DFX94 Digital Delay/Sampler

As the unit comes stock, its a good digital delay with a warmer sound than the usual Boss digital stuff (I've tried DD-3 and DD-6).  Nice repeat trails, shame you can't have the delays louder than the original signal. Favourite features: firstly one I've not found on other delay pedals outside of the DFX series which is on infinite repeat mode you can adjust the speed of the sample over and over without any obvious degredation of the quality.  Most other delays get out of control with more than a few twists.  Secondly as a few others have mentioned, constantly retriggering the sample while changing delay time also produces unique effects.  With these features in mind, I'd rate the stock pedal as a 7. But I need to point out my pedal is no longer stock.  I have opened my DFX94 and adjusted the trim pots found on the PCB (there are 3).  This has allowed me to take the maximum delay/sample time to 6 seconds, and when the repeat knob is set past 3 oclock changes the behaviour of the delay: it now distorts and oscillates all over the place when I want it to.  When set to six seconds the delay sample quality is a little more edgy and grainy. For most players I expect adjusting it so the quality is lower and so it can oscillate more doesn't make a lot of sense.  As I'm into a lot of ambient/gaze/noise playing these features appeal to me: lofi sounding delays that can make a lot of noise, guitar-based or otherwise, are very useful.  It can be used now as a standard good-quality digital delay, or pushed over its limits to create some crazy sounds.  Hence it gets a 9.

Don't like that footswitch much.  Don't think its the sort of pedal I'd gig with in a rock band context, though I might if I was doing a more experimental gig.  Never had troubles with DOD pedals in the past, not really one to attack my floorboard.

Somewhat trickier than what I'd expect from a single stompbox, couldn't be bothered to wait for DOD to email me with a manual so I just got my head around the thing by tinkering.  I still think triggering/recording with the infinite repeat function requires more than one footswitch, like the Digitech PDS delays.

Never bothered with them... this pedal is second hand anyway.  I wouldn't mind a look at the manual but I doubt it would be much help.

I play a lot of styles, most things outside of jazz (both kinds of R&B, soul, funk, hiphop, rock, folk, pop).  This is a great match, it can do straight up or more unusual delay sounds when needed. I've been playing seven years and I'm still no flash player by any means.  I change my rig almost as often as I change my underwear, heres a few of the more prominant things I've owned and used: Fender Twins (old blackfaces, non-MV silverfaces, MV silverfaces, reissues including the current 2-channel version I own), 2 Marshall JMP halfstacks (late 70s), Orange Rockerverb 100 halfstack, Vox AC30s (most kinds), '77 Gibson LP Standard, '66 Gibson SG Junior, '94 Gibson LP Special Doublecut (my current main instrument), '01 Gibson SG Standard, Liberty ES-335 copy, Tanglewood TW-900 acoustic, various Fender Strats and Teles, Watkins Copicats (own a varispeed), Roland Tape Echos (RE-201, RE-301, RE-501) all the Boss GT multi effect units (GT-8 I currently own, the best one so far), other Boss: MT-2, CH-1, PH-2, DD-6, OD-1, OD-2, OD-3... so much more its a chore to list.  I'm seldom satisfied with my sound. I'm going through a phase of collecting delays (already more fun than my phase of collecting distortion pedals) so unless I found something able to do the three or four quite unique things I like about it I'd probably replace it, if stolen or lost. Anything I wish it had?  Two footpedals instead of one, to make sample/hold features much easier to use without having to constantly adjust the pedals controls.  Helps me make music, or noise, depending on my mood that day and/or whats required for a certain piece of music.  Thumbs up.

Sounds good to me.  Certainly not "pristine" repeats, but unless you're recording with it, you'd barely notice the difference.  Sounds as good as my friend's boomerang near as I can tell, just less you can do with it.

Mine is a few years old.  I just bought it off of ebay and aside from missing the pointer cap on the volume knob it is in excellent shape.  Looks and works great.  I think DOD pedals get a bad rap overall, but this pedal seems sturdy enough to get me through a gig.

Just got mine two days ago.  The delay is good, but I'm not too picky about that aspect.  Okay, folks, here's what I've been doing with this pedal practically nonstop since I got it: Just turn the first three knobs up all the way, then turn the selector switch to the "INF RPT" mode.  When both lights are on, then it is just playing, not recording.  But step on the switch and everything you do to your guitar gets recorded on infinite loop.  With the delay knob turned all the way up, you get approximately four seconds of looping.  Unfortunately, in order to control how long the loop is you have to bend down and turn the delay knob.  No Start/Stop switching available.  (Note: every time another layer is added, the others drop in volume a little bit, even if you aren't playing anything, so if you want it to keep repeating without volume change, step on the switch and make sure both LEDs are on and just step on the switch again to record another layer.) It's a little hard to get the timing just right, and it probably wouldn't work in a live situation except for ambient background noise, but I've found that after a while of messing around with the pedal constantly sampling i can get the timing dead on.  So far, I've had a lot of fun just playing with this feature.  The recording of a single measure and triggering it to play isn't too hard either, it just takes more knob turning. 

N/A. dunno.

I like this pedal a lot right now.  The band I was playing in just broke up and if it weren't for this pedal, i might go crazy playing by myself all the time.  At least I have my sampler pedal to play with me for now even though nobody else will. =)