The Other Room is a unique speaker distorter pedal that features a 3 Watt, 3” speaker and a small condenser microphone. This pedal can be so many things all in one: a practice amp for jamming amp tones in your room, a mic’d cab setup for recording huge guitar tones without tons of space or recording gear, a feedbacker, a noisemaker, a unique way to record stereo signals with panned effects, the list really does go on. The more I use it, the more I realize I can accomplish.

The controls are straightforward but highly interactive. The Speaker knob controls the volume of the speaker, which naturally distorts at higher volumes due to the whopping 3 inches it’s carrying. The Mic Out knob is actually the gain for the on board microphone pre-amp. The Fuzz knob tempers the built-in fuzz circuit.

The FDBK switch is where things start to get really interesting, this routes the output of the microphone both to the output of the pedal, as well as the input of the speaker. This is where all the knobs interplay to display a huge range of tonality. The feedback itself ranges from light bits of feedback after you hit a note to full squealing feedback to self-oscillating madness.