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Published on 09/10/12 at 03:00Analog Delay pedal boutique style handmade to states.
When disassembling the door, you can see all the electronics and we see immediately that this is a job well done: it's clean, it's beautiful and it inspires confidence. Metal case red solid but not as much as the fulltone example (bcp pedal is lighter than my fulltone plimsoul from home).
Précsions that the maximum delay is 650 ms (which is already more than enough for me).
The pedal also proposes to add to the delay modulation effects, so you can have rehearsals with a chorus effect.
The pedal 9volts supplies and consumes 200 ma, a conventional power supply boss types therefore the case.
UTILIZATION
Use could not be more simple, we are dealing with the analog very "plug and play".
For some delay, 3 settings archi classic "Time" to set the delay time, "Mix" to manage the effect level, "Regen" to set the number of repetitions.
For part chorus, classical as: a button "mod" must be depressed to activate and lights a red LED indicating that it is activated, and both traditional settings "speed" and "depth".
During my first contact with the pedal, I got a surprise reaction, the activated effect causing an increase in the volume significant.
After reading the manual not included but available via the brand's website (in English only), then I understand it, unscrew the base to access a setting called internal TRIMPOT to adjust the volume depending the effect is switched on or not.
You turn the pedal with the base open, you put the mix level to zero, turn the trimpot (anticlockwise for me) then you compare the volume generated when the pedal is off until the réultat expected. A bit boring but necessary if you do not want any surprises!
Otherwise use could not be easier.
SOUND QUALITY
Delay for the part, it's beautiful, warm, natural, organic, short is beautiful and it's your stuff at once beautifully and it is realism saisisant, I love this side rehearsal a little "dirty" specific analog.
Rendering is excellent both in its clean as saturated.
We are not in the delay flashy as some digital stuff, the effect can be discrete (with a mix level at 10 for example) but effective, you disable and you feel you found "naked" with the feeling that something is missing in your sound. A higher level of mix also makes beautifully is all about the sound you want to achieve. The knobs are super efficient, turn a few millimeters makes changes clearly visible, there's no better way to refine the sound you want, I love it!
It can also be used to completely crossed noisy effects, you put all the knobs at the bottom, you sound out then you tounez button "time" anticlockwise then you go back and so, it goes "live" in every sense, great.
Concerning the effect of modulation, attention to quirks if you go too the setting of "depth" we are closer to a vibrato effect with a sound completely "Detune", "ghost", I leave the personal depth to zero and I only play with the knob "speed" to keep a chorus and there it's very good (chorus far more noticeable than the mxr carbon copy).
OVERALL OPINION
Used for a few days, I do not regret the abandonment of digital too cold for my taste
A must for the affordable handmade in the USA, I would not be surprised if one day the price climbed.
The video fastredponycar (about 20 minutes) on you tube is very representative and faithful to what we can draw from this little gem.
When disassembling the door, you can see all the electronics and we see immediately that this is a job well done: it's clean, it's beautiful and it inspires confidence. Metal case red solid but not as much as the fulltone example (bcp pedal is lighter than my fulltone plimsoul from home).
Précsions that the maximum delay is 650 ms (which is already more than enough for me).
The pedal also proposes to add to the delay modulation effects, so you can have rehearsals with a chorus effect.
The pedal 9volts supplies and consumes 200 ma, a conventional power supply boss types therefore the case.
UTILIZATION
Use could not be more simple, we are dealing with the analog very "plug and play".
For some delay, 3 settings archi classic "Time" to set the delay time, "Mix" to manage the effect level, "Regen" to set the number of repetitions.
For part chorus, classical as: a button "mod" must be depressed to activate and lights a red LED indicating that it is activated, and both traditional settings "speed" and "depth".
During my first contact with the pedal, I got a surprise reaction, the activated effect causing an increase in the volume significant.
After reading the manual not included but available via the brand's website (in English only), then I understand it, unscrew the base to access a setting called internal TRIMPOT to adjust the volume depending the effect is switched on or not.
You turn the pedal with the base open, you put the mix level to zero, turn the trimpot (anticlockwise for me) then you compare the volume generated when the pedal is off until the réultat expected. A bit boring but necessary if you do not want any surprises!
Otherwise use could not be easier.
SOUND QUALITY
Delay for the part, it's beautiful, warm, natural, organic, short is beautiful and it's your stuff at once beautifully and it is realism saisisant, I love this side rehearsal a little "dirty" specific analog.
Rendering is excellent both in its clean as saturated.
We are not in the delay flashy as some digital stuff, the effect can be discrete (with a mix level at 10 for example) but effective, you disable and you feel you found "naked" with the feeling that something is missing in your sound. A higher level of mix also makes beautifully is all about the sound you want to achieve. The knobs are super efficient, turn a few millimeters makes changes clearly visible, there's no better way to refine the sound you want, I love it!
It can also be used to completely crossed noisy effects, you put all the knobs at the bottom, you sound out then you tounez button "time" anticlockwise then you go back and so, it goes "live" in every sense, great.
Concerning the effect of modulation, attention to quirks if you go too the setting of "depth" we are closer to a vibrato effect with a sound completely "Detune", "ghost", I leave the personal depth to zero and I only play with the knob "speed" to keep a chorus and there it's very good (chorus far more noticeable than the mxr carbon copy).
OVERALL OPINION
Used for a few days, I do not regret the abandonment of digital too cold for my taste
A must for the affordable handmade in the USA, I would not be surprised if one day the price climbed.
The video fastredponycar (about 20 minutes) on you tube is very representative and faithful to what we can draw from this little gem.