OVERVIEW
Eurorack is a synthesist’s toy chest. Stompboxes are a guitarist’s toy chest. Each industry offers a
seemingly infinite variety of products that enable musicians to build systems unique to their needs,
and to create a signature sound. Each is also somewhat addictive. Rare is the musician who
doesn’t eventually need a larger toy chest to house the accumulated toys.
Fortunately for the budget conscious musician, Eurorack modules and stompboxes have always
existed in separate worlds — someone whose eurorack system consumes an entire wall in their
home is usually not the same person whose pedalboard now requires a dedicated roadie just to
transport it to the gig.
But those worlds have now collided. Thanks to the release of the Pedal I/O 1U system, Intellijel has
knocked down the barrier between eurorack and stompbox. This seemingly innocuous little product
is both a modular synthesist’s portal to stompbox nirvana, and a guitarist’s wormhole to the sonic
manipulations of eurorack modules.
The Pedal I/O 1U system enables the modular synthesist to interact with the impressive assortment
of delays, choruses, flangers, phasers, fuzz boxes, tremolos, wah-wahs, amp simulators,
compressors and pitch shifter pedals available to guitarists. Conversely, it also grants guitarists
access to the myriad filters, ring mods, wavefolders and — most importantly — the near infinite CV
modulation delights inherent in eurorack.
Pedal IO 1U System Manual
