CBDD “Dublay”

Bending Guide

Using This Guide
Bending Guides show specific bends that we have identified as interesting. Color-coded circles indicate separate bending points that all connect to a common point. We call this the Point of Origin (or POO) and indicate the POO with a circle marked with an “X”.

Occasionally a circle will be marked with a zigzag line . This means that we found it useful to add a potentiometer between this point and the POO.

Point of Interest

The trimmer pot next to the Purple point (the white plastic one with “202” on it) controls the maximum delay length. You can adjust that to get longer delay lengths than were set at the factory–with the trade-off that the sound quality diminishes. But, if that’s a concern of yours, you might be in the wrong place…

Updated for 2025

Built from: Arion DDM-1 Digital Delay

Number of bends: 19

Description: The CBDD is one of three ephemeral builds whose bending guide we salvaged, but whose name and description did not escape the ravages of time.

**New!**

Because all the original information for this bend was lost in the endless ether of yesterday’s internet, we were excited to dive back in and rediscover the outcomes. Interestingly, we ended up with the same number of bends as the original guide (19), but they were not all the same bends.

Notably, we spent some time exploring the upper board, which cannot be accessed from the bottom. This entire upper board, which includes the control pots, sits on a metal enclosure that, presumably, is meant to reduce RF interference to the primary IC. Or maybe just to keep curious randos from seeing what it is?

What we ended up with is a collection of feedback producers, distortion and delay timing effects. A lot of the bends based around the secret IC (Orange 2 & 3, Red 3-6) seemed to lock up the IC in subtle ways and you don’t hear the effect until you “disconnect” the bend.

For these, it made the most sense to use momentary switches. By virtue of how momentary switches work, they are more of a performance mechanism than latching switches. With that in mind, we decided to make this a performance delay (in the sense that you perform it like an instrument, not that it has a higher set of specifications for better performance). That also allowed us to implement something that we rarely use: a body contact on the Purple point.

The result is a delay pedal with some great dub instincts, that creates a plethora of fantastic effects.

Demos

Blue 1

Blue 2

Blue 3

Red 1

Red 2

Red 3

Red 4

Red 5

Red 6

Red 7

Red 8

Orange 1

Orange 2

Orange 3

Orange 4

Orange 5

Green 1

Green 2

Purple