Swell Noise Lost Tapes Lo-Fi Delay

The Lost Tapes Lo-Fi Delay is a delay pedal from Swell Noise, and it is the maker's first release. Pedal of the Day describes it as "a delay pedal built to sound like an old cassette machine breaking down in just the right way," and calls it the flagship unit from the crew at Swell Noise¹.

Rather than aiming for clean, precise repeats, Lost Tapes leans into the character of worn tape. Pedal of the Day says the pedal "celebrates noise, unpredictability, and the beauty of decaying sound," and describes it as a living, breathing delay that hisses, wobbles and distorts like an old cassette, with repeats that drift and blur like a fading memory¹.

Modes

The pedal offers four modes, each drawing on the behavior of cassette machines that never play back the same way twice¹:

• Forward
• Rewind
• Flutter 1
• Flutter 2

About Swell Noise

Swell Noise designs every circuit in-house and tunes them by ear, according to Pedal of the Day. The same review frames Lost Tapes as a strong start for a new maker: "I love when a pedal company comes just roaring out of the gates with their first release, and that's exactly the case" here, with the reviewer adding that if this flagship pedal indicates what is to come, they "absolutely cannot wait to see what" the maker does next¹.

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