Discomfort Designs Phantom Limb

Delay & Experimental Looper

Phantom Limb by Discomfort Designs is a compact pedal that’s a combination delay and looper. The looper side is actually nine separate loopers with individual random playback triggers. Their probability of triggering is controlled by one knob called ‘Chance’. A ‘Length’ knob determines the length of the loops. It’s a beautiful mess.

Since all kinds of unexpected things can happen with random loopers, the loop buffer can be locked, replaying portions of the last few moments. When locked, the ‘Length’ and ‘Chance’ knobs will scan through the buffer and dynamically change the length. This is definitely my favorite part.

All of that loopy madness goes into the delay side of the pedal. The delay has three modes: clean, drifting modulation, and pitch shifted. It’s weird, but that’s what we’re here for.

TIME: 2 sec. max delay time
REGEN: Strength of repetitions
M / C / P : Modulation, Clean Digi Delay, Rising Pitch Shift
FILTER: frequency cutoff of multimode filter
BP / LP / HP : Band Pass, Low Pass, High Pass Filters
DELAY: Press and hold to clear buffer
LOOP: loops on/off -long press to freeze buffer
LENGTH: 15s recording buffer
CHANCE: Playback and buffer scan probability
X2 / X1 / X4 : toggles multipliers for master clock

Long pressing the LOOP switch will lock the loop buffer. When locked, the LENGTH knob will change the frozen loop length and the CHANCE knob will scrub / search through the buffer. Use this freeze feature with the buffer for endless madness.

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