monk echo

reverb and delay
both beautiful and strange

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your echo has a voice now

Monk Echo – a reverb & delay pedal that imprints the character of the human voice to your sound, and lets you morph entire sonic landscapes with one motion in a way that hasn’t been experienced on guitar pedals.

a grand duet of reverb & delay

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the base ingredient of the monk echo is a grand duet of a luscious reverb and precise delay

They are mixed together and fed into each other. With one simple but precisely tuned mix knob you can explore various tastes of layered ambient echos. From endless reverbs with only a slight touch of delay rhythm to pronounced repeats with distant reverberations.

 

Both reverb and delay will happily sustain indefinitely without collapsing into noise. But max out the feedback knob and you will soon find yourself facing a self-oscillating wall of sound.

monk voices

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inspired by Baltic choirs and mystical spaces, monk echo speaks to you in vowels

The reverb and delay signals are fed through morphing formant filters tuned to the resonant frequencies of human voice. Dial in a touch of distant resemblance to the human voice or completely infuse the echos with the resonant vowels.

 

And all of a sudden it is like a choir of monks echoing through stone walls joined by an ethereal female choir and brightly voiced children’s tones.

 

Step into the role of choirmaster – choose the vowel that the monk echo sings in. Smoothly glide between them and find the one that works for you and your song. Or focus on your performance and let monk echo follow you by changing the vowels automatically reacting to your musical accents.

sound design tools

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there are no algorithms, there are no pre-defined sounds

Instead each of the eight knob & button combos is a carefully tuned sound design tool. Simple and straightforward on their own, but powerful and revealing through interaction between them. There is a ton for you to explore beyond the names of the knobs. What we’re saying is that you can just dial in your warm, saturated and modulated tape delay if you want to. It is easy. You don’t need an algorithm for that.

 

But why stop there? Two quick adjustments and now you’re playing with a shimmer verb. Quickly add vinyl crackles on top. Go from dreamwave vinyl vibes to heavily distorted wah-wah solo (yes, on a reverb pedal!). Twist a knob, press a button and go somewhere else completely. Make a sound that doesn’t have a name yet. You’re in charge. Explore it all.

These are your tools: PLACEHOLDER

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macro control

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With the macro control you don’t need eight hands. You can re-shape all sound parameters in a single gesture.

turn big knob to have small knobs turn magically wow

features list

grand reverb

1 millisecond to 10 second delay

monk voice vowels

manual or automatic responsive vowel selection

male, female and children voice characters

infinite reverb decay and delay repeats

granular reverb pitch shifting

reverse delay

static or responsive modulation 

distortion – from mild to brutal

degradation – musical artefacts and signal dropouts

reverb pre-delay

macro control over all knobs at once

pressure sensitive footswitch

tap tempo

variable delay stereo width

master low and high frequency filters

stereo signal path

expression pedal input assignable to any single and multiple knobs at once

control voltage response via expression input

8 presets onboard, 127 presets in total via midi

full midi control, midi in, midi out and thru

classic pedal power or usb-c power inlet

straight forward front panel controls

advanced system settings for any possible setup scenario

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product dimensions

187 x 142 x 590 mm (including knobs and connectors)

outputs

midi, usb-c, 3.5mm stereo audio

weight

1.5 kg / 3.3 lbs

controls

mix, reverb/delay, time, decay, modulation. voice, monk, drive, 2x reverb

whats in the box

Monk Echo, Support meterials, Mentha stickers

*the power supply is not included in the box.

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