The Arcades is an awesome and discontinued pedal from Cooper FX that gives you even more control over some of their iconic effects. It is a versatile multi effect platform, but what makes it unique is that it determines what type of effect it is based on the card that is inserted into the pedal.

This one comes with the much sought after Generation Loss and Grain cards. Each card has eight different modes that can be controlled with their own parameters (details below) as well the global parameters that include a ‘Clock’ knob to unlock some wildly glitchy digital sounds. Works and sounds great, never been used outside of the bedroom. Truly one of the coolest pedals I’ve ever played, happy to answer any questions!

GENERATION LOSS //////////

1: W + F: Wow and Flutter magnetic media low frequency pitch variation

2 : Fidelity - Signal Fidelity - filtering,

noise, and sample rate reduction

3: ComboA - combines W + F and Fidelity filtering options

4: ComboB- Near replica of the Original Version Generation Loss with enhanced Wow section

5: VHSdly - VHS Tape Style Delay

6: Vintage - Vintage Time Capsule

Random Vibrato Modulator

7: CDskip - Glitchy CD Skipping tracking error effect

8 : Radio - Bad Radio Signal Static Noise Effect

GRAINS / /

1: Buffer: Simple Granular Delay, Buffer with Density and Freeze

2 : TimeSt - Granular Time Stretching with Forward and Reverse Speed and Randomization

3: EnvBuf - Simple Granular Delay Buffer with Envelope Follower Sensitivity

4: EnvTS- Granular Time Stretching with Forward and Reverse Speed and Envelope Sensitivity in place of Freeze

5: Bounce - Granular Delay with Two Grains at different Pitches

6: Pitch - Pitch-Shifted Granular Delay with Change to Speed and pitch

7: LoFi - Pitch-Shifted Granular Delay with Change to Speed and

Pitch and LoFi Modulation

8 : RndSze - Glitchy Granular Delay with Randomization Intensity and speed