Molten Voltage TOGGLE

The Molten Voltage TOGGLE is a dynamic and programmable channel switching pedal: at its core it is a true analog, true bypass A/B switching pedal, and its headline trick is that it can switch between two different analog effect loops using either a tap tempo control or the intensity of your playing. Molten Voltage describes it as letting you "re-imagine your effects seven different ways," with seven switching modes built in.¹

What it does

In plain terms, the TOGGLE sits on a board and routes your signal between two separate analog effect loops. The usual way to work it is a plain A/B channel switch, and Molten Voltage notes that "of course that mode is available." What sets it apart is the dynamic option: the pedal can make the switch for you based on how hard you play, or on a tap tempo control, rather than waiting for a footstamp.¹

Because the audio path is true analog with true bypass, the pedal is a switcher rather than a sound-shaping effect: it decides which loop your guitar passes through. That puts it in the company of other switching pedals rather than drives or modulations, and it can sit around overdrive pedals, delay pedals or any other analog loops you want to flip between.¹

Sync and control

The TOGGLE has a Tap Input Jack, and Molten Voltage lists it among pedals that can sync to MIDI Clock using the company's CTL-Sync connection. In a 2014 blog post the maker described this as "28 pedals with a Tap Input Jack that can sync together even though they don't use MIDI Clock," meaning the TOGGLE can follow a shared tempo alongside other CTL-Sync-equipped gear on a board.²

For players building around MIDI pedals, that makes the TOGGLE a way to bring a simple analog loop switcher into a tempo-synced setup without making the audio path digital.²

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