Digitech Time Bender alternatives?

[rfurtkamp]

Running mine in a stereo effects loop. No issues at all.

Never felt the need to crank tone to max or min though (it gets dark or sparkly fast enough as is!)

[frigid midget]

Doesn't this thing have like an FX loop where you can put a boost?
Or have the wet signal 100% and blend it in parallel with your dry signal with an LS2, a mixer or something like that.

Yeah, like I said, that's how I plan to use mine with the two inputs of my Traynor YBA-1 or AC15C2.

The volume of the repeats varies from mode to mode, haven't even messed enough with patterns to notice any differences there.

Autopilot: Thanks, I think I kinda needed that

[univalve]

I'm back from band practice and the TB did work great. I have no issues with the volume of the repeats. My mix knob is right before dry though. My amp is kinda voxy, a budda superdrive 18.

So where do you typically keep the tone control? I noticed that the repeats get ridiculously quitet when the tone control is all the way clockwhise

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Autpolite: Thanks, I think I kinda needed that

I think, i was also not really fast "warm" with the TimeBender. Last year i was thinking about using a different delay on my board but now i'm so used to it and really dig it. And it is flexible. It can do some GB24/CT5 Sounds pretty good too.

[frigid midget]

I'm back from band practice and the TB did work great. I have no issues with the volume of the repeats. My mix knob is right before dry though. My amp is kinda voxy, a budda superdrive 18.

So where do you typically keep the tone control? I noticed that the repeats get ridiculously quitet when the tone control is all the way clockwhise

PM'd

Autpolite: Thanks, I think I kinda needed that

I think, i was also not really fast "warm" with the TimeBender. Last year i was thinking about using a different delay on my board but now i'm so used to it and really dig it. And it is flexible. It can do some GB24/CT5 Sounds pretty good too.

Cheers. Haven't been able to check that clip yet though, maybe tonight.

The digital mode just isn't "digital" enough for me, if that makes any sense. On my old RV-3, the repeats would cut through like a hot knife, but turning the tone control clockwise on the tb indeed just seems to cut all the mids and low.

I can imagine that spending some more time with it, on my 'good' rig, and messing with more subtle pitch shifted repeats and the capabilities of the different patterns (which I haven't really dug into yet) might make me change my mind.

I like that fact that it elimiates the little need I have for a seperate pitch shifting pedal, a looper, and even a tremelo or a Freeze. With the two channel a/b/y approach and the mix control dimed, I can just go from a faux bass tone to a dry guitar tone in the middle of a song. Or have both at the same time

[gordian knot]

The digital mode just isn't "digital" enough for me, if that makes any sense. On my old RV-3, the repeats would cut through like a hot knife, but turning the tone control clockwise on the tb indeed just seems to cut all the mids and low.

I think it makes sense (though I don't know if the TB can be tweaked to give you satisfactory results0. Sounds like you are looking for more artifacts as opposed to just a different tonal balance.

TBH, it really sounds like you are looking for pretty much straight ahead 'classic' shoegazey (is that a word?) equipment and sounds.

this is just one thought, not some gospel ....but maybe you could approach the project in terms where the "but different" part is done in the composition as opposed to the tones & equipment.

[frigid midget]

Yeah, the digital mod isn't a hige dissapointement, I'm not as anal about that as I made it seem. Like I said, I'd first have to try it in a full mix, in a rehearsel, at higher volume levels, through my mian amp...

I don't think I'm after shoegazey (it's a word as of now) equipment/sounds, I just like these big digital delay pedals for their versatility. Cause they're supposed to do all kinds of analog as well as digital tones, plus a selection of your usual extras. If anything, I use analog-ish tones more than anything else. Which is why I keep my ES-2, so I can use the timebender for everything else I'd want to use, sometimes on top/stacked with the ES-2. Again, as far as the more trippy pitch shifting goes; I'm gonna try and see how I can put it to use in a way that's not too...well, extreme

[gordian knot]

I don't think I'm after shoegazey (it's a word as of now) equipment/sounds, I just like these big digital delay pedals for their versatility.

oh ok I thought you were using this in that "shoegazy but different" project you were working on in that other thread

[frigid midget]

I don't think I'm after shoegazey (it's a word as of now) equipment/sounds, I just like these big digital delay pedals for their versatility.

oh ok I thought you were using this in that "shoegazy but different" project you were working on in that other thread

Yeah, that too, but I'm laying eggs in different baskets in terms of band/projects, and I also like to sometimes do eery gloomy doom jams with my buddy who's a drummer. And the stuff I play at home is really mellow indie stuff, which is totally different from those other things...

Which is why I wanted to back to a big full blown digital delay that can cover all of that. For those faux shoegazy plans I think the analog/tape delay modes would be better suited actually. I just loved the RV-3's glassy repeats for somewhat rhytmic/percussive picking that needed to really stand out in a full mix. Not a deal breaker that the TB doesn't do the same thing, it probably easily makes up for that with all its other tricks...

[rfurtkamp]

Faux shoegaze, 12 bit digital delay is the sound to be honest.