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• Deep Blue Delay is a natural sounding digital/analog delay, with
analog direct signal path. The Deep Blue Delay has about the same
bandwidth as the classic tape echo units, and it can be used in front of
an amplifier or in amplifier effects loops.
• There are no noise reduction circuits, which keeps decay of echo as natural as possible.
• The direct signal path is short and made with analog amplifiers with no filtering.
• There should be no distortion or tone coloration as long as input level is in range below maximum allowed.
• The echo signal has a tuned filtering to allow extreme settings without interference.
The delay is specially designed to work well with distorted tone,
as this is the most critical application, where delays often fail.
You can use the pedal before or after distortion. As such, it will
work exceptionally well on clean sounds where requirements are less
stringent, especially in terms of echo bandwidth and repeat formation.
The delay tone has been carefully tuned with lot of attention to the first critical reflection and how the repeats decay.
Deep Blue Delay is kept small (Width x Length x Height :69mm x
111mm x 50mm including jacks and knobs) containing just the basic delay
features; Delay Time, Delay Level and Repeat controls. It was designed
to work as an ambience delay; like that of a vintage tape echo and the
repeat formation was specifically designed to allow easy setting and
less critical setting of delay time. With delay times higher than 120ms,
the delay time is sometimes set on the beat or on a multiple of the
beat. Deep blue handles this by not giving full range repeats, but a
tuned response that don’t need to be on the beat to sound good.
Why digital? Isn't Analog better for a solid-state solution?
Well, in many ways, the delay medium is less critical and it could
be an oil-drum, tape, metal-thread, analog BBD or digital, but the
final sound is always set by the limitations of the delay medium and the
peripheral circuitry needed to make either work. We chose Digital
construction to make it compact, stable, with reasonable delay time and
virtually service free, where the limitations of the circuit would be
less critical. As an outcome, you can set the peripheral circuitry with
desired bandwidth and distortion levels with less consideration on the
exact limits of the delay medium, while of course always pushing the
limits, as with anything musical.
A similar circuit
in analog form would be excessively more expensive to make. For the same
performance, it would require three to four of the best BBD chips now
only available as vintage parts and the size of the pedal would have to
be about three times the current size.
Controls:
LEVEL:
Sets the level of delayed signal mixed with straight guitar tone, fully
CCW there is only straight (un-effected) guitar signal heard and fully
CW gives the loudest delay.
DELAY: Controls the delay time from 25ms (fully CCW) to 600ms (fully CW)
REPEAT: Controls the repeats of the delay signal, fully CCW gives one repeat and at fully CW you get infinite feedback.
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