Name That Delaaaaaaaaay!

Post by **Doog** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 10:18 am

Hey dudes, I'm thinking of getting a basic digital delay somewhere down the line for live use. My EHX SMMWH, while brilliant, isn't ideal for live use for me; big footprint, too many dials and the BLEND dial volume drop make it slightly difficult to get on with. Still love its sounds, though. Long story short..

Are you a bad enough dude to recommend me a supersweet delay pedal, based around my criteria??

VERY clean/digital repeats, so much so it's almost a sampler/looper
Infinite repeats with no oscillation with the feedback/repeat control cranked
No trails when the pedal is bypassed
A level control allowing the delay to be at unity with the dry signal
Runs off standard 9v

Interested to hear your thoughts, y'all!

ohyeahfuzzbear · Post by **ohyeahfuzzbear** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 10:33 am

DD-6 pretty much covers all bases except oscillation but it will go on for a very very very long time before it starts to oscillate.

Post by **Doog** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 10:41 am

A fine pedal, I used to own one, but it has teh trails.

Thanks though mate, I do miss mine, especially the Hold feature stuttery goodness to be had.

The DD3 doesn't have trails and is a pretty close match, but I'm always interested to hear about any more interesting boxes out there.

ohyeahfuzzbear · Post by **ohyeahfuzzbear** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 10:48 am

I miss my DD-6 too, it's sadly still in bits from teh fat man incident.

I also admire the DD-3 alot. My admiration increased when I saw the Freddy-demo.

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Freddy V-C · Post by **Freddy V-C** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 11:21 am

Yeah the DD3 does everything you said, I think. It doesn't really oscillate with the feedback on full, but it does gradually get louder, I dunno if that's an issue?

Taylor704 · Post by **Taylor704** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 12:30 pm

Marshall Echohead sounds like what you're looking for. The Hi-Fi mode has great clean repeats and it doesn't oscillate on any settings.

Vis · Post by **Vis** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 3:02 pm

Had my eye on a TC Electronics Nova Repeater for a while now. That should fit the bill. Clean as a whistle (When you want it to be) and it won't self-oscillate at any setting. If you want to step up in features the Nova Delay has presets which is handy but for quite a bit more dosh, obviously.

SpaceFace · Post by **SpaceFace** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 6:16 pm

Freakshow effects Digilog?

cobascis · Post by **cobascis** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 6:55 pm

I second the TC Electronics.

What about that boss thing that is 2 pedals.. like a DD-3, tenfold.

EDIT: Gigadelay.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 7:26 pm

Nova Repeater/Delay
does it allll except run off a 9v. They're spec'd to run at 12v but a hearty 9v power bank [300ma minimum] will run them just fine. Due to that neither of them have a 9v battery compartment

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 7:30 pm

I'm in the DD-3 camp when it comes to a no bullshit clean delay. Its been the industry standard for many years for a reason.

LaurenJ · Post by **LaurenJ** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 8:53 pm

I had an Arion DDS-4 once that seemed like it might be something you'd like if the footprint isn't too big for you (smaller than the memory man, but slightly wider than a boss). It even had a sample/looper mode with a trigger input.

EDIT: This is Nick, using Lauren's computer.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 11:08 pm

Arion made decent stuff, never tried the Delay but they seem to rouse plenty of interest on ebay.

johnnyseven · Post by **johnnyseven** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 9:02 am

I can highly recommend the Marshall Echohead, in my opinion the sounds are far better than a Boss DD3 of which I have had 2 in the past. On delay sounds with high feedback the Boss is a bit uncontrollable and will just keep getting louder and louder whereas the Echohead is far more controllable which is what I was partticularly looking for when I bought it. Plusses for the Echohead are also that it has a load of delay modes, is dirt cheap and can use an external tap tempo. It also has 2 outputs one which will add trails when bypassed and one which won't.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 9:18 am

Now, I've had two, and one would do the infinite repeats thing and one wouldn't (quite), although there may have been trimpots inside, but: what you want is a DE7, young man - time to see what all the fuss is about.

George · Post by **George** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 9:40 am

I'll have to have a look at a DE7 when I'm on the hunt for a delay; I've just got a Ibanez TL5 Tremolo and I can't honestly imagine a better wobble-stutter.

Post by **Doog** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 10:25 am

benecol wrote:Now, I've had two, and one would do the infinite repeats thing and one wouldn't (quite), although there may have been trimpots inside, but: what you want is a DE7, young man - time to see what all the fuss is about.

I looked into one of these a few years ago actually, but the stories of broken footswitches within months of ownership don't exactly endear me to it.. plus it's pretty oscillate-y really, and going SCREEEEEEEEEEEEE is only interesting for so many years.

I had an Echohead years ago too (sold to MikeG), I didn't quite get on with it because even on the hi-fi mode, the delays definitely had some high end drop-off, voiding it for what I wanted to use it for.

Damn Boss and their sterile, unfeeling, but so appealing digital delays. I think they set them up so they juuuuuust about start to oscillate/get increasingly louder, but if you're careful, you can just about dial it back to the right spot. That was the case with my DD-6, if memory serves.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 10:44 am

The footswitches were fine on mine (owned a PM-7 from the same range, too). These weren't that oscillate-y in digital mode at all.

Buy one.

Post by **Doog** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 11:08 am

Gig them a lot, didya?

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 11:22 am

I had two toddlers working as my effects tweakers, which I would argue dishes out a similar amount of punishment.

*flicks V's*