Another BBD chorus. Great. Just what the world needs. But wait. There’s an Aliasing knob.
Most analog modulation pedals spend their lives trying to hide the fact that bucket-brigade chips are fundamentally imperfect. They filter out the clock noise, smooth the edges, and present a clean, polite face to the world. The OPFXS Parallel Dimension does the opposite. It gives you a knob that lets the grit back in.
At minimum, Aliasing is disabled. Clean chorus, classic vibrato, nothing to see here. Low settings behave like tube breakup – soft, organic, a little hair on the glass. Turn it up and the BBD starts revealing its ugly side. Harmonic grit. Lo-fi texture. That distinctive digital-meets-analog crunch that old malfunctioning delays make when they’re about to die.
Speed and Depth are standard. 0.1 Hz to 11 Hz LFO rate. Deep warble to gentle shimmer. Chorus/Vibrato toggle switches between spacious detuning and pure pitch wobble.
Here’s the trick: Aliasing works even with modulation turned down. Speed at zero, Depth at zero, Aliasing cranked. Just harmonic texture and grit, no movement. A lo-fi saturator hiding inside a chorus pedal.
True bypass. 20 mA draw. The LED pulses with the LFO rate.
For players bored with polite modulation, this is the weird knob you didn’t know you needed.
