Going after the Thermae Sound...

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Has anyone had luck with trying to replicate what the Chase Bliss Thermae pedal does with delays/pitch shifting? I'm after the sounds that start around 27 mins in to the video below

I'm sure the axe 3 has a way to get there, but I'm at a loss for a starting point. Looking for any weirder/zanier tips using what's in the box and trying to stop myself from just going out and grabbing the pedal!

 
chris said:
pitch block arpeggiator?

maybe delay in parallel row set to 100% mix, then pitch block after it, then connect back to main row.
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Hopefully I did the soundcloud embed thing correctly.. Starting with your suggestion got me a surprising amount of the way there! The Thermae pedal has a fair amount of randomness to it and the pitch block stays fairly predictable (which is not a bad thing depending on the situation). Is there a way to randomize the arpeggios going on so it doesn't just loop itself? I'm thinking maybe with a modifier?

 
cheap said:
Hopefully I did the soundcloud embed thing correctly.. Starting with your suggestion got me a surprising amount of the way there! The Thermae pedal has a fair amount of randomness to it and the pitch block stays fairly predictable (which is not a bad thing depending on the situation). Is there a way to randomize the arpeggios going on so it doesn't just loop itself? I'm thinking maybe with a modifier?

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maybe instead of the arpeggiator type in the pitch block, use a Harmony type and attached a LFO set to Random to the Pitch parameter?
 
Try making the sequencer control a mono tape delay's motor speed. That should pretty much cover the sounds around 27:00. I didn't notice any randomness there, but apparent randomness could happen when you start playing at a random spot in the sequence.

Start with a 4-step pattern of 50-100-50-0 and adjust the modifier's start/mid/end to set speed ratios (intervals). Default 0/50/100 would be like +1 and -1 on the pedal's shift controls. (Unlike the pedal you're limited to a total range of 2 octaves, but you could shift more than an octave in one direction by shifting a lesser amount in the other direction.)
 
As @Bakerman said, sounds like tape delay speed manipulation. You could try attach an expression pedal to the motor speed for some manual fun too.
 
This effect is pretty glorious and I definitely wouldn't have thought of going this route without these suggestions!

I tried @Bakerman's suggestion with the motor speed sequencer and set Head 1 Tempo to 1. I brought down the offset to -75 because I preferred how it darkened up when doing so (not necessarily making it better, just different) and set the mix of the block to 17%.

From there I wanted to send it into a more traditional delay so I added another delay block after it.

From there I split the signal into two amp rigs and applied the pitch block @chris suggested (still have to try the LFO/Harmony option). That block is only going into one of the amps

Here's where I'm at:
 
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