March 31st, 2010

A brief briefing on the Ekko Six-Sixteen Analog Delay by Malekko

Below are some various sounds you can get out of Malekko Heavy Industry’s kick ass 616 Analog Delay.

All are using true bypass (T/B push-button switch is depressed, LED is on).

Chorus

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MOD: On (switch depressed, LED blinking at the rate of speed).
SPEED: All the way down.
DEPTH: All the way up.
TIME: Just barely above nothin’.
MIX: Hair past 2 o’clock.
REGEN: Noon.

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Vibrato

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MOD: On (switch depressed, LED blinking at the rate of speed).
SPEED: ’round 3:30 in the afternoon.
DEPTH: A skosh above zero.
TIME: 7 o’clock.
MIX: Hair past 2 o’clock.
REGEN: Noon-thirty.

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Medium Delay

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MOD: Off.
TIME: 1 o’clock.
MIX: Noon.
REGEN: 11 am.

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Longest Delay

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MOD: Off.
TIME: All the way up, fool.
MIX: 3 o’clock.
REGEN: 1 o’clock.

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With Omicron Phase.

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All 616 settings are at Noon, with MOD off. The Phase Color knob is at 10 o’clock, and Speed is at Noon.

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February 14th, 2010

Demo: “Oracle”

Oracle

I see you’d make a fine woman for a fine man

I think you’d keep a fire alive

To me, you’re as tender as life really can be, and one day

I’ll tend to that fire in your eyes

Though like life, lights will dim.

The sun has not always been.

When I feel my head come undone, I must find you.

Your thread has a mending vibration.

As long as I can see, you’re my Lady Chani.

You are the Oracle in me.

Though it’s hard to champion through

All those things we are bound to lose,

How easy to be with you

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October 13th, 2009

VIDEO: EarthQuaker Devices Ghost Echo

I’ve tried my hand at another product demo- this time a eerie, cosmic slap-back reverb by EarthQuaker Devices.

Still getting the hang of recording live- you can hear the occasional clink of dishes being washed in the background; the acoustic sound of me strumming my electric also gets in the way for a few spots here and there. I think it helps convey some of the finer points of this beautiful-sounding pedal, though. Feel free to drop a comment or email me if you have any thoughts or opinions!

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September 30th, 2009

DEMOS: Sep 30, 2009

These are a collection of quick demos compiled on September 30, 2009. They represent songs in-progress, and so they may be unfinished and are most definitely unpolished. Other than that, I make no excuses. Enjoy.

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Damn The Man

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Follow

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Model World

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Weekend

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Dumb Dynamo

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September 24th, 2009

VIDEO: DOD 250 w/ some bitchin’ mods

After making the 250 true bypass, I went ahead and did a few fidelity mods:

  1. I removed the stock 4558 dual op amp, which sounds like ass, and replaced it with a 1458. The 1458 is essential a dual version of the 741 op amp, which was the chip in the original 250 ODs.
  2. I removed the stock clipping diodes (I forget what they were) and replaced them with:
    • two 1N914 switching diodes
    • two 1N4004 rectifier diodes
    • no diodes

    All of which I put on a SPDT on-off-on switch. I forget which on-side is which pair of diodes, but the middle (off) is the no-diode setting.

So without further ado, here is the demo:

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