This collaboration between EarthQuaker Devices and Death By Audio is a major update to the original Time Shadows released in 2020 and limited to 1,000 units! Time Shadows now features 3 modes, user-assignable expression control, and 6 preset slots to save and recall your favorite settings. The EQD mode is an envelope-controlled sub-octave filter delay, the all-new !¡ mode is a dual delay where each repetition simultaneously shifts up and down with every regeneration, and the DBA mode is a multi-delay regenerative filter. All three sounds are very different from one another and yet share a harmony perfectly crafted to be completely complementary and suited to all styles and genres of music.
Pitch-morphing Fuzz delay filter
The EQD mode turns everything you play into the sound of a space-jazz bazooka! It takes the input signal, blasts it with the power of digital distortion, mixes it with a polyphonic sub-octave, feeds it into a delay, and then spits it out into a highly resonant envelope-controlled low-pass filter.
Pitch-warping Dual Delay
The !¡ mode is a beam of energy that repetitively pulls your earthly transmissions toward the heavens while simultaneously diving into the depths of the underworld. It is a dual delay where each repetition shifts simultaneously up and down with every regeneration.
Multi-delay filter remorphinator
The DBA mode is a multi-delay filter remorphinator that goes from icy shimmers to cosmic space caves of bouncing repeats.
Presets
Time Shadows features 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.
Operating Modes
Time Shadows has two operating modes which are indicated by the color of the Save/Recall switch LED. In Live mode, the pedal will function exactly where the controls are set and any changes will have no effect on the presets unless saved. In Preset mode, saved presets, including expression pedal mapping, are selected using the Preset switch, and the physical settings of the controls will be ignored. It has never been easier to switch between Live and Preset modes on the fly, significantly expanding your sonic cosmos - no need to bend down!
User-assignable expression control
Use any TRS expression pedal to take control of Time, Span, or Filter.
Time: controls the delay time.
Filter: arguably the most fun control on Time Shadows! On the EQD side, it controls an envelope for the filter frequency and a gate for the delay input cutoff. On the DBA side, it controls the filter frequency as well as the shift point of a precisely phased delay line for zero-pole interpolation. In the magical middle position, it controls the mix...
Span: controls the intensity of the regeneration.
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.