Death By Audio and Levitation release limited Psychedelic Lightmare pedal

July 14, 2025 · 3 sources

Death By Audio collaborated with Levitation, an Austin, Texas-based music and arts platform, on the Psychedelic Lightmare Light-Responsive Reverb & Tremolo, reported on July 14, 2025¹. The pedal is limited to 333 units, available only from the Levitation.fm website at $225¹.

The pedal combines a reverb section and a tremolo circuit with a light sensor on the face of the enclosure¹². Controls are Gain, Reverb Blend, Reverb Time, Trem, Warp Range (light sensitivity) and the light sensor¹. According to Pedal of the Day, the sensor alters the clock speed of the effect: in a dark room the clock runs slow, and light on the pedal speeds it up². Changes in light intensity affect all effects at once, stretching reverb decay, slowing tremolo and bending pitch by shifting sample time². The Warp Range knob sets the sensor's sensitivity, and Guitar Pedal X notes it can be dialed out entirely¹².

Delicious Audio describes the pedal as combining stereo reverb, tremolo and light-sensitive pitch modulation, with stereo I/O and standard 9V DC power, center-negative³. Pedal of the Day reports stereo in and stereo out, with mono and mono-to-stereo use possible². Guitar Pedal X describes the pedal as "a cool Tremo-Verb - with light sensing expression control," and adds that covering the sensor controls the output¹.

Guitar Pedal X states that this is Levitation's first pedal collaboration as far as it is aware¹. Delicious Audio reports that the pedal originated during creative sessions between Death By Audio engineers and Levitation organizers, aiming to replicate the experimental soundscapes associated with the festival³.