EarthQuaker Devices Astral Destiny – Octave Reverb

EarthQuaker Devices Astral Destiny

The EarthQuaker Devices Astral Destiny is an Octal Octave Reverberation Odyssey. We’d like to take this opportunity to welcome you and your instrument of choice to a vast new world of octave reverberation.

Unrelenting, radicalized reverb for the modern world; an array of haunting, unearthly delights and ethereal sonic sorcery designed to take you on a deep journey through both time and space.

The Astral Destiny is a compact and powerful modulated octave reverb pedal

It is super cool because it has 8 reverb modes with 8 editable presets, assignable expression control, and tails for natural reverb decay when the effect is bypassed.

There is also a cool stretch feature that doubles the length of the reverb while adding an adjustable pitch-bending effect.

EarthQuaker Devices Astral Destiny Main Features:

• Powerful modulated octave reverb pedal
• 2 modes of operation
• Live Mode – all controls operate manually
• Preset Mode – recalls stored settings for each control
• 8 reverb modes with 8 user-editable presets:
• Abyss – Huge reverb with no octave effect
• Shimmer – Adds an upper octave to the reverb tail
• Sub – Adds a lower octave to the reverb tail
• Sub Shimmer – Adds an upper and lower octave to the reverb tail
• Astral – Adds an upper and lower octave combined with a regenerating tail
• Ascend – Upward pitch bending; best used on sustained notes and chords
• Descend – Downward pitch bending; best used on sustained notes and chords
• Cosmos – Adds a regenerating fifth to the reverb tail; best used on sustained notes and chords
• Stretch feature – doubles the reverb length while adding an adjustable pitch bending effect
• Assignable expression control
• Silent soft-touch switching with True Bypass
• Buffered bypass switching with Tails/No Tails operation
• Voltage or expression pedal control jack for any parameter
• All analog dry signal path and a totally digital effect signal path

Powered by regular 9 V DC PSU (centre -, 2,1 mm, ~100 mA current draw)

EarthQuaker Devices Astral Destiny Modes

Astral Destiny features a completely analogue dry signal path, totally digital delay path, and buffered bypass with two different bypass states – Tails or Full Bypass.

Tails Mode, which is the pedal’s stock setting, allows the reverb to naturally decay after the effect is bypassed, slowly letting you drift back from your ethereal dream state into the waking world.

Full Bypass, on the other hand, cuts the reverb effect completely. On bypass, it instantly throw you back into the cold clutches of reality.

While the Astral Destiny offers two different modes of operation, it ships in Live Mode, where each control will operate manually, laying out your fate for you, clearly visible.

Preset Mode in contrast lets you choose from one of the 8 unearthly, ethereal factory preset reverb fates, 1 for each reverb mode.

Each of these can be edited or completely overwritten just like when the ancient Fates plucked or cut the strings of one’s destiny. Save settings for Length, Depth, Rate, Tone, Mix as well as EXP assignment and Stretch length and recall them instantly.

Any of Astral Destiny’s 8 reverb modes can be used as the basis for each of the 8 presets.

But beware! – There is no undo for preset saving, so make sure you are not overwriting your favorite sound, especially when you are saving presets from Live Mode! – Once the string of your fate is cut, there is no turning back on your destiny

Mode Selections

• Abyss: Huge reverb with no octave effect
• Shimmer: Adds an upper octave to the reverb tail
• Sub: Adds a lower octave to the reverb tail
• Sub Shimmer: Adds an upper and lower octave to the reverb tail
• Astral: Adds an upper and lower octave combined with a regenerating tail
• Ascend: Upward pitch bending
• Descend: Downward pitch bending
• Cosmos: Adds a regenerating fifth to the reverb tail

Controls

• Preset: 8-position rotary switch to recall presets. Astral Destiny ships with 8 presets which can be edited or overwritten.
• Length: Controls the length of the reverb decay.
• Mode: 8-position rotary switch to select the reverb mode.
• Depth: Adjusts the intensity of the chorus effect.
• Rate: Adjusts the rate of the chorus effect.
• Tone: Boosts treble clockwise, cuts treble counterclockwise. Centre is a flat frequency response.
• Mix: Level control for the reverb effect.
• Activate Footswitch: You are probably gonna need this to activate and deactivate the reverb effect.
• Stretch Footswitch: Doubles the length of the reverb effect while adding a temporary change in pitch.

Footswitch

Let your fate spin out of control by pressing the Stretch footswitch doubles the length of the reverb effect while adding a temporary change in pitch.

While a short tap will immediately change the pitch, holding the Stretch footswitch depressed gives you a temporary pitch bending effect with the speed of the pitch bending effect created by holding the Stretch foot switch easily adjusted by turning the Length knob.

Freely express any aspect of your Astral Destiny – Shipping with the EXP jack mapped to the Depth control, the expression control can also be swiftly assigned to Length, Rate, Tone, or Mix, plus different EXP assignments can be saved in each preset and you can also use Control Voltage with the EXP Jack.

Build

Each Astral Destiny is built one at a time by a team of Los Angeles-based robots and a handful of real-life humans in Akron, Ohio.