Tides

Holy Island Audio is a boutique pedal builder based in Cardiff, Wales. Each pedal is printed and assembled there by hand.

The Tides is an atmosphere generator that breaks the rule of putting dirt before reverb. It combines reverb with two gain stages: a BluesBreaker-style drive that can go before or after the reverb (via toggle), and a secondary reverse transistor fuzz activated by footswitch for blown-out walls of sound.

The Swell footswitch forces self-oscillation, creating wild feedback washes on demand. An effects loop lets you insert any pedal into the reverb path for extreme sound design. Order toggle swaps drive position in the chain: pre-reverb for cleaner preamp tones or post-reverb for maximum chaos.