EarthQuaker Devices Time Shadows Mode D'emploi page 4

The latest EarthQuaker Device actually is the same as
the latest Death By Audio device. This new pedal is a
joint collaboration that brings their sonic soundscape
trips to your melted mind. With the switch to the left
Time Shadow's controls are completely the brainchild
of EarthQuaker Devices resident genius Jamie Stillman.
Flip the switch to the right, and you enter the head of the
madman Oliver Ackermann from Death By Audio barely
clutching to reality. Place the switch in the middle and
enter a whole new realm of pitch-warping delays brought
to you by a telepathic mind-meld with a 5th dimensional
dream being.
All three sounds are wildly different from each other and
yet share a perfectly designed harmony to be completely
complementary and suitable for every style and genre
of music. The EarthQuaker Devices side transforms
whatever you play into the sound of a jazz space
bazooka! It's a pitch-morphed fuzz delay filter with so
much attitude that you are actually intimidated. It takes
the input signal, blows it out with the power of digital
distortion, blends it with a polyphonic sub octave, feeds
it into a delay, then spits it out into a highly resonant
envelope controlled lowpass filter. The Death By Audio
side is a multi-delay filter remorphinator that goes from
icy shimmers to cosmic space caves of bouncing repeats.
The middle position is an energy beam that brings your
earthly transmissions repetitively closer to the heavens
while simultaneously diving deep into the hells.
In addition to all this madness we also bring you a user-
assignable expression jack and 6 preset slots to save and
recall your favorite settings! With these three unearthly
delights, you should have everything you need to break
brains and destroy monotony! Each Time Shadows is
lovingly built by druids with very soft hands in the tiny
hobbit hole of Akron, Ohio.
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CONTROLS
All three modes share the same simple controls: Time,
Span and Filter. While they control the same parameters,
you'll get wildly different results in each mode.
TIME
Controls the delay time.
SPAN
Controls the intensity of repletion.
FILTER
Arguably the most fun control on Time
Shadows! On the EQD side this controls an
envelope for the filter frequency and a gate
for the cutoff to the input of the delay. On the
DBA side this controls the filter frequency as
well as the shift point of a precisely phased
delay line for pole zero interpolation. In the
magic middle position, this controls the mix.
PRESET
Six available preset slots for you to save and
recall your favorite settings! The settings for
each of the three controls, the Mode switch
and the expression jack assignment can be
saved and recalled in any of the slots.
PRO TIPS
• Since there is an envelope component to this effect,
the input level will play a role in frequency response.
• Some of the most fun to be had is with short delay
Time and high Span settings while manipulating the
Filter control.