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CANYON

ECHO

User Manual

Multi-Function Digital Delay

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Welcome to the Electro-Harmonix Canyon Echo:
an extremely compact digital delay pedal with up
to 3 seconds of delay time. The Canyon Echo fea­tures tap-tempo—with three different tap-division
options—a filter control to shape the tone of the
repeats, tails mode to keep the repeats going after
switching to bypass, and footswitch accessible

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TAP
DIV

BLEND DELAY

infinite repeats.

Operating Instructions

Insert the output plug from the supplied 9VDC AC

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FILTER

FDBK

adapter into the power jack at the top of the
Canyon Echo. The unit must be powered to pass
signal, even in bypass. The Canyon Echo features
buffered analog bypass or digital bypass depend­ing on settings. Connect an instrument cable from
your instrument to the Input jack. Connect an

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instrument cable between the Output jack and a
suitable amplifier. Click the footswitch to engage
the pedal and light the LED.

Power Suppy Requirements: Voltage: 9VDC Current: 100mA Polarity: Center-Negative

This device comes equipped with an Electro-Harmonix 9.6DC-200 power supply. Use of the wrong adapter or a
plug with the wrong polarity may damage the device and void the warranty. Do not exceed 10.5VDC on the power
plug. Power supplies rated for less than 100mA may cause the device to act unreliably.

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Controls & Jacks

1. BLEND Adjusts the output mix from 100% dry to
100% wet.

2. DELAY Controls the delay time, ranging from
8ms to 3s.

3. FILTER Applies an adjustable low-pass or high­pass filter to the delay line. Set FILTER to the center
or noon position to disable the filters. Turn FILTER
counterclockwise to place a low-pass filter on the
delay effect, giving the Canyon Echo a sound sim­ilar to an analog delay. Turn FILTER clockwise to
place a high-pass filter on the delay repeats, for an
effect reminiscent of a tape delay. The further you
turn FILTER in either direction, the more filtering is
applied to the effect.

4. FDBK Controls how many repeats the Canyon
Echo generates. At minimum you get one repeat.
At maximum, the repeats are nearly endless.

NOTE: the filter is placed in the feedback path of the delay
and filters out more signal with each repeat, limiting the
maximum repeats at more extreme FILTER settings.

5. TAP DIV Button When the delay time is set by
tap-tempo, the TAP DIV button sets the tap-division:

Green – 1/8 Note equal to half your tap time

Orange – Dotted 1/8 Note equal to 3/4

your tap time

Red – 1/4 Note equal to your tap time

6. Footswitch and Status LED The footswitch

engages or bypasses the effect. The LED indicates
the selected tap division. In bypass mode, the LED
is off. The LED blinks at the latest tap reading
when the delay time is set by tap tempo.

7. Input Jack Impedance: 2.2MΩ, Max In: +1.5 dBu

8. Output Jack Impedance: 680Ω, Max Out: +2.1 dBu

9. Power Jack Current draw: 100mA at 9.0VDC

Tap Tempo

The footswitch can be used to set the delay time.
Press and release the footswitch at least twice, in
time with your music, to set the tempo. The LED
blinks at the tempo to confirm the delay time is set
by tap-tempo. To turn off tap-tempo, simply turn the
DELAY knob to reset the delay time. You can com­pletely disable tap-tempo by following these steps:

1. Power down the Canyon Echo.

2. Press and hold the footswitch while reapplying
power.

3. Continue to hold the footswitch for about two
seconds, the LED will slowly blink through all
three colors twice.

4. Release the footswitch; tap-tempo is now disabled.

5. Repeat this process to re-enable tap-tempo.

Tap-tempo disable is recalled through power
cycles so you can set it and forget it.

CANYON

ECHO

Infinite Repeats

When Tails bypass mode is enabled, you can activate
Infinite Repeats mode by pressing and holding the
footswitch:

1. Press-and-hold the footswitch.

2. After 500ms, the LED begins flashing through all
three colors. Infinite Repeats is now active.

3. You can release the footswitch. The delay repeats
will continue indefinitely.

4. Tap the footswitch once to re-enter normal delay
mode.

While Infinite Repeats mode is active no new signal
is fed into the delay effect. The filter is taken out of
the feedback path and placed instead on the delay
output, so you can use it to shape the tone of your
looping sound without degrading looped repeats
as it does in normal delay mode. You can move the
DELAY knob while Infinite Repeats mode is active to
get pitch-shifted loops, like speeding up or slowing
down a tape-machine.

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Tails and Analog Bypass Selection

The Canyon Echo allows you to choose between two
bypass modes:

Analog: the bypass signal is fully analog; the delay
effect instantly mutes upon entering bypass.

Tails: the repeats of the delay effect continue to
decay naturally upon entering bypass; no new audio
enters the delay block; bypass is digital.

Tails bypass is selected by default from the factory.
To activate Analog bypass, do the following:

1. Press and hold the TYPE push button

2. After two seconds, the LED enters Party Mode, where
it rapidly cycles through the three LED colors.

3. Release the button; Analog bypass is now active.

4. Repeat this same procedure to change back to
Tails bypass.

The bypass mode setting is remembered through
power-cycles so you can set it and forget it.