Caroline Guitar Company Kilobyte 2000 Lo-Fi Tap Delay Pedal

£279.00

This is a New Caroline Guitar Company Kilobyte 2000 Lo-Fi Tap Delay Pedal from Caroline Guitar Company, listed in Delay Pedals on Just Pedals. Read More below.

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Here’s what Caroline Guitar Company say:

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.

Key Features

  • 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.

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.

Brand

Caroline Guitar Company

In the current JustPedals catalogue, Caroline Guitar Company is represented by Fuzz Pedals, Chorus Pedals and Octave Pedals. Current listings include Meteore, Kilobyte and Somersault Chorus. That makes the range relevant to players looking for drive, gain and clipping, plus time-based effects and ambience. Check each model for its exact circuit or processing platform, controls, power requirements and connections, particularly where the catalogue includes both pedals and supporting gear.

Category

Delay Pedals

Delay pedals repeat the input after a set time, from a short slapback to long ambient trails. Feedback controls how many repeats continue; filtering, modulation, saturation and mix shape their tone and prominence. Tap tempo can keep rhythmic delays aligned with a song, while presets and MIDI help when several timings are needed. Analogue, tape-style and digital designs respond differently to transients and overload. Check maximum delay time, spillover, stereo routing, trails and headroom before choosing a model for the rest of the board.

Tags

Analogue

Analogue products use continuous audio circuitry for some or all of the signal path, so clipping, filtering or modulation arises from physical components rather than sampled algorithms. The label does not guarantee a particular tone; component choice, headroom, bias, noise and the surrounding gain stages still matter. Check whether the switching, presets, control section or cabinet stage is digital when the exact signal path is important.

Digital

Digital products use conversion and processing to create, store or control the effect. This can provide presets, complex routing, repeatable algorithms, USB, MIDI and firmware features, but conversion, latency, power requirements and clocking depend on the design. Check the input and output levels, sample or impulse-response support, bypass behaviour and current draw when combining a digital unit with analogue pedals or a direct recording setup.

Tap Tempo

Tap tempo lets a player set delay, modulation, tremolo or looper timing by tapping a footswitch. The implementation may be a dedicated switch, an external input, MIDI clock or a combination, and the supported timing divisions vary. Check whether the tempo is stored, whether tap is momentary or latching, how quickly the effect follows changes and which blocks respond. Tap tempo is useful only when the control connection and timing range match the workflow.