Unit 03 No. 03 · s/n 8317-A
MIJ-3
The Free Dual Delay
Two delay lines, one small box, made in Japan. Yours for nothing.
- Era
- 1983
- Origin
- Made in Japan
- Converters
- 12-bit
- Architecture
- Bucketless digital delay, twin independent lines
Unit 03. Made in Japan, 1983. Two delay lines in a box small enough to lose on a crowded desk, running 12-bit conversion that rounds the top end off in a way no plot fully explains. This is the one you start with — the free door into the registry. The dry path is always intact; the two lines are captured, aligned, and interactive, not baked into a single impulse.
Set both lines short and offset them a few milliseconds for a doubler that thickens without smearing. Open one line up and the converter grit becomes the point rather than a flaw.
Hear it — dry / hardware / plugin
The same phrase, three ways, loudness-matched. Switch while it plays.