Please note: functional art pieces, posted from time to time, will never be full production units. They feature parts and sourced enclosures from old industrial equipment that I can not always easily find more of. They take countless hours of planning, custom design, fabrication, modification (nothing ever goes exactly as planned when building with parts never intended to be used for a effects unit), but they are a labor of love. I consider them art and they are priced as such.

The newest functional art piece - the DFX Replication Device. This is a circuit bent, vintage DOD DFX-9 inside a vintage audiometer enclosure. It features chemical etched aluminum panels with a faux tarnished finished. It functions via joystick control, and the audiometer enclosure acts as a roadcase to protect the joystick for transport.

The unit not only acts as an effects unit, but also an instrument as it can generate its own sound as well. The joystick can engage the unit, activate looping (if in that mode), momentarily ramp feedback to create oscillating delay, can warp delay time by momentarily activating the onboard modulation circuit, or can generate glitchy noise and percussive skipping effects.

The delay features mode control (delay time ranges or short looping), time control (via the 4in diameter knob), feedback control, and wet/dry level. The additional modulation circuit used to create warble in the delay time has shape (square or triangle waves), speed, and depth controls. It can also be momentarily activated via the joystick or can be locked on with a toggle switch.

The unit operated needs powered with a standard center negative power supply. It is NOT true bypass.

This is a functional art piece intended for table top manipulation (i.e., don’t step on the joystick).

Some sounds: