New Korg SDD-3000 pedal

Taylor704 · Post by **Taylor704** » Sat Jul 12, 2014 8:41 pm

Not sure if this has been posted on here already, but this looks pretty cool for delay obsessives.

http://www.korg.com/us/products/effects/sdd3000_pedal/

There is a brief demo somewhere showing how you can pretty much copy the Edge's delay sound. I've no idea why the originals were held in such high regards, but I'm sure Korg will sell a lot of them. This must have been the reason why a load of outlets in America were blowing out the Vox Delaylab for cheap.

Concretebadger · Post by **Concretebadger** » Sat Jul 12, 2014 10:58 pm

It certainly has a lot of handy features in there. The main deciding factor may be the price though, what with so many similar things on the market: to compete with the likes of the Delay Lab or DD-20 it's going to have to run up against them, plus Line6 at the more affordable price point and Eventide at the high end.

It still mystifies me why so many of these nice, big bells-and-whistles delay boxes still have to have their delay times in ms. When synching a delay up with a DAW and/or a drum machine, making the delay time divisible by bpm would be more useful I would've thought. At least it has a tap tempo, but that's pretty much standard these days.

luciguci · Post by **luciguci** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 12:23 am

oh man, this looks really nice, i like the various modulation waveforms. i wanna know what the kosmic delay sounds like.

luciguci · Post by **luciguci** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 12:28 am

oh pfff i didnt even see the link at first, the kosmic is an octave up delay.

plaidbeer · Post by **plaidbeer** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 3:49 am

Concretebadger wrote:It certainly has a lot of handy features in there. The main deciding factor may be the price though, what with so many similar things on the market: to compete with the likes of the Delay Lab or DD-20 it's going to have to run up against them, plus Line6 at the more affordable price point and Eventide at the high end.

The DelayLab has been discontinued. They were blowing them out for $100 at MF/GC not too long ago. I've been reading about this on HC--Phil listed the MSRP at $399 and then said it was the street price. I really like the idea of the SDD in pedal form, but I think the $400 street price is going to be prohibitively expensive for most (including me).

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 7:21 am

I want one...

riotshield · Post by **riotshield** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 8:25 am

Concretebadger wrote:It certainly has a lot of handy features in there. The main deciding factor may be the price though, what with so many similar things on the market: to compete with the likes of the Delay Lab or DD-20 it's going to have to run up against them, plus Line6 at the more affordable price point and Eventide at the high end.

It still mystifies me why so many of these nice, big bells-and-whistles delay boxes still have to have their delay times in ms. When synching a delay up with a DAW and/or a drum machine, making the delay time divisible by bpm would be more useful I would've thought. At least it has a tap tempo, but that's pretty much standard these days.

The DelayLab can do BPM, only using tap tempo but still you can set it to your desired bpm.

This pedal however seems very similar to the DelayLab, the chassis I mean. Are these two companies somehow affiliated? How could Vox know about the release of SDD so early in order to put the DelayLab on sale?

In any case, it looks like an interesting pedal, but too many setting and rather expensive to consider

EDIT, ok just read that Korg owns Vox, that makes sense.

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 11:35 am

Is it in a bucket? Is the chrome thing the handle? Quite odd looks for a mainstream manufacturer - it reminds me of a Metasonix device. Possibly the layout and the knobs.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 1:06 pm

I think the chrome thing is a guard so's you don't stomp on the knobs, but it's made to look like a grab handle such as you might get on the front of certain amps.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 11:55 pm

I dunno guys, I think it looks like rack gear on purpose.

Ro S · Post by **Ro S** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 10:42 pm

As Korg owns the Vox brand, and this pedal has the same enclosure as the Vox DelayLab, is this just a cynical sort of re-hash of the DelayLab which doesn't seem to be selling very well?

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 12:03 am

It's a reissue of an old Korg rack delay The Edge swore by but in pedal form so consumers today will actually give a fuck. It probably uses the Delaylab enclosure because it's big enough and Korg already have them.

It's pretty much this idea exactly:

ultratwin · Post by **ultratwin** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 2:34 am

While not designing and building MusicomLAB switching systems all by himself, in-house teddy bear and Moollon engineer Hyungwoo designed and wired the now-discontinued Moollon "butterfly" as well as the Aquarius Delay models, both which were considerably based on the original SDD-3000, especially when it came to the modulation and filter architecture.

I told him about the pedal reissue and he shrugged and nodded his head, adding a rather nonchalant "yeah, I saw that".

plaidbeer · Post by **plaidbeer** » Thu Aug 21, 2014 5:28 pm

I've read that they're starting to ship now although Sweetwater doesn't have them yet. Here's a vid from PGS (and it's more than U2 stuff):

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