What scabpicker said. The echo itself is very interesting. Reminds me of echorec's, almost echoplex and similar older delays that depending on the settings kind stayed in the not brighter or in the way, but present and slightly low cut with each repeat. What's wild is the added things each control does in addition to the base function. There seems to be way more going on, it's so hard to totally describe without hearing it and from memory. I also can't wait to spend time with my synths on it.
Reflection: feedback, in a nutshell, though it starts to feel like a hall/shimmer verb starts to blend in prior to self oscillation. Even better, you can ride it partially on that verge and get washes that go in and out slightly. With some success I've been able to play over some washes, granted I've spent maybe 20-30min total in the last week or so with it.
Duration: delay time. Not terribly long, not sure this one really needs 1+ sec time. Without even trying to time or compare to others, I'd guess it can do up to ~660ms. Can get some ghostly slapback with either normal or silliness from the modulation. Typical pitch throw when changing delay time, though I've noticed if Reflection is near or into oscillation, you can go from zero delay time and mess around and bend the pitch since the notes almost held and has minimal attack or decay. Almost like pitch bending a synth pad.
Power: appears to be output volume, though there is some gain to it too. You can also really dirty up this pedal by slamming it with low end. I normally push this from 1 o'clock up, depends on the bass. There's times I'm not sure it pushes the dry much, or overall volume, but I gotta spend more time on this knob. See Synthesis also.
Synthesis: really odd one, hard to fully explain, but seems to be the dry signal prominence. At first I though it was the offset (delayed attack) of the dry signal. With it low, it feels like the dry is killed, but you can still hear it faintly, just much thinner and quiet. Crank it and the dry is there solidly, but to be honest it may be a mildly synthesized voice. So hard to tell with all the other sounds going on. In addition I initially thought this was just dry volume and not affected by power, but there seems to be some interplay between the two. The effect one has on the other is interesting.
Velocity and Intensity: kinda straight forward lfo rate and pitch, though the range, interplay, and secondary and even tertiary side play from each knob is so mind boggling. Scabpicker's right, it gets so wild and I'm not sure what it's even doing sometimes. It'll seemingly warble at times through pitch bends, seem to have some phasing in at other times. It's really something. But I like that it can go from nothing, to slight ambience add, to intense but musical, to just all out weird glitch when working with the Reflection.
As a whole it kinda cements for me, that Matt's one of my favorite builders. He somehow manages to make tweaker delights while still being quick and easy to dial in something not just workable, but dang good too. Even with having no idea what each knob fully does. I can easily see this delay being a regular runner.
I still need to get myself a Redrum too.
Side note, kinda hope he decides to do another since there is almost 3mo left. Eitherway, I think he's got me hooked for life, and I always can't wait for the next. The next should be hear before the end of the year with how busy he's been, but it'd be wicked cool if he squeezed another in.
It's a delay, but one with crazy amounts of pitch modulation on tap. The intensity and velocity knobs give you control over how fast the pitch modulates and how much. It gets loony when you turn those two up pretty quick. On certain settings, the repeats sound like they're arpeggiating.
Hehehe, I'm sitting here with my headphones on while listening to it slowly slew the line noise of that SX Ursa up and down. I need to fix the ground on that bass, too.
That's a beaut of a poster. I've been toying with the idea of going down to Austin to see the F1 race later this month, but am still on the fence about it.
Thanks, one of my favorite non bike ones. Been meaning to go to the Detroit GP for some time, they brought it back 3 or so years ago. It's on Belle Isle and used to (can't remember if it still does), cross the bridge into the city and back.
) So, when I got old, that knuckle would wear out, start to hurt, and I'd drop the pick repeatedly. The thumb pick fixed that problem, and I started to fool around with picking rolls, etc.
