Astra Modulation Machine Reviews

I've always been incredibly fickle with modulation. I generally love flanger, but find its use limited. I think I hate phaser, but always end up using it on my board. Tremolo is... a thing, I guess (hadn't found one I love, but don't feel like I'm missing out). However, when it comes to chorus, I've tried five other pedals and all of them have been somewhere from hate to meh. I've never found a chorus I love. Until this one.

The day I got it, I unboxed it, hooked it up to my Radial stereo re-amper, and tracked it into a song. It was perfect. It was FINALLY what I expected from a chorus. Maybe I'd tried the wrong five, but this sounded perfect pretty much without even tweaking the knobs.

For the chorus reason alone, I've fallen in love with this pedal. However, I have to stress that the flanger and tremolo are also the best of each that I now own (three flangers and one other trem). This pedal really is fantastic, and give me "the sound" that I'm looking for.

Was it expensive? Yes.

Was it more expensive than the five other choruses I own? Not even close.