The whole point of effects pedals has always been to push our crude slabs of steel-string equipped wood to new sonic horizons. To utterly transform our instrument into something else. Hence the last couple of years has seen a massive surge in devices dedicated to turning guitars and bass’ into fully-fledged synthesizers. So if you’ve always wanted to wield the rich synthetic magic of stacked analog oscillators or the complex twinkling soundscapes of FM synthesis, then these spectacular effects will take you there in plug-and-play pedal fashion.