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REVIEW ELECTRO-HARMONIX PICO PEDALS

ELECTRO-HARMONIX PICO PEDALS FROM £129

CONTACT Electro-Harmonix WEB www.ehx.com

What You Need To Know

1 Didn’t we just see these a few issues back?

No, those were the Nano pedals, which are basically smaller, more pedalboard-friendly versions of larger Electro-Harmonix pedals. These Pico pedals are the same sort of thing, only smaller still!

2 What’s the point? Do we really need pedals this small?

It’s convenience, really. It’s so easy to run out of pedalboard space, but having pedals this size means that you can either have a smaller, easily transported ’board or have more scope for slipping pedals into slots on a larger ’board.

3 There’s loads of the blighters…

Yes! EHX actually released nine new pedals simultaneously – the company’s biggest release ever. Besides the eight that are featured in this review, there is also the Platform compressor/limiter.

Electro-Harmonix calls this range its ‘Pico’ series, but when used by several other companies this familiar format is sometimes called ‘micro’ or ‘mini’ pedals. Nevertheless, the basic form remains the

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