AA Audio Rotary 3 toggle Phase, Vibe vs Caroline Guitar Company Arigato
The AA Audio Rotary 3 toggle Phase, Vibe and the Caroline Guitar Company Arigato are both pedals. The Caroline Guitar Company Arigato leans dynamic and modulated.
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Blended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.30% — somewhat different
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$219via Reverb
This entry covers a boutique AA Audio pedal combining rotary speaker simulation with phaser and vibe modes in a single three-way toggle format, letting a player switch between three related but distinct modulation textures without needing separate dedicated pedals for each. Rotary, phaser, and vibe effects all share a family resemblance, swirling, pitch-and-amplitude-modulated tones descended from spinning Leslie speaker cabinets, but each produces a meaningfully different character, and packaging all three into one footprint reflects a common approach among smaller boutique builders trying to offer maximum tonal range from minimal pedalboard real estate.
The Caroline Guitar Company ARIGATO is a 4-stage analog OTA-based phaser and vibrato pedal designed with intentionally off-balance LFO behavior for quirky, expressive modulation. Based on the Somersault platform but modified to deliver phaser and vibrato rather than chorus. The dual LFOs can be pushed into wild, unstable territory for pitch-bending vibrato effects, and with Feedback turned up produces pseudo auto-wah sounds. Running 100% wet enables pure pitch vibrato with no dry signal blend. Boutique US construction.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Electronic
- Indie
- Shoegaze
- Experimental
- dynamic
- modulated
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Occasions this gear suits — judged per model, or derived from its wattage, connectivity and category.- Silent Recording
- Silent Stage