tuned nearly the same, you get interesting beats created between the two of them. Blend them to suit using the mix knob.
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The drones also have two instantaneous effects that can be switched in with a footswitch while you play guitar; one is a tone-down pitch dropping effectmaking the pitch sag in a truly ominous way! The other is a pitch-up effect, raising the pitch of one tone generator much higherso that 2-note chords are easily possible.
Its also possible to set the pedal to produce two separate notesand to toggle between the two while you play, which is extremely useful if the song youre playing has a section with a different base note or a key change. And if youre playing along to music that isnt strictly tuned to pitch, you can adapt using the pedals fine tune knob.
Like all our stompboxes, its housed in a custom-designed enclosurethis one a distinctive desk-style with seven sides. The window in the main front panel is a window into the Drone Raingers soulan aerial view of an industrial part of a city, complete with streets and cars, car parks and streetlamps, toxic chemical silos! A dystopian vision to match the powerful hypnotic sounds..
- Digital delay with 1 second maximum delay time
- Two built-in fully-tunable drones for instant atmospheric backing
- Can switch between two notes on-the-fly
- Deeply cool 7-sided custom enclosure
- One-tone-down spot effect
- Pitch ramp-up for major/minor modes
- Aerial view of dystopian city lurking inside! (1:1780 scale!)
- Chorus effect for extra tone generator movement
- Dry guitar option for pedal use purely as a sound source
- Turn down the drone section straightforward delay pedal function.
