Ezhi & Aka
Moomindrone
Moomindrone
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MOOMINDRONE is a lofi texture machine with drone and delay sound engines, weird lfo and envelope modulation and FSR pads for manual control.
Drone side generates a nice sounding drone buzzing along with your guitar, catching some notes and making them shimmer, sparkle or overdrive depending on your playing and modulation settings. New version adds dedicated controls for Drone amount and Drone Pitch/Delay allowing to dial up different voicings.
Delay side provides a minimally filtered lofi delay with wide Delay Time control from shorter cleaner repeats to noisy degrading long truly lofi sounds.
Each engine has its own multi waveform tappable and envelope controlled LFO for weird pitch and amplification modulation. Since LFO deals directly with the chips' inner architecture this type of modulation is over the top deep and can produce additional noises and textures.
Both LFOS have two operational modes - normal (blue light) where speed is controlled via a dedicated pot and/or via tap tempo footswitch and alt (red light) where speed is controlled quasi-randomly via envelope for more surprises and integrations with your playing.
MOOMINDRONE allows to modulate pitch/time and amplification of each engine in several ways using the dedicated LFO and envelope in normal and alt (red light) modes covering the palette from subtle vibrato and tremolo to deep tapestops and fuzzed drones and repeats adding chop, gate and ducking.
Four FRS pads are directly connected to engines' clock and amplification allowing for pitch bends, tapestop and overdriven effects.
This is my 7th ezhi&aka pedal, and it might be the ezhiest of them all.
I ran it straight into my Harmony amp at first. At the most basic level, it's a delay with modulation, lfo filters, and 'drone' (reverb/noise). But there are 18 knobs, 6 buttons, 4 switches, and 4 FSR pads. So this thing is anything but basic. It practically begs to be part of a loop, where you can play the pedal. And like all Alexey's pedals, it's a work of art.
After about 20 minutes running it mono I put it on the wet/dry/wet board. I had it on the wet side, with only a touch of chorus on the Solarfaze at the end of the chain to give it stereo separation. The Moomindrone has 3 volume knobs, drone volume, dry volume, and delay volume. So by zeroing the dry volume you can achieve kill-dry.
As part of the wet signal chain, this thing took off. With the center amp keeping things grounded, I could really push the limits of the Moomindrone into chaos through the wet amps. My wife had a ball messing with the settings and the FSR pads while I played a simple Spacemen 3 style riff. It goes from sparkly to complete aural destruction. Combining glitch, LFOs, drone, and some pretty massive delay gives a ton of wall of sound possibilities in one pedal. I have one 'swappable slot' on my wet/dry/wet board, and this is going to occupy that slot for the foreseeable future.