Archive for February, 2009

The Echo Base Delay Pedal

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

After completing the A/B Switch stompbox, I felt up to the challenge of building my first effects circuit.  A quality delay pedal is something I have hungered for ever since I borrowed a friend’s Roland Space Echo and another friend’s Line 6 DL-4 Delay Modeler.  Once I played with those two workhorses, the precise, digital sound of my Boss DD-5 just didn’t seem as appealing anymore. I wanted something that sounded a little dirtier, where the repeats break up and lose high-end as they fade away. Basically, I wanted
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