MORGOTH MODULATION
The MORGOTH MODULATION is tap tempo and capable of chorus, vibrato, flange(ish), echo and pitch shifting sounds. Designed to add anything from subtle textures to ambience to a mind bending space-time warp.
UPDATE 2/23
NOW OFFICIALLY MOVING ON TO VERSION 2 (V2)
With an added toggle to switch between short and long modulation time for more echo effect.
This release will be celebrated with another run of PURPLE KRACKLE enclosures! Preorders now will ship in early March.
•With a minimum delay of 30ms and a maximum of 340ms (which has been extended up to 1 second, causing has a dirty lo-fi effect at slower times) chorus, flange(ish) and lo-fi echo sounds are all possible with the right modulation and different settings. Experiment and find them all!
•The clean signal path is as fully analog.
•The LFO oscillator chip used to control the MORGOTH is absolutely brilliant and was designed and provided by ELECTRIC DRUID.
•There are eight waveforms: saw up, saw down, square, triangle, sine, random ramps and random levels all accessible from the "W" wave control.
•I’ve now included what I call a "TAP LINK". This uses a 3.5mm (1/8" inch) cable like those used in eurorack synths to link the tap tempo of more than one BLACKHAWK tap tempo capable pedal:
Simply plug a cable between TAP LINK jacks and the tap from one pedal will set the MODULATION tempo of the other pedal or pedals. (I have of course posted a video on Instagram illustrating this)
•I emphasize the word "modulation" because in the case of a delay or reverb (when those are eventually designed and released), it will only set the time of the MODULATION, not the delay itself.
•The MORGOTH MODULATOR is the second in this new line of pedals I’ve been designing all year so far.
As a fan of many genres of music outside of just metal like shoegaze, goth/death rock and psychedelic (and combining them together in ways like Neurosis, Alcest, Anathema and SWANS) it only stands that more than just an epic dirt tone is necessary at times.
The MORGOTH is the result of many months of research and design work (with the first experimentations of it dating back to 2021) and many revisions (the first official release is revision 12)
With bucket brigade chips being near unobtainable in bulk I decided to mess with the technically digital PT23999 chip.
In my research I discovered the similarities between the PT2399 and bucket brigade chips are more numerous than I had realized. Especially with the right filtering techniques.
There are still some analog aspects of the PT2399. The amplifiers on the right side of the chip are analog. The time setting is analog -- the resistance to ground is continuously variable, it's just converted to digital information by the internal module.
The difference you normally hear between a bucket brigade chip and a PT2399 has almost everything to do with the filtering and surrounding circuitry, not the actual chips.
Because the right filtering techniques are applied, tone of the MORGOTH is surprisingly analog sounding with its own unique character.
MODULATION/delay control symbols are different from BLACKHAWK dirt pedals and are:
D=depth
R=rate
C=clean
W=waveform
T=time
F=feedback
All BLACKHAWK pedals and preamps are true bypass and standard “one spot style” 9v, Negative tip, 2.1mm barrel.
Please allow 1-2 weeks build time as every BLACKHAWK pedal is made by hand for YOU.
CURRENT DRAW less than 50ma
