by Ryan » Wed Apr 02, 2014 3:43 pm
haha cool old bump!
I think a weird looper would be a great pedal too... just tough to find the right part for it. Z used a cool old analog chip that's long gone now (right?) and to do a digital version would require micro knowledge beyond my skill at the moment.
I hear you guys that a delay pedal isn't exactly the most exciting release but I think I've made a big mistake through the last few years not having a delay in my line. Delay and distortion really drive the guitar pedal world. So next up for me is definitely a delay but don't worry, it won't be all about tape heads or analog warmth, I'm not going anywhere near that end of the pool.
I'll make an 8 patch noise-delay with each patch having some weird parameter to control besides delay rate and repeats. Like bitcrushing the repeats, glitching them, pitch shifting them, gritty to fuzzy-ing them, reverbing them, maybe reversing them, and more. It'll be a delay adventure pedal for out-there sounds. I'll modulate the Spin clock too which will give a cool kind of mod plus extend the delay time while lowering the quality. It'll be a fun experimental delay pedal.
One of the things I'll experiment with is a shorter-than-20-seconds-low-fi looper. By lowering the clock frequency of the Spin you lower the system resolution but extend the system delay time, so I think I can push it to a few seconds or more of low-fi looping, like a long low-fi delay kinda sound, not really a looper pedal, but I'll see what I can do with it and if I could do a simple looper with several seconds I might go for it.
So delay first, looper experiments during!