Eventide Timefactor: How Delay Saves The Rainforest Without Involving U2
With their Timefactor delay unit, Eventide has managed to jam nine different types of delay along with a looper into one pedal that sounds incredible. With all of the different achievable tones through the Timefactor, you can bet your bottom dollar that it has the features to match.
Alan Chaput from Eventide starts us off with a nice, little walkthru of this pedal before we move onto more of the things the Timefactor can do for you.
[ALAN CHAPUT PLAYING THE GUITAR THROUGH THE EVENTIDE TIMEFACTOR]
ALAN CHAPUT: What’s up? I’m Alan from Eventide,and you're watching Gearwire.Com. Here today, we’re going to go over some of the cool features of the Timefactor twin delay stompbox. This is a stompbox guitar pedal that can be used in lots of different applications besides just guitar. It’s got a lot of cool sounds taken directly from Eventide’s rack units including H3000 and Eclipse. This particular preset is three-one. It’s a factory preset called “Guitars in Space”, and it’s the official preset of the Save the Rainforest benefit concert.
[ALAN CHAPUT PLAYING THE GUITAR THROUGH THE EVENTIDE TIMEFACTOR]
So let’s check out some of the other cool sounds that come from the factory when you first turn on your Timefactor.
[ALAN CHAPUT PLAYING THE GUITAR THROUGH THE EVENTIDE TIMEFACTOR]
That’s a preset that has two delays plus a chorus effect on top.
[ALAN CHAPUT PLAYING THE GUITAR THROUGH THE EVENTIDE TIMEFACTOR]
And you can also get reverb out of the Timefactor.
[ALAN CHAPUT PLAYING THE GUITAR THROUGH THE EVENTIDE TIMEFACTOR]
So it’s not just a delay pedal. You can get a lot of different sounds out of it, and you can do a lot with it. Now, all of Eventide’s stompboxes have three footswitches and there’s 40 presets that you can scroll through. So, the way that the footswitches work, when you’re in bank mode which is the mode that you select presets from, is the right foot switch scrolls up t let you select banks and the left two footswitches select either the two presets in a bank so there’s twenty banks of two presets.
And a lot of people ask, “Well, what if I want to scroll down in banks?” Well, there’s a couple of ways to do that. The easiest way is to hook up an external auxiliary switch like this here, and you can assign something like this to anything that the Timefactor does but you don’t have to program it. If you just plug it in, it has a factory default setting where it will always do what the footswitch is doing in play mode, which is bypass, repeat, and tap tempo, three of the most useful things for play mode so you don’t even have to worry about it. If you don’t want to program it, just plug it in and you’re good. All of eventide’s stompboxes have two modes for the onboard footswitches: bank mode and play mode.
Play mode lets you bypass, repeat, and tap tempo. And the other mode you hold down that footswitch and that’s the mode that lets you switch presets, so what you can do, like I said, with an external auxiliary switch is program it to do anything that the box does but you don’t have to program it because it comes with a default setting. All of Eventide’s stompboxes have factory settings for an auxiliary switch so you can just plug one right in and it will always, without you even having to program it, operate the main things in play mode which are bypass, repeat, and tap tempo.
So with one of these, you have those functions there and then you can change presets with the onboard footswitches.
[ALAN CHAPUT PLAYING THE GUITAR THROUGH THE EVENTIDE TIMEFACTOR]
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