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What's a B-stock? B-stock units are 100% functionally equivalent to the regular 60 Second Deluxe, but have some flaw in the finish, such as a paint chip or casting marks in the enclosure that are visible through the powder coating. So, they're available at a discount! The only other difference is that these come with all black knobs, but again, only a cosmetic difference.
The 60 Second Deluxe is a 'Frippertronics' or 'sound-on-sound' style
looping delay, a digital analogy of a tape loop that can do things no
physical tape could ever do, like change speeds and reverse direction instantly. Designed with multi-second looping in mind, the Deluxe can also provide echoes with or without modulation, chorusing, double tracking, vibrato and flanging.
An evolution of our 60 Second Delay, the 60 Second Deluxe does
everything its predecessor can do while providing new options for sound
manipulation and enhanced interfacing with both the player and with
external gear.
We've kept the key features from the 60 Second Delay including that the pedal is always "listening" whether Active or not.
We've improved on the 60 Second Delay in multiple areas:
- The footswitches are now 'soft touch' types.
- We've separated the Fast / Slow setting and Auto / Manual setting to individual switches and added a jack for an external footswitch to toggle between Fast and Slow hands-free.
- The ratio between Fast and Slow can now be selected to be 2:1 (octaves as on the 60 Second Delay) or 3:2 (perfect fifths!).
- We've added a TRS FX loop for the Regeneration (Echo) path. The simplest use is with a volume pedal for foot control of the number of repeats, but any other effect can be inserted.
- We've also added a Tone knob to roll off high frequencies like an old school analog delay or to roll off low frequencies to keep long repeated echoes from getting too muddy.
- Modulation can now be sine wave or square wave.
- Additionally, there's a Tick output. This is similar to the Clix option from the original 16 Second Delay and with a little processing (looking at you modular synth heads!) it can provide rhythmic patterns synced to the delay clock, which can then be used to step sequencers, trigger envelopes, etc. Go nuts!