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Okay there used to be a delay lounge, but somehow that died and now i can't find it. This lounge is not going to die. In fact, it's going to beat the fuzz lounge :cool:

 

That's right. We are going to have useful delay info. Reviews, photos, info on analog...digital, looping delay. Everything. This is going to be numero uno baby! Send in your delay reviews and comments here! :)

 

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BOSS DM2 ($150)

This is the red 80's and is the prized vintage analog delay. Very nice sounding delay imo. Will self oscillate. Limit to 400 msec. I find this delay sound good with clean and with distortion. Simplicity at it's finest.

 

DOD FX90 ($60)

Very similar to the DM2, but darker sounding. Will self oscillate like crazy if you want and even more than the DM2. Because it does alot of dark, i didn't find this to sound as good with distortion. The fidelity seems less than the dm2.

 

BOSS DD5 ($100)

All digital. Not much to say. It's clean. I thought it sounded good, with more options. Will reverse delay. Will do a nice ping-pong delay.

 

AKAI HEADRUSH E2 ($170)

All digital. This is nice. Has 5 outputs. 1 is a mixed output. The other 4 for each of the tape echo sim heads. The echo is very nice. Can simulate a convinceing analog sound with the high frequency roll off. The delay can be varied in different patterns. Will function as a loop recording.

 

EHX 16 SECOND DELAY ($440)

All digital. It's main function is not a delay but a looper. However will do convincing analog type delays up to 1 seconds. The delay can be modulated with the depth and sweep knobs. True bypass btw.

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Ibanez DML-10:

 

Digital Modulation Delay. Awesome pedal, the second in the series of three (DML, DML-10, and DML-20). The DML had just over a half second of delay time, the DML-10 has about 900ms, and the DML-20 has just over a second. With six control knobs, there are awesome tweaking capabilities: 1) Time range selector, 2) Delay time within that range, 3) Repeats, 4) Delay level, 5) Modulation depth, 6) Modulation speed

 

Warm-sounding, and the added modulation gives a great analog feel. You can also dial in as much chorus (4 - 16 ms delay time) or flange (1 - 4 ms) as you want. In these cases, the knobs act as regeneration, blend, depth, and speed.

 

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Hello there!

 

 

Digitech PDS1000 - three delay ranges with a maximum of 1000ms of old style lo fi 8 bit digital delay. Plus the famous PDS Hold switch for non-static looping. Wet and dry outs. Bought it new back in the 80's. It died on me about 2 years ago.

 

Digitech PDS8000 Echo Plus - all that and 8 seconds of delay. Made famous by Kevin Shields and Robert Fripp. Sold mine on Ebay at the peak for a ...

 

Maneco Nanolooper 32 - 3 delay ranges, up to 32 seconds of delay time. Three tone settings - lofi, regular, and digital. Like the PDS delays the Nano will give you smooth pitch shifting, but unlike the PDS the Nano will let you switch between the time ranges without losing your delay, also does reverse, has non-volatile looping, a remote switch for reverse and 32 SECONDS OF DELAY!!! The lofi delays are gritty, the digital is crisp, and the regular is quite warm (nudge, nudge, wink, wink). Plus it will self oscillate.

 

Ibanez DE7 - the first "modern" delay I bought after the PDS8000. What was that, about 15 years between delays? Anyway - up to 2600 ms of delay, an excellent analog sim, plus a crisp digital delay. Again with the 3 time ranges, no tone controls. Two outs. Self oscillation in analog mode is killer. The switches on the early models were very glitchy. I hear the newer models are better. Mine died in a horrible True Bypassing accident. :(

 

Arion SAD-1 stereo analog delay, up to 330 ms of delay. Self oscillates quite well. Sounds great! You can set the outs for one wet and one dry or both wet. I have had five of these, sold two. They all sounded exactly alike, excellent.

 

Rocktek ADR-01 Super Delay - analog delay, good, not great. Will do close to 300 ms, but sounds best with shorter delay times. Maxing the feedback gets real "boingy."

 

DOD FX90 - analog delay, simple, 3 controls, good sound, will SO. Can be a bit dark.

 

DOD FX96 - analog delay, has added "Tape Quality" tone knob. Will roll the tone off to mud when maxed. Will SO. The original ads claimed 800 ms of delay. No way. Maybe 400 ms on its best day.

 

Carl Martin DeLayla - analog delay. Up to 500 ms of delay. Built in power supply. Can get a whistle at maximum delay time. Tap function has nothing to do with tap tempo. Simulates the sound of a multi-head tape delay. This is an excellent sounding delay that gets little or no respect. The new DeLayla XL is pure digital.

