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Re: What do YOU want in a delay pedal?
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 2:53 am
by 01010111
My deluxe memory man tap tempo has all but one of the things I need for my perfect delay: fantastically flexible modulation, check. Tap tempo that also serves as an oscillation switch, check. Effects loop, check. Crazy high quality delay signal that's purer and cleaner than any I've ever heard that can still give me soupy, gloomy ambience, check. I just wish I could have trails with it.
One cool feature that's sure to come in handy someday, is that I can use an external foot switch; leading to me potentially wiring up multiple time-based pedals to a single foot switch. That said, I could probably do without the tap tempo
Still want to try a tape echo someday. Along with a Leslie rotating speaker. If I'm going to have a setup that's gears and pulleys, I want as many fucking gears and pulleys as I can get
Re: What do YOU want in a delay pedal?
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 3:37 am
by RR Bigman
I want eq, the ability to pull off dubby oscillations with the stomp of a switch, PRESETS, selectable warble, selectable fuzzles, dual delay, laser sounds from turning the time knob that can also be controlled with an external device, flashy lights, effects loop, glitchy degradations of the repeats (footswitch selectable), and add decent looper and maybe a few extra outputs for shits and gigs.
Re: What do YOU want in a delay pedal?
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 10:47 am
by fiddelerselbow
I don't really use my delay as a delay pedal at all. I use a boss dd6 pretty much just for the hold and warp functions. Weird stutters and oscillations and all that stuff.
Re: What do YOU want in a delay pedal?
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 6:02 pm
by snipelfritz
GardenoftheDead wrote:Tap tempo. Otherwise the differences from one delay pedal to the next are functionally negligible.
"Functionally negligible" I thought this was "I Love Fuzz and other crazy cool timbres" not "I Love Practicality"
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Just kidding, but I will disagree. I've owned two delays: A DE7 and a Memory Boy. They're both fairly simple pedals, but sound drastically different. The DE7 is good for spacey faux-tape echo delays and clean spanky slap-back (also has an unusably long delay time at higher settings) while the Memory Boy has a lot more "colour" to it and goes from verby regurgitation to insane square-wave trem situations that I was once told are "illegal in 15 states."
That said, I still own the DE7. It's just more practical for my uses.
But I'd love to invest in either a decent tap-tempo delay or a Dispatch Master in the near future.
Re: What do YOU want in a delay pedal?
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 6:09 pm
by Eric!
toanz and responsiveness. BBD all day, son.
Re: What do YOU want in a delay pedal?
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 6:15 pm
by coldbrightsunlight
Not too much headroom so it can dirty up when I hit it with a loud signal, analog-y decaying repeat goodness, the ability to sit on that edge of oscillation where things are just about controllable, and the oscillation. Modulation is a nice bonus, the Disaster Transport Jr is covering everything except modulation for me nicely atm, might switch it up to a daddy DT for that at some point.
Re: What do YOU want in a delay pedal?
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 9:14 pm
by madmax1012
no idea. I think I'm gonna get DMB lunar echo and hope that solves all my delay needs.
Re: What do YOU want in a delay pedal?
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 9:32 pm
by sonidero
Why does the Dave Matthews Band make pedals???
They pee on Church kids...
Re: What do YOU want in a delay pedal?
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 10:11 pm
by Eric!
sonidero wrote:Why does the Dave Matthews Band make pedals???
They pee on Church kids...
Re: What do YOU want in a delay pedal?
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 2:01 am
by Haki
sylnau wrote:Haki wrote:If the Moog had reverse delay it would've been perfection. A decent reverse is all I'm missing.
Empress Superdelay has the best reverse I tried.
Why did you sell it?
Re: What do YOU want in a delay pedal?
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 6:34 am
by sylnau
Haki wrote:sylnau wrote:Haki wrote:If the Moog had reverse delay it would've been perfection. A decent reverse is all I'm missing.
Empress Superdelay has the best reverse I tried.
Why did you sell it?
I still have the Superdelay.
Re: What do YOU want in a delay pedal?
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 11:46 am
by snipelfritz
sylnau wrote:Haki wrote:sylnau wrote:Haki wrote:If the Moog had reverse delay it would've been perfection. A decent reverse is all I'm missing.
Empress Superdelay has the best reverse I tried.
Why did you sell it?
I still have the Superdelay.
I've never thought about you like this, but I totally imagined you adding a very Pierre Escargot-like laugh to that comment.
Huh, huhhuhhuh, huh, huh!
EDIT: And yes I know Quebec and Paris are not the same.
On topic, am I the only one who is afraid of delays with too many options? Then again, I tend to feel that way about most pedals. Four knobs is almost too many sometimes.
Re: What do YOU want in a delay pedal?
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 11:54 am
by fungalattack
monkeydancer wrote:Not too much headroom so it can dirty up when I hit it with a loud signal, analog-y decaying repeat goodness, the ability to sit on that edge of oscillation where things are just about controllable, and the oscillation. Modulation is a nice bonus, the Disaster Transport Jr is covering everything except modulation for me nicely atm, might switch it up to a daddy DT for that at some point.
I own the pappa DT and the modulation adds such a nice or weird touch to the delayed signal depending on how you dial it in. I'm very satisfied with it but don't it use often in the bands I am playing with at the moment.
Re: What do YOU want in a delay pedal?
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 3:22 pm
by Ancient Astronaught
behndy wrote:Timeline.
i'm a nerd about tap tempo in time based modulation too. i want to synch of with Le Drummer as close as possible or as off as possible, but with foot steppin's not knob guessin's.
'm LAZY.
This.......
Re: What do YOU want in a delay pedal?
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 4:57 pm
by Eric!
superdelays are balls-awesome