The Fever Dream is an experimental effects pedal built as a collaboration between Pine-Box Customs and Mask Audio Electronics. Pedal of the Day described it as "one of the coolest, noisiest, experimental pedals of the year" when reviewing it in December 20211.
Its most unusual feature is the input arrangement: the pedal has two inputs, and the one on the side accepts the included CB Microphone. That microphone signal is mixed with the instrument signal, so a player can run a voice, radio-style audio or other sound into the pedal alongside the guitar1.
"The input on the side fits the included CB Microphone, and that signal is mixed with the instrument signal"
What it does
The Fever Dream covers a wide and deliberately unruly range of sounds. Pedal of the Day described it as ranging "from gritty harmonic tremolo to brutal fuzz to desert rock cocked wah to self-oscillating filter and beyond"1. That places it across several familiar effect territories at once, from tremolo and fuzz to wah and filter effects, in a single box.
The pedal's controls include a Gain knob, which sets the harmonic content of the effect1.
The dual-input design
The CB microphone input is the pedal's defining idea. Because the microphone signal is blended with the instrument signal, the two sources run through the pedal's circuitry together, and the character of the effect is shaped by both at once1.
Pedal of the Day's reviewer was struck by the concept:
"I can tell that it is GENIUS, and that it might open up a whole new realm relating to the way experimental pedals"
The reviewer saw the dual-input CB microphone configuration as potentially opening up a whole new realm in the way experimental pedals are designed around their inputs1.
Context in Pine-Box Customs' range
The Fever Dream is a collaboration between Pine-Box Customs and Mask Audio Electronics, and Pedal of the Day's reviewer called it "one of the coolest, noisiest, experimental pedals of the year"1.
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Sources (1)
- Pine-Box Customs / Mask Audio Electronics Fever Dream, Pedal of the Day, 2021-12-17
