Digitech RDS8000 - up to 8 Second Time Machine Delay Vintage Rackmount Heres one of the best kept secrets in vintage gear, the Digitech RDS8000 Time Machine digital delay rack mount. The RDS8000 can produce a variety of delay based effects from typical delay/echo effects ranging from slap back to long echoes, chorus and flanging effects and on to metallic, pseudo ring modulator effects to crazy modulated delays that sound like the repeats are being pitch shifted. In addition there are also trigger and sampler modes. The controls and outputs allow for a variety of different timbres and signal routing. The operation is straight forward. If you are familiar with how most delay units work this is a breeze. If you are not there is hardly any learning curve. The delay range separates the delay times into 5 groups (2-8ms, 32-125ms, 125-500ms, 500-2sec, 2sec-8sec). Controls are provided for dept and width of modulation, delay time, delay time range, feedback, dry/wet mix, and input and output levels. There are three modes of operation too. There is normal mode, trigger mode and sample mode selectable by a mini switch. Normal mode is just as it sounds. The sample and trigger mode work together. You sample a bit of audio and switch to trigger mode to trigger the sample with a footswitch or the button on the front panel. The rear panel has the input, a dry out, mix out and a phase out as well as a tripper pulse input, repeat hold/trigger/sample footswitch jack, and a bypass footswitch jack. The phase output is an inverted effect output for getting a wide stereo delay sound. The trigger pulse input lets you hook up a pedal or input that allows the sample to be triggered automatically (with a drum machine for instance) or by a footswitch. The speed and width controls are where the magic happens with this thing. You can get all kinds of insane pitch shifting repeats by adjusting theses two controls just right. What is also cool with these older digital delay units is that they act like analog delays in some ways. For instance, if you adjust the delay time while the unit is repeating it will do the weird pitch warping trick. It will also self oscillate if you crank the feedback way up. When you do these things with newer digital delay units there is a glitchy effect, which is just not the same. The echo effects are also a little more analog sounding. They may actually have a reduced bit rate on the repeats to give them a more analog sound as the repeats die out the tone darkens some. This unit is capable of cool chorus and flanger effects too with short delays and the right speed/width settings. Short delays with lots of feedback can also create cool metallic sounds too. This is an extremely versatile unit that can go from completely normal delay to psychedelic with the twist of a knob. 100% Immaculate and Functional. Factory Owners Manual Included along with Power Cord. Note, all small, Label maker decals for the compressor have been safely removed. Take a look on Ebay these are for sale between $230-$450.00 Only asking $175.00
Posted on: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 11:25:21 +0000
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