Fairfield Circuitry | Shallow Water K-Field Modulator

Fairfield Circuitry Shallow Water

Model Number or Name:

Shallow Water

Pitch

Circuit Type: Analog

Original Price: $300

Excellent Used Price: $240

Genre(s): All Genres

Year Released: 2017

Year Discontinued: 0

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Poolside conversations while staring at your own reflection. The depths of which shall never be known, at least not for another couple thousand years. So it goes.

Before the reflection, is the experience. Before phenomena, or even noumena, is that which is undefinable. That which has never been heard, that which will never be heard again and that which has always been heard but never listened to.

K-field (Simulation mathematics), an undefined, two-dimensional, non-linear field where past and future forces interact at irregular intervals. Shallow Water generates this k-field by randomly modulating a short time delay to create unexpected shifts in pitch. The result is this non cyclical vibrato/chorus/flanger-type thing favoring old tape flavors.

The water is shallow on this side of the pool. Do not dive and you will not drown.

ABSTRACT Shallow Water’s essence could be characterized as uncertain, subtle and nostalgic.
PSEUDO RANDOM GENERATOR The random quality of the modulation begins in a simple program residing on a microcontroller
INTEGRATOR AND DEPTH These random stepped voltages are processed through a filter/ integrator, giving control over the slope at which the steps will reach their new values.
ENVELOPE FOLLOWER AND RECOVERY FILTER Once the input signal has passed through the delay line, a recovery filter and some kind of gate is necessary to remove unwanted noise generated by the bucket brigade device.