Mentha Works Monk Echo
reverb and delayboth beautiful and strange Your echo has a voice now. Monk echo infuses your sound with the character of the human voice and lets you morph entire soundscapes with a single, effortless gesture. It’s a sound-design tool disguised as a guitar pedal. Monk Echo brings together reverb, delay, the monk-voice engine, responsive modulation, granular pitch-shifting, distortion, and a unique degradation effect. All of it can be controlled through the pedal’s unique macro control knob turning this pedal into a performance instrument. For explorers and casual tweakers, for late-night bloomers. Step into monk mode – where sound becomes your navigator and you drift someplace. From lovely to ugly, from broken to golden, and everything in between. This will take you there. a grand duet of reverb & delay At its core, Monk Echo is a duet of a blooming, luscious reverb and a precise delay. The reverb and delay are mixed and fed back to each other to create layers of evolving ambient echoes. With the mix knob, you can explore a full spectrum of textures. From endless reverb with only a whisper of delay, to bold rhythmic repeats with distant reverberations in the background. The echoes can sustain indefinitely without collapsing into noise. But turn the feedback knob all the way up, and you’ll find yourself facing a self-oscillating wall of sound. The silky smooth diffusion of the reverb combined with delay times ranging from 1 millisecond to 10 seconds acts as a basic building block for everything that monk echo does. Yet on its own, it works beautifully as your all-purpose reverb and delay combo. monk voices 6526 singers during the VI nationwide Latvian Song festival in 1926 – predecessors to the current 40,000+ participant cultural phenomenon Inspired by Baltic choirs and mystical spaces, Monk Echo speaks in vowels. The reverb and delay signals are shaped by morphing formant filters tuned to the resonant frequencies of the human voice. Add just a hint of this resonance for a distant resemblance to the human voice or push it to fully infuse your echoes with ringing vowels. Suddenly, it is like a choir of monks echoing through stone walls, joined by ethereal female voices and bright children’s tones. Choose the vowel that monk echo sings in. Find the one that fits your song and your mood. Glide smoothly between vowels or let the pedal follow your performance and switch vowels automatically – in response to your playing dynamics and phrasing. sound design tools There are no algorithms, no pre-defined sounds – but eight carefully tuned sound design tools instead. Each of the eight knob and button combos is simple on its own, yet reveals its full power when they interact. There is a ton for you to explore beyond the names of the knobs. What we’re saying is that you can easily dial in your warm, saturated and modulated tape delay. It is easy. You don’t need an algorithm for that. With a few quick adjustments, you’re exploring shimmer reverbs, adding dreamwave degradation to your sounds that goes from vinyl crackle to complete disintegration. Morph into heavily distorted wah-wah solo (yes, on an echo pedal!). But why stop there? Turn a knob, press a button, and discover a sound that doesn’t even have a name yet. You’re in control. Explore it all. these are your tools ● reverb/delay mix continuously adjustable balance between reverb and delay ● delay time from metallic overtones at 1 millisecond to 10 seconds of pristine repeats that respond to tap tempo and midi clock ● feedback controls both reverb decay and delay repeats — from early reflections and a single repeat to endless self-oscillation that can remain stable or collapse into noise ● reverse delay instantly reverses delay playback without disrupting the sound ● reverb pre-delay optional reverb pre-delay that is relative to the delay tempo — adds distance to reflections or introduces expressive, wobbly instability ● reverb pitch grain granular pitch shifting ranging from shimmery audio-rate textures to rhythmical, softly swaying motion ● monk voice adjusts how much of the monk voice blends into the echoes — from subtle vocal character to sharp resonances that can reach wah-wah territory ● voice character continuously shifts the voice character from deep male formants to airy female tones and bright children’s resonances ● vowels manual vowel selection or automatic vowel shifts reacting to your playing dynamics with adjustable glide from robotic jumps to smooth transitions ● modulation classic modulation that breathes life into delay repeats and adds depth to reverb tails ● fluctuation dynamic modulation – bends and reshapes echoes in response to your playing ● distortion grimy clipping of echoes ranging from gentle saturation to harsh noise ● degradation progressive decay of sound – from vinyl crackle artifacts to loss of nearly all sound with only sparse audio fragments left behind ● delay stereo width continuously adjustable stereo width – from a focused sound in the center to wide ping-pong ● tone controls low- and high-pass filters for shaping the tone of echoes – from deep lows and crisp highs to calm mid-focused warmth macro control Step into the role of a choirmaster. With the macro control you don’t need eight hands. You can reshape all sound parameters with a single gesture. The large macro control knob lets you take full advantage of the powerful effect parameter knobs. Alter multiple or even all parameters at once with a single turn of the knob. Each parameter can move independently. For example, increase feedback and distortion while lowering volume and modulation. Morph the sound of monk echo from subtle to extreme in an instant and explore the unexpected sounds in between. What the macro control does exactly is up to you – from subtle utility uses to extreme parameter jumps. The setup is fast and simple. When you find something worth keeping, save it as a preset. so you’re not just recalling a sound — you’re recalling how you perform it. On stage, the macro pressure footswitch replaces the macro control knob for hands-free sound morphing. Furthermore, the rear-panel macro expression input lets you connect the expression pedal of your choice. Prefer MIDI? A single incoming CC can reshape all your parameters – fully programmable right on the pedal. features list grand reverb1 millisecond to 10 second delaymonk voice vowelsmanual or automatic responsive vowel selectionmale, female and children voice charactersinfinite reverb decay and delay repeatsgranular reverb pitch shiftingreverse delaystatic or responsive modulationdistortion – from mild to brutaldegradation – musical artefacts and signal dropoutsreverb pre-delaymacro control over all knobs at oncepressure sensitive footswitchtap tempovariable delay stereo widthmaster low and high frequency filtersstereo signal pathexpression pedal input assignable to any single and multiple knobs at oncecontrol voltage response via expression input8 presets onboard, 127 presets in total via midifull midi control, midi in, midi out and thruclassic pedal power or usb-c power inletstraight forward front panel controlsadvanced system settings for any possible setup scenario