TC Flashback VS Boss DD-7

What have you heard regarding reliability? Some don't seem to like the softer feel of the foot switches (I do) but I don't recall having seen many, if any, reports of reliability problems with TC pedals in general.

 

I believe TC sells a gazillion of these pedals, so it's inevitable there will be some reports of problems. Everything mechanical or electrical can fail. If anything, the quite few reports would point to this being good products. But there are of course no guarantees, and as these pedals are relatively new there's no way of knowing until more time has passed by and people have used the pedals hard.

 

I can't really compare since I've never used the DD-7 or other similar Boss delays. I'm happy, so far, with the sound and quality of my TC pedals though, I have the Ditto, the Polytune, and the Flashback.

To generalize, I would characterize TC as being very professional gear but maybe also a bit character-less, doing the job without having much personality so to speak. But if you look for a clean digital delay I guess a colored sound is not what you want anyway.

Toneprint is a great plus in my opinion, and what made me choose the Flashback.

 

I tried the strum tap delay but it's a bit odd ... I don't really use the pedal much as a delay per se, I mostly use very short delays to get a kind of thickening or chorusing effect. You can get a faux reverb thing from very short tap or pingpong delays, or a chorus-ish sound from a short modulated delay.

 

TC more reliable than Boss? I don't think anything on this planet is more reliable than a Boss pedal.
I've owned a DD-7 for about two years now and use it everyday, I use it mostly as a looper with a DD-2 for delay.
it works really well for looping and the other features work well too.
it's a desert island pedal for me, the Tera Echo looks pretty amazing too with it's freeze function.

 

Never used the boss delays, but I am a Flashback owner and absolutely love it.
It doesn't have it's own character, true, but that's why I love it. No coloration. I almost always use it on toneprint, there are some amazing artist toneprints on the tc site and app. (It's a fantastic feature, along with the ability to plug it into your computer USB and fine-tune it yourself any way you'd like. Those alone are the reasons I would often prefer tc over another brand)
Tap-tempo is DEFINITELY inconvenient (although the strum thing is real cool), so best case scenario for that is to get a tc electronic Nova Delay (sorta the same delay, but with a dedicated tap-tempo soft-switch) but you're talking more $ and an ungodly sized pedal. Hence, for now, the Flashback it is for me. I'd absolutely recommend it to anyone.

 

I'm sure you can find any number of break-downs of any brand if you ask enough people.

The only pedal ever to malfunction for me is my Boss LS-2, the footswitch only engages if you step on it a couple of times. I don't draw any general conclusions from it though, all mechanical and electrical products can (and will, given time) malfunction.

Oh, and by the way, also two EBS pedals that don't work with battery anymore, only external power. Something with the 9V jack cutting off the battery power permanently I think.

 

I'm sorry for write in a old thread, but I have the same question of the original post and I suppose that the time let that "the water flowed under the bridge".
I mean, the time can reply about the reability of the now "old" flashback.

I'm sorry for my English.

Greetings!