Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Boss SL-20 Slicer

Posted by Jon in • Guitar Effects

Boss SL-20
Boss recently announced their new SL-20 Slicer pedal at the 2008 Frankfurt music show, Musikmesse so I thought I would check out the demo videos. First of all the heading on the pedal homepage is “Instant Audio Adrenaline” and I can’t help but wonder if it is a tongue-in-cheek reference to Roger Linn’s Adrenalinn? Now what this pedal does is only a small fraction of what the ArenaLinn III does but I thought the arpeggiated sequences seemed very reminiscent. The SL-20 has fifty rhythmic patterns are onboard, with adjustable note attack and duration, plus harmonic slice effects, play the sliced sounds in realtime while capturing them with Loop Record.

”An internal tap-tempo feature is included, as well as the ability to sync to external MIDI clock. Sound characteristics of the SL-20 such as attack, duration, effect level, and direct level can be controlled by the onboard knobs or from an external Expression pedal.”

To really understand what this pedal is about check out the Demos page and watch a few of the quicktime videos, it will make a lot more sense once you see it being used.

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