Former Gamechanger Audio staff start their own company – meet its first product the Monk Echo, a unique reverb and delay pedal
Mentha Works – a new music gear brand from Latvia formed by former Gamechanger Audio staff – has unveiled its first product, the Monk Echo.
A unique reverb and delay pedal, the Monk Echo is inspired by the human voice, and is designed to sound like “a choir of monks echoing through stone walls”.
After helping build and shape Gamechanger Audio, musicians and sound designers Toms Lazdovskis and Matiss Tazans are now designing their own line of expressive instruments for pedalboard and desktop use. The brand’s core team consists of talent with experience at companies such as Neural DSP, Darkglass, and Marshall.
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Drawing inspiration from Baltic choral traditions and mythical acoustic architecture, Monk Echo processes the reverb and delay signal through morphing formant filters tuned to human vocal resonances.
Users can select the vowel that the pedal “sings”, glide continuously between vowel shapes, or enable automatic vowel expression that responds to playing dynamics. You can even switch between voice characters, with a choice of male, female, or children’s choir timbres.
As the pedal is designed to “sing with you” and is not based on static algorithms, it reacts to your performance. Its sound shaping tools let you blend between the reverb and delay, experiment with delay time and feedback, and even play around with Reverb Pitch Grains that offer granular pitch “shimmer and motion”.
It has a Macro Control system so you can link multiple parameters to a single control source, which can be operated via the dedicated knob, an expression pedal, or the built-in footswitch. To provide visual feedback, every parameter movement is also displayed on an 8×8 Dot Display.
Hear it in-play in the video below:
Monk Echo is priced at $380/€380 for a limited time. You can find out more and view full specifications over at Mentha Works.
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