ROCKTRON'S CYBORG Digital Destiny is a bit of a paradox. On the one hand, this floor pedal delivers studio-quality tone, courtesy of its Motorola DSP engine, with eight instant-access presets. It has an intuitive tap tempo control, and individual knobs let you refine the presets by adjusting delay time, repeats and wet/dry mix. The unit runs on 9v power supply (not included), so there's no fussing with batteries, and it sports Rocktron's HUSH noise reduction technology. Even the old-school LED display is efficient and easy to read.

On the other hand, you need a MIDI controller (such as Rocktron's MIDI Mate) to change presets by foot as well as to access all the pedal's 64 presets. But as Rocktron notes, the Cyborg is not a budget pedal, so a more professional-minded audience is obviously the target here.