What Does The Pigtronix Gloamer Do? 

I have an Attack Decay pedal also. An unjustifiably overlooked pedal IMHO. The Gloamer does some of the things the Attack Decay does, and some of the things it can't do. In turn, the Attack Decay does a number of things the Gloamer does not appear to do. Phil did not attempt to demonstrate the function, so I can't tell if it is unique to the Attack Decay, but the EHX-AD can operate in polyphonic mode such that it applies the synthetic envelope to each of a series of successive notes. The other thing the EHX-AD does is a more authentic emulation of "reverse tape". Keep in mind that the harmonic content of a plucked/strummed string is all clustered in the initial pick attack, quickly fading down to the fundamental and a bit of lower-order harmonic content as the note sustains. When a recorded guitar is reversed, the harmonic content needs to increase as the note swells back to the start. The EHX-AD does a great job of that, while the Gloamer does not attempt to do so. But again, the compression of the Gloamer aims for terrain similar to the EHX Freeze pedal, that hangs onto a sampled sound, as opposed to having emulation of reverse tape as its target.

I instantly thought of GI Joe, and I didn’t even grow up with it!

He's already had a look at it. Posted on August 8th