Chug Capo Pitch Pedal
Ola Englund built Solar Guitars into a metal institution on the strength of one word — chug — and the Chug Capo Pitch Pedal is the brand's first digital effect, aimed squarely at the practical problem every modern metal player knows: too many tunings, not enough guitars. The Chug Capo is a low-latency digital capo and pitch shifter that drops or raises your tuning by up to twelve semitones in either direction, letting a single guitar in standard cover everything from drop D to full octave-down doom without touching a tuning peg. The headline spec is the latency — or rather the near-total absence of it. Pitch pedals live or die by how fast they track, especially under palm-muted low-string riffing where any smear turns tight rhythm playing into soup. Solar's algorithm is engineered specifically for that use case: percussive, high-gain, drop-tuned playing, where the DigiTech Drop has long been the only serious option. A bright display shows your current shift at a glance, up/down selectors make tuning changes instant between songs, and the rugged brushed-metal enclosure with Solar's tribal 'S' graphic looks appropriately menacing on a board. Englund's houses-of-the-unholy demo style made the pedal's mission clear from day one: this is a working tool for gigging metal players, cover bands and studio guitarists who need every tuning at once. First digital pedal from a guitar company — and a confident one.
