Saturday, April 2, 2011

Daphne Spasm

This is a circuit-bent Daphon E10AD Delay. Three toggles, one momentary button and one potentiometer. This unit barely delays at all. There are times you can hear a repeating click, but it definitely does not function anything like a delay pedal. The unit is active when engaged off or on. It works well in feedback loops but is very functional outside of one. The potentiometer has a definite sweet spot where it will change the sound heavily (the pot's improper voltage makes it like this). The small toggle muffles and quiets the sound into a subtle rumble. Good for harsh walls of sound if fed into a distortion pedal. There is a lot of hiss and cracking in this pedal, especially when the momentary button is pressed. When the top toggle is up, the knob on the left of the pedal itself greatly affects the sound. The external controls are enclosed in a hard plastic enclosure originally used for some piece of A/V equipment. The wires are fed into the enclosure from the PCB in the pedal through a slit in the enclosures. The pedal itself is zip-tied to a clear plastic box. This is so the pedal can be elevated due to the connections made on the circuit board taking up too much room to attach the original bottom of the pedal.


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