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DESCRIPTION
The Recycle Box is an analog distortion pedal, with momentary digital delay built-in. Coming after the distortion section, this is a pad-switchable digital delay with a ton of attitude!
Distortion
The distortion circuit is the same as in our Break Box pedal - which itself is based on our favourite overdrive circuit (using silicon diodes), combined with the back half of the distortion circuit from our Tonebender collaboration with Colorsound - the Freakenbender, from a while back.
The ‘gain’ knob goes from a gentle crunch through to a very chunky, full-range distortion. A tight, heavy, analog grind, tons of easy harmonics possible.
With a see-sawing tonebender-style ‘tone’ control - after the distortion circuit - it’s a big sound, and very satisfying to play.
Delay
Lean on the pad to switch in the digital delay - it’s designed to be kind of rattle-y, edgy and in-your-face! It’s a triple-tap delay, the repeats set at slightly odd times - relative to each other, to give it more character.
And it’s mixed loud, the first repeat fixed at nearly unity compared to the original signal. It’s a hard digital echo, prone to over-oscillating... Drones, crescendos, bongs, edits, machine-like chopping… sounding like you momentarily tapped into a parallel world of echo chaos!
At times the repeats seem to be…. more cinematic somehow? (No audio filters involved).
And often dramatically building - rather than gently repeating. Or sometimes crumbling into reverb…
There’s a ‘feedback’ control pot - going from one repeat, to run-away oscillations - and a ‘time’ pot which adjusts the delay’s repeat length, up to a maximum of about 770msecs..
The Pad
Take your foot off the big rubber pad and the echo snaps off. The pad is a momentary switch; no-press is dry, top-drawer distortion, press - and you get that with added delay.
Or switch the ‘PAD flip’ button to reverse the action, for a latched delay effect.
The Enclosure
The asymmetric enclosure is re-purposed from our last Break Box pedal production run - hence the name! A vinyl label re-assigns the control functions.
The Recycle Box is not a shy pedal! It’s an edgy, purpose-built all-in-one multi-effects unit. It’s true bypass, designed to give echo accents to a big distorted guitar sound.
10% of profits from the Recycle Box go towards The Restart Project - a charity for more sustainable electronics.
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Does the Recycle Box have the fade-in chorus from the Break Box?
No it doesn’t
What is the current draw of the pedal?It’s about 65mA
Does it have a noise gate like the Break Box?
Only the delay program has a noise gate - on the original signal, not the repeats. Huge amounts of gain near to a clean echo effect can easily result in unwanted oscillation, so this is to combat that problem.
The dry distortion has no noise gate.
What are the pedal’s dimensions?
88mm at its widest point, 127mm at its longest point (near to far), and 50mm high (unpressed footswitch)
Is it the same distortion circuit as in the Pull Focus pedal?
Yes it is.
Why is there no ‘amount’ knob for the delay?
Using the Break Box pedal format there were only two knobs available for controlling the delay, so we assigned these as ‘Feedback’ and ‘Time’
Does the Recycle Box recycle the Break Box PCB too?
Yes it does - with a bunch of modifications to it, and different programming.
Why is the delay set so loud?
Because this pedal has attitude! It’s set for maximum excitement!