talos

talos is a mono delay pushed past its limits. a bbd delay with feedback that can self-oscillate, clock instability that jitters the pitch, and voltage sag that collapses the signal as the power supply fails.

behavior

• low feedback: clean delay
• feedback 0.8-1.0: delay starts sustaining, harmonics build through saturation
• feedback past 1.0: self-oscillation, the delay sings on its own
• clock: read head jitters, pitch wobbles and glitches
• sag: hot signal compresses headroom, everything collapses as power fails
• drive: input saturation before the delay, and gain boost in the feedback loop
• toggle a heavy: hard clipping in the feedback loop, aggressive harmonics
• toggle b chaos: stepped random glitches, the clock is broken
• toggle c collapse: asymmetric clipping, power supply is failing

the sweet spot is feedback near 1.0 with clock and sag active — the delay holds on by a thread, oscillating and glitching.