Eventide UltraTap Digital Delay Pedal

Eventide UltraTap Digital Delay Pedal Overview

The Eventide UltraTap Pedal is a unique multi-tap effect pedal that lets you create glitchy reverbs, swelling chords, rhythmic delays, interesting modulation effects, and huge pad-like swells. The UltraTap is like the ultimate Echoplex, also letting you add as many ‘tape heads’ as you need, while also letting you control their positions and levels, making it incredibly versatile.

The controls you’d normally expect in a multitap delay pedal - Number of Taps, Delay, and Feedback - are just the tip of the iceberg for the UltraTap. There are also controls for Spread, Slurm, and Chop, making it easy to experiment and get creative.

All the control knobs have secondary parameters, which are engaged when pressing the small button next to the Length/Predelay knob

Mix/Tone
Mix lets you control how dry or wet the mix is, while Tone controls how bright or dark the taps are, turn left for dark, and turn right for bright.

Taps/Slurm
The Taps control allows you to select up to 64 taps, while Slurm controls the slurring/smearing/modulation to create a sound that’s part delay, part reverb.

Length/Predelay
Length is the total time over which the taps are spaced, up to 4 seconds, and Predelay is the time before the 1st tap, up to 1 second.

Feedback/Chop
Feedback controls the repeats of a length-valued delay that is fed back around the entire multi-tap machine, and Chop works as a 6-way rotary knob - choose between Off and 5 symbols for different kinds of chopping, such as swells and envelope-based effects.

Spread/Spd-Rise-Rel
Spread is the spacing of taps, so you can turn left to slow down, and turn right to speed up, with the centre point delivering constant spacing. The Spd/Rise/Rel works with the Chop control, with Spd controlling the LFO rate, Rise controlling the Rise time, and Rel controlling the release time.

Taper/Out Lvl
For the Taper function, turn left to fade up, turn right to fade down, and centre for equal level, while the Out Lvl lets you Boost or Cut the output level.

Holding down the Tap footswitch lets you toggle between Preset Select and Tap Modes, while the Active/Bypass footswitch lets you choose between latching or momentary, and allows you to save up to 5 presets, and up to 127 with a MIDI connection or with the Eventide Device Manager software, which also allows for system updates.

There’s a rear panel Guitar/Line Level switch for matching levels of guitars, FX loops, synths, or DAW interface. There’s also an EXP out so you can map any combination of parameters to an expression pedal, simply by setting end points for heel and toe.