DIY desktop Echo Bender with effects loop

The Casper Electronics echobender has been around for about 20 years. It is technically a delay pedal since it uses the PT2399 echo chip. But it abuses the heck out of it.

This one has a modification that Gwion at Holy Island Audio came up with - it has an insert between the dry and affected sections of the circuit that heavily affects the character of the repeats and noise. Adding pitch effects here is particularly interesting.

This is a DESKTOP effect - I used a toggle for the true bypass switch.

Also during testing, I noticed when using a one-spot daisy chain style power supply, there was a tiny hint of noise present in bypass once an effect was inserted into the send+return jacks. When I powered both effects with a Cioks DC7 - no noise at all.

The video I am linking to is from Holy Island Audio and shows the effect loop insert in action.