Editorials
Chasing a particular sound? Each page here picks the LV2 plugins that get you there, with settings to dial in and chain-position advice. Think of it as buying guides for the effects already on your pi-Stomp — these are just like, our opinions, man.
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- Tube Screamer — TS-9 / TS-10 stacked boost
- Atmospheric Delay — Multi-machine delay replacement
- Shimmer and Cloud Reverb — Shimmer and granular reverb replacement
- Vintage Fuzz — Fat, articulate fuzz for solo work
- Digital Delay — Clean, transparent digital delay
- Pitch Shifter — Treadle-controlled pitch shifting
- Wah — Treadle and auto-wah filter sweeps
- Chorus — One delay line or six: wobble versus width
- Glitch Granular Delay — Scattered grains, freeze, and bitcrush
- Blown-Out Overdrive — Asymmetric op-amp saturation that stays clear under gain
- Compressors — Every compressor on the device, by the job you want it to do
- Tremolo — Amplitude modulation, from optical cells to bias trem
- Uni-Vibe and Phaser — Swept allpass: throb versus glide
- Equalizers — Every EQ on the device, by the job you want it to do
- Utility Staples — Gain, gate, mixer, meter: the plugins that hold a chain together
- Loopers — SooperLooper, ALO, Loopor for live looping
- Amp, Cabinet, and Neural Capture — GxAmplifier-X, GxCabinet, NAM, and when to pick which
- Everyday Reverb — Plate, hall, room: MVerb, C* Plate, TAP Reverberator
- MIDI Instruments — Plug in a keyboard: FM keys, tonewheel organ, and a GM ROMpler
- Analog Polysynth — Warm pads and brass from six virtual-analog synths