Boss DD220, You and I dont mix.

[akaTRENT]

Dear Boss DD220, While you are a cool pedal you and I just dont get along.

Your SOS feature proves useless since i cant loop a delay with you.

Your modulate function is okay at best, really where you shine for me is in the analog delay and tape delay, but you are sadly a digital pedal, who takes up the space of two pedals.

So Boss DD20, I bid you farewell, you are far to complex for your own good or maybe mine.

[chris.gotfunk]

I will gladly take that off your hands.....

[coreyfyfe]

Yeah the sound on sound is pretty lame, IMO. I use a DL4 for my looping, which you can add delay (and modulation) to, but it's time is controlled by a dial and you can't tap tempo it. Thus, I have both . There are some other cool settings on the DD-20 though, the warp feature is cool, only delays while you hold it but continues to trail, so you can choose which notes get delay and which don't.

Has anyone ever found a useful application for the Twist? The only recording I've ever heard it on is the very end of a TREOS song where it kind of fades into noise-oblivion, and I'm not 100% certain it is actually a DD-20.

[akaTRENT]

Originally Posted by coreyfyfe

Yeah the sound on sound is pretty lame, IMO. I use a DL4 for my looping, which you can add delay (and modulation) to, but it's time is controlled by a dial and you can't tap tempo it. Thus, I have both . There are some other cool settings on the DD-20 though, the warp feature is cool, only delays while you hold it but continues to trail, so you can choose which notes get delay and which don't.

Has anyone ever found a useful application for the Twist? The only recording I've ever heard it on is the very end of a TREOS song where it kind of fades into noise-oblivion, and I'm not 100% certain it is actually a DD-20.

The problem with the twist function is it doesnt twist the note you play. It makes the same noise every time.

[icarussmicarus]

The best feature by far on the DD-20, and the only one I still miss is the tape delay. If you set it to 3 heads, it actually doesn't really sound like a tape delay but a rhytmic multi tap delay. Like the only pedals that can do something similar are multi tap delays that cost a billion dollars.

[bobbass4k]

I honestly couldn't live without mine (well, I could, but it sounds dramatic), yes the SOS is pretty lousy, but it's not a looper, they only put that on because the pedal is capable of it by design, so why not include it? I A/B'ed it with a DL4 a while back, the line 6 modelling does make the DL4 sound a tad better, but the LCD display, 23s delay time, 4 presets + the regular setting, smaller size/more standard footprint, standard power connector, all put it above the dl4 for me

[Chronicle]

DD-20...complicated? trent, it gets a lotttt harder in this crazy world we call effects

[bigchiefbc]

I actually think the DD-20 is a lot of delay for the money, and I think the analog and tape modes actually sound pretty darned good. The tone knob is essential to getting them just right. I also dig that I can set the delay to a specific ms or bpm, as I'm usually playing along with sequenced beats and midi-locked synths. The only thing that I'm not happy about is that the dual/multi mode has a pretty limited amount of delay times (the second delay can only be up to 100 ms, which is a bit lame). That may be the thing that makes me upgrade to a Timefactor at some point.

[Din Of Win]

+1 on the DD20 tape delay being awesome!

I use to use it with a DL4 like others here, but i sold that and use an Akai Headrush E2 with the DD20 now. The DL4 and i just couldn't see eye-to-eye. I do miss the aesthetic of that pedal though...