Sinon t'as une DDM modifiée boutique : la ROCKTRIDE The First Echo On The Moon
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The Rocketride First Echo On The Moon is a modified Memory Man XO. It is stereo as the original meaning that the dry signal is in one output and the echo signal is in one.
What has been done to the Rocketride is changing the sound of the delay; allowing longer feedback without selfoscillating and most important, tuning the sound of the trails to match the best tape echo sounds we have heard at Rocketride. It is a BIG difference and the sound is more like water making the delay time not as important. You can play whatever you want without the delay interfering with your playing even with a lot of delay in the mix. I can also tell that this is not an attempt to make it sound like the old memoryman, this is aiming more at tape echo sounds. Bjorn Juhl has owned a handful of tape echos and though everyone sounds different, he tuned this echo to match the best tape echo sounds in his head.
The price is 3995 SEK inside EU and 3200 SEK outside EU (that's about $420) and as a sidenote I can tell that normally the EHX memoryman XO in Sweden sells for about 4800 SEK in most music stores so here it is actually cheaper than an unmodded.
There has been some questions about the 3005 chips and if it would be possible making it with those chips. I discussed the possibilties with Bjorn and there's a few things we talked about. First and most important would be why to make it with 3005. We both believe that the way this delay sounds, you don't really need more delay time. The only time I personally would want more than 550 ms would be using it as a tap tempo delay in a slower song where maybe something like 7-800 would be useful. But I would actually rather use a digital delay for tempo delay because then you would want the repeats to sound exactly the same as the original note. The other reason would be making the bandwidth better, which could be very useful making the repeats have a less nasal or dark sound. There are a lot of analog delays out there where I would prefer to have a little bit shorter delay time but better bandwidth. However, the way the memory man sounds with Bjorns mod there's actually nothing I would change to the sound of the delay. We were also talking about tap tempo, but as mentioned before I believe it's better to add a small digital delay to the pedalboard for tap.
So when play this delay I can't really hear anything more I would want from it. Compared to the MP deep blue delay the repeats are bass cut and they have more treble for the reverblike feel. And the best thing is that they don't even compete, it's two totally different sounds and you can easily have both of them on the board for different sounds and textures.
If you're a delay connesseiur who really appreciates tonal nuances and the feeling you get from playing with a delay that doesn't dictate your playing this could be for you. Also it is in it's own category, I have yet to play a delay in pedalform that sounds the same as this.
For those of you who have no use of the 240v adapter with swedish plug we will include a cable for the Voodoo lab Pedal Power 2+ plugging into 2 outputs. For those of you in Germany, Scandinavia or Holland you can buy an optional cable at $12 (120 sek inside EU) Check under Rocketride brand in the shop
http://www.rocketridepedals.com/
