Delay in wah enclosure?

[mboyd43]

Sketching out a project for a buddy who wants a 3 knob delay in a wah enclosure. I've yet to build anything in a wah case, but that part seems easy enough. We were wondering if we should make the repeats or the time controlled by the treadle, then thought what if we could have both options? Currently I'm thinking have 3 knobs on the side, and 2 3PDT flip on-on's wired between a dual gang pot on the treadle and the time and repeat knobs. Both switches down=3 pots in use, treadle does nothing. 1 switch up=that function controlled by treadle. Both switches up could be unusable or get into wacky chaos sounds, either would be neat. Any thoughts on this? Thanks

 

[Erik S]

I wanna see repeats on the treadle pot and tap tempo on a treadle switch.

 

[Robert]

I put an FV-1 delay in a wah enclosure for a sort of Tom Scholz Hyperspace kind of thing.

Pressing down the treadle decreased the delay time while simultaneously increasing feedback.


I've also put a through-zero flanger (technically two very short delays) in a wah enclosure where the treadle manually swept the flange for that Cherub Rock lead tone.

(Awful recording, but serves the purpose)
View attachment CherubTZF.mp3

 

[Bricksnbeatles]

I’ve thought about this before, specifically with the intent of emulating Tom Scholz’s infamous Hyperspace device that he used to do those crazy pick scrape sounds with Boston.

I planned to maybe do a dual gang pot that controls CVs that can be set to the 3 pot inputs of an FV-1 delay. One gang of the pot would have a CV that increases as the treadle moves forward while the other gang would decrease a CV as the treadle moves forward. Each parameter would use a dpdt on-on-on configured as a sp3t to select either of the CV sources or a static rotary pot mounted on the side, much like DeadEnd FX used in the Tresonator project.

Feedback and mix (would need an active mixing stage to control it with CV— or just an algorithm with a digital mix control) sweeping up while delay time sweeps down would be sorta a classic hyperspace sound. Mix and feedback sweeping up with a static short delay time would be great for swelling in 100% wet post-punky sounds. Delay time sweeping up with feedback swelling down might be cool for going from a slap back to a stopped-tape pitch slowdown thing.

 

[DeadAirMD]

I put an FV-1 delay in a wah enclosure for a sort of Tom Scholz Hyperspace kind of thing.

Pressing down the treadle decreased the delay time while simultaneously increasing feedback.


I've also put a through-zero flanger (technically two very short delays) in a wah enclosure where the treadle manually swept the flange for that Cherub Rock lead tone.

(Awful recording, but serves the purpose)
View attachment 85285

Where's the rest of that recording?!?!

 

[Nostradoomus]

Where's the rest of that recording?!?!

I think you meant "where's the PCB?"

 

[JayceKertzmann]

Where's the rest of that recording?!?!

I put an FV-1 delay in a wah enclosure for a sort of Tom Scholz Hyperspace kind of thing.

Pressing down the treadle decreased the delay time while simultaneously increasing feedback.


I've also put a through-zero flanger (technically two very short delays) in a wah enclosure where the treadle manually swept the flange for that Cherub Rock lead tone.

(Awful recording, but serves the purpose)
View attachment 85285 fall guys

Your explanation is what I was waiting for, can I ask you a few more questions?

 

[Robert]

Your explanation is what I was waiting for, can I ask you a few more questions?

Sure.

 

[Feral Feline]

What IS the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow (African or European)?

 

[Cybercow]

What IS the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow (African or European)?

Roughly 20.1 mph, without mitigating variables.