 

Korg 301dl Dynamic Delay - two presets, maximum delay time of 1000ms, lots of tone shapers - hi-cut, lo-cut, hi-damp, lo-damp, also has ducking. Will do great slapback with a pre-delay that mimics the DeLayla Tap function, except you get to vary the time delay of the second beat. Will also do great trailing echoes like Steve Miller "Fly Like an Eagle" and Gilmour stuff. Another underrated delay unit. Some noise issues - you must set the input to match your pups.

 

Digitech PDS 20/20 - all the functions of the PDS1000 with up to 2 seconds of delay PLUS modulation. Set a loop and then twiddle the mod width and time for cycles of wild pitch shifting. Fiddle with the trim pots and get up to 14 seconds of lo fi delay. Cool machine!!

 

Boss DD20 - all around Swiss Army Knife delay. 23 seconds of delay. Static looping, reverse, modulation, stereo, analog and tape sims. Sounds good to great. Nice the easiest learning curve, but not too bad. I'm loving the modulated delay at about 170 ms right now. Sweet.

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Korg SDD-3000

 

As used by The Edge of U2. Think "Where The Streets Have No Name", "With Or Without You".

 

This is the warm and natural sounding digital delay out there. I always wondered why until someone I know opened one up and he found about 30 of those JRC4558 chips that give the Ibanez TS-808's their mojo.

 

There's a +4 db output boost that The Edge and Daniel Lanois always keep on. The extra gain hitting a tube amp sounds sweet and alone is worth the price of admission.

 

Up to 1023 ms delay time. Has modulation - what makes this special is that the modulation is applied to the delayed tone only.

 

KISS:

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Originally posted by SUPER VELCROBOY

... it's going to beat the fuzz lounge

 

:D ..

 

Visual Sound H2O - Like 2 pedals in 1. Left side Chorus and right side echo. Chorus is analog whereas echo is digitally analog voiced. Echo channel has 3 knobs - repeat, rate n delay level n a short/long switch. Short echo can achieve close to reverbish sounds. Echo doesnt go into oscillation and is pretty subtle and crisp, great for its transparency.

 

Electro Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man - What can I say.. my favourite delay so far. Can get decent delays to over the top weird ass stuff.. very warm analog sounding n the new issues are said to be true bypass. 5 knobs - level, blend, feedback, delay, chorus/vibrato n a chorus/vibrato switch. Tried it with a theremin n vocals n it works amazingly.. achieving nightmarish tones..

 

Ibanez DE7 - my first delay pedal.. loved the echo side not the delay though.. it's great for its price and with 2600ms delay time, there's so many things u can do with it. Oscillation is easily achieved with over 12 o clock repeats.. I mainly used this in my feedback loop now.

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i think the delayla XL is all analog.

 

as for me, i have a collection of maxon analog delay pedals. i have everything other than the new ad-999

 

i'm very happy with these pedals. occasionally i'll wish for the greater clarity of a digital delay, but overall i have an aversion to digital effects based on experience.

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Currently I'm using a Lexicon MPX500 for verbs and delay. I like it alot...very spacious, warm and tweakable.

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I'm also digging the BOSS DD20. Very cool. Actually, I like it better than the Line 6 DL4. It really is a swiss army knife.

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I am looking very hard at getting this::eek:

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1500 ms of all analog tape delay with low noise and lots of tweakability. I may get this tomorrow!

 

I've had the Guyatone MD3 and liked it. Nice bang for the buck. I also like the Line 6 DL4, except for the volume drop I was constantly struggling with on some of the presets.

I also had the Carl Martin Delayla. Cool pedal. Nice analog tone. Whines like a mutha on high delay settings, but otherwise pretty cool.

 

Another very neat dealy pedal is the Yamaha UD99. 8 Individual delay lines that you can link or combine in all sorts of strange and wonderful ways. Lush. Tweaker's delight.

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First page!

 

Line 6 DL-4 - the standard. You can't go wrong here, there's something for everyone. A real workingman's delay, it can cover normal sounding digital delays, believable analogs, reverse, ducking, musically timed, and this crazy-ass "sweep" thing that will probably go down in history. Hell, the 16-second looper is gravy!

 

Boss PS-3 - decent, but if you're using the delay you're missing the point... ;)

 

Gemini Echorder - basic half-rack delay, sells for about $15. Self-oscillates like mad, but no real character.

 

Digitech PDS-1002 - haven't plugged it in yet ;) What kind of adaptor does this need? Will my Godlyke power it?

