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Red Panda Tensor Tape, Reverse and Pitch Shifter Pedal

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£349.00

This is a New Red Panda Tensor Tape, Reverse and Pitch Shifter Pedal from Red Panda, now available in the Guitar Pedals category on Guitars Pedals Amps and Stuff.. Read More below.

Description

“What doesn’t the Tensor do?” is the right question to ask here. This is your go-to hub for all things timey wimey. Looping, time stretching, compressing, pitch shifting, reverse, chorus, slicing, overdubs and even more. It really is everything a pedal maniac needs to thrive.

No doubt Panda’s most elaborate concoction yet, the Tensor is full of unique sounds and textures you will simply stumble upon as you explore what it has to offer. Its biggest strength is the loop function. Once you’ve laid down a little lick, it gives you the freedom to warp pitch, speed and length – all in realtime.

Now it’s time to go nuts by randomising glitches, stutters and freezes; even dubbing over the original loop in momentary or latching fashion. And of course, you can access any of these sounds as you’re playing, ignoring the loop switch altogether.

About Red Panda

The boffins at Red Panda are all about pushing the boundaries of what can be done with natural, organic sounds. Forget your classic Klons and mundane reverbs, here it’s all trailblazing new effects using digital technology. This opens up the door for what can be achieved using the likes of guitars, keys and drum machines.

Red Panda are a small company focused on design process lasting 12-24 months. They use automated manufacturing to improve the reliability of their creations. All electronics are fully assembled in the USA, while the enclosures are CNC milled and powder coated in Canada.

Time to experiment.

Here's what Red Panda say about the Tensor:

The Tensor gives you live reverse and tape stop effects, pitch shifting, time stretching and hold functions that you can combine in creative ways. Slow down, speed up and rewind in real time. Stretch or compress time with no pitch change.  Loop, overdub, and randomly slice phrases up to 4.8 seconds.  

Intelligent randomization adapts to the knob settings. The results range from occasional CD skips, stutters, and rhythmic repeats to random slicing and erratic pitch shifts. Both foot switches have momentary and latching modes to inject pitch jumps, glitches, or instantly rewind what you just played.

The Tensor is in a pedalboard-friendly enclosure with all jacks on top. All controls are immediately accessible with well-spaced knobs for live tweaking, and USB MIDI for recording and sequencing.

Key Features

  • Tape speed from reverse to stop to forward
  • Realtime time stretch up to 4:1
  • Loop time compression and stretch from 1:4 to 4:1
  • Pitch shift from -2 to +2 octaves
  • Intelligent randomization
  • Overdub, replace, and dual buffer (next) loop modes
  • Forward/alternate/reverse loop direction
  • Momentary or latching foot switches
  • CV-friendly expression pedal input (0-3.3V)
  • +5.5 dBu maximum input level (adjustable to +7.2 dBu)
  • USB MIDI

About the manufacturer

Red Panda

Red Panda is a guitar-effects maker. The current GPAS selection includes Particle 2 Granular Delay and Pitch Shifter, Tensor Tape, Reverse and Pitch Shifter and Raster V2 Delay and Pitch and covers pitch & harmoniser pedals, looper pedals, delay pedals and specialist effects pedals. The model name matters because each effect has a different job in a rig.

For these products, compare effect function, control range, switching, bypass or routing, power requirements and the intended guitar or bass role. The product page is the authority for exact circuitry, connections, condition and included items.

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Guitar Pedals

Guitar pedals are compact effects units that shape and enhance a guitar’s sound, sitting between the instrument and the amplifier. They include gain pedals like overdrive and distortion, modulation effects such as chorus and tremolo, time-based effects like delay and reverb, and essential utilities including tuners, compressors and loopers. Understanding basic things such as pedal type, signal order, power requirements and intended use helps players choose pedals that suit their style, setup and playing environment.

Pitch & Harmoniser Pedals

Pitch processors shift the incoming note to a new interval, while harmonisers add one or more shifted voices alongside it. Digital detection may follow single notes, chords or a selected musical key, and some units allow continuous expression-controlled sweeps. Tracking accuracy, latency, interval range, scale intelligence and formant handling determine how natural or deliberately synthetic the added voices sound.

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Guitar pedals alter, route, control or support an instrument signal from the floor. The tag covers individual effects, multi-effects, switching, tuning, looping, amplification and pedalboard utilities. The product category and additional effect tags identify the specific job each pedal performs.

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