TomKat releases Super Heavy stereo delay, drive and reverb pedal
December 17, 2024 · 2 sources
TomKat has released the Super Heavy, a stereo digital delay, drive and reverb pedal, Delicious Audio reported on December 17, 2024. The report describes it as builder Tom Kogut's first release in five years1; Guitar Pedal X put that gap at around six years, following the Cloudy Digital Multi Effect2.
The pedal is a digital reverb with delay and drive elements, named after SpaceX's Super Heavy First Stage Booster Rocket2. Delicious Audio calls the reverb the most important and most tweakable effect in the circuit, with the delay (up to 500ms) and overdrive "rather straightforward"1. Seven outer knobs light in four colors, White, Magenta, Red and Amber, and each controls up to seven parameters; the central dial switches between the color-coded clusters and the knobs change color to match2. Delicious Audio reports that turning the central knob selects and edits one of the three effects or parameters affecting the entire output, and that pressing it enters the preset mode1. The pedal stores 7 factory and 7 User presets1.
The parameter clusters, as listed by Guitar Pedal X2:
| Cluster | Parameters |
|---|---|
| White (Universal) | Input Gain, Chain Mix, Delay Mix, Drive Mix, Drive Amount, Reverb Mix, Output Gain |
| Magenta (Reverb) | Pre Gain, Size, Damp, Pre Delay, HPF, Width, Post Gain |
| Amber (Delay) | Delay Mix, Time, Feedback, Type |
| Red (Drive) | Drive Mix, Pre Gain, Drive Amount, Asym, Type |
Delicious Audio notes a separate Mix control for each of the three effects, and describes Chain Mix as an overall parameter setting the amount of dry signal sent to the entire effect chain, "basically a master Mix knob"1. The left footswitch triggers a momentary Freeze function that holds the wet signal; the right footswitch engages the pedal12. Guitar Pedal X lists five rear ports, Left In, Right In, Left Out, Right Out and 9V DC (350mA, given with a question mark), and states there is no analog dry-through2. Guitar Pedal X also notes there was no manual at the time, so the delay and drive types were undocumented2.
The Super Heavy was available to order on the TomKat webstore at $350, Guitar Pedal X reported2.
"it's a rather complex stereo digital delay>drive>reverb device"