Next one I'll try: Empress Tape Delay. Based on what I hear and read online, but also on the VMSD I used to have. Which was the closest I ever came to THE delay pedal for me, but damn if that thing wasn't a PITA to use. The tape setting was rad though, so if their Tape Delay pedal expands on that, it should get me close enough.
I'd still miss a couple other things I look for in a digital delay though, and I don't have monies or board space for 5 different delay pedals each for their own little job...:s
Re: Digitech Time Bender alternatives?
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 2:47 pm
by Dandolin
Seems a smart move....
Re: Digitech Time Bender alternatives?
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 3:31 pm
by gordian knot
frigid midget wrote:I know my vox isn't the best amp to judge new peds, but I'd be surprised if my Traynor will be able to fix everything.
A lot of these small caveats may still be a matter of user error to a certain extend, and my GAS for this pedal probably raised my expectation a little too much
I also suspect that the timebender is the bees knees if you're into those wacky pitch shifting repeats. But besides that and a couple other neat futures (pattern selection, tone control, etc,...) I think there *might* be better options out there for someone who's mainly into good realistic and tweakable tape/analog delays plus maybe a couple extras (modulation, digital , reverse, hold, loop,...). To each their own I guess
My impression is that it's primary goal wasn't to be a simulator (even though it might have some modes with some filtering, etc) of other technologies, but a feature-rich delay in its own right
Re: Digitech Time Bender alternatives?
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 4:15 pm
by rfurtkamp
RE-XXX that singed doesn't sound like that. It has virtually inaudible repeats (fried heads) or cascading neverending (erase head toast), and the motor warbles to a point tape does get eaten (if it runs at all as the motor control pot usually just flat out fails)!
I used to service them when I was young and dinosaurs ruled the land.
Re: Digitech Time Bender alternatives?
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 5:22 pm
by 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.
Re: Digitech Time Bender alternatives?
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 6:28 pm
by Dandolin
Yeah, that's the thing, nothing physical does sound like these sims--you have to enter the Matrix and embrace the Virtual. Not that there's anything wrong with that. For crapfi these days though, I get more inspiration out of torturing simpler devices in realspace than coding in virtspace.
My experience with the tape delays was more of the less-wonky-while-working and the silence-because-not-working than any cool crudtastic middle ground.
rfurtkamp wrote:RE-XXX that singed doesn't sound like that. It has virtually inaudible repeats (fried heads) or cascading neverending (erase head toast), and the motor warbles to a point tape does get eaten (if it runs at all as the motor control pot usually just flat out fails)!
I used to service them when I was young and dinosaurs ruled the land.
Re: Digitech Time Bender alternatives?
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 9:03 pm
by rfurtkamp
Yea, mine have always been easy and trouble-free, but I know how to maintain 'em.
The middle ground that's glorious is setting the erase head so it doesn't quite erase and riding the line into minor oscillation where echos still exist as well.
Re: Digitech Time Bender alternatives?
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 4:52 pm
by frigid midget
univalve wrote: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 clockwise
Re: Digitech Time Bender alternatives?
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 6:30 pm
by autopilot
the tone needs to be a noon in either extreme its full lpf or hpf filters. the pattern selector also affects the vol of repeats, hang in there i hated mine the first 3 weeks, and now i never turned off
Re: Digitech Time Bender alternatives?
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 6:38 pm
by Dandolin
knowledge^^^^
Re: Digitech Time Bender alternatives?
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 6:48 pm
by autopilot
i did this today, is just timebender with time around 2 seconds and something, dynamic digital mode
Re: Digitech Time Bender alternatives?
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 6:55 pm
by ProCarsteNation
@autopilot
Splendid! this fortifies my belief in the TB
@frigid oh no you didn't just put that TB in B/S/T!
I got so ILFed & GASed up, I went ahead and bought that new one from EIG-Music
Yeah, there's small disappointments, like veeery soft repeats for some modes,
or that you can't put the pitch shifting in the feedback path to let the sound spiral out...
but I know Ihave barely scratched the surface of the thing, and there's bound to be nuggets to be discovered
I really like the hold so far...
Re: Digitech Time Bender alternatives?
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 6:57 pm
by rfurtkamp
Love the dog barking in the background, it adds something somehow.
Re: Digitech Time Bender alternatives?
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 7:05 pm
by fcknoise
that track was wonderful autopilot
Re: Digitech Time Bender alternatives?
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 7:13 pm
by tremolo3
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.
oh no you didn't just put that TB in B/S/T!