Catalinbread CSIDMAN
The Catalinbread CSIDMAN is a stuttery glitchy delay.
Yes, it’s digital. Did I stutter?
Why can’t we create a pedal that embraces technological limitations that musicians haven’t widely utilized?
I see technology as the optimistic push through the limitations of existing boundaries. Limitations in materials, processes, functionality, cost, and foresight.
All too often, a slew of new issues are introduced that the marketplace is willing to overlook, at least for a short period of time.
It isn’t too long before the marketplace demands better, and is willing to abandon the past and pay for the next-generation solution.
So I got to thinking. “What are the elements of other old technologies that have merit in a musical context?
If David Byrne can find a way to use Powerpoint in an artistic way, why can’t we create a pedal that intentionally embraces technological limitations that musicians haven’t widely utilized?”
What is the CSIDMAN Like?
The first thing to keep in mind about the CSIDMAN is that it completely embraces and makes no apologies for the fact that it is digital. However, it does have a 100% analog dry path.
Digital is the CSIDMAN’s aesthetic.
As a delay pedal, it strives to reproduce echoes as true to the input as possible without filtering.
When you utilize its scratched disc, stuttery, and glitchy behaviors, it is pseudo-random, yet gives you a certain amount of “control” over the randomness.
We’ve taken the idea of your old skipping portable CD player and incorporated it into a digital delay pedal.
It not only does normal delay sounds, at CD quality, but can also skip, stutter, and glitch just like your beloved old CD player!
Controls
- MIX: Gives you control over the wet/dry balance from 100% wet to 100% dry.
- FEED: Controls the amount of feedback.
- CUTS: (used in conjunction with the LATCH knob). Controls the sample rate, and the relative speed that the CSIDMAN skips.
- LATCH: Controls the relative time in a cycle that the CSIDMAN is in a latching skipping state.
When full counterclockwise, it doesn’t skip, allowing you to use the pedal as a traditional digital delay.
The repeats what is in the memory address when fully clockwise.
At noon, this knob is a 50/50 balance (though random) between a skip-playback state and a non-skip sample state.
TIME:
Controls the echo delay line’s delay time up to 725mS.
Power
Requires 9V DC centre negative supply that delivers 60ma
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