Eventide Knife Drop Fuzz

Three knobs with dual functions handle the fine‑tuning of all the Eventide Knife Drop's tone‑shaping elements. The three dials' first layer sets the blend between the input signal and the internal monophonic synthesizer, the amount of fuzz distortion, and the output level. The signal can be boosted by up to 9dB. In the second layer, activated by holding the LED button, they control the filter's cutoff frequency and resonance, along with the filter's attack time as it moves towards the set value. Then, the Knife Drop has a pair of footswitches, the first of which toggle the effect on and off, with the second activating the integrated octaver. A switch cycles through the available octaver modes, allowing musicians to add an upper octave whenever they feel it's needed, or both an upper and sub-octave at the same time. The Knife Drop can store five individual configurations as presets simply by holding down the left-hand footswitch, although cycling between presets requires an external controller or the Eventide H90 app.

The US manufacturer Eventide is one of the pioneers of digital audio technology. The company has existed since the early 1970s and began with developments in the broadcasting sector and digital delay effects. As early as 1974 they unveiled the H910, a pitch shifter revolutionary at the time. The H3000 (1986) was milestone in the field of digital effects and was very popular with professional musicians in recording studios and live performances. The following generations of this model were ever more powerful and culminated in the current flagship H9000. Since 2007, Eventide has also been developing compact pedals, primarily for guitarists and keyboard players. To this day, Eventide's algorithms are considered among the best on the market.