ezhi&aka MOOMINDRONE LoFi Drone Delay Modulation Machine

Every creation that has come through the shop here from ezhi&aka has been nothing short of stunning: strange, unique, wild and wonderful, these devices push the very boundaries of the sonic spectrum to their limits, and sometimes past them. Today’s effects unit from Alexey revisits the first thing I ever demoed from him, back in 2019, the MOOMINDRONE LoFi Drone Delay Modulation Machine. If that seems like a lot, that’s because it is – just take a look at the completely-unlabeled controls, and you know that you’re in for some exciting, curious musical experimentation…

MOOMINDRONE is a lofi texture machine with drone and delay sound engines, weird lfo and envelope modulation and FSR pads for manual control. The Drone side generates a nice sounding drone buzzing along with your guitar, catching some notes and making them shimmer, sparkle or overdrive depending on your playing and modulation settings. New version adds dedicated controls for Drone amount and Drone Pitch/Delay allowing to dial up different voicings. The Delay side provides a minimally filtered lofi delay with wide Delay Time control from shorter cleaner repeats to noisy degrading long truly lofi sounds.

Each engine has its own multi waveform tappable and envelope controlled LFO for weird pitch and amplification modulation. Since LFO deals directly with the chips’ inner architecture this type of modulation is over the top deep and can produce additional noises and textures. Both LFOS have two operational modes – normal (blue light) where speed is controlled via a dedicated pot and/or via tap tempo footswitch and alt (red light) where speed is controlled quasi-randomly via envelope for more surprises and integrations with your playing. Four FRS pads are directly connected to engines’ clock and amplification allowing for pitch bends, tapestop and overdriven effects.

The MOOMINDRONE LoFi Drone Delay Modulation Machine allows you to modulate pitch/time and amplification of each engine in several ways using the dedicated LFO and envelope in normal and alt (red light) modes covering the palette from subtle vibrato and tremolo to deep tapestops and fuzzed drones and repeats adding chop, gate and ducking. If you’re an experimenter, and love making not-of-this-world musical sounds, then this pedal is a MUST HAVE. Thanks as always to Alexey at ezhi&aka for sending another gorgeous-sounding unit my way – go support his endeavors and buy some pedals on his website, and don’t forget about our demo video on YouTube…cheers!!