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Deep Blue Delay HW Manual
Deep Blue Delay HW Manual
• Output drive capability 10K ohms Mad Professor pedals carry a 1 year limited warranty.
Thank you for buying sounds where requirements are less stringent, stable, with reasonable delay time and virtually
especially in terms of echo bandwidth and repeat service free, where the limitations of the circuit
the DEEP BLUE DELAY! formation. would be less critical. As an outcome, you can
set the peripheral circuitry with desired band-
The delay tone has been carefully tuned with lot of width and distortion levels with less consider-
DEEP BLUE DELAY is a natural sounding
attention to the first critical reflection and how the ation on the exact limits of the delay medium,
digital/analog delay, with analog direct repeats decay. while of course always pushing the limits, as with
signal path.
anything musical.
Deep Blue Delay is kept small (69 mm x 111 mm x
• The Deep Blue Delay has about the same band- 50 mm including jacks and knobs) containing just A similar circuit in analog form would be exces-
width as the classic tape echo units, and it can the basic delay features; Delay Time, Delay level and sively more expensive to make. For the same
be used in front of an amplifier or in amplifier Repeat controls. It was designed to work as an ambi- performance, it would require three to four of the
effects loops. ence delay; like that of a vintage tape echo and the best BBD chips now only available as vintage
• There are no noise reduction circuits, which repeat formation was specifically designed to allow parts and the size of the pedal would have to be
keeps decay of echo as natural as possible. easy setting and less critical setting of delay time. about three times the current size.
• The direct signal path is short and made with With delay times higher than 120ms, the delay time
analog amplifiers with no filtering. is sometimes set on the beat or on a multiple of the The controls are:
• There should be no distortion or tone coloration beat. Deep Blue handles this by not giving full range • LEVEL, sets the level of delayed signal mixed
as long as input level is in range below maximum repeats, but a tuned response that don’t need to be with straight guitar tone, fully CCW there is
allowed. on the beat to sound good. only straight (un-effected) guitar signal heard
• The echo signal has a tuned filtering to allow and fully CW gives the loudest delay.
extreme settings without interference. wHY DIGITAL? ISN’T ANALOG BETTER
FOR A SOLID-STATE SOLuTION? • DELAY, controls the delay time from 25 ms
The delay is specially designed to work well with Well, in many ways, the delay medium is less critical (fully CCW) to 450 ms (fully CW).
distorted tone, as this is the most critical applica- and it could be an oil-drum, tape, metal-thread,
tion, where delays often fail. analog BBD or digital, but the final sound is always • REPEAT, controls the repeats of the delay
set by the limitations of the delay medium and the signal, fully CCW gives one repeat and at fully
You can use the pedal before or after distortion. CW you get infinite feedback.
peripheral circuitry needed to make either work.
As such, it will work exceptionally well on clean
We chose digital construction to make it compact,