Phonic Relapse

This is the Phonic Relapse V3 — reborn, reshaped, and refined into something even deeper, lusher, and more transportive than before. A longtime favorite, now taking up less space on your board while opening more space in your mind.

An engineering FEAT it was to get all this to fit in such a small enclosure. Like seriously, the internals on this are no joke. This is one of the most impressive engineers I have ever done and it is proof of my nonstop growth.

Step into a glowing tide pool of echoes and movement…

A blur of city lights in slow motion…

The reflection of moonlight on water, gently rippling in time.

Phonic Relapse is part moody, washy delay, part colorful, shimmery, chorus. 

Like stepping into a world where gravity is drunk, color is infinite, and mushrooms hum in symphony with the stars.

It’s not clean, not clinical — it’s lofi in the best way. Dusty, soft-edged, and warm, both sides utilize the PT2399 for its unique voice. The delay side is voiced to feel worn-in, like a memory just out of reach. With depth at zero, it’s a ghost delay — raw and simple. But turn that depth knob, and you enter a realm of slow warbles and faded dreams- layering your previous musical thoughts in swirling color.

Kill the delay by turning the repeats high and the time low and it transforms into a fragile chorus-verb hybrid, drenching your dry tone in a faded and unusual vivid reverb, with a boingy, almost spring like nature.

On the chorus side, a carefully tuned circuit provides the colorful mirror— one that’s warm, cracked at the edges, and completely hypnotic. In V2 we opened up the range, but with V3, we pushed the wave deeper. As the depth increases, the modulation begins to drift and bend — not just wobble, but sway, as if pulled by lunar gravity. You get that woozy, fluttering feel that’s rare and elusive, the kind that sounds like it’s barely holding itself together.

This is not for pristine tones or surgical control — this is for players who want their sound to melt a little. To drift into abstraction. To feel like you’re floating in slow-motion, wrapped in the afterglow of something half-remembered.

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