Endless Sleeper

Sometimes, you need to grapple with a tool for months, or years, to find out exactly how it works. This goes for art and music, as much as anything. I’m smitten with the Endless Sleeper, by Beautiful Noise Effects, an Australian builder, based in Newcastle. Finally, I’ve got the feedback just right, so it runs on, and on, but won’t self oscillate. I’ve also set the dual delay times close enough not to send the modulation into a frenzy.

The mix knobs are also set lower than I would have expected, to tame the echoes that can spring out and overwhelm your dry signal if you let them. A touch of bit crushing can be wonderful, and even cranking it can yield wonderful, fuzzy textures. And running it into dirt pedals is a dream. For this, I have it first in my chain, so I can even run it into my fuzz.

But this is after many nights of furrowed brow and fumbling tweaks. I’ve never really given it enough time to really appreciate it, and dial it in, and now? Now it all makes sense. We all intuit the reality that these things can’t be rushed, but we reject the pragmatic implication of what that means. Time taken. Time spent. Time applied. Every time.