Electro-Harmonix unveils nine-pedal NYC DSP Pico series

September 1, 2023 · 4 sources

Electro-Harmonix unveiled the full NYC DSP Series on September 21, 2023, a line of nine Pico-sized stompboxes¹. Seven new pedals joined the previously announced Pico POG and Pico Platform¹². The series draws on some of the company's most celebrated effects in an ultra-compact format¹².

The Pico Pitch Fork is a downsized Pitch Fork polyphonic pitch shifter with 30 pitch shift options; a Mode button selects Pitch Up, Pitch Down and Dual modes, Volume and Blend knobs handle multi-voice mixing, and a Sweep control adjusts pitch sweep speed from instant to 4 seconds¹². The Pico Oceans 3-Verb carries the Spring, Plate and Hall reverbs of the Oceans 11 Reverb, with pre-delay, spring length and tone controls and an Infinite Reverb function¹². The Pico Canyon Echo is a digital delay with up to 3 seconds of delay time, tap tempo with three beat subdivisions, a filter knob, switchable delay tails and an Infinite Repeats mode¹².

The Pico Deep Freeze sits between the original Freeze and Superego, with Latch, Moment and Auto modes, Speed/Layer and Gliss controls and three bypass topologies¹². The Pico Attack Decay has Volume, Sensitivity, Attack and Decay controls plus a Poly mode that gives each note its own attack envelope¹². The Pico Triboro Bridge combines overdrive, distortion and fuzz, with Volume, Gain and EQ controls and a gate for the fuzz¹². The Pico Rerun Tape Delay uses the Canyon's tape delay algorithm, with three Flutter modes and a Saturation knob¹².

Guitar World and MusicRadar gave rounded figures for several of the same pedals, listing the Pitch Fork at $217, the Deep Freeze at $193, the Oceans 3-Verb at $154, the Canyon Echo at $149, the Attack Decay at $136 and the Rerun at $137³⁴. Founder Mike Matthews framed the launch as the company's largest: