UK’s Guitarist magazine has published a generous roundup of SIX Pigtronix pedals in its May 2015 issue:
Tremvelope (“Cool tremolo with an extra layer of nuanced expression”)
FAT Drive (“A nice-sounding overdrive with two levels of gain”)
Keymaster (“Invaluable in the studio and something that could add real flexibility to your pedalboard”)
Guitarist also chose Keymaster for its “Guitarist Choice” award!
Gate Keeper (“An open and shut case for cleaning up your sound”)
Rototron (“Rotary speaker sim with all the foot control you’d ever need”)
Philosopher King (“A great choice for bringing something new to your sonic palette”)

Check out the full review here.

Infinity Looper is officially out of BETA. The 2.0 firmware is rock solid and contains numerous new features that have been requested by Pigtronix customers around the world!

The easiest way to update your Infinity is to connect it to your computer via USB, run the Pigtronix-Infinity application, Select “Tools->Update Firmware” from the menu bar, Left-Click the “Automatic” button, close the application, disconnect the Infinity from your computer, and then Power Cycle the Infinity while holding “INPUT SPLIT.

The Infinity Looper 2.0 firmware file can be downloaded for manual install here

The Windows application has been modified and can be retrieved by running the “UpdateApplication.bat” script in the PC folder of the Infinity’s USB drive.  Further directions on updating the application can be found here.

The Mac OSX application has been updated and can the new installer can be downloaded from here.  Download and run the installer.  On newer versions of Mac OSX it will be necessary to Ctrl + Click the installer to get the necessary installation permissions.

Release Notes:

Fixed issues that could cause the Infinity to crash if left running for more than 3 hours.

In Sync’d modes, Loop 1 can now be erased and re-recorded to its previous length.  When re-recording Loop 1, it will automatically close at it’s previous length: maintaining synchronization with Loop 2.

Added Double-tap instant Overdubs to Sync’d Parallel, Series, and Fade / Trails modes.  When a loop is waiting to begin playback, pressing that loop’s footswitch again will cause the loop to enter overdub mode when it begins playback.

Added Per Preset Default Sample-Rate.  Using the Infinity Application, users can now select a default sample-rate for each preset (48 kHz, 24 kHz, 12 kHz).  Whenever a preset is loaded, or both loops are erased, the Infinity will reset to the selected default sample-rate.  This allows users to record loops, alter their timing / pitch using Varispeed, and after erasing everything, instantly be at a known sample-rate.

Added support for Extended Multiplier selections via Infinity Application and MIDI CC 82.  Using the Infinity Application, or a MIDI CC, the multiplier can be set to any value from 1-127.  When set to values other than indicated (x1, x2, x3, x4, and x6), all Multiplier LEDs will illuminate to indicate that a custom multiplier is selected.  When a custom Multiplier is set, pressing the Sync Multi switch will move to the closest non-custom setting (x1, x2, x3, x4, or x6).  To set a custom Multiplier, send the desired Multiplier value on MIDI CC 82, or set it using the Infinity Application by selecting “Custom” and entering the desired multiplier in the box.

Added Global Boot Option for Overdub Synchronization.  With Overdub Synchronization enabled:

• If no MIDI Clock is applied, Overdubs will only open and close on Loop Boundaries.
• If MIDI Clock is applied, Overdubs will only open and close on the downbeat of measures as set by the Time Signature Setting.

This setting can be enabled using the Infinity Application’s “Tools->Global Boot Options” and selecting “Sync OD to MIDI / Loop Boundaries.”

This setting can also be toggled using the Infinity’s Boot Option system.  When the Infinity powers up, it will display the setting of Overdub Synchronization on the 5 Sync Multi LEDs; these will be illuminated if Overdub Synchronization is enabled.  To toggle this setting, press and hold the Sync Multi Switch while the Infinity powers up.

MIDI Time Signature Support.  The Time Signature of a provided MIDI Clock can now be sent using MIDI.  This feature allows Beat Buddy users (and users of any device that supports the sending of Time Signature), to dynamically adjust and then save the Time Signature of the Infinity.  This has been explicitly tested with the latest Beat Buddy firmware.  When the Beat Buddy changes songs, it will send a new Time Signature to the Infinity.

Reverse buttons (MIDI and Remote) now toggle the reverse request.  Previously the Reverse could only be cancelled by pressing the UNDO switch.

Fade and Trail stop modes now save currently open overdubs.  Previously leaving an overdub open when a Fade or Trail stops a loop

Changed behavior of Overdub: If an overdub is closed and undone in a single cycle, attempting to open an overdub will wait until the next loop cycle before actually opening the overdub.

When transitioning between Loops in Series, pressing stop will now stop playback correctly.  Arm stop cancels the transition.  All stop cancels the transition and stops the currently playing loop via it’s selected stop mode.

Fixed an issue that caused All Erase to not work when MIDI Clock was applied.

Fixed LED Flickering when used with MIDI.

This weekend (June 12-13) is the Sweetwater Sound Gearfest in Fort Wayne, Indiana!

Guitarists ‪Teddy Kumpel‬ and Saul Zonana will be representing Pigtronix.

Teddy will also be playing the headlining show in the Sweetwater Performance Center with LOOPestra featuring Shawn Pelton on drums and Andy Hess on bass. If you’re in the area, you will NOT want to miss this!

Full info HERE

MusicTech magazine checked out the Infinity Looper and published an excellent review.

Here’s an excerpt:

“The Infinity Looper is an excellent bit of kit that definitely brings something new to the looping table. The ability to record synchronized dual loop audio from separate sources and run the unit via MIDI means it’s a real looping solution for bands. The 24-bit/48 kHz recording spec means the unit sounds great, so it’s very hard to tell the difference between live and looped playing, and recordings are virtually noise-free. While you can get into the unit’s basics pretty quickly you do need to study the manual—thankfully this is well written and the information is easy to access. The Infinity has a well laid out and fully featured interface and all the right sorts of connections to make it an extremely musical, practical and flexible solution.”

For the full review, click HERE.

Guitar Interactive’s Tom Quayle plugged in to the Infinity Looper and the Envelope Phaser, and gives readers the lowdown!

“If you need the most fully featured and best sounding looper out there then the Infinity Looper will definitely get your pulse racing and your creative juices flowing.”

“The Pigtronix Envelope Phaser is a fantastic piece of kit that is both inspiring and fun to use… Versatile, great sounding and well made, this is a phaser pedal worthy of any pedal board out there.”

Pigtronix Guitar Interactive review issue 34

The UK’s Bass Guitar Magazine plugged into all three Pigtronix bass pedals and weighed in.
Bass FAT Drive: “A tube sound is the basis of the drive tone, with that recognisable warm softness at the core of the various sounds you can coax out of the unit… with the tubey sound of a wholly accurate representation of the noise made by the old glowing valves.”
Philosopher Bass Compressor: “A rather impressive pedal that offers a range of useful options.”
Bass Envelope Phaser: “a gizmo that adds ‘the funk’ to your bass sound in a seriously powerful way that no words con the printed page can possibly describe.”

Pigtronix Bass Pedals Bass Guitar Mag 2015

PRESS RELEASE

July 9, 2015 (Port Jefferson Station, NY) – Pigtronix unveils two new masterpiece delay pedals at the Summer NAMM in Nashville today: Echolution 2 Ultra Pro and Echolution 2 Filter Pro.

Both new E2 models feature Independent Pitch Shifting on two syncronized delays, which can be overlapped or set to numerous rhythmic configurations, including the Pigtronix signature Golden Ratio function. The tap tempo and MIDI-controlled dual delays can be set to pitch-shift by any musical interval within an octave. Sweeping filters and complex modulation options—with up to 5 LFOs—create new sonic textures that go far beyond the “shimmer” and “crystals” effect patches of the past.

The new E2 Pitch-Shifting firmware is now live.

This improved code will run on any version of the Echolution 2 pedal (Basic, Deluxe, Filter, Ultra). This is the standard firmware found in the new Filter PRO and Ultra PRO models which begin shipping on dealers this week.

To Update your Echolution 2, open the previous E2 application and select File->Automatic Firmware Update.

Once your E2 has been updated to firmware version 101, update the E2 Application by downloading and installing the new Windows and Mac OS X Applications.

Currently, Windows 10 is not supported.

Feature Enhancements:

Pitch Change (ascending and descending) for both delay taps.  Each delay tap can be assigned a different pitch shift interval. The pitch shifting can be turned on and off at any point using the remote switch JUMP function or via MIDI. Once a pitch shift value has been selected JUMP is automatically enabled, so that users without the remote switch can enjoy pitch shift effects. When a pitch shift value has been selected, the JUMP function “latches” and the JUMP switch must pressed again to turn the pitch shifting off.  Pitch Shift values can be assigned, saved and recalled in any of the 60 presets.

• When one delay tap is turned on and a pitch shift value has been selected, JUMP with cause the delay to pitch shift.
• When one delay tap is turned on and a pitch shift value has been selected for both taps, JUMP with cause the delay to alternate between the two assigned pitches (First Tap pitch for one cycle, Second Tap pitch for one cycle, etc).  The second tap will not be heard.
• With two delay taps turned on, and a pitch shift value has been selected for only one of the taps, one delay will pitch shift and one will not.
• With two delay taps turned on, and a pitch shift value has been selected for boths of the taps, each delay will pitch shift according to the selected intervals.
• When FREEZE is activated, JUMP will only remain active for a single cycle, allowing material to change pitch one interval at a time.
• When FREEZE is activated with a single tap but a pitch shift value has been set for both taps, the pitch shift value of the frozen delay will alternate with each press of the JUMP footswitch.

The Second Tap now has an independent Mix parameter.  This parameter decreases the volume of the Second Tap from the current Main Mix setting.  To Change the Second Tap’s Mix, hold down the Special FX and Taps buttons and then turn the Mix Knob.

When FREEZE is active, the Tap footswitch becomes Loop Record.  When FREEZE is turned on, pressing the TAP footswitch begin recording a new loop.  A second press (within 10 seconds) will close the loop and begin playback. To overdub, turn off FREEZE to add new material and turn FREEZE back on when done. Hitting the TAP switch will clear any currently looped audio. To record a new loop, make sure FREEZE is turned on and then hit the TAP footswitch.

When MIDI Sync’d, Tapping a new delay length, even using the Loop Record function, will quantize the new length to an integer number of MIDI quarter notes.  (IE, you can increase the delay time while remaining MIDI Sync’d).  To get back to the original delay time, quickly double tap the Tap Tempo switch.

Presets now load exactly as saved and ignore any expression pedal assignments until the Expression pedal has been moved.

Global Tap will not load the delay time of any preset saved with a SHORT delay range setting.  The previous Tap Tempo value will be stored and used once a delay without a SHORT delay range setting has been loaded. This allows musicians to access the myriad of modulation effects (that require delay times less than 100ms) while still preserving a global tap tempo when switching presets during live performance.

In this menu, users can see the current MIDI Channel selection and change it if necessary.  Upon entering this menu, the current MIDI Channel Selection will be displayed followed by a blinking ‘C’ to indicate the current menu.  The possible MIDI Channel assignments are 1-16 with tens indicated by an illuminated decimal point: 9 = 9, 0. = 10, 1. = 11, etc.  Turn the Preset Encoder Clockwise to increment the selection and Counter-Clockwise to decrement the selection.

Once the desired MIDI Channel is shown:

 The easiest way to update your Infinity is to connect it to your computer via USB, run the Pigtronix-Infinity application, Select “Tools->Update Firmware” from the menu bar, Left-Click the “Automatic” button, close the application, disconnect the Infinity from your computer, and then Power Cycle the Infinity while holding “INPUT SPLIT.

The Infinity Looper 2.0 firmware file can be downloaded for manual install here

The Windows application has been modified and can be retrieved by running the “UpdateApplication.bat” script in the PC folder of the Infinity’s USB drive.  Further directions on updating the application can be found here.

The Mac OSX application has been updated and can the new installer can be downloaded from here.  Download and run the installer.  On newer versions of Mac OSX it will be necessary to Ctrl + Click the installer to get the necessary installation permissions.

Release Notes:

Can now Fade loops out over multiple loop cycles.  In the FADE stop mode, stopping a loop will steadily decrease the volume of the audio until the end of the current loop cycle.  This can now be configured to fade over multiple loop cycles by increasing the Fade Length.

• Pressing and holding the STOP MODE and SYNC MULTI switches will enter the Fade Length Menu.  An “F” will appear on the 7-segment display and alternately show a digit corresponding to the current Fade Length.  The default, end at the end of the current loop, is 1.  Every number above that adds an additional cycle of Fade Out.
• This setting can also be set Per Preset (including the Blank Canvas), from the Infinity Application in the Fade Length section.

Instantly ERASE the Unarmed Loop using an additional Reverse Remote Switch mapping.  This can be set from the Infinity Application’s “Tools->Global Boot Settings.”

New settings for Ignoring MIDI Clock received at the MIDI In port. This can be set from the Infinity Application’s “Tools->Global Boot Settings.”

Numerous small technical fixes.

Guitar Interactive gave Bob Weir’s Real Deal Acoustic Preamp a spin, and found it to be a “very powerful acoustic tone shaping tool.”

“Use this to tailor the pedal’s response to your guitar, and also to the venue. Even with a single piezo pickup connected to the Real Deal, this is a very effective and natural way of sculpting the tone of your guitar. Where the pedal really shines, however, is with multiple sound sources on the same guitar.”

Check out the full review and VIDEO here

NEW YORK—June 16th, 2020—In a deal that aligns several New York-based brands, D’Angelico Guitars has acquired Supro USA and Pigtronix.

With a shared heritage as reignited legacy brands, D’Angelico Guitars and Supro have collaborated as a guitar and amp pairing in their marketing efforts for years. “We have always had a deep appreciation for Supro’s products and brand,” says D’Angelico Chairman John Ferolito Jr. “When the opportunity to acquire the brand arose, we didn’t think twice.”

“This is going to make all three brands even stronger,” says CEO Brenden Cohen. “I can’t wait for our customers to see what we have in store for them.”

Along with Supro, D’Angelico Guitars has also acquired Pigtronix. Both Supro and Pigtronix were previously owned by Absara Audio, located in Long Island, NY. “All three companies having a home base in New York just amplifies the harmony these brands already share,” says D’Angelico COO Jimmy Lovinggood. “The last few months have been an extremely challenging time for businesses across the country and around the world—New York City especially. We began this acquisition many months before COVID-19, and although this is a challenging time for every industry, we truly believe in these brands and decided to move forward in full confidence.”

Supro was originally founded in Chicago in the 1930s, producing amplifiers that were featured on some of the greatest rock records of all time. It was relaunched in 2013 and has gone on to achieve popular status in the music industry. Pigtronix is a fast-growing industry leader amongst boutique pedal companies, featuring forward-thinking design and concepts.

“The acquisition of Supro and Pigtronix by D’Angelico creates a trifecta,” says Dave Koltai, former co-owner of Supro and Pigtronix. “It’s a perfect fit, and I am thrilled to be able to continue making new gear for musicians around the world.” Koltai will be onboard as Chief Technology Officer, continuing to design and develop both Supro Amps and Pigtronix Pedals, alongside D’Angelico’s Executive Vice President of Product Development, Ryan Kershaw. “This is going to allow us to take everything we do to the next level,” says Kershaw.

Though the acquisition is now complete, the brands will enter a transitional phase, developing a new company structure and revised product plan for 2021. “We could not be more excited for what’s to come,” says Cohen. “This is the company I have been envisioning.”

For media inquiries & press opportunities, please contact Jessica Cambeiro at Jessica@dangelicoguitars.com