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Jonathan Horsley

“The same exquisite high-frequency roll off on repeats and warm tape-like saturation as those iconic mechanical boxes”: Red Witch’s Magesteria is a high-end delay inspired by vintage Maestro, Roland and Watkins tape echo units

Red Witch Magisteria – a hand-made delay pedal from Ben Fulton's Red Witch Pedals.

Red Witch Pedals has unveiled the Magesteria, a handmade high-end delay pedal that was inspired by a trio of classic tape echo units – and the electric guitar tones they equipped delay pioneers such as Brian May, Jimmy Page and Eddie Van Halen with.

There is no mistaking the Magesteria for anything other than the handiwork of Red Witch’s Ben Fulton, who once more has crafted a real work of functional pedalboard art. He describes the Magesteria as “the embodiment of of tape delay glory” and presumably that means you step on it and the sounds you hear will have you swearing that there must be some kind of mechanical tape gizmo under the hood. 

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