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The more pedals that end up in your rig, the sooner you realize that you need a better way to control them than simply connecting everything together in a continuous chain. A true-bypass loop-/pedal-switching system is a helpful solution that cleans up and preserves your guitar’s tone by keeping unused pedals out of the signal path until they’re engaged.
While Decibel Eleven’s Pedal Palette looks similar to various other loop-bypass switchers currently available, it differs quite significantly from the competition by offering several useful advantages, including its ability to swap pedal order and perform parallel and series processing, features that users can assign to any effect of its four loops.
