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I'm working on a piece for a website many of us frequent (I'll link it once it's up in a few weeks) about vintage "digital" effects. The topic was brought up in another thread I posted in the General Discussion forum but I feel this fits more in Gear.

There's definitely the rack Lexicon and Alesis stuff (verb/delay), but what are some other vintage digital pedals you dudes are into? I'm going to be profiling a few specific effects (pedal and rackmount) so it would be nice to know if there are any specific that people want to see mentioned. For vintage, I'm thinking pre 90s, but earlier the better.

DOD DFX9.

Most of those double-wide DOD delays seem popular.

I was just talking to a friend at a music store about this very topic this weekend - we both agreed that we want more of the weird glitchy stuff from the 80's.

Kinda like...

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Orrrr...

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Or any of the digitech PDS stuff...

Yes the DOD/Digitech PDS delays are very cool. Also maybe the Yamaha FX-500 half rack unit which people seem to love for the "soft focus" patch?

Pretty much anything associated with MBV?

D.o.S. wrote:Pretty much anything associated with MBV?

Given how many pedals / effects / recording studios Kevin Shields has burned through since Isn't Anything, that covers just about anything that makes sound.

I don't know how I didn't immediately mention the EHX 16 second. Thanks for all the suggestions, guys.

Hardware samplers should count. They have unique characteristics based on their pres, converters and filter chips. The very act of sampling with them can be used as an effect.

Pearl AD-08, Guyatone PS-014, Boss DM1.
And some russian(?) pedals I've seen on ebay which name can't remember... Definitely some history in those USSR-based pedals.

As for the rack, pretty much all Eventide stuff from the 70s/80s

ramonovski wrote:Pearl AD-08, Guyatone PS-014, Boss DM1.
And some russian(?) pedals I've seen on ebay which name can't remember... Definitely some history in those USSR-based pedals.

As for the rack, pretty much all Eventide stuff from the 70s/80s

Wait wut...So the AD-08 isn't analog

I know a guy who runs his guitar through a Roland MC-505, and gets some real crazy sounds out of it.

frigid midget wrote:

ramonovski wrote:Pearl AD-08, Guyatone PS-014, Boss DM1.
And some russian(?) pedals I've seen on ebay which name can't remember... Definitely some history in those USSR-based pedals.

As for the rack, pretty much all Eventide stuff from the 70s/80s

Wait wut...So the AD-08 isn't analog

Well...that thing again... To me the only "analog" delay units are those where some kind of tape is involved.

DOD DFX9 as mentioned, but also the DFX94, which gives you the longest possible loop time when you crank the trimpots (6 seconds vs the advertised 4).

Ibanez DDL Delay - not as cool as the modulation series, but my favourite digital delay bar none. You can push the trimpots into giving you the most disgusting, bit crushed delay times, you can switch between short/long/hold mode without losing the sound, which is the one feature I disliked about the DOD pedals, and the hold function is great for getting great improvised loops, which you can then pitch shift via the time knob. Mine's totally fucked up and half dead, but it's all over my work and it's an integral part of my set up.

+1 for the DML10, that thing is absolutely one of kind.

also, Boss PS-2.

All I've got is rack.

Roland SRV-2000 is a good cheesy 80s digital delay, pleasantly useful despite being a bit primitive and grainy. Speaking of cheesy, it was the reverb Slash used on Appetite for Destruction. Bonuses are the footswitchable infinite mode and that you can power it up as an SDE-ish delay with the righ buttons held down on power up.

I like the Deltalabs Effectron delay units. (Rob doesn't. He thinks I'm wasting my time not going right to the Digitech RDS Time Machine units. One of these days I'll find out if he's right.) Lo-fi in a pleasantly crunchy, guitar friendly way, modulation that can go subtle or wild, and a footswitchable infinite repeat mode.

I hear positive things about the Ibanez DMxxxx delays and HDxxxx (I believe non-intelligent) harmonizers. I don't know if they preceded the Eventide H-3000, but a lot of hi-tech-y guys used those HD's back then.

And of course the H-3000 and its close successors are still amazing units and Eventide's legacy support appears to be rock solid.