Tell Me All You Know About Delay Pedals

i have one of these now

http://www.premierguitar.com/issue/features/images/200804_delayshootout_4.jpg

that empress looks dope

i need advice for something cheap but good. just need a really simple tape echo deal that'll do ultra-rapid single slapback sorta things, as well as feedbacky self-oscillation stuff. i feel like that EHX #1 sounds too crisp(?) or stiff or something but i change my mind a lot idk?

makers of the one i posted upthread seem to have fallen off the continent :\

in the $50-75 range l.o.l.

this one is cheapish and comes v recommended

http://www.vfepedals.com/VFE_Pedals/Blueprint.html

behringer time machine is analog (but not tape), if you can stand the behringer. does a good slapback tape echo style delay and can self-oscillate nicely. cheap iirc, around $70

http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/VM1.aspx

i've been eyeing up some old school bucket-brigade delays lately. this one is meant to be dope

http://www.guitargeek.com/gear/img/yamaha_analogdelay.gif

hoooooooooly shit

http://www.strymon.net/timeline/

Are you going to need that and the Eventide?

http://www.lauzonmusic.com/uploads/products/79-1.jpg

It's insanely expensive, but after hearing one of these things, I really would love to have one (or a working vintage one similar).

Beyond the crazy delay sound, the preamp on this thing sounds dope.

Are you going to need that and the Eventide?

quite probably not!

eagerly anticipating the timeline. so sick it's silly. amazingly reasonable price for what it is.

Anyone ever used a Digitech DL-8? I need a simple looper pedal just to keep a phrase going through a song, so not something as complex as the Boss RC-20 and equivalents.

Or simpler question, is it worth spending £60 on?

i want a new delay pedal

me too. Proguitarshop had a great demo up a couple weeks ago for the DMB Lunar Echo. I was pretty impressed by it, but they seem to have taken it down and there aren't really any other good demo videos up for it.

analog? digital? digital analog fakery? xpost

in between wanting something straightforward and something with lots of options. i find with the latter i often just latch onto my favorite sound and not really using anything else, so maybe just better to get something simple that already sounds good. i used my friend's mxr carbon copy for a show and liked it a lot.

i want something that sounds analog - i like noise and messiness - but don't really care if it's really analog or convincing facsimile

i dig the carbon copy a lot, but if you want to save some money, the visual sound garagetone Axle Grease hits most of the same sweet spots but is only $70. i havent tried out the earthquaker delays i just got in yet, but ill let you know abt those too when i get a chance

heres an axle grease review from notoriously snooty boutique mag premier guitar : http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/Issue/2010/Dec/Visual_Sound_GarageTone_Axle_Grease_Delay_Pedal_Review.aspx

cool.

i know it doesn't matter but that thing is so ugly. why can't all pedals look like mxrs?

despite being totally plug ugly and visually unappealing, theres some good stuff in the garagetone line - the drivetrain is a reissue of the reverend drivetrain and is a super useful od/distortion, and i sell a crap ton of the oil can phaser and the tremolo. the only real loser out of the bunch is the chainsaw distortion, which is just awful.

xpost hahaha yeah we agree on that obv

i have high hopes for the earthquaker disaster transport sitting on my front counter, but thats more $$$ and i havent plugged it in yet. its better looking tho! i also got a dispatch master in, which is cool because its a reverb + delay in a single mxr case, but i think its going to be too digital and clean for what yer talking about.

disaster transport looks sweet but yeah don't think i can justify the $$$ when i'm barely playing guitar anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB1xMq2RyDA

can someone help me understand the delay effect that's burbling underneath this piece? It starts at about 0:11. I've heard this in a few other songs, but this is the most prominent one I could think of. I heard someone make this happen in some youtube demo for a delay pedal too, but I can't find it.

you mean just the thing where you change the delay speed while the sound is echoing so that the repeats speed up (and get higher in pitch) or slow down (and get lower in pitch)? or something more detailed?

Sorta. It's not just that though. There's a "whooshing" sound to it.

...which I feel is intrinsic to the delay mechanism somehow, rather than being the original sound that modified through the delay.

Maybe.

It's hard to tell bc of the "strings" and "surface noise" but it just sounds like any analog "bucket brigade" delay. The precision with which the delays enter and exit sound like the product of a plugin.

the source audio also sounds like it might be run through an envelope filter and then through the delay - that might be the whooshing you are thinking of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0s24DiyzM8

no catalinbread or skreddy, no credibility

I wish they still made the Digitech PDS series. Or at least a pedal that does the same shit.

I'm still wedded to the Moog sound (that slight warbley-trail is A+++ for me).

still looking for the convenient digital delay that will let me box up the DMM. could this be the one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgVa-I5-ZXk

Sarah bought me the GarageTone Axle Grease delay for Christmas and it's pretty great, though it definitely has more "character"/is less transparent than my old delay. Also this is stupid but it took me a while to figure out whether it could run off a battery.

this looks hell of cool

http://www.korg.com/us/products/effects/sdd3000_pedal/

yes, yes it does

Yooooooo

Probably gonna be hell of expensive though.

$399 street afaik. and it's more or less the size of a rack unit, but as a confirmed lanois junkie it's only a matter of time before i end up with a used one...

I'm thinking about buying a new delay pedal. The Moog Minifooger delay is currently the top candidate...I think the main features I'm looking for are infinite feedback and the ability to use an expression pedal. I'd also prefer something with some character/color. I've watched way too many shitty pedal demos on Youtube this week. Is there anything similar to the Minifooger delay that I'm overlooking?

No expression pedal in, but the Caroline Kilobyte sounds awesome and has a momentary footswitch that engages the infinite feedback while you keep it held down and then quickly fades it out when you release the switch, which is incredibly cool. Plus, it's $200.

http://youtu.be/IFFY75Gvv88

Early demo, there's now a mini pot in the top face to add modulation to the delay as needed.

Thanks, I'll check that one out! I think I saw the little space invader dude on the pedal and "lo fi" in the description and thought it was some bitcrusher-type deal and avoided it.

yeah honestly that lofi thing isnt a great call - it can get lofi with the delay preamp cranked but its not lofi by default at all, its one of the sweeter sounding delays ive got in the shop

"that lofi thing" being in the name isnt a great call i mean

I think the main features I'm looking for are infinite feedback and the ability to use an expression pedal. I'd also prefer something with some character/color

Strymon El Capistan has all of that, I love mine.

Still love the old Moog MF-104Z I keep referring to in this thread. I just wish it didn't take up so much space.

see also: EHX Deluxe Memory Man

A friend of mine has the Memory Man (not the Deluxe) and I've messed around with it but never really dug it for whatever reason. I wound up going with the Minifooger delay but might end up picking up the Caroline Kilobyte eventually, too.