Thanks for this thread. I had forgotten why I was never interested in these
BBD modules. Now I remember :D
Anyway, talking low-fi delay, last week I received my A189-1 bit crusher. I
find the delay functions in that module very amusing... Ultra low-fi but
very entertaining!
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Zo� Blade <
zoe@...
> wrote:
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> That explains a lot, thanks!
>
> I was considering eventually swapping out my 1024 BBD for a 4096 one in
> the hope that the clock would be ultrasonic (at least when having an
> audible delay length comparable to the 1024 at slower settings), and
> therefore cut off by my breakout box's internal filter.
>
> At any rate, if you're recording into a DAW, then the cheapest and easiest
> way to cut out the clock while preserving the other high frequency goodness
> of the delay signal is to use a series of software notch filters with
> realtime display, such as Reaper's ReaEQ. The clock signal seems to have a
> few harmonics, but a handful of very thin notch filters can take them all
> out. This works well as long as you don't change the speed of the BBD in
> any given recording. By comparison, whenever I try lowpass filtering the
> BBD, it takes out too much of the actual effect along with the clock signal.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Zo�.
>
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