Neon Egg Planetarium 2: Synth styled effects pedal that’ll make anything sound epic
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Neon Egg Planetarium 2 · Source: Neon Egg
Neon Egg Planetarium 2 · Source: Neon Egg
Neon Egg Planetarium 2 · Source: Neon Egg
The Planetarium 2 features a stereo Reverb and Chorus running into a Tape Echo with a built-in Compressor with external side chaining for some epic sounds, modulated echoes and lush lines pumping to your track.
Planetarium 2
They may call it a guitar pedal but this is a box that’s going to be awesome regardless of what you feed through it. In fact they did a video with a really crappy synth and it sounds completely fantastic.
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It is instant ambient, instant post-rock, instantly enjoying, pushing, blurring and scaling whatever you want to play with. It’s just a lot of fun.
And look at it! It’s like a weeny console synthesizer with its knobs and EMS VCS3 angles but instead of a touch-plate keyboard or modulation matrix you get a pair of stomp-box buttons – well it is supposed to be a pedal. The brushed metal, the wooden ends, the colour, it’s a lovely device.
The current demo video on the website is of the original version. But over the lockdown period Neon Egg has been making some changes and has found ways to improve it after months of building the things. They’ve improved the modulation and added a modulation shape switch They’ve added a short/long switch to the compressor making it easier to dial what you’re after and they’ve also made it true stereo rather than dual mono. Talking of which the input jack now detects a mono or stereo jack so they’ve removed the switch. There’s now a pad switch on the reverb/delay output. They’ve bumped up the power supply for increased headroom and it can now output about 10v peak to peak and so can play nice with Eurorack. Some of the LEDs have been changed and the brightness dimmed a bit and the cheeks are now made from oak.
So nothing exactly revolutionary but it’s such a cool effects box that it was a great opportunity just to mention it.
The Planetarium 2 would make the perfect accompaniment to any synthesizer especially if they are lacking in the effects department. I was thinking how perfect it would be for the Deckard’s Dream as well as simpler synths like the Crave or Pocket Operator Modular. But you could use it anywhere – guitars of course, vocals and it would look fabulous in your Instagram story.
These are built by hand and so there’s a bit of a waiting list. To get on the list send an email to waitinglist@neonegg.com and you’ll be contacted when your number’s up. The cost is £383.80 inc VAT.
More information
- Neon Egg website.
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2 responses to “Neon Egg Planetarium 2: Synth styled effects pedal that’ll make anything sound epic”
Question: Do you know if the switches are the hard click stile or more of the soft touch style?
Do you mean the stompbox switches or the switches on the panel? Although i dont know the answer to either.