From seasick wobbles to glitchy bleep-bloops and “I think I can” huffs and puffs, the crazy-sounding stuff is actually the easy part for the SOMERSAULT™. Once players are done maxing out different settings to discover the bizarre wowie-zowie sounds it can create, Caroline Guitar Company encourages them to explore the subtleties of how each control interacts with the others. The result is a remarkable range of sounds that can be quickly and intuitively dialed in, including gentle, lagging vibrato, 1980s-style choruses, doubling effects, and plenty of wild modulation when the controls are pushed.

SOMERSAULT™ applies a similar framework to Caroline Guitar Company’s popular KILOBYTE™ and MÉTÉORE™ pedals. While a digital chip creates the delayed wet signal, the initial gain stage, dry signal, LFO, control set, and output mixing stage are entirely analog. The result is a rich, full sound with the robust feel and power players have come to expect from Caroline Guitar Company pedals.