Unconventional Delay Pedals

[GardenoftheDead]

Put a voltage starve on a DOD DFX9. Or use a dying battery.

[Uncle Grandfather]

actually the koma can and does work as a "conventional" delay. that is one function of the gate, to clean up the noise on the standard delay settings over 100ms. i believe set up for such and gated you can get up to 2 sec of clean repeats.

check out this demo, it's pretty informative.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT8_M0JI79Y

op asked for unconventional delays, the koma certainly qualifies as it can also get into bit-crushing territory and everywhere inbetween. not to mention the infrared motion sensor that is patchable so you can adjust/freakout parameters in real time with your foot while playing.

[sylnau]

Yes, sylnau and univalve will agree. The waveforms allow for fun times. Univalve does some sick stuff with it using MIDI. The Moog is awesome, but you could easily get the Lunar Echo and whatever else is mentioned so far for the same price and still go out for pizza.

It's been a while since I ordered a pizza.

[Haki]

Yes, sylnau and univalve will agree. The waveforms allow for fun times. Univalve does some sick stuff with it using MIDI. The Moog is awesome, but you could easily get the Lunar Echo and whatever else is mentioned so far for the same price and still go out for pizza.

It's been a while since I ordered a pizza.

Why?

[sylnau]

I should remedy to that tomorrow.

[01010111]

Dammit now I want pizza...


...and a cloud buster....

[DarkAxel]

the only weird thing i'm enjoying right now...

I've got a double chip Boss DM-2 clone, which does this amazing thing with times around 350ms and lower... if you let it build up, it builds up this wall of feedback. But that gets controlled by your playing, so it creates this cushion around your playing of controlled oscillation/ambiance

i know a bit boring, but yeahh...

another favourite things: Ibanez AD9 with trimpots messed up into a total noisy hyper-dark ringmoddish delay
EHX SMMH on the reverse with all 30 voices... creates a MAD ambient cathedrallish reverb

i'll come up with something else

[Tendollarcat]

You guys are awesome!

Stuff that has blown my mind so far -

The Koma
The Lunar Echo
The DM2 type demos (Retro-sonic do a great one) - I think the EAD is to closest to a dm3 in design so that's probably why I dig the sounds.
The Skychord
The GB24
The Empress Vintage Superdelay demos I heard.
The Particle

So much great stuff out there. I can't afford a Moog so I'm too scared to watch demos

[sonidero]

The Skychord

Dammit now I want pizza...


...and a cloud buster....

I LURV MINES!!! The Cloudbuster sure is a weird beast and I don't even use half of it... The extra Drive which I think is a Truck Loud sounds really nice with the delay... You can set 4 different delay times and step between them and then record how you stepped between them and then play that back as a pattern... I just use it for the standard delay and the drive or switching back and forth between two delay times slightly apart with the lfo... Cloudbuster is definitely for Soundscapes and Ambient Guitar but it can do sooo much more...

[bigchiefbc]

I had skully make me a cavedweller delay (which is a really dark, reverb-y delay) into a wah enclosure, so I can fade the repeats in and out with the treadle. It's really cool for doing washes and soundscape stuff. Definitely recommended.

[Tendollarcat]

Question - is a used Diamond Memory Lane 2 worth looking at?

[Uncle Grandfather]

Question - is a used Diamond Memory Lane 2 worth looking at?

I'd look at as many pedals as possible. i wasn't impressed with the soundquality of the diamond, which is more of your traditional delay...but it does have some features that make it pretty versatile.

here's a link to effectsdatabase.com where you will find every delay pedal of every sort every made...within reason. you'll also find links to demo's or forums where the delay in question has been discussed.

http://www.effectsdatabase.com/type/time

[rustywire]

Mtl Asm Jaywalking, Goodbye 24
Snazzy Fx WOW & FLUTTER
Catalinbread Echorec

[rfurtkamp]

The Digi Timebender is the best unsung hero of the bunch.

5 sec of time, which comes in handy because in every mode but reverse, you can hit the on/off footswitch to trigger a useful hold mode that's like the EHX freeze only, well, a lot more options. This includes using it for harmonized or oscillating freeze.

Also you've got multi-head options that are tap-tempoable, plus the usual subdivisions, true stereo fun, and the different delays actually act like what they claim -speeding up the delay time acts differently for a digital delay, analog faux delay, or fake plex the head moves right, fake Space Echo the tape speeds up/down, etc.

It's a sound fun device beyond delay.

[univalve]

To me the 104m worth it's price... never tried the 104z.

Worth the Price too. Esp. With the midi stuff. Had once Both and the z sounded a hint more "warm". Not that much different to justify keeping both though.