Reminds me that I really need to sample more garbage from our media 
Back to the beats-
@captain8 The blooper comparison is fun!
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yeah, I would have never thought of comparing the blooper to the zen delay, can’t put my finger on it but I just don’t gel with the blooper, … zen delay all day
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Have you owned one? I’ve been interested in it even as I ended up parting with the MOOD, I downsized my delays and shouldn’t pick any back up.
I think my problem with some of these is that my goal is intentionality, and I should let the happy accidents come as I’m staging a song instead of focusing the song around any happy accidents. Sure, that can occur in the process but buying tools of randomness from the start often leads me to frustration and impatience in harnessing chaos over the generalized chaos of the creative process.
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no I don’t own a blooper, only fudged around with it a bit but I definitely need more time with one… I hate buying something and returning it so it takes me a good while of mini episodes with something before I commit to a purchase, except the Syntakt I bought that before it came out
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I came thiiiiiiiiisssss close to ordering one today, then opted for the Bassline tabletop instead. Maybe next month. I will have one of these eventually.
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So I think I’m gonna order a zen delay. I love the sound and the playability aspect fits in with my idea of using a drum machine and a synth for improvised techno. I just want to check, are there any other highly playable delay pedals I should be looking at? Also, does anybody use one of these on a mixer send? I think creating a soundscape on a return channel would be a great way to transition between riffs on my synth.
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It’s telling that Rumsfeld missed the most important one: unknown knowns.
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You mean the things we know that we do not know that we know?
But how could he have known?
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yeah, things a person knows, but doesn’t know that they know. People get upset.
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I tend not to keep it on a send (I want to be able to bring that filter all the way down for intros/outros). But I can’t think of any reason it wouldn’t work on one. Just crank the mix all the way to wet.
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Having gone on a gear spending spree as of late I finally have one of these coming at the end of the week along with an Empress Reverb pedal. I’m hoping the two make a good combination as I really have no plans to go down a hardware FX pedal rabbit hole. I really just want a few solid items and that’s it. These two seem like the best of the bunch for my tastes at least from the endless videos I’ve watched.
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It doesn’t mention it in the manual, but can you use this pedal with a mono input?
Yes. If you have something plugged into the L in only, it splits the signal over the L and R out as you’d expect.
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I’m at 6 months on the Zen Delay. 6 months ago after lots of delay pedal hopping, I was choosing between this and Oto Bim. Now I want to add Oto Bim. I think the only thing stopping me is that I just joined the Elektron family by getting a Digitakt.
There’s nothing wrong with Zen Delay. It’s working exactly as I expected and I don’t regret this option, but Bim has an amazing lo-fi character that I’d still like to get my hands on. Hope you’re stronger than I am!
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It’s been pretty easy for me to avoid the Oto products as they’re constantly sold out. 
Seriously though, I’ve taken a look at their whole product range and they all look pretty fantastic. I could do with any of them. I took a pretty hard look at everything else out there aside from the Zen. Had I done anything else it’d have likely been a Bim or Empress Echosystem, but I consistently went back to the Zen.
I was hoping to have everything on Friday, but Fedex has sought to spoil my weekend and pushed my delivery date to Monday. Boo!
Stay strong!
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Lots of amazing delays out there for sure. But for me, the Zen has an immediacy that keeps me coming back. I’m guessing this is do to its focus on being a performance effect. What I wasn’t expecting is that this focus would be felt so strongly by someone like me who never performs.
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This is the hardest part to explain to someone who doesn’t have Zen Delay, or hasn’t had hands-on experience with it. The immediacy of the controls is what makes this stand out. Many pedals are better off as set it and forget it tools, while this can be used like that too, of course, it also responds well to real-time interaction as a performance tool (even for us on-performers).
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Hi, I am an owner of a Zen Delay. I kept finding a high pitched noise in my recordings at 2.0kHz and around 7.0kHz. I presumed there was a ground loop somewhere but I have unplugged everything apart from the Zen and I can still hear it. It is most audible when the highpass filter is engaged, then disappears when the filter knob is set to BYPASS (filter off).
Does anyone else have this issue?
Cheers
I’ve heard of this issue whilst reading/watching reviews. You’re definitely not alone. (NOTE: I don’t own one)
Returned mine because of it. I was told it was part of the device. It does that.
I think most people don’t mind.
I did.
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