ALABS Audio launches Adam Adventures Series of four stereo pedals

November 27, 2023 · 3 sources

ALABS Audio, a Singapore maker, launched the Adam Adventures Series on November 27, 2023: four China-made stereo pedals built on its W.A.V.E. Wizard Audio Virtual Engine DSP platform, which the company developed in house¹. The range comprises, in rough signal chain order, the Orbital Pitch Shifter, NovaDrift Modulator, TimeSlip Delay and Cetus Reverberator¹.

Each pedal has nine effects or modes, analog dry through with zero latency, 32-bit floating-point DSP, selectable relay-based true bypass with an analog buffered bypass option, and a multi-function footswitch covering tap tempo, freeze and expression ramping¹. A feature called Infinity Explore Mode applies five seconds of gesture control or expression ramping to the pedal's four main parameters¹. Current draw is 9V DC, 250mA¹. All four run true full stereo in and out except the Orbital, which is mono in, stereo out¹.

The Orbital has controls for rate (maximum 10Hz), detune (+100 cents left out, -100 cents right out) and dry-to-wet mix, with modes for +Oct, +5th, +4th, +3rd, Root, -3rd, -4th, -5th and -Oct, plus a glide/tone knob¹. The NovaDrift's nine modes are vibe, chorus, multi chorus, phaser, filter, rotary, flanger, tremolo and ring¹. The TimeSlip's nine are tape echo, digital, analog, reverse, warp, granule, octave, sweeper and swell, selectable in true stereo or ping-pong stereo². The Cetus offers hall, room, church, spring, plate, swell, shimmer, cloudy and wave, with adjustable modulation on all reverb types and a freeze function³.

USA Amazon prices were $109.99 for the Orbital and $99.99 for each of the other three¹. Guitar Pedal X reported that the Orbital took the longest to perfect, which it said is why its price is higher¹. Stock was on USA Amazon at launch, with arrival in Europe and the UK expected in around a month or two, December or January¹.

Guitar Pedal X described the Cetus as its current favorite of the four and the Orbital as needing to sit at or near the front of a signal chain for optimal tracking¹. Pedal of the Day, reviewing the Cetus later, called it "one of the best reverb pedals we've seen here"³.