Hologram Electronics

The company's range covers four main pedals: the Chroma Console, the Microcosm, the Infinite Jets and the Dream Sequence³.

The story

Guitar World's Chris Gill reports that Hologram Electronics was founded in 2015 by Jason Campbell and Ryan Schaefer, "who have backgrounds in engineering and software design but are als" players themselves¹. Delicious Audio's Paolo De Gregorio adds that the two engineers "put also a lot attention on an aspect almost entirely overlooked by the commu" pedal industry, which is how their designs stand apart².

The company's first widely noticed release was the Dream Sequence, which Pedal of the Day recalled arriving "a couple years back" before 2019 as "a pedal... unlike any we had all seen before"⁴⁵. The team around Ryan Schaefer was already sending review units out personally by 2016, when Pedal of the Day thanked "Ryan and everyone at Hologram Electronics for sending this guy over for us to check out"⁶.

What Hologram makes

Each pedal in the range takes a different approach to reshaping sound.

Microcosm

Hologram describes the Microcosm as "a granular effects pedal that rearranges and reinterprets your sound in new and exciting ways using a varie" of granular techniques⁷. It carries an expression input, mappable to many controls¹¹.

Infinite Jets

The Infinite Jets is the company's "re-synthesizer." Hologram describes it as "a multi-voice synth pedal that resynthesizes individual notes/chords into new sounds using two independ" sampling channels¹². The two channels of sampling, A and B, sustain notes indefinitely, and they can be triggered by your playing automatically or via footswitches¹². Pedal of the Day noted that "you can even plug in an external expression pedal, which is mappable to many of the controls"⁴.

Dream Sequence

The Dream Sequence is a programmable rhythm and octave pedal⁹, with an expression pedal input mappable to many controls¹³. Pedal of the Day called it "one of the hottest pedals out at the moment" with "a huge range of sonic options" when it reviewed the pedal in 2016⁶.

Chroma Console

The Chroma Console, announced for pre-order at $399 in November 2023, is a flexible multi-effect pedal that Hologram says takes "inspiration from the eccentricity, grit, and lively instabili" of vintage gear¹⁰¹⁴. Gearnews described it as "an effects pedal that offers a vast range of tone colour and shaping possibilities"¹⁵.

Guitar.com's Jason Mays found it easy to live with:

Jason Mays, Guitar.com¹⁴

He credited the interface: color-coded knobs per effect, plus status lights and soft-touch buttons to select effects, with no menu diving, so "everything you need to know about what's happening with the pedal is determined by the position of the colour-coded knob"¹⁴. His overall verdict was that "the Chroma truly stands out as one of the most musical and creative pedals I've played in a good while," and that reordering its modules creates unexpected and unique sounds¹⁴.

Synths, expression and control

A few practical points run across the range:

• Hologram's pedals work with any instrument that has a line out, synths included²
• The Microcosm, Dream Sequence and Infinite Jets each take an expression pedal, mappable to many controls¹¹¹³⁴
• The Infinite Jets' sampling channels can be triggered automatically by your playing or via footswitches¹²

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