Benson Amps Delay

Description

THE MENU
To access 'LFO Waveform' and the subdivision menu, hold BYPASS down for two seconds, then press TAP/HOLD once.
The BYPASS button then cycles through SINE, SQUARE, and RANDOM waveforms. The light flashes once, twice, or three times respectively to indicate which setting you have selected. The TAP/HOLD button toggles between 1/4, DOTTED 8TH, and 8TH subdivisions, and here too the light will flash once, twice, or three times.
Hold the BYPASS button down to confirm your selection.

SOUND
With a foundation in old tape echoes and 'bucket brigades' and experience servicing them, it was a natural next step to pursue the airy and distinctive delays saturated with the texture and musicality of the near chaos-like degradation of the last delays as we know them from old tape echoes. This is the heart of the machine here

RANGE
Benson Delay spans extremely wide from very short slap delays, chorus/vibrato-like sounds, and the very long delays for when you need to summon spirits from the beyond, submarines, and like-minded guitarists.
30ms-1250ms can be said to be plenty for most people's needs.

ALIENS
If you hold the TAP button down, you boost the feedback and induce self-oscillation. Very suitable for atmospherically letting wide chords ring out. With a little surgical precision and the physics of a ballet dancer, it is actually possible to operate the TIME knob with your toe while holding TAP down, and here we go into something that resembles aliens have invaded your practice room and they do not intend to leave until their business is done. Inside the pedals is a trim pot, so you can tailor this function to suit your needs exactly.

WARBLE
The LFO (Low Frequency Oscillator) likewise embraces wide in both speed and effect, and as mentioned earlier, you can adjust the waveforms as needed.
'Does warble, seasick, flutter, all the good sounds.'

TAP
The most precise tap tempo that has ever existed in a pedal using the PT2399 chip is found in the Benson Delay.
This is thanks to Antoine Ricoux from Electric Canary and his work with the open-source project Bontempo, which was subsequently further fine-tuned and implemented by the film colorist (yes, it is a title) Octave Zang. According to Chris Benson, these two gentlemen are geniuses - and that is saying a lot when it comes from him.

SMOOTH
The pedal is smooth as few, and because Benson + team are so insanely talented, they have completely avoided the slightly abrupt, staccato sounds that can come from modern delay pedals when they are digitally controlled (regardless of whether they are digital or analog)

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