I never quite needed a delay pedal myself.
Not needing one does, for me, in fact mean not needing to design one either.
Let's be fair: there are multiple other options on the market, no?
LOKE as such, isn't really a delay pedal the way other delay pedals are.

LOKE takes its inspiration from 60s and 70s recording techniques. It mimics playing back tape recordings between different tape machines, allowing you to delay the time across one of them to warp the resulting summed signal into double tracking, flanging, warble, chorus, vibrato and tape echos.

Originally I just wanted the old Beatles-style thumb-on-the-tape flanger sound. The original flanger. It does this, but it also does everything else you can do with a couple of tape setups, and it sounds surprisingly similar.

The mixing section offers fully individual wet and dry controls, both of which allow for a good bit of preamp drive beyond midnight. The secondary foot switch toggles between a 100ms and a 400ms max delay length, not by switching a digital programme, causing dropout cycles, but through resistor logic, meaning you also get that sweet sound of tape accelerating or decelerating, in real time.

The random LFO is Fjord Fuzz' own Eirik Nordstrand's grand opus: an incredibly deep and natural sounding random oscillator based on sine waves allows for just a touch of seasick colour, or enchanting, psychedelic modulations.

You can also alter the delay length in real time via expression pedal control.

There's way too much to get into with something like this for it to make sense in text form, so definitely watch the official video manual to explore the weird and wonderful world of LOKE and its whale sounds, its overdrive tones and its swooshy, random flanger feature, as well as the deeply inspiring, character-forward tape echo textures.

It would be wrong to say that this isn't a delay pedal for everybody. It actually is.

It would be wrong to say it's a delay pedal like all the other delay pedals. It definitely isn't.

Oh and the summer / autumn version now features internal switching which allows you to swap between true bypass mode or a delay tails mode where the preamp stays on when you turn the delay off, as requested by the legendary Japanese boutique Hoochie's! Very fun.