Delicious Audio #2, The Best Synth Pedals, Brooklyn Stompbox Exhibit & Synth Expo

June 8: 12pm – 7pm / June 9: 11am – 6pm
Lytehouse Studio (356 Devoe St., Brooklyn)
FREE!
delay
Eventide
Rose
Floating Forest
Drift Echo/Tremolo
Strymon
Volante
Teisco
Delay
A delay that marries digital precision
with the lush sound of analog.
With six knobs and delay
multiplier, phase invert/reverse
playback and shape buttons offering
five modulation sources,
Rose inspires petals of creativity
to bloom. Five presets, MIDI
control and a fully assignable
aux switch/expression pedal input
offer flexible versatility.
reverb
A delay with an embedded photocell-controlled
tremolo. The
bottom right switch gets the
tremolo controlled by the photocell
(rather than the regular LFO).
It comes with a USB light that can
be plugged into the USB plug
on the side of the pedal, which
features a rate control. When the
mix knob is around 75% you can
engage the momentary switch
(center footswitch).
A delay/looper that aims at giving
the modern guitarist three of
the most sought-after vintage
delay sounds: tape echo, drum,
and reel-to-reel. Controls allow
you to fine tune the character,
fidelity, brightness and age of
the delay, for more or less vintage-sounding
results.
Lo-Fi/Glitch
With its warm and dark repeats,
this pedal belongs to the “colored,”
vintage sounding analog
delay category, but it’s also capable
of wild and noisy self-oscillation
at extreme Feedback
settings. A fully featured Modulation
section can add that
pleasant liquid vintage character
to the repeats.
Chase Bliss Audio
Dark World
A feature-rich reverb with a
“World” channel created by Keeley
that houses Hall, Plate, and
Spring algorithms, and an edgier
“Dark” channel designed by
Cooper FX. The channels can
be routed in 33 ways, creating a
varied palette of reverb ranging
from subtle, tasteful, and lush all
the way to broken video cassette,
glitch shimmer, and infinite freeze.
Old Blood Noise
Rêver
This circuit hosts two “signal
blocks” whose order can be
changed using the toggle switch.
Block 1 allows for a momentary
reverse of the signal. Block 2 is a
modulated reverb that is fed into
a delay. With the reverse at the
start and reverb and delay after,
the sound tends to feel washier
and the reverse is smoother. The
other way around you have a
more pronounced and glitch-like
reverse effect.
RPS Effects
Bit Reactor
A bit crusher and downsampler
that takes whatever signal you
give it and crunches it up into
digital atoms. The central Crush
knob selects the number of bits
for the crunching, from 1 to 8,
while the Sample one deals with
reducing the sample rate.
The King of Gear
Mini Glitch
Inspired by Jonny Greenwood’s
random Max/MSP “stutter” effect.
It does more than that,
through three “glitch triggering
mechanisms”: Random,
Switched and Threshold. The
glitching sample can be set to a
fixed length or randomized, while
the Dry-Path switch can remove
altogether the original dry signal
when glitching is active.
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