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All the delays I've owned (past and present):

 

Boss DM-2

Boss DM-3

Boss PS-3 (x2)

Boss DD-2

Boss DD-3

Boss DD-5

Line6 DL-4

Ibanez AD-9

Ibanez DML-10

Ibanez EM-5 (Echomachine)

Korg 301 dl

Korg A3 (multieffects)

Korg SDD-2000 (x3)

Digitech DHP-33 (pitch-shifter/delay)

Deluxe Memory Man (x2)

Roland SDE-1000

 

I think that's it...

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Originally posted by SUPER VELCROBOY

us2bslim,

tell us more about that hiwatt echo machine. I've never even heard of that thing
:D

 

Here whut day says 'bout it:

"Hiwatt has released what may be the coolest product of the year. A Tape Echo unit that is 10 inches wide and 7 inches deep and 1 1/2 inches tall ! WOW. It even comes with rack ears so you may rack it in a SINGLE RACK SPACE. It has a maximum delay of 2000ms and Hiwatt guarantee of sound quality of the delay up to 1400ms. You can also create sound on sound and create tape loops! THIS THING IS F#%!%# AWESOME!

 

 

 

 

The back of the unit allows you to have a footcontrol to turn it on and off. Also you may hook up a footpedal to control the delay time remotely and loop recording. You must use your own footpedals they are not supplied. The unit also uses a automatic tape feed that stops the tape from running when no signal is coming into the unit increasing the tape life. Manual tape feed option is selectable.

 

Very low wow and flutter is creat by a free tape system. No drag or carts to hold it up. The front panel has input, attenuator, input volume, mode switch, echo, repeat, time, play/rec switch, LED and power.......

 

Musicians are tired of sterile and cold sounding digital delay units, so we went back to the classic solution

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Aside from an Arion SAD-3 that I exclusively use for Oscillation and psuedo feedback generation effects, these are my sources of delay ( ... elay ... lay ... ay):

 

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Though the plain Jane vanilla digital delay model on this unit sees kind of bland to me, the Desktop Tonelab has great analog tube and tape delay emulations, IMHO. They can self-oscillate and warble just like I've been told the real thing does. ;)

 

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The desktop tonelab's more imposing successor, the SE, has a number of interesting delay options, most of which are modeled after the Korg units that have been presented already in this thread. Plus, it has a kickin' hold delay option that can be set at various tone levels for low or hi fi looping goodness ... and most of the other onboard delays can be tweaked with the expression pedal to loop in some faculty ... one of the types of delay that pans is a great deal of fun when used this way.

 

Another really spiffy feature is the ability to assign delay time to either of the expression pedals, which allows for warped record scratching effects. :cool:

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My collection :

 

Ibanez ad80

Ibanez ad9

Ibanez de7

Ibanez dml10

Ibanez dml-20

Ibanez Em-5

Ibanez hd1000

Boss Rv-3

Boss Dm-3

Boss Rps-10

DOD fx90

EHX DMM

Digietch pds 20/20

Digitech pds 8000

Akai Headrush

Arion sad1

Peavey Dep-16

Yamaha UDstomp.

Korg : delay modual

 

and this one : pearldelay.jpg

 

 

The Pearl AD-33 has a warm analog tone. You can set two different types of delay times and switch back and forth. Perfect for slapback on one chanel and a marble room delay on the other. The max delay time is the same as the Boss Dm-3.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Ok I'll be the first to mention this one. Only the greatest analog delay ever built!! The Moogerfooger MF-104!!! Stunning 800ms of creamy awesomeness!! CV and expression pedal control over every parameter!! Effects loop for the delay only!!! Super awesome Moog goodlooks!!!

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not a great pic cause they look slightly different. Must have been a prototype.

 

This is my main delay and I love it. very warm, dark , mellow sounding.

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I'm a huge fan of the Danelectro Reel Echo. Having played a few real tape echos, it doesn't really compare--then again, nothing really does. Still, it's as warm as a beautiful woman on a cold winter's night. It simulates the warble and top-end decay of a tape echo with suprising accuracy. I've spent a lot of time comparing it to the Maxon AD9, and I really find the Dano to be a better sounding unit.

 

That's likely to get me in a little trouble.

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The korg dynamic delay looks interesting, but what exactly is meant by two presets? Is that something they assign or that you can? I had a thread a while ago looking for a delay that had a way to switch itself into self-oscilation mode using a second footswitch. Probably not true bypass (though that can be remedied).

 

On a smiliar topic, anyone want to post a review of the SIB Mr. Echo? That's what I have my sights set on right now. Thanks.

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