CBSD “Reiteration”

Bending Guide

Using This Guide
Bending Guides show specific bends that we have identified as interesting. Color-coded circles indicate separate bending points that all connect to a common point. We call this the Point of Origin (or POO) and indicate the POO with a circle marked with an “X”.

Occasionally a circle will be marked with a zigzag line . This means that we found it useful to add a potentiometer between this point and the POO.

Body Contact

The two points in the yellow box are a single body contact bend. Touching both points simultaneously alters the speed/pitch of the delay. We recommend wiring each point to its own bit of metal,

Suggested Pot Values

• Red 3 – 50k
• Red 4 – 10k
• Red 5 – 1M

We appreciate that this is an obnoxious variety of potentiometer values, but these are the values we found gave us the best performance for each bend. If you don’t want to buy a bunch of new pots, just use what you have.

Built from: Arion SAD-3 Stereo Delay

Number of bends: 5 10

Description: The CBSD is one of three ephemeral builds whose bending guide we salvaged, but whose name and description did not escape the ravages of time. Build one and tell us what we should call it!

**New**

The original version of this pedal bend is floating around somewhere in the form of a giant box topped with a pedal and a joystick. Every circuit bender dreams of finding that holy grail of devices that makes the most amazing sounds–and a delay pedal always seems like it would be an ideal candidate for that. Unfortunately, this pedal is kind of underwhelming. If we had thought back to that original version, we might have picked up on the fact that there just isn’t much happening on this board.

That said, we have expanded the original five bends out to ten. Several of these bends trigger unconstrained feedback. Some affect the stereo field in interesting ways. And some actually do weird things to the delay signal.

It’s not the most exciting bend we’ve done (and probably even more anti-climactic after the crazy outcome of the CBIC bend), but it does hold up as a good iteration on the original concept.

Demos

The following demos all feature a drum machine running through the CBSD. Each demo starts with a clean signal, then the delay is turned on, then the bend is connected. There is slight compression and limiting on the signal, but no additional effects.

Red 1

Red 2

Red 3

Red 4

Red 5

Blue 1

Blue 2

Blue 3

Blue 4

Yellow