On Tour with La Dispute the Black Hole Symmetry is my go to noise-maker. I love that you have to reckon with the controls. Even if you have the manual in front of you, the BHS begs for experimentation. It makes it all the more exciting when you are making guitar textures in real time on stage. Also, let's be honest. The Disintegrate knob is the one I've been looking for all along!

I have been making a lot of music at home since we can't tour right now and have really dug into reamping certain sounds though my guitar pedals as a creative mixing tool. Using Singularity as a parallel process on kick and snare has helped create extra dimensions and excitement to my drums tracks.

I believe in the creative potential of the BHS and the careful craftsmanship of it's creators. Here is a noise-beat I made where every sound except drums was made with the BHS and my guitar. The drums themselves were, of course, run through singularity and disintegrated. Other than some slight stereo imaging done in my daw, the BHS is the only process on any audio in this track.

Image credit: Madie Ramser


Corey Stroffolino

The Black Hole Symmetry is amazing. I love the way the reverb, delay, modulation and fuzz interact with each other in unique an inspiring ways. It's the sort of pedal that surprises me every time I use it. It's great for guitar, but it's equally good for use with synths and even drum machines. It's never leaving my board. You'd have to prise it out of my dead hand. 

Mark Huckridge

I’m always interested in making my guitar not sound like a guitar. To do this,a huge part of my guitar tone is the interaction between fuzz, reverb and delay. Having all three in the BHS is something that works nicely and yields some great results. It can be quite subtle, but can also be blown out and works really well with the rest of my board. 

I also love the simplicity and the general design of the pedal. I’m useless at reading instructions but this pedal is inviting and intuitive to use. You can immediately get some great sounds out of it. 

We’ve also started using it on vocals quite a bit. The fuzz and reverb together with vocals sound excellent. It’s becoming a key pedal for the band.

Image credit : Mark McGuinness 

Alan Duggan

C’est difficile de ne pas tomber amoureux de cette pédale, même quand on n’est pas un grand guitariste. Je l’utilise beaucoup en tant qu’auxiliaire sur des synthés ou sur des voix pour les salir et leur donner un grain organique. La BHS a le don de rendre n’importe quel instrument hyper humain, elle est tout sauf froide et impersonnelle. J’ai bien hâte de voir ce que vont produire ces gars par la suite.
Crédit photo : Pilou

Maxime Dobosz

La Black Hole Symmetry est la pédale que je cherchais depuis longtemps.
J'utilise principalement l'Ergosphère et l'Event Horizon pour des ambiances shoegaze, et elle le fait divinement bien. Le fait de pouvoir avoir la main sur le niveau de la fonction pitch me permet de délivrer des harmonies qui apportent de la richesse et de la personnalité à mon son. 
La Singularity est une des meilleures fuzz que j'ai pu avoir dans les mains.
Elle cristallise parfaitement ce que j'aime: de la lourdeur, de l'assise et de la netteté. 
Une pédale singulière, polyvalente ... un "must have" pour moi.

Crédit: Louis Blaizeau (@nvxa_)

Simon Meha

La Black Hole Symmetry est une pedale extraordinaire!
3 effets en 1 et donc des combinaisons de l’espace.. 

Tout d’abord je suis fan des vieux tape echos et donc bien sûr des delays basés sur les PT2399.
L’Egosphere est hyper organique, avec une très belle alteration des répétitions et une modulation à tomber par terre! 

L’Event Horizon est une excellente reverb avec laquelle on veux jouer l’harmonisation pour un superb effet Shimmer. 

La cerise sur le gateau c’est l’énorme Fuzz (Singularity) avec une reserve de volume impressionnante non sans rappeler la couleur des vieux Sunn O))). 

Au delà du fait qu’elle sonne extrêmement bien, c’est surtout une pédale HYPER inspirante qui rend très créatif. 

J’adore aussi l’utiliser en insert en mixage sur tout et n’importe quoi pour porter une couleur et de la personnalité.
(Stereo SVP ahah!!)

Merci COLLISION DEVICES pour ces heures de pur shoegazing! ❤


STW 

Collision devices is breaking new ground in the oversaturated world of boutique pedal building...unique refreshing ideas and artistic execution...well done lads!

Tom Bukovac 

I love the pedal, I've used it all over our new record - the sounds you can get out of it are super inspiring and really fun! 

Image credit: Adam Gasson/Future

Tom Peters

There’s so much to love and appreciate about this pedal, other than the creative and fun branding and overall concept. 
It really does feel like you’re diving into deep space, into a whole new realm of tonal possibilities! 
I love how you can get ethereal clean atmospheric sounds but also get into really dense fuzz territory as well. Love how all the parameters for fuzz, delay, and reverb are also easily controlled by themselves so making them interact with each other is very intuitive. 
The middle disintegration knob is so fun... it sounds like the floor beneath you is just crumbling away...
As someone who is views making music in a very visual way, this pedal with its lush versatile tones and unique conceptual design never fails to inspire me when I plug in.

Image credit: Daniel Gray