A Swedish synth company has the vision to take eight analogue drive circuits and put them in one box with complete digital control
Elektron, a hi-tech music company from Sweden best known for its synths and drum machines, recently made its first effects processor – the Analog Heat, a desktop stereo distortion box with filtering and EQ, designed to take a line input. Its latest product – and its first foray into the guitar pedal market – is the Elektron Analog Drive we have here and takes some of what the Analog Heat does and puts it into rugged mono stompbox form with high-impedance input to suit guitars.
What you’re getting here is an array of eight different distortion tones plus three-band EQ, all generated with analogue circuitry but with digital control, so you can store and recall all the knob-set parameters into the 100 onboard presets. There’s also external MIDI control of all parameters if you need it, and sockets to add a couple of expression pedals.
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