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  • May 15, 2010 at 12:31 pm #78937
    Barry Mielke
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    Hey there folks,
    Recently I bought a DMB – mostly for the tap tempo after falling in love with the Memory Toy.
    I’ve just gotten around to really playing with it (my kids are way busier than I am :-)), and I noticed when I tap in a slow tempo (not sure about the millisecond time, it’s slow but not crazy slow) the delays have almost….a frequency to them. After every delay, the frequency changes. I’m assuming this isn’t supposed to happen?
    Any help or advice? I thought I’d check here before calling up the shop. The DMB came with it’s own power supply, and that is what I’ve used since day one.

    Take care,

    Barry

    May 19, 2010 at 1:14 pm #109082
    diegoarts
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    Hi,

    this issue is known as far as i know and its normal to analog delays – although most analog delay units don’t let the user choose delaytimes slower than the max. in the description, EHX done otherwise – which i think is very great! read the manual, it’s mentioned there, that the delay time knob maxes out at about 650ms and this way the delays will sound good. BUT – you are able to tap times up to (i think) 1500ms – the unit will still be able to produce a delayed signal, but the longer the delay time, the more distorted the delay signal. if you don’t want a distorted signal AND can live with delays max. 650ms (which is rather good for analog anyway), use the delay time dial for max delays. it’s easier than guessing and tapping.

    for me, i like the option of longer distorted lo-fi delays, although i must confess that it’s barely useable for most situations!

    hope, this helped.

    diego

    May 19, 2010 at 1:16 pm #109069
    diegoarts
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    ah, btw – i fooled around with lo-fi delays just the other day and great thing here is, that you can get shorter lo-fi times by tapping a long time and then choose a subdivision! crazy sounds this way too!

    br

    diego

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