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Decay Cascade

$399.00 CAD
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Blend reverb and cascading analog amplification stages to create multilayered textures. Expanding on the idea of running reverb into distortion, the Decay Cascade can produce lo-fi subtlety or slabs of disintegrated noise. Or both.

Dial in reverb ranging from a light bounce to saturated drones, with a maximum decay time of about 20 seconds. The reverb mix is sent to a versatile drive circuit with a voltage sag gate for extra deterioration. Combine dry, reverb, and distorted reverb layers into your desired textural mix. This then passes through a preamp stage inspired by 1960s test amplifiers that can add another boost of raw gain and crackling gated tails, with an optional low pass filter. Add a little dust and murk, or create the sound of amp death. Thankfully, there is a volume control.

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Make sounds like:

  • Tastefully gritty lo-fi echo
  • Spitty, dying battery overdrive or fuzz
  • Layers of distorted and clean reverb
  • A 78 record found buried in the woods
  • "Something’s not right"
  • Harsh-ambient signal obliteration

Especially suited for broken sounds with gated and dusty reverb artifacts. The drive, preamp and sag settings are quite interactive, with plenty of options for fine-tuning.

Audio Samples

Guitar - Crunchy layers from one signal

Guitar - Lofi DI (no amp)

Guitar - Textural/ambient

Guitar - Loud

Synth - mono

Synth - poly

Bass

Drum Machine

Theremin

Lamp

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Controls

  • MODE  Reverb models:
    • Hall with slow pitch drift. Dark and woozy.
    • Spring with very long decay. Bright, full, and textural.
    • Lofi bucket brigade echo. Primitive and bouncy.
  • LEVEL Set a reverb balance between 100% wet and dry signal.
  • DECAY Set the reverb time from a short reflection to long drones.
  • DRIVE A distortion channel that the reverb mix goes through in series before being mixed in parallel. Ranges from light overdrive to high gain.
  • SAG Voltage starve the distortion circuit to produce a gated fuzz effect.
  • MIX Create a layered mix of the original clean/reverb mix and the drive channel.
  • AMP  Preamp setting (top to bottom)
    • Neutral amplification stage.
    • High gain boost with a low pass filter. Very loud and murky with gated “dust” trails.
    • High gain boost with no filter. Extremely loud and harsh with gated “dust” trails. 
  • Volume. Output. Loudness. Unquiet.

Specifications

  • 145mm x 120mm x 56mm
  • 1/4" TS mono audio input and output
  • Requires 9V power from a centre-negative 2.1mm jack
  • 60mA current draw
  • No battery compartment.