Nano Memory Toy

for the money, its the steal of the decade. warm and easy on the ear analogue delay and its so very musical too. once you get it, you have to adjust the mod depth trimpot as the default setting when you engage the mod switch is grim. once you turn the mod depth trim a 1/4 turn anti clockwise , then its a different story.

never had to deal with EHX but it seems a very sturdy unit indeed.

easy as pie to use , one of the best attributes of an EHX pedal, you dont need a degree to use them.

like before, ive never had to ring EHX so I cant realistically offer an opinion or a score grading.

its so cheap and it sounds so damned good. talk about a giant killer, ive heard units costing 3 times as much that the toy leaves red faced. comes 100% recommended.

Excellent, I love the darkening of the decays.

Follow up to my previous review.  My Memory Toy worked fine for a couple of months then spontaneously stopped working, lights came on but no effects processing occurred. I contacted EHX and opened the pedal to remove the battery prior to shipping.  The pedal has two circuit boards, with one attached to the other by eight pins fitted into sockets on the other board.  I noticed that the top circuit board of the two in the pedal was loose, and had in fact separated from the main board. Once I pushed the board pins back into the sockets on the main board the pedal started working again, it seems that the one board must easily come loose from the main board causing the problems. I assume that the design that allows this to happen is the cause of the numerous similar issues I have heard of with this pedal, (some arriving DOA, etc.)

Very simple to use and get decent sounds from.

I'm wondering if it wouldn't be easier for EHX to recommend that owners check their board are secured before having them returned for service?  The shipping both ways is expensive just to get them to fix this under the warranty...

Love it and would buy another.  I added a small rubber pad to cushion the board and keep it from falling out again.

It's kinda hard to rate the sound quality of a pedal that doesn't seem to work right for you but... I was testing this pedal with a Fender Baja Telecaster and a mixture of other effects including a MXR Fullbore Metal, Digitech Bad Monkey, EHX Small Stone Phaser (that's going back to the shop too) and Rocktek Chorus - with a digital amp/cab modeller. I also checked it out directly to compare with a Behringer EM600 and an Alesis Microverb 3 - both digital delay units. Compared to all the other delay units, both analogue and digital, that I have owned and used this box just never seemed to be able to get the right balance between dry and wet signal - especially on the longer delay times - everything turned to mud far too soon. On shorter delay times it was definately more useable and this pedal would probably work really well for anything that needed a slapback type sound. Once you get to the 500-550ms times tho the sound quality is poor and very uninspiring to work with. Yes, the delays do have that 'analogue something' but, beyond slapback sounds, anything wonderful about analogue delay is buried under a combination of missing top end and too low a level - even an "icepick in your ear" Telecaster didn't help compensate! On longer delay times it will thicken things up a bit for solos etc but doesn't work well with for example repetitive arpeggios - no clean notes cascading beautifully and fading away here... The other things that suprised me a little with this pedal was that it seemed a little too easy to get it to distort - it seemed very touchy about what was in front of it and whether with gain or clean the EHX Small Stone phaser kept overloading the input and again with a Digitech Bad Monkey in front it seemed very prone to distorting. It was a little better once it was placed after a digital multi effects unit but more and more I kept getting the impression that this pedal should be after a compressor or really in the 'send' of a mixing desk and set to 100% Wet ( I couldn't be bothered as I disliked the pedal too much to try by this point)

It looks solid enough - metal box and so on. The little switch looks *very* flimsy and exposed with it being dangerously close to the stomp button though... Overall it looked like it'd last if you were reasonably careful

3 knobs a MOD switch and a stomp button - simples. It's really easy to use like most stompboxes BUT I found it nigh on impossible to get a sound I liked out of it. There is also trimpot inside to alter the amount of MODulation, on the pedal I received this was set to seasick/detune and was as far from "lush chorus" as you could imagine. If you can find a setting you like I doubt you'd be tempted to keep changing it so the trimpot idea is fine. The Memory Toy is very easy to use as a pedal but like most Nano pedals there is no easy access to the battery - you have to unscrew the base of the pedal.    ...but at least it uses a Boss style power adaptor

Overall I *really* didn't like this pedal and arranged to have it sent back within 3 hours of it arriving. The way it seemed to consistently work better to my ears with shorter delay times really makes me think that although it can do 550ms it wasn't really designed to work at 550ms. 550ms might be good for PR & Marketing but only if the pedal works properly at these times. For me it simply got in the way of making music. Whilst there is 'good' analogue and 'bad' analogue this pedal really isn't either - it's kind of a something in the middle pedal, one or two uses that it excels at but that's it really. If you want tame-ish slapback delays and a bit of fairly subtle thickening with a touch of the analogue magic dust this pedal may be for you If you're not an analogue purist and are looking for your first delay pedal - go elsewhere, even to the Behringer EM600 which is also a tiny bit less expensive... If it isn't your first pedal I'd really advise you to keep saving and get a better analogue pedal - even from EHX! ...for me it still wasn't worth the cheap price and it's going back to the shop!