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Anasounds reboots its Utopia Delay as 2 Deluxe Versions - the Cleaner Vintage Tape Echo style Utopia, and Dirtier Old Worn Tape Sounding Experimental Dystopia
Key Points
Anasounds reboots its best-selling 2015 Utopia delay as Utopia Deluxe and a limited Dystopia Deluxe. Engineers spent three years perfecting tap‑tempo; Joshua Heath Scott vouched for that difficulty.
Utopia Deluxe — warm, classic tape‑echo/analog‑voiced PT2399 delay: 2×PT2399 (800ms clean, 1000ms dirty), tape preamp before delay, modulation with 3 presets, tap tempo with subdivisions, tilt EQ pivoted at 540Hz, self‑oscillation via tap footswitch, true or buffered bypass, retains delay tails. Utopia (€299).
Dystopia Deluxe — experimental worn‑tape voice: 2×PT2399, overdriven preamp after delay, 4 modulation presets, programmable 4‑step sequencer (3 presets), granular repeats with noise gate, limited edition available 1–17 December. Dystopia (€349).
So Anasounds first released their 3-knob analog-voiced delay pedal back in 2015. It rose quickly to become their best-selling pedal - and remains so to this day. One of the trickiest thing you can do - as vouched for by none other than Joshua Heath Scott - is to create a tap-tempo function for an analog style / or PT2399 delay. In fact it took Anasounds’ engineers 3 years to perfect - to the most exacting of standards. And the results of said exercise is not just the 6 control knobs, twin toggle-switches, and twin-footswitches Utopia Deluxe - but also a limited edition more experimental take on that circuit in the form of the Dystopia.
Both pedal have identical control topologies - while the interior circuits branch off into different directions - so that the Utopia retains its warm classic roots, while the the Dystopia is its messier and more rambunctious dirtier brother!
You can order the Dystopia (€349) and Utopia (€299) right now from the Anasounds Webstore.
Remember that the Dystopia is strictly limited - and only available until December 17th!
Utopia Deluxe : Warm, Classic Analog / Tape Echo voiced PT2399 Delay - €299
"The Utopia Deluxe undergoes a change and is beyond expectations. It aims for the sound of a tape echo and the good old analog delays. It has a tap tempo with subdivisions, a Tape Preamp inspired preamp which is chained before the delay effect, some presets of modulations - for the the clearest and the most versatile delay."
'For the discerning musician in every possible genre'
KEY FEATURES
- Modulation with 3 continuous presets
- Tap tempo with subdivisions
- 2 X PT2399 chips - hence 800ms of clean delay, 1000ms of dirty delay
- Vintage warm saturating preamp before the delay
- Tilt EQ / Filter pivoted around 540Hz
- Unfiltered and smooth repeats
- Get self-oscillation when you hold down the tap tempo footswitch
- Analog voiced delay
- True Bypass or Buffered Bypass
- Retain delay tails / trails
Dystopia Deluxe : Experimental Worn Tape voiced Delay with Crazy Modulation and 4 Step Sequencer - €349
The Dystopia is for the sonic adventurers looking for a thrillsonores! It’s the idea of an old tape echo, with a saturated preamp who's chained after the delay effect, craziest modulations, and finally a sequencer! The Dystopia will inspire amateurs of vintage sounds (Surf music, garage rock, rockabilly…) and experimental ones (Post rock, noisecore etc.…). Available from the 1st to the 17th of December only, as a limited edition.
'For the sonic adventurer looking for a thrill'
KEY FEATURES
- Modulation with 4 continuous presets
- Tap tempo with subdivisions
- 2 x PT2399 Chips hence 800ms of clean delay, 1000ms of dirty delay
- Programmable sequencer with 4 steps and 3 presets
- Overdriven preamp after the delay
- Tilt EQ / Filter pivoted around 540Hz
- Granular repeats with noise gate
- Get self-oscillation when you hold down the tap tempo footswitch
- Analog voiced delay
- True Bypass or Buffered Bypass
- Retain delay tails / trails
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