Ambient delay and shoegazer fanatics should take a hard look at this pedal by Australian manufacturer Beautiful Noise: the recently updated Endless Sleeper MkII.
It’s an analog-voiced dual delay effect with modulation and sample reduction. The two delay lines cascade into each other, each contributing between 30ms and 1500ms, allowing a range of effects from neat slap-backs to never-ending washes of sound. The modulation and lo-fi circuits are at the end of the chain.
Self-oscillation is the name of the game here. Each circuit can be pushed into that state either by turning up the Feedback knobs or by pressing the Overload footswitch, which momentarily maxes out both delay’s feedback controls for hands-free sonic bliss.
The Glide knobs (one for each channel in MkII) add lush chorus/vibrato on shorter delay settings, or psychotic waves of pitch-shifting madness on longer Delay times. Two toggles, also new to the latest version, allow you to pick from three waveforms for each channel: SINE, SQUARE, and RANDOM, while two tiny knobs let you set the Rate.
The big Crush control on the right applies a sample rate reducer and a bit crusher, giving your tone a lo-fi character reminiscent of 8-Bit gaming consoles of the ’80s.
The most exciting new feature of MkII is the knob with the <<< sign, which, to quote the builder, “forces the output of DELAY II back into the input of DELAY I, causing a third delay line, adding an additional repeat to every previous sequence of repeats.” This can conjure up complex dreamy sonic textures.
Here are the best videos of the Beautiful Noise Endless Sleeper Delay. We added it to our list of the Best Lo-Fi Delay Pedals and Veritable Sci-Fi Delay Machines.
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Discontinued: Beautiful Noise Endless Sleeper MkI
The Beautiful Noise Endless Sleeper is an analog voiced cascading digital delay pedal. Its versatile design of having two independently controlled delay lines wired in a series circuit, allows for the creation of a wide spectrum of unique sounds: from precise, subtle echo textures to total synthetic dream simulation.
While keeping the dry signal pure/analog from input to output, the wet signal passes through two delay chips, each independently controlled with DELAY (Mix), D. TIME and FEEDBACK controls. The delay time’s reach from 30ms to 1200ms, the longer the time, the further the trails degrade into enticing shades of low fidelity.
Each delay path can be easily pushed into oscillation mode by either raising the FEEDBACK knob, or by holding down the OVERLOAD footswitch: momentarily maxing out both delay’s feedback controls for hands-free sonic bedlam.
Using the GLIDE and toggle switch, players can expressively modulate both delay chips through an internal LFO: creating lush chorus/vibrato on shorter delay setting, or psychotic waves of pitch shifting madness when you push the D.TIME.
The CRUSH control drives the delay’s output into an analog sample rate reducer, which crunches your signal down to emulate sounds similar to 8-Bit gaming consoles and microcomputers of the 1980’s.
