BASED IN QUEENS, New York, and founded by Oliver Ackermann — guitarist and singer for the band A Place to Bury Strangers — Death by Audio has been designing creative, high-quality effects pedals since 2002, but the brand’s reputation has grown considerably in more recent years. We raved about DBA’s powerful Deep Animation envelope filter in GP’s May 2018 pedal issue, and this month we’re reviewing the company’s feature-laden Rooms pedal, a multifunction digital reverb that promises myriad depths to explore.
It would seem the deluxe digital reverb category might be a challenging one to enter at this stage in the game, given the number of impressive units already on the market, but right out of the box, the Rooms pedal appears to offer plenty to make it worthy of your consideration. Notable among these are that great blend of styling and functionality that will already be familiar to many users of other relatively complex pedals from DBA. As such, the pedal packages a wide range of functions