Caroline Guitar Company Kilobyte 2000 Lo-fi Tap Delay Effects Pedal
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The KILOBYTE-2000 might just be the final form of our flagship lo-fi delay pedal, first launched in the original Kilobyte™ pedal in 2013. The Kilobyte stood out as special in a crowded delay market with pristine digital delays, early "delay computer" multi-fx, part-for-part clones, software emulators seeking to recreate the classics, and other designers attempting to use the PT-2399 to impersonate analog delay units.
Instead of trying to clean that chip up or make it super dark to sound "analog", we made it nastier. And the KB-2000 fully realizes the frequency and bandwidth compromised design of our original.
The "invader" repeater preamp pushes the gain on the repeats up to 5x harder than the original, while leaving the dry signal untouched and capable of staying clean when dialed back. A new "sharpness" control allows the user to set the gain range and voicing of the preamp. Tap tempo and trails bypass are on board, a gorgeous but subtle modulation is included, and our beloved "Havoc" runaway hold with its voiced runaway is here, but now with a new control to set the intensity of the effect.
A dedicated effects loop now allows users to put other effects just on the KB2K repeats, or to get a 100% wet output for different uses. We hope you have fun with all of this.
We are proud to present to you the Twentieth Century’s delay pedal of the future...the Caroline KILOBYTE 2000!
Based on our original KilobyteTM delay from 2013, described by our customers as their “gateway drug to boutique” because there was nothing else out there quite like it.
While the sound is still familiar and beautiful, the features have been expanded from the original and include special edition mods offered to our MEGABYTE release from 2020.
•Delay time up to one full second.
•Trails bypass and tap tempo control.
•A new sharpness control lets the user set the preamp’s gain range and its voicing from “bark” to “bite”
•A havoc control adjusts the intensity of the runaway effect when held down.
•An external FX loop allows you to put other effects just on the repeats of the delay, or to get a 100% wet signal for other applications.
Calling our Kilobyte a “Lo-Fi Delay” was always more than just marketing. We deliberately compromised the dynamic range and frequency response to be different not only from other digital delays of the era, but also from other popular devices that used the PT-2399 “karaoke echo” chip.
We didn’t smother it to make it sound “analog”, but we also didn’t try to clean it up. In fact, with a dedicated drive preamp just for the wet side, we wanted players to clip the repeater circuit and make it even nastier.
