Lo-Fi. Delay. Modulation. Combine these three things, and you’ve got an excellent start to an effects pedal. Make it the Hochstrasser Electronics Sundial Lo-Fi Digital Delay, and you’ve got an absolute winner. Today’s pedal mixes subtleness and adventure into a wonderful echo stew, adding an important aspect and key ingredient to any pedalboard or rig.
The Sundial Delay is digital, yes, but the modulation adds an aspect of pseudo-analog warbling that you will love on the back end of your signal chain. This modulation aspect features Rate (speed) and Depth (intensity) controls, and can be switched off via the lone toggle switch. Producing hints of chorus-like pitch shifting and a range of mild to intense psychosis, there’s a lot to explore here. As the delay time setting goes past noon, the overall depth of modulation begins to decrease as a control for noise. Thus, modulation will have a greater range at lower delay times over longer ones.
In other areas of the Sundial, TIME increases or decreases the delay time, ranging from 40 to 340 milliseconds. FBK adjusts how much of the delay is routed back into itself, to create lush echoes. For those experimenters and noisemakers out there, setting this pretty much anywhere past 2:00 or so will result in crazy-wicked self-oscillation. MIX blends your Wet and Dry signals together…to taste, of course.
Based on the PT2399 chip, the Hochstrasser Electronics Sundial Lo-Fi Digital Delay has a wide range of glorious vintage tones to explore and delight in. We’ve got a bunch of different settings and tones to run through in our demo video below, so please be sure to check that out (and you can definitely subscribe on YouTube, if you’d like). As always, we’re super-impressed by the gear coming out of the Hochstrasser Electronics camp – be sure to give them a follow on all the socials, and head to their website for more info on this and all of their other concoctions. Cheers!!
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