#224

I am sooooo curious about BIM …

#225

I have a buddy that has one, and everytime there is any kind of sale he texts me a link and tells me to buy one. Hes evil like that. Theyre awesome, but super spendy.

#226

Tell you what, next time you get that link, send it to me too - I’m hooked.

#227

memorial day is coming up. Highly likely you could find one on sale then.

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#228

I had a BIM for a while, got it because of how much I love my BAM and BOUM. But I wasn’t crazy about the BIM… I found it harder to dial in a sound that I liked, and there are a lot more settings to tweak compared to the BAM, making the led display harder to wrap my head around.

In comparison, the Empress Echosystem that I got when I sold my BIM I find a lot easier to use and get delays that I love, and it can do true dual delays.

YMMV of course. If you love the 12bit sound and the OTO analog input stage (which is pretty great) then there’s nothing else currently being produced that’s quite like the BIM.

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#229

Big ol BIM fan here

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#230

BIM is magic. It has a ton of sweet spots that gel really nice with the source material.

It’s one of the few outboard effects I have that feels like an instrument because of the playability.

There’s also a mode that lets you bypass the delays completely and just use BIM’s analog parts to shape your sound with the filters. This doesn’t sound very exciting, but it is fabulous.

The filters are fixed and can really help color your sound. Especially when you drive the preamp.

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#231

I’ll be slightly contrarian and say… I wasn’t too impressed with BIM. Not the sound as much as the interface, which doesn’t work as well as it does on their other devices due to the number of parameters. It’s not too bad if you want to set it and forgot it, but it doesn’t lend itself to live tweaking. Not a huge fan of the fixed filter frequencies either. But it does sound good!

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#232

Have to disagree on this. Sure there are more parameters, but you don’t need access to all of them in a live situation. Delay time, Feedback, LFO speed and Depth controls are all there without any menu diving. Other functions like divisions, feedback path, etc can all be set up before and saved in the patch.

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#233

Echosystem is the best of all delay pedals I’ve tried. Purer sound to my ears. Deep echos. Paired with the MIDI box, the delays sync nicely.

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#234

But that’s the thing, I want to access them in a live situation: “set up before and saved in the patch” is not how I use delays in a live context. This is very much a question of personal preference, but for my needs the interface doesn’t work well.

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#235

Fair enough, I guess you could always hook up a midi controller and get access to all the other parameters, but that’s extra baggage and space.

I love using the loop function live. I have my BIM synced to midi and hooked up to a mixer. Looping certain elements from a mix is really fun.

#236

I’ve got a quick question for all the BIM users:

Does adjusting the range control also affect pitch of the delay line?

E.g. if I switch from the ‘273-819ms’ setting to the ‘546-1638ms’ range setting does it half the pitch of the audio?

Also, does changing the range work while in freeze mode?

I’m trying to determine if the Range control is adjusting the delay line sample rate/clock like the old digital delays did (to get longer delay time with limited memory).

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#237

If I got you right, no. There’s no altering the pitch of the delay line, other than changing delay time on the fly.

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#238

I’m updating my set up. The Bugbrand delay is great, but the delay in my Lyra 8 sounds very similar, and it has an external input, so I’m letting Bugbrand go (it’s gone, actually). My El Capistan is on just about every electronic recoding/release I’ve made, but it’s gone too, now, replaced by Volante which has no hidden functions (I really don’t like them). I almost bought DIG… it sounds great… but it has hidden functions, so for a basic workhorse digi delay I went with Time Factor because I have Pitch Factor and I know how it works…

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#239

Thanks for the heads up.

I received an email from Eventide that their H3000 patch factory plugin is currently $79.

Seems quite a steal for a plugin that has dual delays, pitch shifters, lfo’s, filters etc. Seems you could almost program any type of delay you want.

#240

I was seriously considering the H3000 for $79 too, but then I remembered that I have more plugins than I can ever use if I did nothing else for the rest of my life!

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#241

Glad to hear someone uses DD-550 on lines. I have my DD-500 since its release. Recently I spend most of my bare time on Digitakt with DD-500 (and Tensor/ Particle 2) because their MIDI capabilities. I realize that DD-500 is much more versatile than I thought, it can do weird stuffs like many ‘boutique’ delay pedals do, even better with MIDI. I agree what you said, the UI makes thing complicated and time consuming, but to me by far this is the best delay pedal that support MIDI.

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#242

I love my BIM as much as my BAM, there’s something magical about the 12 bit ad/da with feedback loop going through an analog processing… really sounds amazing, can sound very trippy

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#243

Yeah the MIDI implementation is excellent–I also use mine with a Digitakt and it’s so nice just to have the DD-500 settings essentially be an extension of whatever Digitakt patch I load up.

It’s so good for creating tape warble and other lo-fi effects. That ends up being how I use it half the time.

Do you use the software editor with yours at all? I started using that a few months back and it’s much easier than trying to program everything with the panel controls. Especially if you’re doing anything with the pattern delay.

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