We're stoked to welcome the Decay Cascade to the Little Box collection!
Decay Cascade is a powerful box of textural chaos, pairing a multi-mode reverb circuit with a powerful drive circuit to create huge walls of sound. The drive circuit features a unique SAG control to starve the voltage and give you gated , glitchy fuzz tones to add to the fun. If you're a fan of soaring post-rock, shoegaze, noise rock or doom this pedal is for you!
From the builder:
Blends reverb and cascading analog amplification stages to create multilayered textures. Inspired by the sound of running reverb into distortion but with more blending and layering possibilities, this pedal can produce lo-fi subtlety or slabs of disintegrated noise. Or both.
Dial in reverb ranging from a light bounce to saturated drones, with a maximum reverb time of about 20 seconds. The reverb mix is sent to a versatile drive circuit with a voltage sag gate for extra deterioration. Combine dry, reverb, and distorted reverb layers into your desired textural mix. This then passes through a preamp stage inspired by 1960s test amplifiers that can add a boost of raw gain and crackling gated tails, with an optional low pass filter. Add a little dust and murk, or create the sound of amp death. Thankfully, there is a volume control.
Controls
MODE Reverb models:
Hall with slow pitch drift. Dark and woozy.
Spring with very long decay. Bright, full, and textural.
Lofi bucket brigade echo. Primitive and bouncy.
LEVEL Set a reverb balance between 100% wet and dry signal.
DECAY Set the reverb time from a short reflection to long drones.
DRIVE A parallel distortion channel that the reverb mix goes through, ranging from light overdrive to high gain.
SAG Voltage starve the distortion circuit to produce a gated fuzz effect.
MIX Create a layered mix of the original clean/reverb mix and the drive channel.
AMP Preamp setting (top to bottom)
Regular amplification stage.
High gain boost with a low pass filter. Very loud and murky with gated “dust” trails.
High gain boost with no filter. Extremely loud and harsh with gated “dust” trails.
Volume. Output. Loudness. Unquiet.