#471

a lovely delay that adds instant warmth and dub feeling, and time swirls when you turn the big dial. build feels solid like any other xaoc module. i would trade the three tap outs (in addition to mix) for feedback and tone cv controls, but this proposition is not a dealbreaker. i might as well glue in the patch cables across telharmonic > fm-plucked filter > sarajewo, it really sounds great.

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#472

that series of modules sounds so gorgeous. would love to hear it, i can almost imagine it in my head

#473

Am I right that it can be “stereo” if I put several tap outs panned left and right?

Can it be with murky diffused trails. Soundcloud demos that I’ve found sound quite clean

#474

Love Sarajewo! It’s really nicely set up for feedback patching as well.

#475

it’s been kind of hard to find much info on the Pittsburgh Lifeforms Analog Delay. the demos I’ve found really do sound quite nice though, and the HP and price are very tempting. Anyone in the thread have one?

#476

I have one. It’s nice, if limited: does one thing very well. I use it mostly on short perc sounds.

I do wish the sliders had a little more use-able range, I’ve almost always got both delay and feedback in the uppermost quadrant lest the sound be too short or too subtle, but it’s a minor quibble. Nice and dark, and sounds great when you’re CVing delay time.

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#477

I rented a Thermae for a few months from a local shop. I also had just purchased a Chase Bliss Mood that I was learning alongside Thermae and consequentially never quite mastered Thermae. Both pedals are immensely deep. Thermae sounded phenomenal and the rhythmic pitch shifting was bonkers. I really wish they’d go into eurorack format. Joel is a genius and really understands both design and musicality better than most. The clock quantization on Mood and Thermae are amazing and make it easy to get wildly experimental and knob turny without worrying about going out of tune. Would love to find a modular alternative.

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#478

Hey there, so I wondered if I might bother you all with a simple question.

Which BBD would you buy for your Eurorack and why?

Currently I am between the 4096 Doepfer Delay and the XAOC Sarajewo.

Doepfer seems a bit more noisy, more like an open circuit with it’s CV out, multiple time inputs etc.

Sarajewo seems more hi-fi, less experimental and higher quality.

Really interested to hear from anyone who has experience with either or both of these modules.

Thanks so much :mountain:

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#479

There’s also the verbos multi delay processor. It isn’t exactly a BBD but it takes that as its starting place along with the Ursa Major Space Station. It is really useful as a centre piece of a system and has a lot of self patching possibilities.

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#480

Although I expect the focus here is on analogue BBD, which is absolutely fair enough, still I’ll mention the Mungo c1 (a module with a digital BBD mode) for posterity and because I love it. Although it requires a dry/wet patch to obtain the best BBD effects, on top of requiring a feedback patch to work as a delay at all, it sounds beautiful and operates both within and beyond familiar analogue ranges.

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#481

Hey there @Voiron27 and @Net, thanks for your thoughts, really appreciate it.

Thinking probably about the Sarajewo as longer times would be handy but I also use the WMD Synchrodyne all the time and am really interested in using the PLL clocks from that with the BBD clock input on the Doepfer BBD.

Having said that, two fine delays here, the Verbos is interesting with it’s outs and the Mungo Modules are classics. Thanks for the input. :mountain:

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#482

Sightly off topic, I own A-188-2, the BBD sounds are really crazy. The clock noise is apparent in most setting. I treat it as a weird stuff generator, very fun and the sound is distinctive.

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#483

Hey there @Vinc, that’s for the info, do you use a filter often for noise tracking? Have you used the clock input much? Cheers :mountain:

#484

I sometimes send the wet signal to outboard effect chain (a graphical EQ in stack of Boss micro racks) for this task, but most of the time I’m just embrace what it is. You can zero the ‘delay’ amount and CV/ or manually set it to sing.

I do clock in very often. I would patch the audio source, covert the audio signal to square way by use of other modules (A-196 PLL) and feed it to audio in at the same time, it is really chaotic fun.

It’s the kind of modules that do nothing but do great things at the same times, really hard to explain. Definitely not serve the purpose on delay.

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#485

Hi there @vinc, that is really interesting, it is exactly the kind of patches I have been hoping to work on. Do you have any kind of example of this? Would be great to ear, cheers! :mountain:

#486

If you would want short delays and relatively precise and clean, the CG Products Delay is really highly recommended but since you mention the Sarajewo I guess your are going for a longer kind of delay for which I am personally not sure if I would look for BBDs, they are lovely but more lofi most of the time.

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#487

Oooo that is nice. I had my eyes locked on the Sarajewo considering how clean it sounds but from the sound examples this seems lovely.

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#488

You can get slightly longer delay stuff by adding a cv to the time inputs but in general it is more a sound generator than a straightforward delay I would say, probably one of the best to get karplus strong sounds.

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#489

Sure, my pleasure! I’m out of town now, will be back to my studio in March then I will do it!

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#490

Hey so I think I am going to go for the Doepfer, as lovely as the Sarajewo looks I am looking for something more open, more like a distortion/bit crusher in a way so I think that is the one:) :mountain:

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