KHDK Digital Bath

This signature stompbox recreates one of Deftones' dreamiest tones - but is it more than just a one-trick (white) pony?

- BY MICHAEL ASTLEY-BROWN

WHEN THE NAME was announced for the first piece of signature gear from Deftones guitarist Chino Moreno, we couldn't have been the only ones who thought "chorus pedal for an effect named after 'Digital Bath,' a track from Deftones' 2000 album, White Pony." But rather than that song's bedrock rhythms, the pedal is based on the glitchy modulation sweeps in its middle eight (an effect Reddit commentators have theorized originated from Korg's cool-at-the-time Toneworks Pandora PX3 desktop multi-effects unit).