“Incredible… will significantly expand your mind and your sonic palette”: Death By Audio/EarthQuaker Devices Time Shadows II review

EQD’s Jamie Stillman and DBA's Ollie Ackermann put their heads together and design a pedal that will blow your mind

EarthQuaker Devices Time Shadows
(Image: © EarthQuaker Devices / Death By Audio)

Guitar World Verdict

Musicians with open minds seeking complex, adventurous new sounds to explore will find plenty of inspiration from the gloriously wild and weird effects lurking with Time Shadows II.

Pros

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    Manual control of Time, Filter or Span via expression pedal.

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    Six presets.

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    Hands-free shifting between preset and live operation modes.

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    Incredibly complex, synth-like tones and “experimental” textures.

Cons

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    Not for unadventurous, conservative players who prefer conventional effects.

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Collaborations or crossovers can be a very difficult thing to pull off successfully, but the recent pairing of Death By Audio and EarthQuaker Devices for the development
of the Time Shadows pedal is the music industry equivalent of the kung fu-meets-samurai brilliance of Zatoichi and the One-Armed Swordsman.

Time Shadows II is described as “Subharmonic Multi-Delay Resonator,” but that
just scratches the surface of the incredibly complex effects lurking within this diminutive yet powerful stompbox.

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Chris Gill

Chris is the co-author of Eruption - Conversations with Eddie Van Halen. He is a 40-year music industry veteran who started at Boardwalk Entertainment (Joan Jett, Night Ranger) and Roland US before becoming a guitar journalist in 1991. He has interviewed more than 600 artists, written more than 1,400 product reviews and contributed to Jeff Beck’s Beck 01: Hot Rods and Rock & Roll and Eric Clapton’s Six String Stories.