Most Versatile Non-FV1 Delay Board
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Matmosphere
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Yeah, it depends what you want out of a delay. The dirt baby is awesome for copping the vibe of a deluxe memory man without investing in BBD chips. The cavedweller dub edition (it's on Vero somewhere) is lo-fi and as cavernous as they get but it's not a clean delay at all, very cool sounds there though.
Somebody was selling an old Zero Point Special Deluxe board on the madbean forum the other day, I don't know of a PT2399 project with more bells and whistles than that one. It's probably still available.
The VFE stuff sounds great, the Möbius Strip does some very cool stuff. The Sagan is very cool, but it's hard to find boards for.
My personal favs are the Grind Customs De Profundis (there are Vero and Perf layouts) and the 1776 Effects Multiplex Echo Machine, which has been out of stock forever.
Somebody was selling an old Zero Point Special Deluxe board on the madbean forum the other day, I don't know of a PT2399 project with more bells and whistles than that one. It's probably still available.
The VFE stuff sounds great, the Möbius Strip does some very cool stuff. The Sagan is very cool, but it's hard to find boards for.
My personal favs are the Grind Customs De Profundis (there are Vero and Perf layouts) and the 1776 Effects Multiplex Echo Machine, which has been out of stock forever.
Harry Klippton
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I started a multiplex around xmas and set it aside to work on something else, but I'm looking forward to getting back to it. I'm sitting on a bunch of delay builds that I'm excited about
Coda
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I finished mine late last year. It’s pretty good. I find that I prefer the Space Echo setting, head 1 and minimum and head 2 at 50%. Gives you a quick reverb and a longer delay at the same time…
Harry Klippton
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That's good cuz I'm building it for the space echo setting but I'm putting a Belton brick reverb in it too
Coda
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I built mine with the mod board. I haven’t gotten it to work yet, though. Same with the second footswitch. It’s in my troubleshoot pile. I made the mistake of trying to cram it all in a 1590bb…and also rushing to get it done. What does work works great, though…
I have built both of those and they are good implementations of the PT2399 chip.
anything else difficult or expensive to source for the DC-Echo?
Bio77
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Not too difficult or expensive, but don't forget the NE571.
Thanks for pointing that out. I haven't used a compander chip in a board since building one of Craig Anderton's octave-divider pedals a long time ago, but I will check my parts before ordering more of them.
I have a Cosmos board if you want it. I got a bogo, but to be honest, I have yet to get the damn thing to work right. I get nothing but oscillation. I would be interested to see if you could get it to work.I just realized the Cosmos is out of stock. And so is the Sagan.
giovanni
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That would be great. I’ll DM you.
Matmosphere
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From what I have heard I believe that guy made some errors on the board. And by some, I mean lots.
giovanni
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No successful builds? That’s a bummer.
Back to Buddy’s original question though, I have built a Sagan, dark rift, magnetron w/oscillation mod, and a mobius.
The Sagan is great with just a ton of options and a challenging build. Mine is a little noisy so with the buffered bypass it def raises the noise floor.
The Dark rift was nice, but was ultimately put on the chopping block for reason I don’t remember right now.
By far my favorites have been the Mobius and the Magnetron, very different sounds though. The magnetron has very nice modulation available and the addition of an oscillation switch seals the deal. The Mobius gives you the option of asynchronous repeats which is awesome.
The Mobius being a VFE build is another challenging build, but worth it.
The Sagan is great with just a ton of options and a challenging build. Mine is a little noisy so with the buffered bypass it def raises the noise floor.
The Dark rift was nice, but was ultimately put on the chopping block for reason I don’t remember right now.
By far my favorites have been the Mobius and the Magnetron, very different sounds though. The magnetron has very nice modulation available and the addition of an oscillation switch seals the deal. The Mobius gives you the option of asynchronous repeats which is awesome.
The Mobius being a VFE build is another challenging build, but worth it.
Feral Feline
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Dead Astronaut has some interesting-looking offerings…
Electric Druid has a digital-delay project…
Electric Druid has a digital-delay project…
Fishbonetabby
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I built both the dark rift delay and the spirit box. They are incredible together in tandem but as it's been mentioned the spirit box is def more of a reverb. I love the dark rift delay. It replaced my carbon copy analog delay on my main board for now. It's a typical earthquaker pedal that goes from subtle to far out & gnarly. 10/10 would recommend.
