Fairfield Circuitry Placeholder Bucket Brigade Reverb Pedal

Placeholder is an analogue implementation of a digital reverb algorithm using BBDs, mixers, VCAs and simple zesty filters. The topology in question is called Householder, allowing quick echo density even with only three delay-lines.

There's no denying the power of algorithmic representation of our daily activities. But let's not forget that the complex-system underlying our lived experience, the background noise and uncertainty, is intrinsic.

Truly unique approach; analogue emulation of a digital reverb algorithm using bucket brigade devices. The signal path is all-analogue.

Controls altogether allow for a surprising array of possibilities:

• large bingo halls
• bathrooms and shower stalls
• spring-like flavours
• semblance of plate reverbs
• unrealistically small rooms
• real close to flanging

The fully variable controls offer direct control of the room, no presets. Emphasizing the analogue nature of the circuit. Making the night more interesting.

There’s a real adventure in tuning SIZE and RATIO, an adventure through nodes of flutter and diffusion.

Digital control allows all three delays to have their own unique, random and cyclical modulations rendering rooms that move ever so slightly while also improving smear.