After years of relative quiet from the Dunlop-family brand, KHDK Electronics has reemerged with something unexpected . Not another high-gain monster for metalheads—though they’ve done those—but a filter-delay modulation pedal born from a two-year collaboration with Deftones’ Chino Moreno.
The Digital Bath takes its name and spirit from the White Pony track that made everyone stop and ask how they got that sound. The answer lives inside this box: a sample-and-hold filter section paired with analog-voiced delay. The filter cycles through frequencies like a radio drifting between stations, creating that underwater modulation signature . The delay delivers warm, tape-style echoes up to 400ms—repeats that feel like memory rather than repetition.
Chino tested early prototypes live at Coachella during Deftones’ headline set. If something failed there, everyone would know. Nothing failed. He’s kept it on his board through subsequent touring, which means this thing survives the road .
Controls stay intuitive: Mix, Rate, three-position Depth switch for the filter. Delay does its thing alongside. Internal switches let you kill the dry signal for parallel routing or adjust repeat levels from subtle to cascading. True bypass, 75mA, made in the EU.
KHDK hasn’t released much lately. When they do, apparently, it’s because they’ve spent two years getting it right . The Digital Bath is for players who want to sink into sound and not come back up.
