| Behringer DD600 delay pedal thoughts
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(my first post on this fine forum… please be gentle *grin*)
Although it is not yet available in the states, I was able to get the DD600 on ebay for a $10 markup. It has their typical pedal construction, looks and feels like brittle plastic, but seems sturdy enough. Of course, I don’t know that it would survive if I would happen to accidently step on it in the night. The knobs are pretty much the same story. They feel solid but you can tell they’re not really built for abuse.
The pedal seems to pick up a slight bit of noise in my apartment. Its noticeable if you’re not playing but once you start going you really don’t notice it. The noise level is steady by which I mean it doesn’t increase or decrease as you adjust the level knob. I’m going to try it out later on tonight in an environment using wireless mics and monitors and see if it picks up or creates any significant interference.
This pedal basically has 11 modes on it. The first four settings are “preset delays” for lack of a better description. You choose from a short to a long delay, dial in how many times it repeats and the rate at which it repeats. You’d probably spend way too much time trying to get the timing right for it to be useful. The record mode is all of two (2) seconds. It records and reproduces your sound very nicely but again its only two seconds. The reverse mode is also kind of lame. You hit your note, which comes through clean and unaffected, and then the reverse delayed note comes through. Again, you can tweak the repeats and rate to your liking. The stereo delay mode I haven’t been able to try out. Honestly, I may never.
Okay, the best feature of this pedal is the tap tempo delay effects. You’ll need an external pedal for this, I used an old keyboard pedal and it worked perfectly. You can choose quarter, eighth, dotted eighth, or triplet. You choose which one of these four settings you want, tap in a tempo on your external pedal and away you go! My first experiment was using the dotted eighth effect along with U2’s “Where the Streets Have No Name” and it worked perfectly. I could play eighth notes on the bass line and the effect made it sound like I was hitting the 16th notes perfectly. The pedal also worked perfectly for dotted 8th effect on the guitar parts.
So, to wrap this all up…
If you’re looking for that perfect delay pedal that does everything you’ve ever dreamed of and more… this isn’t it. If you want to screw around with effects like dotted 8th delays or just want a delay pedal with tap-in-tempo and don’t want to drop a hundred dollars or more, then give this one a try. I know Behringer doesn’t get the most respect around here, but honestly I’d get this pedal again in a heartbeat for the $50 it cost me (shipping included). You might have to hit up ebay until it is available in the states, but to me it was well worth money and (slight) effort to get it. | 
