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ELECTRO-HARMONIX NANO PEDALS FROM £79

CONTACT Electro-Harmonix WEB www.ehx.com

What You Need To Know

1 What’s a Nano pedal?

It’s all about the size! These are basically smaller, more ’board-friendly versions of larger pedals in the Electro-Harmonix roster.

2 Do they do exactly what the bigger pedals do?

Well, they have to squeeze the circuitry into a smaller chassis, so there may be differences in certain cases – for instance, the Nano Metal Muff loses the Top Boost footswitch of the current larger version, but it gains a noise gate.

3 There are other EHX pedals this size that aren’t labelled as Nano…

That’s right, that particular chassis is used for 59 products at the time of writing. Let’s just call them Nano-sized…

Few pedals companies have been as prolific as NYC-based Electro-Harmonix over the years. And that tradition continues apace today, including the production of multiple

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