The Time Bending Looper / Delay is a combination of a couple of circuit bend toys. The looper side is built from another Yada Voice recorder. This is the same toy that’s used in the Bit-Crushing Looper.
The Yada voice recorder out of the package
Moving the LED
adding some external controls
The controls that were added to this circuit consist of two different sides, the record side and the playback side. The record side has a record button, a mute switch (essentially to mute the annoying beep that happens at the beginning and end of each recording) and a speed knob which varies the recording time.
The other side of the unit is the delay side. It was created from an echo voice changer megaphone toy.
The echo voice changer megaphone.
The only control this thing offered was the option to amplify the amount of feedback. There is a fixed delay time and amount of repetitions which was somewhat dissapointin and limiting, but it still adds a lot of interest to the overall sound. The other thing that I like about this circuit is that it totally overdrives the sound and gives everything a grungy atmospheric tone.
The fun of this thing is the routing. It has both mic and line inputs.
Figuring out the routing.
If you route the input to the looper and get a loop going you can choose to route that signal to the mixer section or into the delay. It allows for a loop to be playing and an external signal to be fed to the delay. This allows for a lot of textures to be playing at once.
The routing switch
guts of the circuit coming together
Rough panel layout and the output section
Once the guts of the circuit are compete I can move forward with the control panel layout and the case build.
The control panel labled
The case is glued up.
Final assembly
Assembly of the controls into the from panel
Completed looper
THE Weird Sound Generator routed into the Time Bending Looper / Delay
Couple samples of the Weird Sound Generator being fed to the Looper
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