Mattoverse's really smart 4-in-1 Inflection Point Multi-FX - Tremolo, Vibrato, Reverb and Boost

A few of my readers put me onto this pedal when I was featuring my various fairly recently acquired plexi-fronted Mattoverse pedals earlier this year. It’s a properly neat compact Multi-FX with the perfect complement of flavours and controls. Delivering a wonderfully expressive 8-Waveform Amplitude Tremolo, Vibrato and Chorus, a beautifully calibrated Short Reverb, and a handy Output/ Boost section - which means you can deploy the pedal in a huge variety of ways and have you covered for several different effects.

2024 happens to be my ’Year of Tremolo’ (just waiting for one more to land before that roundup article - while there are still further tremolos being launching later in the year!) so this one comes into the collection principally as a great sounding Tremolo - and all the other parts are therefore just massive bonuses. It’s such a well-balanced pedal that is sounds fantastic every which way - and the Vibrato goes very wobbly / warbly and detuned at its peak - where you can then nicely temper that down to a more subtle modulation.

The current editions of this pedal come in a sort of lilac-blue and black colourways. While I preferred the earlier white colourway - and so picked up a pristine Mint second hand one on Reverb.com for a reasonable price!

Controls - Depth, Rate, Space, Waveform : Ramp Up / Ramp Down / Square / Triangle / Sine / Lumps / Stepped / Random, Dry/Wet, Output/Boost, Mode : Tremolo / Vibrato, Bypass Footswitch, Tap Tempo Footswitch.

I’m kind of so used to the various different Waveforms by now - where those mostly come in multiples of 8, and mostly feature largely the same sorts of waveforms. I typically gravitate towards the more curvy elegant ones - so here the Sinewave and Lumps ones - but all 8 can sound pretty lush. While it’s always trickier to find a use for the last two options - Stepped and Random - they’re rather less rhythmic typically - and often somewhat abstract - but it’s as always a task of matching the waveform to the music - as to which is the most complementary choice - to deliver the right sort of accent or subtle inflection!

Matt has done a fantastic job with this pedal - which is the 4th of his that I own. I think I have most of his essential pedals by now, and am really glad to add the Inflection Point into the mix - it’s such a well thought out pedal. I love the fact that it has both Rate and Tap Tempo controls - so you can choose just how you apply that side of the LFO. A lot of pedals tend to just have one or the other - but it’s typically really handy to have both - as each comes into its own in certain playback scenarios.

It’s easy to dial down some of the secondary effects here - or dial them up for that matter - while you don’t have fully independent granularity necessarily in how those are deployed - but overall - and as mentioned - this is the perfect complement of controls / control topology for this pedal.

I say it’s a a 4-in-1 - while if you count the Chorusing side of the Vibrato separately - then it’s a 5-in-1 essentially - just a really potent and beautifully flavoured multi-modulation pedal with some superb extras. The Short Reverb really helps accentuate and bring out those modulation flavours in a variety of scenarios.

The Inflection Point is $199 from the Mattoverse Webstore, available in two colourways as mentioned. And if you wait patiently, Matt will no doubt introduce a cool new custom variant or two. If I waited it out long enough - no doubt there would have been a Plexi-fronted one eventually to match my other 3 from the brand. But I saw this Mint white one - and kind of had to have it. The newer editions have cool milled aluminium knobs - but I actually really like the Black, Red and White silver-top plastic knobs on my edition - they perfectly suit that colourway / format.

I concur with my readers that this is indeed a truly great and properly versatile Multi-FX / Multi-Modulation pedal!