rwl
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The Seabed Delay is a clone of the Mad Professor Deep Blue Delay. This is a surprisingly simple pedal that sounds great.
This pedal has a watery undersea sourt of sound, but I decided that was too on-the-nose for my theme (I could have done a seabird), so I went with one of the deepest-blue birds instead, the Indigo Bunting. This is a common songbird across eastern North America and it's a very striking color. The design is UV printed in a sky blue enclosure. I'm quite happy with the design; it's a design that I didn't have a clear vision for when I started.
No hard-to-find parts, no FV-1, no brick or anything. This was an easy build for what you get. The pedal started out in a generic enclosure (I've been trialing pedals in generic enclosures before doing artwork), and I thought it merited a stylized enclosure so it got rehoused. I'm not happy with the knobs (some cheap bulk spares I ordered from Amazon), so I'll probably replace them with green or blue aluminum knobs in my next Tayda order.
It sounds great, does slapback, and adds a lot of extra oomph and texture. I don't really like repeated delays or feedback, but it can do both; I prefer to keep the delay time very short and the repeat count moderate, making it sound closer to a reverb pedal.
This pedal has a watery undersea sourt of sound, but I decided that was too on-the-nose for my theme (I could have done a seabird), so I went with one of the deepest-blue birds instead, the Indigo Bunting. This is a common songbird across eastern North America and it's a very striking color. The design is UV printed in a sky blue enclosure. I'm quite happy with the design; it's a design that I didn't have a clear vision for when I started.
No hard-to-find parts, no FV-1, no brick or anything. This was an easy build for what you get. The pedal started out in a generic enclosure (I've been trialing pedals in generic enclosures before doing artwork), and I thought it merited a stylized enclosure so it got rehoused. I'm not happy with the knobs (some cheap bulk spares I ordered from Amazon), so I'll probably replace them with green or blue aluminum knobs in my next Tayda order.
It sounds great, does slapback, and adds a lot of extra oomph and texture. I don't really like repeated delays or feedback, but it can do both; I prefer to keep the delay time very short and the repeat count moderate, making it sound closer to a reverb pedal.
