Electro-Harmonix announces Pico Canyon Echo mini digital delay pedal

September 29, 2023 · 4 sources

Electro-Harmonix announced the Pico Canyon Echo, a compact digital delay, as part of its Pico-sized NYC DSP Series. Delicious Audio reported the pedal on September 29, 2023¹; Guitar.com and Guitar World covered the wider series launch on September 22 and September 21, 2023²³. EHX lists the pedal's year of release as 2023⁴.

The pedal takes the digital delay from the Canyon Delay and Looper and puts it in the Pico chassis⁴¹. EHX describes it as a mono, digital circuit with buffered bypass⁴. The controls are a BLEND knob for wet/dry mix, a DELAY knob for delay time from 8ms to 3s, a FEEDBACK knob adjustable from one repeat to nearly endless repeats, and a FILTER knob that applies a low-pass filter when turned counterclockwise and a high-pass filter when turned clockwise, with the filters disabled at noon⁴. Tap tempo is set by pressing and releasing the footswitch at least twice, and the TAP DIV button selects among three subdivisions: eighth note, dotted eighth note and quarter note⁴¹. A selectable Tails bypass lets echoes continue after the pedal is bypassed⁴¹.

EHX also describes an Infinite Repeats mode in which a single delay is repeated and the input is taken out of the delay path, so the pedal works like a micro tape looper that can be played over, with the loop manipulated by the DELAY knob⁴¹.

The US list price is $149.50⁴. Guitar.com gave $149.5 and Guitar World gave $149²³. EHX lists a dealer locator rather than direct sale⁴.