Caroline announces Arigato Advance phaser, sold out

October 26, 2022 · 1 sources

Caroline Guitar Company announced the Arigato Advance on October 26, 2022, describing it as a limited edition advance run of the company's first phaser. The page announcing it is headed "ARIGATO ADVANCE - sold out" and "Limited edition sold out"¹.

The company said the pedal will "go to wide release in that luxurious coral/peach shade very soon"¹. It described the effect's range in its own terms: "Like all of our work, it can go from subtle to wild"¹. The announcement did not list controls, specifications or a price for the Arigato Advance¹.

Caroline said it is donating $30 from the sale of each advance limited pedal to the Innocence Project, an organization it said works to free the innocent and prevent wrongful convictions¹. The company tied the cause to its founder's late father, Ray Herndon, a Dallas journalist whose reporting on the case of Anthony Woten led to Woten's pardon and release, and who was a finalist for the 1991 Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting¹.

The company said it had considered a phaser in 2017, when it made the Parabola instead, and again in 2019, when it pursued the Somersault¹. It said the Arigato was "Dreamed, designed, and created at our small batch distortery™ in Columbia, South Carolina"¹.