Electro-Harmonix Pico Canyon Echo

Pico Canyon Echo
Flexible digital delay in the world’s smallest Canyon!

The EHX Pico Canyon Echo takes the digital delay from the award-winning Canyon Delay and Looper and plates it up as a single serving echo unit. Starting with a crystal clean delay, the Canyon Echo is a sweetly simple delay with 3 seconds of delay time. Don’t let the size fool you, this canyon is deep! Add filtering, tap tempo, and a feedback knob capable of infinite repeats and this little echo is up to most time bending tasks.

The Canyon Echo features a BLEND knob to get the perfect wet/dry mix. The DELAY knob sets the delay time from 8ms to 3s. FEEDBACK is adjustable from 1 repeat to infinite repeats for endless delay washes and pads. Turn the FILTER knob past noon and it’s a High Pass Filter while below noon it is a Low Pass Filter.

Tap Tempo is simple and easy to use. Just press and release the footswitch at least two times to set the tempo and the LED will blink to confirm your tap tempo. The tempo can then be subdivided from a quarter note to a dotted eight note to an eighth note with the TAP DIV button. Additionally, the Canyon Echo also features selectable Tails bypass so echoes continue after putting the pedal into bypass.

The Canyon Echo also features a new style of Infinite Repeats where a single delay is repeated and the input is taken out of the delay path. This makes the pedal function like a micro tape looper that can be played over without new delays being created. The micro loop can also be manipulated into warped sound effects by adjusting the DELAY knob.

Controls:

1. BLEND: Adjusts the output mix from 100% dry to 100% wet.
2. DELAY: Controls the delay time, ranging from 8ms to 3s.
3. FILTER: Applies an adjustable low-pass or highpass filter to the delay line. Set FILTER to the center or noon position to disable the filters. Turn FILTER counterclockwise to place a low-pass filter on the delay effect, giving the Canyon Echo a sound similar to an analog delay. Turn FILTER clockwise to place a high-pass filter on the delay repeats, for an effect reminiscent of a tape delay. The further you turn FILTER in either direction, the more filtering is applied to the effect.
4. FDBK: Controls how many repeats the Canyon Echo generates. At minimum you get one repeat. At maximum, the repeats are nearly endless. NOTE: the filter is placed in the feedback path of the delay and filters out more signal with each repeat, limiting the maximum repeats at more extreme FILTER settings.
5. TAP DIV Button: When the delay time is set by tap-tempo, the TAP DIV button sets the tap-division:

• Green – 1/8 Note equal to half your tap time
  
• Orange – Dotted 1/8 Note equal to 3/4 your tap time
  
• Red – 1/4 Note equal to your tap time

Tap Tempo
The footswitch can be used to set the delay time. Press and release the footswitch at least twice, in time with your music, to set the tempo. The LED blinks at the tempo to confirm the delay time is set by tap-tempo. To turn off tap-tempo, simply turn the DELAY knob to reset the delay time. You can completely disable tap-tempo by following these steps:

1. Power down the Canyon Echo.
   
2. Press and hold the footswitch while reapplying power.
   
3. Continue to hold the footswitch for about two seconds, the LED will slowly blink through all three colors twice.
   
4. Release the footswitch; tap-tempo is now disabled.
   
5. Repeat this process to re-enable tap-tempo.

Tap-tempo disable is recalled through power cycles so you can set it and forget it.

Infinite Repeats
When Tails bypass mode is enabled, you can activate Infinite Repeats mode by pressing and holding the footswitch:

1. Press-and-hold the footswitch.
   
2. After 500ms, the LED begins flashing through all three colors. Infinite Repeats is now active.
   
3. You can release the footswitch. The delay repeats will continue indefinitely.
   
4. Tap the footswitch once to re-enter normal delay mode.

While Infinite Repeats mode is active no new signal is fed into the delay effect. The filter is taken out of the feedback path and placed instead on the delay output, so you can use it to shape the tone of your looping sound without degrading looped repeats as it does in normal delay mode. You can move the DELAY knob while Infinite Repeats mode is active to get pitch-shifted loops, like speeding up or slowing down a tape-machine.

Tails and Analog Bypass Selection
The Canyon Echo allows you to choose between two bypass modes:

Analog: the bypass signal is fully analog; the delay effect instantly mutes upon entering bypass.

Tails: the repeats of the delay effect continue to decay naturally upon entering bypass; no new audio enters the delay block; bypass is digital.

Tails bypass is selected by default from the factory. To activate Analog bypass, do the following:

1. Press and hold the TAP DIV push button.
   
2. After two seconds, the LED enters Party Mode, where it rapidly cycles through the three LED colors.
   
3. Release the button; Analog bypass is now active.
   
4. Repeat this same procedure to change back to Tails bypass.

The bypass mode setting is remembered through power-cycles so you can set it and forget it.

Specifications:

• Circuit : Digital
  
• Bypass : Buffered Bypass
  
• Audio : Mono
  
• Power Supply : 9.6VDC-200mA power adapter included
  
• Dimensions (in) : 3.65 x 2.0 x 2.0
  
• Current Draw : 100mA