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12:5 Other effects
Gain
The Gain effect is a simple tool for increasing or decreasing a channel’s gain.
Gain
This is the only control on this effect, and lets you increase the channel’s gain up to 18 dB,
or decrease it up to -inf dB.
Delay
BFD2’s Delay effect can operate as a stereo or mono delay line, depending on whether it is
used on a stereo or mono channel.
Sync & Time
The delay time can be set either in absolute time values in seconds or in tempo-based
values. In tempo mode the delay is synced to BFD2’s tempo.
It is possible to adjust the Time parameter smoothly in realtime without suffering glitching
like many digital delays. The delayed signal simply changes pitch smoothly towards the new
delay time, in a similar way to an analog BBD (bucket-bridge delay).
BPM mode
When the Sync parameter is set to ‘BPM’, the delay time is set in tempo-based values. Possible values range from 64th note to 2
bars, including dotted and triplet variations, the latter being especially useful for classic shuffle grooves using simple ¼-note input.
Seconds mode
In this mode, the delay time is set as an absolute time value, ranging from 31ms to 4 seconds.
Feedback
This control sets the amount of delay regenerations, caused by feeding the delayed signal back into the input. Higher values feed
the delayed signal back in at a higher amplitude, leading to more regenerations of the input signal. Settings of 100% lead to in-
definite regenerations until the value is reduced, and with good use of the built-in filtering can result in classic psychedelic, dubby
analog delay effects.
Swing
The BFD2 delay features 2 taps, which are played at the same time with the swing control at the centre position.
By turning down the Swing control, you can move the left tap before the right tap, up to a distance of half the delay time. By turn-
ing up the Swing control, the right tap is moved up to a distance of half the delay time before the left tap.
This control opens up a huge array of swung delay grooves, which can add a wide variety of rhythmic feels to the delay effect.
LowCut and HighCut
These filters allow you to apply tonal shaping to each delay regeneration.
They are presented as LowCut (effectively a High-pass) and HighCut (Low-pass) in order to differentiate them from the LP/HP
crossover filters in the distortion effects.
The LowCut control removes low frequencies from the feedback path. It allows you to set a frequency below which the signal is
filtered.
The HighCut control removes high frequencies from the feedback path. It allows you to specify a frequency above which the
signal is filtered.
Such filtering is very useful to prevent delayed signals intrusively taking over a mix. It is also essential to use these filters when
recreating classic analog tape and BBD delay effects.
Sum Input (stereo only)
Enabling this button sums the left and right inputs to a single mono signal and feeds one delay line instead of two.
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