Definitely one of my favorite things about using tape, or the old
DDL's. The great thing about the old Digitech PDS-2000 and PDS-8000
pedals (and I assume the rackmount versions) is that, if an echo is
captured at one extreme end of the delay time knob, twisting it to the
extreme in the other direction will yield a perfect smooth two-octave
jump, with all the fun microtones in between.
The one thing I wish that worked was for the "delay range" toggle to
hold the echo in memory, so that a one-motion jump was also possible by
switching between the ranges, but such was not to be.
Bill Frisell and Nels Cline are great illustrators of using and abusing
the loop speed/pitch "feature" of older DDL's.
Daryl
Re: "Tape Speed" style pitch/speed
variation (was: Re: r
When I gave up my modified reel to reel and began looping using
a
DDL, I really liked having a knob to control the loop speed... then as
the 1980s wore on nearly every DDL used paged memory to control delay
times and sample rates were fixed. How joyless! I cannot
properly relate how intuitive it is to use a knob to control the pitch
of a loop. I hope that more manufacturers will get back to this level
of live manipulation and control.
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