Hungry Robot Pedals The Borderland

The Borderland is a digital reverb pedal from Hungry Robot Pedals aimed at ambient players. The maker describes it as "the perfect pedal for creating lush, modulating, ambient textures," and it sits in the Borderland series of digital reverb pedals built with ambient players in mind¹². Alongside the reverb itself, it carries modulation and filtering on board, so a single pedal can cover a lot of what players otherwise reach for across reverb, delay and chorus-style modulation effects.

What it does

At its core, The Borderland combines a lush reverb algorithm with extensive modulation capabilities and a versatile low-pass filter². The modulation side is built around an LFO with up to eight waveforms and multiple modulation modes, giving the reverb tail everything from a slow swell to more pronounced movement².

A CV In allows easy integration with modular systems, as Delicious Audio's Paolo De Gregorio noted when covering the pedal³. For players with a modular rig, that means the pedal's modulation can be driven from outside the pedal rather than only from its own LFO.

Controls and footswitches

The pedal's two footswitch functions cover effect on/off and a near-infinite sustain effect, the latter letting a player hold a wash of reverb under their playing².

Power

The Borderland runs on 9V DC, center negative, and draws 97mA². That current draw is high enough that a standard low-current daisy-chain output may not be the right supply; a dedicated or higher-current output on a pedalboard power supply is the safer match.

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