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Seppuku FX - Digital Water
Lo-Fi Random Modulation Delay Chorus
…and hiere comes the chorus of praise:
“ The digital water – in the opinions of many, is the crown jewel of Seppuku pedals and also in the opinions of many is one of the coolest delays ever. It has the nicest cascading watery delay tones of any delay that I have ever found, and I have tried easily over 100 delays, with a preference for musical, unique-sounding delays and experimental delays - this one is truly unique, very musical, super useable. It can do several different watery delay tones that no other pedal on earth can achieve, not even close. Trust, me I’ve tried to coax pedal after pedal to mimic this tone. It can make your delay tone sound like a cascading waterfall, the watery sound of a running stream or Brook, bubbles, uneven wave tides, liquidy gitches, reverse watery delay, pitch modulated watery delay, wet lo-if echo, and more pleasant unique aquatic sounds that take you far into into the ocean’s depths… among other strange sounds I can’t really describe. It can make some laser-like sounds too if you happen to be into that. On top of all of that, there is even more in the modulation department. It does a super appealing random modulation that is unlike what any other pedal on the market can do, and is very pleasing to the ears - the random modulation has no regular LFO pattern but an unpredictable, natural sounding organic randomness to it. Completely unique. Raw and natural. Makes your tones sound more like they are coming from a part of nature than an electronic device. It can also do normal sinewave/normal sounding modulation like every single other boring modulated delay for when you want that too, and it does all of the normal settings you could need to replace your analog delay if you so desire. I always have 3-5 delays on my board personally, but I would be personally very comfortable using this alone because it has so many settings. I just don’t like to bend over to knob tweak that much, so this one is always set on the random watery modulation mode, and the others stay at their boring delay settings for covers etc. (although this could totally cover those sounds too). Important to note - the random modulation is totally able to be tamed. Can be subtle or extreme. VERY musical. Becasue it’s unlike anything people have heard before, it’s cool for recording projects. It can also be set to go all out crazy, while still remaining musical and useful with actual music, not just a noisemaker. There were quite a few iterations of this pedal from Seppuku, some had one knob, some had one knob and an LED, some had two knobs and an LED, and some had two knobs and a switch. The one with the two knobs and a switch (like this one) were the most capable and the most sophisticated, controllable, stable, and versatile - they were the final iteration of the pedal with the most controllability. All of the other versions had the watery setting/circuit “always on.” This one has the ability to use all of the normal delay settings and take the watery tones out of the mix if you want to get normal delay tones, and it even does reverse delay. Few were built. This version is the only one that allows you to switch the watery delay / random modulation / glitch effects on or off. In the off position, it does a whole array of tones from reverse delay, to delay with normal modulation, to digital, analog, ping pong, pan, tape, and hold. The watery delay / random modulation / glitch effects can be switched on to work with ANY of the delay modes. So you can have reverse watery random modulation delay! (Yes, it is as sweet as it sounds.) Sounds great with all of of the modes, but is particularly interesting with the reverse delay, tape delay, and the modulated delay (vintage Deluxe Memory Man type setting). The knobs allow you to fine-tune the modulation and get just the sound you want across a sweep of knob turning mystery, including those unique aquatic sound effects, as well as some unpredictable things that happen like uneven delays, gitches, white noise and bit reduction. Seppuku stopped making this pedal years ago, and the owner has publicly stated that he won’t make any pedals at all anymore. Even the Seppuku website is now shut down for good, only to become a legend, a remnant of the past. This is right up there in quirky coolness with the the Montreal Assembly 856 For Zellersasn (technically a looper, but has ridiculous delay settings, and another favorite of delay connoisseurs). This also can be used as a straight up chorus or doubling effect with or without the watery tones. The reverse delay has endless interesting musical applications. If you don’t have a reverse delay - you’re in for a treat. Very inspiring and creativity inducing.”
cred: reverb.com/Matt’s Gear, pinterest,