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Does such a thing exist? Say you want like.. a 500ms delay to repeat a user-defined number of times, not fade out like every delay pedal I've ever seen.

I have so many ideas using something like that but have never come across anything that could do it..

i haven't heard of any, but that would be neat.

You can do it with software delays easy enough, although a laptop costs a fair bit more than a pedal (except the moog ones of course).

doesnt the ehx 16 second delay do that?

I think that records FOR a certain beat-based period of time, rather than it actually repeating a set amount of times.

I guess only something digital could do this, if you're playing samples of different lengths, no pedal is going to be able to know where you want it to start and where you want it to stop really, unless you actually use a looping pedal, but that'd require stomps between samples would it not?

I guess maybe a delay with a momentary switch and "no tail off" mode would be the easiest way to achieve what I'm getting at. Maybe I can mod a Marshall Echohead in the future or something, that has a "no tail off" output so the delays cut off when it's turned off.

is a looper not what your after mr doog?

Not really- I'm talking quitesmall delay times, like 1 second and under, I dont wanna have to be clicking a footswitch every 4 seconds.

Doog wrote:Not really- I'm talking quitesmall delay times, like 1 second and under, I dont wanna have to be clicking a footswitch every 4 seconds.

it could be done with a looper( i have done things close to that with my akai) but you have to be quite quick footed

Doog wrote:Not really- I'm talking quitesmall delay times, like 1 second and under, I dont wanna have to be clicking a footswitch every 4 seconds.

Like a realistic echo.

I think you want to do the momentary switch thing with your feedback maxed and the delay time set appropriately - hold delay in circuit for your repeats.