I recently bought a Matriarch, and I love the overall sound and feel (except the sliders
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I anticipated having a lot of fun with the voltage-controllable stereo delay. But so far, I have found it to be very frustrating and I wonder if I misunderstand the operation, or maybe my unit has a bug.
Basically, the delay seems to work as documented for static delays. Sounds good and clean, though darker than I generally prefer. But I cannot get any satisfactory results using the 'Time 1/2 In' controls. They have an gross effect on the delay and I can get general seasick wobbling and warbling. But when I try to do any subtle, smooth modulation, I just get lumpy, lurchy sounds. I have patched either LFO into attenuators (even two attenuators in series) and cannot get a nice smooth subtle modulation of the delay.
Some large modulations seem relatively smooth. But these are too large, even for vibrato. Only seasick sounds. There seems to be no level of modulation small enough for good results at short delay values. Weirdly, the modulation seems to get more "lumpy" when its amplitude is reduced. I am hoping to be able to dial-in a chorus sound, but nothing is even close. It seems that online videos show MF-104 demos with nice modulation, but I have not found anything that shows the Matriarch with smooth, subtle modulated delays.
Any suggestions? Could my Matriarch (Dark version, bought two weeks ago) be defective?
Thanks!
p.s. I am an analog integrated circuit designer by profession, so I have a lot of experience with laboratory circuits and debugging. I should be able to try most suggestions, even without needing too much detail.