Von Rutter Ping Pong Delay

Ping Pong Delay is a digital delay that uses two short digi chips in conjunction to give a longer sound.
Although digi tends to = cheap Mr Rutter has tried to play to digitals advantages, get analog type sounds and attempted to deliver additional benefits/functionality not always offered by digital or analog delays. Its a complex little beast to get a grip of espically if you've only used a basic MIX/REPEATS type echo.

There are two on/offs a true bypass for tone clarity and effect on/off, both must be on for it to work however the effect switch off allows feedback trails to continue and fade off.

An Expression Pedal is offered to remote control the feedback level of one delay chip, allowing for self osc craziness.

The size is nice, about 2 MXR style boxes stuck together. Gives enough space to allow both foot switches to be depressed but allows it to be small enough to fit on a crowded pedal board.

Having the two chips allows for dual repeat times and adds a bit of complexity to the standard setup, they are both linked to the same feedback.

There's a few toggle switches to add features. A bright/dark switch (a low pass filter) to change the sound of the echoes, the dark effect gives something like a tape delay repeat. A type switch, selecting an echo type gives echo echo echo trails and a ping pong type sound with a single repeat.
Finally a switch to select whether to use the effects loop or not. The effects loop, like you would find in an amp, allows a series of pedals go before the delay circuitry (allows tone junkies to open up all kinds of possibilities and end with the delay as you'd expect). Its a shame the effects loop isn’t a stomp switch since being able to select the loop without bending over would have been handy, its a nice feature though.

With all these functions its a nice little delay that's different enough. Overall it does feel like its not totally sure what it is though, a digital delay like the Akai E2 provides a low pass filter, trailing echos with tap tempo or a MXR Carbon Copy provides similar length analog delays with dark delays. The Akai doesn't have true bypass, the MXR doesn't have trails so maybe a half way house like this is a gap.

Being from such a limited edition batch (this was among the first he produced) its not likely many of these will ever come up but its nice to have something documented on it somewhere.

Von Rutter produces all kinds of pedals now either singly in MXR style containers or dual ones like this in the bigger enclosures, he seems to have rectified some issues with this pedal on newer ones. He allows you to mix and match various circuits from what he's produced (e.g. a fuzz into a delay). You could do worse than to check out his current range ...