#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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#491

Just ordered one of these. The 16 sec. delay pedal was a staple for Charlie Cohen for his Buchla easel. This is that in a euro format.

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#492

another 188-1 4096 owner here. it does get nice and crunchy but i will say that a low pass filter is pretty much required to get anything near a ‘long’ delay line without the ice pick of the clock bleeding through. the steeper the better (48dB is kinda where its at, tbh)

also, keep an eye out for ones that have new panels. mine has the old misprinted one and it still throws me for a loop any time i want to get wild with the feedback section.

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#493

Delay llama.

Amazing stuff

#494

Curious about the panel, what is misprinted? Only know them as they are on the webpage right now.

#495

188-1
188-1679×505 79.9 KB

not a bunch still floating around, but you never know - just in case someone buys a used one.

the newer one has the correct normalizations printed as specified by the schematic/circuit layout, so it’s ‘easier’ to make sense of how the bbd out + polarity works.

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#496

The Doepfer A-188-1 4096 was one of my first modules, a decade ago. I found tracking the clock noise with a LPF nearly impossible, though I could dial it out for a patch without any further knob-twiddling.

One interesting thing about the Doepfer BBDs is that you can buy ICs from 128-4096 stages for a couple bucks each and swap them in and out with minimal calibration.

But that clock noise, urgh.

#497

I found it much easier to clean up clock noise with plugins than an LPF. A graphical EQ with a steep notch filter, or even an automatic noise reduction plugin like Brusfri, does pretty well.

Of course that assumes a steady clock rate and no modulation…

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#498

Ok here is the follow up…

I received the delay and began it test it.
analysis…

  1. Blend knob is not even vaguely useful it’s either fully off or into the delay without any sort of actual blend.
  2. Delay itself is somehow a major volume loss event. I have used the actual 16sec delay from EHX and it is not like this at all. Even with a input that is attenuated it is very distorted and frankly sounds like a bad pt2399 - over all the gain staging is not good and I would not recommend. I returned it.