jimbugg
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...and I don't just mean delays!
I'm sure I'm not the first or only guy who's figured this out, but I thought I'd share about this since I haven't seen another thread about it on here.
Recently I got the urge to downsize from my PT-3, so I pulled a few choice effects boxes off of my main board and put them on a small Brady Cases flat board I had laying around, just to change things up a bit. I ended up with two different drives, a tuner, my Analogman Mini Chorus, a Timeline and a good 'ol RV-5 (photo below).
However, there were a few effects that I wanted the ability to bring up every once in a while, so I decided to try turning my Timeline into something of a multi-effects box. By turning the delay time and repeats all the way down and turning the mix knob all the way up, I found that I could cop bitcrusher (Lo-Fi machine), envelope filter (Filter machine), and tremolo (Trem machine) effects just by messing around with settings in order to get a single effected repeat that tracked in almost real time - some machines can't set the delay time below 60ms, which is just barely lagging.
Anyway, I thought it was neat. I put the Timeline on this small board for the delays, but it turns out I've been able to coax even more out of it! Obviously these patches are not perfect - there are tracking issues like I mentioned above and I can't use delay when I'm using one of these presets - but it just goes to show how versatile the Timeline really is, even beyond the complex delay sounds it can achieve. Next, I'll be seeing what I can do with the Swell and Pattern machines - should be fun!
Board is a JHS Kilt > TU-3 > Teletronix Mulholland Drive > AM Mini Chorus > Timeline > RV-5.
I'm sure I'm not the first or only guy who's figured this out, but I thought I'd share about this since I haven't seen another thread about it on here.
Recently I got the urge to downsize from my PT-3, so I pulled a few choice effects boxes off of my main board and put them on a small Brady Cases flat board I had laying around, just to change things up a bit. I ended up with two different drives, a tuner, my Analogman Mini Chorus, a Timeline and a good 'ol RV-5 (photo below).
However, there were a few effects that I wanted the ability to bring up every once in a while, so I decided to try turning my Timeline into something of a multi-effects box. By turning the delay time and repeats all the way down and turning the mix knob all the way up, I found that I could cop bitcrusher (Lo-Fi machine), envelope filter (Filter machine), and tremolo (Trem machine) effects just by messing around with settings in order to get a single effected repeat that tracked in almost real time - some machines can't set the delay time below 60ms, which is just barely lagging.
Anyway, I thought it was neat. I put the Timeline on this small board for the delays, but it turns out I've been able to coax even more out of it! Obviously these patches are not perfect - there are tracking issues like I mentioned above and I can't use delay when I'm using one of these presets - but it just goes to show how versatile the Timeline really is, even beyond the complex delay sounds it can achieve. Next, I'll be seeing what I can do with the Swell and Pattern machines - should be fun!

Board is a JHS Kilt > TU-3 > Teletronix Mulholland Drive > AM Mini Chorus > Timeline > RV-5.