Catalinbread Csidman

The first thing to keep in mind about the CSIDMAN is that it completely embraces and makes no apologies for the fact that it is digital (though it does have a 100% analog dry path). Digital is the CSIDMAN’s aesthetic: as a delay pedal, it strives to reproduce echoes as true to the input as possible without filtering. When you utilize its scratched disc, stuttery, and glitchy behaviors, it is pseudo-random, yet gives you a certain amount of “control” over the randomness.

Controls:

TIME Controls the echo delay line’s delay time up to 725mS, as well as the rate of the glitch.

MIX Gives you control over the wet/dry balance from 100% wet to 100% dry.

FEED Controls the amount of feedback going back into the unit.

CUTS (used in conjunction with the LATCH knob) controls the buffer memory length.

LATCH controls the relative time in a cycle that the CSIDMAN is in a latching skipping state. When full counterclockwise, it doesn’t skip, allowing you to use the pedal as a traditional digital delay. When full clockwise, the unit is stuck repeating whatever is in the buffer memory. At noon, this knob is a 50/50 balance (though random) between a skip-playback state and non-skip sample state.