Monotron Delay : A very trippy toy with serious potential

GENERAL OVERVIEW

I bought it as an fx unit to integrate with my synth setup, as the title implies this isn't intended to be a serious tool for music production but I personally always find a way to snuck it into serious (paid) projects because of the flavor it adds to sounds.

PROS

-compact and easy to carry around (nice party gimmick too)

-very intuitive and you will build muscle memory fast with it

-entirely plastic but feels quite rugged

-ms 20 filter makes everything you feed it sound fantastic

-the delay circuit sounds veery analog and definitely has a flavor

-the delay can self-resonate giving really interesting tones when coupled with the filter

-the aux input is easily overloaded giving the signal a very nice clipping (clipping a piano and then adding delay sounds fantastic)

-you can circuit bend it if you have the know-how and the unit overall is quite simple to take apart and mod (the internet is full of guides on this)

CONS

-VERY noisy, if you use it on a main mix element you will need to fix it in post

-powered by two AAAs, they need to be swapped regularly (this is why I modded mine to accept a micro-usb cable as a power supply)

-the synth part is useless in a musical setting, good for SFX tho

Overall I really enjoy mine and I would buy it again, it would be a cool gift for a musically incline friend too :)