EarthQuaker Devices Rainbow Machine V2 Polyphonic Modulator (Purple Sparkle)

Product Details

• Brand: Earthquaker Devices
• Style: Delay,Chorus
• Color: Purple Sparkle
• Voltage: 9 Volts
• Amperage: 50 Milliamps
• Item Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Package Dimensions: 6 x 4 x 3 inches
• Item model number: Rainbow Machine v2 Purple Sparkle
• Is Discontinued By Manufacturer: No
• Date First Available: July 13, 2018
• Color Name: Purple Sparkle
• Voltage: 9 Volts

Gear Hero Exclusive Purple Sparkle Stop me if you’ve heard this before: Welcome to the Rainbow Machine, in all its synthetic glory! This one is for experimenters, adventurists, and noisemakers. Totally not for purists and/or tone hounds. There are no “natural sounds” that come from this box. It takes modern DSP and uses it as a tool of future past to create real-time pitch shifting using digital oscillators. Stop? Okay, fine, but what if I told you the Rainbow Machine has been completely re-imagineered from the pixie dust- covered ground up to be more versatile, twice as loud as the original, with an extended delay time, deeper chorus tones, silent Flexi-Switch foot switches on both the Activate and Magic functions, and most of all, has more Magic? The Rainbow Machine is built around a DSP pitch warping engine that’s designed to be slightly imperfect; colored with digital remnants of the cosmic dust we’ve picked up across the multiverse. That is to say it’s a cold digital beast made to pretend it has feelings. The Pitch control adjusts the frequency of the polyphonic pitch-warped harmony from a fourth below your input, to a third above, and every atonal pitch in-between. Noon is the unison position. Use the Primary function control to adjust the volume of the polyphonic harmony. You may add in an accompanying octave or thicken the modulation by bringing up the Secondary function control. The Tracking control adjusts the lag time between the wet and dry signals, and the Tone control rolls off some treble for a darker, “vintage” sound. Clockwise is bright, counterclockwise is dark.