“This ‘notched’ guitar tone has been used by legends like Carlos Santana and Brian May. It’s a fantastic tone to have at your disposal”: Red Witch unveils Euphemia, an analogue sample hold filter with a twist

Red Witch Euphemia.

Attention on deck! Red Witch Pedals has a new guitar effects pedal out, and as you might expect from the stompbox company that brought us the mind-expanding Synthotron III, this pedal – a 100 per cent analogue sample hold filter pedal named Euphemia – is a limited edition cracker straight out of left field.

Now, please excuse the naval introduction to this article, it is just that sample hold filter pedals for the electric guitar are not something that we see everyday, and it brought to mind the gurgling psychedelic squawk of Frank Zappa’s Ship Ahoy. This pedal could put those sorts of sounds on your pedalboard.