Erica Synths Zen Delay

ZEN DELAY
Delay with Analog Filter & Overdrive

Inspired by a trip to Berlin’s trailblazing music hardware trade show Superbooth, Coldcut’s Matt Black and longtime friend Dr Walker (Liquid Sky artist collective / Air Liquide) envisaged the exciting possibilities of a custom hardware effects unit. The result is the creation of the Zen Delay — the first-ever hardware effects unit produced in collaboration with an electronic music label.

Bringing together the best of the digital and analogue worlds, the Zen Delay is a BPM-synced stereo delay line, combining extreme feedback ranges for dub and experimental lo-fi effects with a multi-mode 24 dB synth filter and valve overdrive.

Created and manufactured by Erica Synths, the unit is housed in a metal case with Erica Synths’ signature bakelite knobs and a valve circuit for extra analogue warmth. While sonically versatile, it is incredibly easy to use — each function has a physical knob that you can play around with without diving into manuals or scrolling through menus on a tiny screen.

Crafted in close collaboration with DJs and producers, the Zen Delay was uniquely developed with both live and studio use in mind and is suitable for many different performance situations, musical styles and instruments. While most delay devices are designed as ‘stomp boxes’ for guitarists, the device is equally powerful in the hands of electronic music producers, artists and DJs, adding a unique, warm and powerful sonic character to drum machines, loops, vocals, synths, samples or any other source. Even full tracks or a live stereo mix can be enhanced by the combination of analogue and digital circuitry, breathing new life into iPad performances and giving traditional digital synths and drum machines a huge kick.

Features:

• Dub-echo effects unit with stereo delay, analog tube drive circuit, and 24dB multimode filter
  
• Designed in collaboration with English independent record label Ninja Tune
  
• Comprehensive hands-on control with high-quality knobs for input level, delay time, feedback, delay mode, dry/wet blend, filter cutoff, resonance, filter mode, analog drive amount
  
• Tap tempo button makes it easy to sync delays with your mix as you perform
  
• Analog tube drive circuit adds vibrant harmonic richness all the way up to full distortion
  
• Huge delay time range (1ms-5,000ms), with 1/8 to 8x clock division, for up to 50 seconds of delay
  
• Offers a full dub-delay workstation without complex mixer routing schemes
  
• Full stereo signal path
  
• MIDI and CV inputs for external control from other hardware, your DAW, Eurorack modular synthesizers, and other devices
  
• Five delay modes include tape, tape pingpong, digital pingpong, digital, and crossover
  
• Delay Off mode allows you to use the filter and tube drive for processing signals without the delay

Specifications:

• Type: Delay, Tube Overdrive, Filter
  
• Number of Channels: Stereo
  
• Analog Inputs: 2 x 1/4"
  
• Analog Outputs: 2 x 1/4"
  
• Other I/O: 1 x 1/4" (CV in)
  
• MIDI I/O: In
  
• Power Source: 12V DC power supply (included)
  
• Height: 1.96"
  
• Width: 8.26"
  
• Depth: 5.9"
  
• Weight: 0.86 kg