Stero Memory Man With Haz. REVIEW!

[aen]

Yes! LEt me start out with YES!

Ok, so I thought this thing owuld be a DL4 killer. It is.

Basically we start with a flexible digital delay. The first 3 modes have a filter on them, so if you desire the muddy analog tonez you can have the, or the crackly tape delay tones, you an dial them in. The "Echo" mode also has adjustable reverb effect, cool. Theres a "mod" option in one setting as well, where you can get some kind of chorus or whatever. I'm thinking f using it to sort of simulate that gently rising and falling trem arm shit. This one also Self oscillates, I think.

Then we have "multitap" in which each delay is the same volume. UNLESS you fuck with the decay knob. You can get them to fade in. So you go KLANG! lalalalaLALA]LANG! It's really awesome, dudes and chicks.

Reverse echo is the BOMB, it's really smart, it has a ot better time working with you, ratehr htan a lot of other revese echos where yo get a bt of your forward sound in the echo K-nnnnnaaAAAAAKK!

The looper is pretty cool, but you have to hold the stomper down to record. If you have the repeats knob dialed down, your overdubs start to cancel out the original loop. Ive never had that type of looper, so I'll explore it. Cool thing: Once you are looping, you can still use your delay pedal! HLYSHT! Take that, DL4! The kicker for me is that you can speed up and slow dow your loop, manually. Not tempo shift, actually change the speed of the sample being played, so the pitch raises adn lowers. This is a feature I have been looking for since my first digidelay shit the bed.

Other cool shit- you can make a preset for all 8 modes! 8 PRSTS FTW! Tap tempo, of course, a must for my main delay. Stereo in and out, should be cool for studio work, or if my dad dies and I get his amp.

Downsides: Modes/presets are switched via the white knob on the end. NOt the most practical for improv situations, but the new guy suks at improv, so we'll survive. I can kind of work it with my foot, I imagine in a while I'll be pretty decent. Turning off your loop kind of sucks, you have to bypass the pedal, and then hold down the tap temo button for 1/2 second. (I am not too terribly upset about htis, I use a loopstation for major looping. This will be used for glitchy shorter loops to be pasted on top of the long beds on the loopstation.)

Unknown: I don't have a Power Struggle ATM, so I dont know if I can get ugly distortions out of it by starving the power, but I doubt it. The EHX #1 echo just turns off when it gets shy of 9.5V. ALso, don't know how it osunds through an amp. Only POD so far.

Verdict: 8.5 because I konw Im goign to fuck some shit up with my foot trying to navigate presets in the middle of a song.

[Ghost Hip]

Haha, you're gonna love this pedal. You can get some whacky ring mod like sound out of the reverse echo mode by turning the blend all the way up and the repeats down and the delay low.

sometimes I use it as a stand alone Phaser/Flanger on the Echo/Mod mode.

This is the most creative pedal I've ever played with.

[Stacco]

IS there any way to put in up on board (at hand level to fuck about with all the stuff real time) and switch it from BELOW???? I know a true bypass loop wouldnt be enough, cause of the tap tempo and looper record.. but shit, if a two button thing could be rigged up I'd definatly get one.

Shit Aen you didnt get rid of the Flanger Hoax, did ya?? I really wanted to see how it went with the SMM/H

[thetonewrecker]

Put the knobs up on a 3 foot dowel for each knob. They'd be like little steering wheels sitting atop tall prarie grass swaying in the breeze (of sound from the nearby amp).


Great review too. Thanks for sharing.

[aen]

Shit Aen you didnt get rid of the Flanger Hoax, did ya?? I really wanted to see how it went with the SMM/H

Yeah, I needed a Moog. BUt I GOT ONE TODAY!!! AHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!

[Stacco]

Put the knobs up on a 3 foot dowel for each knob. They'd be like little steering wheels sitting atop tall prarie grass swaying in the breeze (of sound from the nearby amp).


Great review too. Thanks for sharing.

Trish Murphy is gonna KILL YA for nicking her shit!

[thetonewrecker]

Not sure where you got that one Stacco. You can plainly see that my post has a photo by a bird with a found camera.
;-)

[aen]

Bizarre!

[Stacco]

mUST BE THOSE FUNNY PILLS!!!!!!!!!!!!