AboveGroundFX Rebote Delay Pedal

Delay pedal sounds are defined by the
technology behind them—warm analog delays, sterile digital delays or
tape echoes with warmth and wobbliness. In the boutique pedal universe,
users are accustomed to seeing anachronistic technology like discreet
germanium transistors brought back from the dead because, well, if the
tone you want is a geranium fuzz, nothing really does it like the real
thing. As the old Bulgarian proverb says, “If you wish to drown, why
torture yourself with shallow water?”


That’s why the hip players cling to analog delays and crusty tape
echoes. With digital delays, the repeated notes are exact copies of the
original, whereas bucket-brigade analog is forced to use stronger noise
filtering on the repeats causing high frequency content loss on each
repeat. Whilst technically abhorrent, this creates the warm sound
players dig. Tape echoes are even freakier in the way they mutate
repeats by introducing analog distortion and pitch shift plus a key
musical artifact—each repeat is increasingly lower fidelity than the
previous, making the repeats distinct among themselves as well.


Since this whole boutique thing is supposed to be about thinking
outside the box, Peña figured he could use a PT-2399 delay chip to do
the signal delay in an efficient fashion, without the noise, power
consumption and expense of hard to acquire analog chips.


The Rebote Delay circuit takes the dry signal to the
output maintaining signal bandwidth integrity, then each repeat is
filtered with analog circuitry that resembles tape technology. When
pushing the limits of Rebote’s delay time, the quality of the repeats
degrades allowing distinct tone between the dry signal and the repeats.
The results are responsive rhythmic echoes that sound musical and decay
naturally, from slap back echo to 560ms of delay.


The results speak for themselves. Rebote Delay pumps out gobs of
deliciously warm echoes that go straight to whatever part of our animal
brain that goes goofy over good delay sound. The Rebote Delay’s tones
have some sort of psycho acoustic effect that we find hard to describe
with mere words. Its repeats have a soothing yet weird underwater
quality that is more pleasantly drifting than panic drowning. Rebote
Delay is fantastic for any style of playing where delay is integral to
the tone—from Rockabilly to spacey epic Pink Floyd style solos.





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